Chinese Version below In 2024-2025, 7th and 8th graders at PS184 Shuang Wen collaborated with artist Mimi Biyao Bai on a series of classroom-based workshops exploring concepts of safety and belonging through drawing and screen printing. The project, Collective Camouflage, draws inspiration from the camouflage strategies used by plants and animals, as well as the …
Clay is the oldest-known ceramic material, with prehistoric humans first discovering its useful properties for pottery making. Beyond its role in crafting vessels, clay also served as a medium for communication, as evidenced by the creation of tablets where marks were carved to communicate early languages—making clay tablets the first known writing medium. Hosted by …
A collaboration with 2nd-grade students from P.S. 48 Mapelton School, Lizania Cruz’ workshop, Geography of Life II, reflected on the historical, existent, and potential futuristic forms of interdependent relationships between human and non-human life. Coming together for six 90-minute sessions, Cruz and participating students explored the following questions: The workshops were structured through observance techniques, …
Space is limited. Registration is required.Payment for registration is not required. Contributed funds benefit Bluestockings CooperativeAccessibility: ASL interpretation will be provided Building upon conversations initiated by the 2021 exhibition ART/WORK, which chronicled the seminal but forgotten impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in 1970s New York, Artists Alliance and City Lore are delighted …
On the exterior of Essex Market at the corner of Norfolk and Broome streets, is a re-presentation of I Pledge. Presented here as a vinyl installation, I Pledge was created by Amy Khoshbin, House of Trees, and Naomi Shihab Nye in response to mounting xenophobia and gender-based violence for the one-year anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March. I Pledge continues to advocate for …
Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, NY NY 10003Doors: 6pScreening: 6:30p (77 minute run-time) Free, but RSVP required. Register here. “The idea of a guaranteed income is as old as the nation itself and has deep roots in the fight for social justice.” — Michael Tubbs, Founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income Artists Alliance …
What Color is the Black Sea? was an interactive game conceived by Tbilisi-born, New York-based transdisciplinary artist Levani for a diverse group of students and their parents at P.S. 48 Mapleton School. Through coloring exercises, the project aimed to foster planetary thinking, ecological awareness, imagination, and group problem-solving. Each intergenerational group was given black-and-white drawings …
From March 23 to May 11, 2023, PS184 Shuang Wen students collaborated with artist and educator Aya Rodriguez-Izumi on a series of classroom-based workshops that explored symbols of personal and familial identity as a flexible medium for contemporary cultural expression. The project, Signals from New York: Workshop with PS184 Shaung Wen School, took inspiration from …
Installation view. Collective Photo Album (many images of us alone, together), 29 March 2023 – ongoing. Artists Alliance, Norfolk St (between Broome and Delancey), New York. Photo: Brad Farwell. Collective Photo Album (many images of us alone, together), is the result of a photo workshop created in collaboration between P.S. 134 fourth and fifth grade …
Join us virtually or in-person to explore the history of how a government-funded jobs program put artists to work across New York City. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A. City Lore, Artists Alliance Inc., and the NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) present Critical Lens: ART X CETA, a panel discussion spotlighting the Municipal Archives‘ …
