Gotham SideWalks

Rich Garr is a collage artist and tour guide based around Prospect Park in Brooklyn. His varied background reflects consistent interest in architecture and urban development, and the way in which people react to the world around them. He is a proud native of Cleveland, and a former student and teacher at the Cleveland Museum of Art. College studies led him to Fordham University in the Bronx, where he began incessant exploration of NYC. He returned to Cleveland to work as an artist and attend graduate school, where his thesis New Art in Old Buildings analyzed ways in which contemporary culture mingles with the past. Interest in museums (and his wife) led him back to New York, where he began work at the Brooklyn Museum. Freelance work as an artist educator followed, taking him to the Educational Alliance Art School; the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Kentler International Drawing Space; the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park, and in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He currently runs "tours" as Gotham SideWalks- a kind of collage of communities. When not exploring the streets of New York City with classes or kids, he's often at his studio at the border of Gowanus & Sunset Park.