Bronx Documentary Center
A Melrose gallery devoted to documentary photography and film. Its free Youth Photo League teaches middle and high schoolers photography, filmmaking and visual journalism after school.
by Bronx Council on the Arts / Hostos Community College
Photo: bronxarts.org
A contemporary art gallery in the South Bronx run by the Bronx Council on the Arts' Longwood Arts Project, showing work by Bronx and other emerging artists. The project also runs a youth engagement program connecting young people with art.
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Ages 8–17.
Free gallery
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450 Grand Concourse, 10451, in Mott Haven, the Bronx.
Yes. Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos is indoors, so it works on rainy or cold days.
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