Jeannine Bardo
Founder, Artistic Director
Jeannine Bardo is the founder and artistic director of Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center. Bardo is a Brooklyn-born artist, curator, and art educator. Bardo has over ten years of experience as a curator in both the public and private realms. Along with her work curating and directing at Stand4 Gallery, Bardo Co-founded BioBAT Art Space.
In the Spring of 2023, she directed the Stand4 public art exhibition Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, curated by Jennifer McGregor, which was awarded a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant. This interactive, public, community art exhibition featured over twenty artists from the New York area and consisted of nature walks, poetry events, artist talks, and community interventions in the gallery, and various locations throughout the Bay Ridge community including a film screening at the local movie theater featuring works by local documentary filmmakers.
She was awarded a 2024 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund grant for her socially engaged, public art project, The Learning Ring/ A Tree’s Standing at McKinley Park in Brooklyn, New York. The Learning Ring/ A Tree’s Standing consists of a series of public art interventions designed to encourage a deeper understanding of the natural world that surrounds us.
She is a lifelong resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a believer in community and collaboration.
Elizabeth Polly
Director of Community Outreach
Elizabeth Polly is an art lover with many years of experience in sales and marketing. She is now putting that knowledge to use to help create an awareness of the creative arts in the Bay Ridge community.
Joanie Flickinger
Joanie Flickinger is a painter and a lifelong Brooklyn resident. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has worked in the design field, and most recently was Resource Manager for a local, family-owned specialty paper company.
Joanie is an active community member, involved for close to two decades in fundraising for and offering support to our local public schools.
She maintains a studio at Stand4.
Madeleine Herman
Gallery Associate
Madeleine began working at Stand4 while studying at Barnard College for her art history degree. She began as an assistant to help with administrative work and to help host gallery hours at a time when Stand4 was growing and successfully branching out to serve the community. Her work has grown to include the managing of Stand4’s website and she recently curated a group show, Field Notes from an Apocalypse at the gallery. Madeleine also founded, and directs a weekly Fiber Arts Workshop at Stand4 that offers community members the opportunity to gather and support one another through their love of fiber arts.
Collaborators
David Gitt (Everything is Free Now)