Rio Galleries

At the Rio Galleries, Broadway Housing Communities offers a vibrant year-long program of cultural, civic and educational programs.  Monthly opening of exhibits showing the work of emerging and established artists, largely Latino and African American, are highlights of the calendars which include a wide diversity of offerings by poets, writers, musicians, dancers and photographers.

The Rio Galleries also provide a regular meeting space for civic groups that include Community Planning Board 9, police, parks and business leaders, as well as a venue for other community based agencies’ conferences, retreats and workshops.  Recent offerings include a writers’ workshop, conflict mediation training for parents and children, and sessions on environmental activism.

Located on the penthouse level of Broadway Housing Communities’ buildings known as The Rio and Dorothy Day Apartments, both galleries are surrounded by lovely landscaped terraces; an unobstructed view of the Hudson River and George Washington Bridge are additional attractions at Rio Gallery II.

For more information, please contact Ana-Ofelia Rodriguez at 212-568-2030 x.208

Current Exhibits

BHC Hosts Bowdoin College’s Common Good Day Event

Broadway Housing Communities was delighted to be partner in Bowdoin College’s 13th annual Common Good Day on Saturday, September 17th.

Over 20 Bowdoin volunteers joined Broadway Housing staff and families to paint two huge mural panels commemorating the legends of Sugar Hill.  Conceived by Betty Capellan and Ofelia Rodriguez, the first panels of the mural, “Musical Legends of Sugar Hill”, was painted by the Bowdoin volunteers together with families from Broadway Housing Communities and local artists.

The second panel, “Poets and Writers and Statesmen”, will go into production in December with a Rio Gallery exhibition projected for early January 2012. Production of the third panel, which will focus on visual artists including Romeare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, will begin in March. The fourth panel, highlighting “Sugar Hill Neighbors” of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican descent who have populated the community of Washington Heights since the  1930’s, will be initiated in May.

We plan to exhibit all the panels of the completed mural together in the summer of 2012.

“Caribbean Faces” Collective Exhibition at the Rio II Gallery

Collective exhibition featuring the work of:

Jose Inoa

Elvin Perez

Julio Tejada

Juan Carlos Garcia

Julio Fernandez

Rosanna Mendez

Celso Trufel

 

Opening Reception
Friday, February 3, 2012
6-8:30 PM