The Space
Drawing on the long history of New York lofts serving as salon-style performance spaces for off-beat collaboration and avant-garde experimentation, Dreamers Welcome is an experiment in treating a private residence as a public forum and community space. With rising rent costs and gentrification pushing artists out of the city, there is a decrease in communal spaces for artists. Spaces that exist outside of the market and institutional visibility are necessary for the creative community. Combining the communal and the private is critical for both the creative community and the cultural hygiene of the residents of Dreamers Welcome.
The Crew
Sarah Conarro
Sarah Conarro is an interdisciplinary artist working in visual, social, performative, and experiential collage. Trained as a visual artist, Conarro spent the last ten years re-considering collage as a tool for social engagement. Her work provides a setting for participants to find common ground through creative and conversational exchange.
Through curating projects such as community murals, a living room lecture series, and dinner parties with strangers, Conarro has outlined a philosophy of connectivity she calls Link:Link. This philosophy encourages low-risk interpersonal exchanges as the foundation for transforming how we talk to and see and understand each other.
Link:Link believes random advice can become new fodder for hope.
Link:Link states that a casual chat with a stranger opens a childhood memory long forgotten.
Link:Link advocates that a scattered collection of objects ignites ideas for new possible worlds.
Link:Link trusts that in a fractured society, a dinner party can be a radical act.
Julian Bozeman is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores the human condition as it relates to technology. Bozeman experiments with combining consumer-grade and professional-grade technologies in his work to develop an aesthetic that is both timeless and nostalgic.
Applying his background in woodworking, drawing, and printmaking, Bozeman co-designs and creates works with Sarah for the New Work Works series.
Bozeman has performed music and exhibited artwork internationally at venues and events such as The Clocktower Gallery, Flux Factory, The Goat Farm Arts Center, Old School Gallery, Strelka Moscow, Issue Project Room, Center for Advancement of Contemporary Arts, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Mona Foma Festival. He has received grants from entities such as mediaThe Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
Dreamy Dream Dreamers - resident artists
Dreamy Dream Dreamers are Margot and Ramón, Sarah and Julian’s kids. Whether creating work independently or collaboratively, Margot and Ramón’s work spans drawing, painting, stop-motion, and video. Their work is influenced by the diverse artists that cross the threshold of Dreamers Welcome.
