After 22 years, Bushwick based non-profit art gallery and project space, NURTUREart, announced in a letter to the public it will be closing its doors at the end of this season.  Despite being a strong community space for emerging artists, independent curators, as well as a foundation for public school art programs, the letter states that the organization will be closing “due to a confluence of resource challenges and a shifting environment for non-profits.”

NURTUREart was founded by George J. Robinson in 1997 as a non-profit to help emerging artists begin their career. Since then, the gallery has “presented 17 full seasons of six to eight exhibitions each in our own galleries, in addition to many curatorial projects at guest locations around the city.” They also developed a comprehensive online registry that includes the work of over 2,100 emerging artists and curators.