BravinLee programs

08/12/2026

The April 2015 Nepal earthquake—the Gorkha earthquake—claimed 8,962 lives and injured 21,952 people across Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh, striking at 11:56 in the morning on Saturday, April 25, magnitude 7.8–7.9, badly damaging the Kathmandu mill where BravinLee rugs are woven, leaving it half-standing. This is a photo from the day after, chickens had wandered into the factory, contemplating the Christopher Wool silk rug on the loom—and then next slide, the same rug, later, in Barbara Gladstone’s North Fork foyer. Kathmandu dug themselves out, came together and rebuilt.

06/24/2026

June 25-June 28

Posted on June 16, 2026June 17, 2026 by Etty YanivNo Walls Required: Stay Frosty Comes to Kingston The gallery is a parking lot. The walls are car hoods, trunks, dashboards, and glove compartments. That is the premise of Stay Frosty, the itinerant art project launched by New York’s BravinLee progr...

06/12/2026

Come find BravinLee’s Stay Frosty at ArtPort Kingston over Upstate Art Weekend

Upstate Art Weekend 2026 brings exhibitions, pop-ups, open studios, and public art projects to the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

https://www.radiokingston.org/stay-frosty-with-artport-and-woolpunk-middays-with-julia/
Radio Kingston on Woolpunk’s project with Stay Frosty at ArtPort Kingston.
Stitching circles get ready!!

Upstate Arts Weekend may be at the end of June, but at Art Port Kingston, the idea is to Stay Frosty. That’s the name of their exhibition where artists will exhibit work from cars, airstreams and other vehicles in the Art Port space in Midtown. […]

05/15/2026

Old pull behind camper needed for an art project… (not to be returned!)

04/10/2026

BravinLee will collaborate with ArtPirt Kingston to bring you our second iteration of Stay Frosty. It is free and open to all. Opening: Thursday evening June 25. Hours: TBA. ArtPort Kingston, 80 Smith Street, Kingston, NY, 12401

Part tailgate. Part site-specific exhibition. Part trunk show. Part art fair. Stay Frosty’s first edition, presented in Fall 2025 in a parking lot in Harlem with 30 participants, reimagined each vehicle as a self-contained, curated presentation — where trunks opened to sculptural creations, installation, sound, multiples, and conversation. The result was dynamic, accessible, and community-driven—art experienced beyond the confines of a conventional setting. The participants are artists, dealers, non-profits, and independent curators. Stay Frosty Kingston transforms ArtPort’s parking lots into a dynamic exhibition space featuring over 50 presentations, including site-specific sculptures, installations, performances, and workshops.

01/03/2026

The silk red stripe James Welling in a DC row-house.

12/08/2025

The 2006 Ray of Hope suite of works on paper by Louise Bourgeois is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth, NY in her exhibition Gathering Wool.

Louise Bourgeois
Ray of Hope
150 knots, sq in, wool/silk
144 x 108 inches
Edition of 12 + 2 APS
$40,000.


This Louise Bourgeois image for the BravinLee rug is selected from a suite of 24 watercolor
and pencil drawings on embossed paper titled Ray
of Hope (2006). At the same time she was working
in fabric, Bourgeois made hundreds of red gouache
drawings on the themes of nature, pregnancy, and
motherhood. Here, Bourgeois exercised tight control
over the lines, while in other works, she allowed
the watery blood-red paint to move freely on the
surface of damp paper. Bourgeois saw abstraction
as a means of understanding and coping with her
feelings and used verbs like “calming,” “caressing,”
or “stabbing” to describe strokes. Rays of hope
burst from the center of the composition, strong and
insistent, for as Bourgeois remarked, “Red is an
affirmation at any cost—regardless of the dangers
in fighting—of contradiction, of aggression. It’s
symbolic of the intensity of the emotions involved.”

12/08/2025

The 2006 Ray of Hope suite of works on paper by Louise Bourgeois currently on view at Hauser & Wirth, NY in Gathering Wool.

Louise Bourgeois
Ray of Hope
150 knots, sq in, wool/silk
144 x 108 inches
Edition of 12 + 2 APS
$40,000.


This Louise Bourgeois image for the BravinLee rug is selected from a suite of 24 watercolor
and pencil drawings on embossed paper titled Ray
of Hope (2006). At the same time she was working
in fabric, Bourgeois made hundreds of red gouache
drawings on the themes of nature, pregnancy, and
motherhood. Here, Bourgeois exercised tight control
over the lines, while in other works, she allowed
the watery blood-red paint to move freely on the
surface of damp paper. Bourgeois saw abstraction
as a means of understanding and coping with her
feelings and used verbs like “calming,” “caressing,”
or “stabbing” to describe strokes. Rays of hope
burst from the center of the composition, strong and
insistent, for as Bourgeois remarked, “Red is an
affirmation at any cost—regardless of the dangers
in fighting—of contradiction, of aggression. It’s
symbolic of the intensity of the emotions involved.”