Mission and Vision
Mission
PLG Arts presents and promotes the arts in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, to nurture a vibrant, diverse, and creative community.
Approach
To achieve this mission, PLG Arts:
- stimulates and initiates innovative and traditional programming in all the arts
- provides networking support to artists including an active registry of local artists as a resource for the immediate community and beyond
- collaborates with local businesses, performance spaces, and other organizations
- nurtures a growing local audience for the arts
Vision
PLG Arts will cultivate an inclusive, ever-growing and evolving community whose lives are enhanced through artistic creation, expression, and appreciation.
Photo Credit: Tony Turner
What We Do
Visual Artists, Musicians, Authors, Dramatists
PLG Arts offers opportunities for performance, readings and exhibitions for neighborhood artists, as well as a chance to meet your fellow artists and neighbors.
Community Members
PLG Arts presents programs for children and adults, bringing the visual, lively, and literary arts to your doorstep. Meet your neighbors while you experience fine art, musical performances, play readings, literary readings, and other exciting activities.
Who We Are

Hollis Headrick
Co-President
Hollis Headrick is a consultant for arts, education and philanthropic organizations. He is a Consultant for the Center for Arts Education, Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust, Lincoln Center Education, and other clients. He has held positions as Director of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, Executive Director of the Center for Arts Education and Program Director, Arts in Education, New York State Council on the Arts. Hollis is also is a drummer and percussionist who performs with several jazz, pop and improvisation ensembles.

Rina Kleege
Co-President
Rina Kleege is a trained performer, singer, and songwriter with her band, Axiom Addicts, and a medical editor. Her previous experience in public relations for films, their producers, and actors also prepared her for her work with the PLG communityโs performing arts and artists. She holds a Master of Science degree in Publishing.

Dean Foster
Treasurer
Dean Foster researches, writes about, and consults on the nature of culture and its role in society, work, and politics in a globalizing world. Founder of Berlitz Cross-Cultural, DFA Intercultural Services, and, currently, Executive Strategic Consultant for Dwellworks Intercultural, Dean continues to play a central role in the field of cross-cultural training and consulting.
He is the host of CNN’s โDoing Business inโฆโ series and co-host of the syndicated podcast โOops, Your Cultureโs Showing!โ His articles and books includeย The Global Etiquette Guides to Europe, Asia, Africa and The Middle East, and Latin America.

Grahame Conibear
Secretary
Grahame and his wife Sandra have lived in the PLG neighborhood for 5+ years. Originally from the beautiful area of North Devon in England, he moved to the New York area more than eight years ago and is now firmly settled in PLG!
He is an enthusiastic supporter of local events and his block association. As a member of the fledgling photographic group: โF-Stop Brooklynโ he has exhibited some of his work in the groupโs debut exhibition. Grahameโs background is in health-care with experience of both national and global marketing roles in the pharmaceutical industry and in the health-careagency world. He hopes to bring that experience to the board of PLG Arts and so to contribute to this important neighborhood organization.

Robert Marvin
ViceโPresident
Robert Marvin, Fine art photographer, editor of Lefferts Manor Echo and long term member and past president of the Lefferts Manor Assoc. Board, 40+ year resident of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, member of the Ft. Greene Photography Organization (FGPO) and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) and the local photographer’s group F-Stop Brooklyn.

Allyson Hightower

Karl McIntosh
Karl A. McIntoshโs work have been exhibited at numerous venues across the country including Dorseyโs Art Gallery, The Skylight Gallery, MoCada (The Museum of Contemporary Diasporian Art), 843 Gallery, The National Black Fine Art Show, Color: The Chicago Black Fine Art Exposition, The Fulton Art Fair, The George Washington Carver Gallery, The Red Piano Too (St. Helena SC), McIntosh is also proud to add the Brooklyn Museum to his already impressive list. He was mentioned in the April 16th, 2004 edition of the New York Times in an article in connection with โOpen Houseโ the Brooklyn Museum exhibition. Some call McIntosh a folk artist, others call him primitive, some say heโs an โoutsideโ the mainstream artist, but what ever the title, most would probably agree that an apt description of McIntosh is that he is simply a genius.

Susan Hemley
Susan Hemley is an artist, costumer and decorator who has lived in PLG for 10+ years. Susan has her BA in Studio Art from Hamilton College. Created in collaboration with her husband, Jeff, Susan’s current artwork has been shown and sold through various exhibitions and events including PLG Arts fairs and festivals. In her costuming and decorating work, she incorporates second-hand items and encourages everyone to reuse and repurpose in their artistic endeavors. Susan serves as the Costume, Properties and Scenic Elements Manager at Theater For The New City, with which she has had a 20+ year relationship. Susan hopes to also be a long-lasting, fruitful board member of PLG Arts.
Support the Arts in PLG
Join PLG Arts and become a vital part of the arts in our neighborhood! By joining you help us create and sponsor more visual arts, dance programs, theater events, and music for the children and adults of our community.




