By Katarina Hybenova
To save you from embarrassment, I’ll tell you right from the start that George Ferrandi is not only an amazing artist and the director of Brooklyn Wayfarers, she is also a woman. And when George was moving her studio from Williamsburg to Bushwick two years ago, she undertook to create something more than just another studio building. She undertook to create a community of artists of a similar mind set, and a loving place that nourishes one’s creativity.
One of the newest Bushwick artist studio buildings, serves also as a woodshop and a gallery space. Brooklyn Wayfarers is located on Dekalb Avenue, all the way past Broadway right past a church and across the street from a tire shop. When walking from studio to studio at Wayfarers, you can feel the touch of George Ferrandi’s curation who also teaches sculpture at RISD. Many of the resident artists are excellent sculptors who use natural materials like wood or clay (Craig Hein, David ‘Scout’ McQueen), but you can also find classically trained painters like Charlotte Evans from England who paints restrained landscapes.
