Mis­sion

Curbs and Stoops is an art acces­si­bil­ity think-​tank geared towards democ­ra­tiz­ing the access to fine art across a diverse range of socio-​economic and cul­tural com­mu­ni­ties. Like our name sug­gests, we believe art dia­logue should be every­where includ­ing the thresh­olds that define our cities; our curbs and our stoops. This way, engag­ing art is not a des­ti­na­tion, like going to a museum. Instead, it is a part of a visual vernacular.

We ful­fill our mis­sion by ideat­ing and imple­ment­ing pub­lic art projects, inter­ac­tive instal­la­tions, lim­ited edi­tion print releases, pop-​up exhi­bi­tions. We exploit the extents of net­worked media in order to pro­vide fine art to those who can­not afford gallery prices. We believe in the neces­sity of acces­si­bil­ity to art and design, and offer our com­bined cre­ative tal­ents to sup­port this mis­sion. This is not a per­sonal state­ment or any­thing fancy like that, it’s who we are.

Artist: Trevor Guthrie.
Read our inter­view with Trevor here.

Jef­frey Bien­venido Peña

Founder

www​.jef​freypena​.com
@oncefive

While grow­ing up in the graf­fiti mecca of the South Bronx, Jeff became inter­ested in a society’s need to cre­ate a visual lan­guage that con­nects with the pedes­trian expe­ri­ence. A decade later, Jeff started Curbs and Stoops while vol­un­teer­ing at the Lug­gage Store Gallery (San Fran­cisco, CA) in order to share the way that urban life can be enhanced by pub­lic art. Jef­frey has a Bach­e­lors degree in archi­tec­ture from North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity School of Archi­tec­ture. He is cur­rently pur­su­ing a Mas­ters of Archi­tec­ture at the
Rhode Island School of Design where he is also tak­ing stu­dios in fine arts and dig­i­tal media.

Chloe Gal­lagher

Cura­tor

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@chloemg

An ardent art lover with a degree in Art His­tory from the Uni­ver­sity of Ore­gon, she has since relo­cated to Bal­ti­more where she is pur­su­ing an MFA in Cura­to­r­ial Prac­tice from Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art. In Port­land Chloe was an inde­pen­dent cura­tor at a num­ber of venues includ­ing Fenario Gallery. Chloe is a self-​described “tal­ent addict” and when she’s not obses­sively scour­ing the inter­net for fresh new art and tax­ing the outer reaches of her the­saurus she can be found col­lect­ing music, relent­lessly scrawl­ing in black books and pon­der­ing the next big thing.

Con­trib­u­tors

Tou­s­saint Wal­lace
Maria Ander­son
Lenny Cor­rea
Robin Grear­son
Thomas Mader
Pedro Matos

Illus­tra­tions by Rin­gling Col­lege of Art & Design Illus­tra­tion junior Van Jazmin.