Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Beatrice Glow
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
Installation view of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, 2024, at New-York Historical Society, New York City. (c) Beatrice Glow. Courtesy the artist and New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano
New-York Historical newsletter announcement and Letter from the President
Blog: New-York Historical’s Artist-in-Residence Beatrice Glow on Reimagining a Historic New York Parade
Audio Guide: Download the Bloomberg Connect App (available on iOS and Android), type in New York Historical Society in the search bar and the audio guide for “When Our Rivers Meet” will appear
Dutch Culture USA’s Future 400 Initiative
Short documentary film by Bureau NY on the Dutch Consulate’s Future 400 initiative
2024, Beatrice Glow, concept and 3D modeling, Alexandre Girardeau, technical and art direction, Pauchi Sasaki, music, digital video, Runtime 8:36
Inspired by Glow’s time spent in the New-York Historical Society’s Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, this video travels from an encounter with a paper peepshow to a vision of collective commemoration. Shot in a virtual environment, this video incorporates the 3D models that Glow sculpted in VR to create the collaborative parade float maquettes.
A short video created by Bureau NY for the launch of FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, that endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history with honesty and integrity, creating space for others who share this common heritage to voice their feelings and experiences at this monumental moment.
Watch a video from the exhibition about how Beatrice Glow uses virtual reality sculpting to research and create the parade float maquettes featured in the exhibition.
Inspired by collections visit at New-York Historical Society during an artist residency where Beatrice Glow got to see 19th-20th century paper peepshow books, an early form of virtual reality where an accordion-like book unfolds into a sculptural artist book to reveal a world within, Glow created her own version that depicts an alternative commemoration of the 400 year anniversary of the founding of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (present-day New York).
This artist book is the result of multi-year dialogues and collaborations with nine local and global culture bearers whose heritages were impacted by Dutch colonialism (see more here). Following many listening sessions, Glow used virtual reality sculpting to create 3D models of parade float maquettes that reflect the cultural perspectives of the culture bearers. These 3D models of the parade float maquettes were then 3D printed into physical sculptures as well as turned into a virtual paper peepshow in a video filmed in a virtual environment.