“Democracy Jenga” Closing Event
For the last day of our Democracy Jenga exhibit, artist Rich Garr made visitors personalized valentines! It was his birthday, and he turned back the clock to the first kinds…
Puffin Brooklyn
About
After three decades of operating out of Teaneck, NJ, the Puffin Foundation was delighted to expand in April of 2025 with the opening of a satellite office in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
In addition to being a workspace, the new office in Park Slope has an area for art displays, intimate performances, and meetings of community organizations. We are thrilled to be establishing a presence in Brooklyn, NYC, where many of our grantees live, and where an excellent bagel is always within walking distance.
On View Now
Blanka Amezkua – Artist in Residence
We are thrilled, honored, delighted, and excited to welcome Blanka Amezkua as our first Artist in Residence at Puffin Brooklyn! Blanka Amezkua is a Mexican born-American multidisciplinary artist, cultural promoter & educator based in Mott Haven, South Bronx. Formally trained as a painter, her practice is greatly influenced and informed by traditional art practices, folk art and popular culture.
While in residence, Blanka will further her work around the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano, thought to be the first book of medicine created in the Americas. “The Codex is not only a historical document but a repository of Indigenous epistemologies—systems of knowledge that have long been marginalized or extracted from their cultural origins. By retracing these plants, I…honor the original knowledge holders and illustrators while resisting the erasure of their intellectual and cultural contributions. Each repeated gesture becomes an act of remembrance, reinforcing the plants as carriers of healing, memory, and meaning.”
We invite you to come visit Blanka in residence. She’d love to talk with you about her work. And if you embroider (or want to learn), come sit & stitch! You can bring your own work or help Blanka with hers.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays: 11 – 6
Saturdays and Sundays: 12-5
Or whenever the sandwich board sign is outside!
Through 3/21
Photo: S. Mack-Valencia 
Photo: B. Amezkua 
Photo: I. Richman 
Photo: I. Richman 
Photo: I. Richman 
Upcoming Events
Join us on Sunday 3/8 to hear from two extraordinary creative artists & activists. Puffin’s current Artist in Residence, Blanka Amezkua, will be conversation with Marco Saavedra of La Morada, the restaurant/mutual aid kitchen/community hub in the Bronx. Topics will include their shared commitment to immigrant rights, their creative collaborations, including their most recent exhibit at Bronx Arts Space, and the story behind their very special running club, Running for Ayotzinapa 43.
The event will start at 1 PM and Puffin Brooklyn will be open that day from 12-5.
Free admission, of course!
227 5th Avenue (between President & Carroll)
Puffin Brooklyn will be having ongoing events and exhibitions in our new space. Check our calendar below, or, to have the goods delivered straight to your inbox, please sign up for our email list!
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Our Calendar
Past Happenings
On Wednesday, February 4th, artist Rich Garr led a Puffin-sponsored “Street/Art, Art in Action” Walk. Participants stopped at 4 sites of cultural and activist creativity in Park Slope with the last stop being Puffin… On January 30th, Puffin Brooklyn and Open Source Gallery presented How to Build a Fire: Endangered. Four community members shared stories about things that feel at risk: identities, relationships, traditions, ecosystems, languages, jobs,… It’s a fraught time for media. Close to forty percent of newspapers have disappeared in the past twenty years, and there’s been tremendous consolidation among the ones that remain, as well… On Saturday January 10th, Puffin Brooklyn was joined by poets from Poetic People Power. The show featured Tara Bracco, Shanelle Gabriel, Philippe Javier Garcesto, and Karla Jackson-Brewer who shared poems… On view from January 31st to February 14th, 2026 Democracy Jenga was a group show curated by Ingrid Butterer. It featured works by Aileen Bassis, Rich Garr, Marina Heintze, jc lenochan,… On September 6th, we explored the connections between reproductive and environmental justice, illuminated by storytelling. The evening included a performance by New York City theater company ReproEco and a conversation… Our inaugural exhibit, “Migration Stories,” opened on April 26th and was on view through June 21st. We featured an installation piece by the artist Mona Saeed Kamal, titled 1001 Migrations. This evocative… “Street/Art, Art in Action” Walk Led by Rich Garr
How to Build a Fire: Endangered
Future Tense: Where is Journalism Heading?
Poetic People Power
“Democracy Jenga” Exhibition
Intersections: Connecting Reproductive and Environmental Justice Through Storytelling
Migration Stories
