An anonymous organization called the Bushwick Arts Festival set up a website and Facebook page at the end of February—and immediately found itself at the center of a controversy.

The Bushwick Arts Festival pages appeared after news broke that local organization Arts in Bushwick scheduled its annual Open Studios event for October, as opposed to the first weekend in June. Bushwick Arts Festival states that it plans to hold open studio events on the first weekend in June, which is a weekend that Bushwick Open Studios has been scheduled for in the past (though Arts in Bushwick reminds the public that its Open Studios event was not always held in June).

Arts in Bushwick provided Bushwick Daily with the following statement: