The Bushwick Open Studios app was an annual event program for the three-day summer arts festival held in Brooklyn. It was comprised of both a Flask backend for serving schedule data, and a native iPhone client for viewing the schedules and events. The festival garnered over 10,000 visitors every summer, and the app averaged 3,000 downloads each year in the weekend it was available.

BOS 2012 icon: pink letters B O S in diamonds over a light pink background BOS 2013 icon: white letters B O S in diamonds over a magenta to orange gradient BOS 2014 icon: white letters B O S in diamonds over a solid magenta background BOS 2015 icon: white letters B O S in diamonds over a magenta to cyan background. Yellow lines and shapes at the margin suggest the streets and warehouses of Bushwick.

I volunteered as the lead mobile developer for Arts in Bushwick, the all-volunteer organization behind Bushwick Open Studios, from 2012 to 2015.

Described by arts blog Hyperallergic as “one of the biggest annual art events in New York”, Bushwick Open Studios encompassed more than 500 events at more than 200 sites throughout the Bushwick neighborhood. The BOS app incorporated an interactive neighborhood map to help the thousands of festivalgoers navigate the event. The app also included robust search functionality, and features that allowed users to build their own schedule of events and spaces they wished to visit.

screenshot of the BOS app displaying events around the neighborhood screenshot of the BOS app displaying a search interface screenshot of the BOS app displaying a list of events at 56 Bogart Street