FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.
[1] Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art.
She had named it after her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone.
[4] Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean.
[5] In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for[6] "presenting magnificent contemporary performance work."