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.
Democracy Jenga, a group show curated by Ingrid Butterer, will be on view from 1/17/26-2/14/26. Featuring works by Aileen Bassis, Rich Garr, Marina Heintze, jc lenochan, Kirk Maynard, Joyce Riley, and Howard Skrill, this show highlights the precarious state of American democracy, and asks how we can prevent it from collapsing altogether.
Join us for the opening!
Saturday, 1/7/26 – 5 pm to 9 pm
Meet the artists, enjoy some refreshments, and take home some material from Hands Off New York City, along with a very special Puffin whistle, to help keep your community safe!
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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 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
Intersections: Connecting Reproductive and Environmental Justice Through Storytelling
Migration Stories
