Storefront Art Walk has artists, merchants teaming up
The Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) is doing double duty these days. In addition to boasting hundreds of shops and restaurants, the BID is now a sprawling art gallery, thanks to the Fifth Avenue Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk (SAW), an exhibition in which artists work in collaboration with merchants to create artworks to display in store windows.
The seventh annual SAW opened on May 14 and will run until June 25, giving customers the opportunity to enjoy intriguing, humorous and thought-provoking works of art while doing their shopping.
Fifteen artists were selected by a panel to come up with works of art tailored to specific stores.