Green Window Design Competition
The Annual Atlantic Avenue Green Holiday Window Design Competition is based on artistic merchandising and creative window display with a green twist this year. Awards, in various categories, are given to merchants for their aesthetic contribution to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill. To qualify, competitors must have their window designs installed by 6 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, when the panel of judges will walk along the Avenue to view and judge individual store windows.
Our Judges
Hope Davis has starred in more than 20 feature films. Her early work includes The Daytrippers and Next Stop Wonderland. Hollywood films include the thriller Arlington Road, About Schmidt and American Splendor for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle award. Davis returned to the stage in 2009 in Broadway in God of Carnage, which gained her a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Davis is currently co-starring in HBO’s In Treatment. She lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn with her two children and her husband, actor Jon Patrick Walker.
Mark Morris is a world renowned choreographer. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, and has since created more than 120 works for the company. From 1988-1991, Morris was Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium. In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Mark Morris Dance Group (mmdg.org) was formed in 1980 and gave its first concert that year in New York City. The company, one of the world’s leading dance companies, performs across the U.S. and at major international festivals. In 2001, MMDG opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY, housing rehearsal space for the dance community, outreach programs for local children, as well as a school offering dance classes to students of all ages.
Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including The New York Times bestsellers Duck and Goose and Duck, Duck Goose. He lives in Cobble Hill with his wife Lee, their two children, Elinor & Charlie, and Rocket, their dog who inspired Tad’s next book, How Rocket Learned to Read which will be released in July 2010.
Kate Cusack is a versatile designer and creative thinker who’s unique Zipper Jewelry is internationally known. Kate earned her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA at Yale School of Drama. Kate creates non-traditional costumes for theater and dance; her sense of theatricality is evident in her one-of-a-kind Zipper Necklaces and Zipper Bracelets. Kate was born and raised in Boerum Hill.
