Brooklyn artists seek help to scrub away Sandy’s stains
Superstorm Sandy was not kind to the arts community. It not only upended paintings, equipment, tools and paper, turning them into tangled and soggy heaps, but also the livelihoods of hundreds of artists who have helped make the New York area a dynamic art capital.
Six weeks after Sandy, Pier Glass, a studio of four glass blowers on an old pier in the Red Hook section ofBrooklyn, remains without power. Corrosive salt water destroyed its furnace, scattered grinding and polishing tools, shattered glass, and destroyed historic prints.
It had also seen some water in last year’s Tropical Storm Irene, but nothing like this.