Pioneer Works at Red Hook Labs

Pioneer Works was imagined by its founder, artist Dustin Yellin, as a place in which artists, scientists, and thinkers from various backgrounds converge and work together, in real-time; this “museum of process” was inspired by utopian visionaries such as Buckminster Fuller and radical institutions such as Black Mountain College. For both Fuller and the Black Mountain community, learning was a shared and interactive pursuit through which society could model new ways of being. Yellin, together with Gabriel Florenz, Pioneer Works' Founding Artistic Director, and a group of scientists, artists, supporters, and advisors, renovated the historic structure and opened Pioneer Works to the public in 2012. Janna Levin, astrophysicist, author and professor, later joined the team as the center's first Director of Sciences.