Brooklyn, New York (May 2010) — Two Trees Management is pleased to announce that the Grand Prize winner of this year’s DUMBO Arts Festival, which will be held on September 24th, 25th and 26th, will receive a donated studio in a building owned by Two Trees, free of rent for one year. The studio represents an in-kind donation by Two Trees of approximately $30,000.

A professional jury will select the Grand Prize winning visual artist in one of the following categories: Best Outdoor Public Art Installation, Best Indoor Public Art Installation, and Best Open Studio. The Grand Prize winner will also receive a $1,000 cash prize as will the two winners of the remaining categories.

“We are deeply committed to supporting the festival and artists,” said Zannah Mass, Cultural Affairs Director, of Two Trees. “We are thrilled to offer the Grand Prize winner of this year’s festival a free studio, and will select a space with abundant natural light that is at least 750 rentable square feet and likely larger, where the artist can grow and nurture his or her craft in a truly artistic and creative community.”

This year’s Festival will take over the waterfront community of DUMBO – its galleries, storefronts, performance venues, studios, parks and even extend into the river. The Festival will be multi-disciplinary, celebrating high-quality art ranging from visual art to performance art, music, and literature. For the first time, the DUMBO Arts Festival will introduce family programming.

Local artists (including Alexi Worth, Barnaby Furnas, Miya Ando, Davidé Cantoni), musicians, and arts organizations will be participants, as will other well-known international artists and curators (TBA). DUMBO’s performance venues, galleries, bookshops, artist studios, raw empty spaces, Archway under the Manhattan Bridge and the newly-opened Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier One will be among the sites of colorful and innovative performances and exhibitions.