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 …
Download the Education and Accessibility Guide for SCREEN MEMORIES MONA BENYAMIN: MOONSCAPECurated by May Makki Filmmaker Mona Benyamin draws on popular media forms in order to frame intergenerational perspectives on trauma and hope. Taking the form of a music video, Moonscape follows the artist’s query to the Lunar Embassy seeking citizenship that would allow her …
Download the Education & Accessibility Guide for -figur Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present -figur, a solo exhibition of recent works by Lower East Side Studio Program alum Kemar Keanu Wynter, on view at 88 Essex St. from November 15, 2024 through February 1, 2025. -figur follows on the heels of Kemar’s previous solo …
Lelia Byron is an interdisciplinary artist who makes paintings, sculptures, and public art projects. Lelia’s projects frequently involve an investigative component, often interviewing diverse groups of people about topics related to human rights and the creative process. Recent projects include a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the Springfield Museum of Art, which were …
Download the Education & Accessibility Guide for W.A.I. The Cast of the Invisible Curatorial Assistant Manavi Sinha Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is very pleased to present W.A.I. The Cast of the Invisible, featuring new work by New York City-based artist Lau Wai on view from September 6 through November 9, 2024. A response to the ever-expanding …
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, …
Jonathan Sánchez Noa was born in Havana, Cuba and now lives in Brooklyn. His visual art practice examines how histories of colonial extractivism have impacted notions of race, identity and climate. Through papermaking techniques, he imprints tobacco stain patterns directly into raw pulp slabs. A process informed and influenced by personal ritual, spiritual and vision …
Alex Strada is a multimedia artist and educator based in New York City. Through film/video, installation, sound and orality, performance, and public art, her socially engaged projects explore collectivity, critical legal studies, and political transformation. Transdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of her practice. Since 2022, she has served as the inaugural Public Artist in …
Zahra is the recipient of the 2024 Pollock-Krasner Grant and the 2024 Djerassi Artist Residency Program. Zahra Jewanjee is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who oscillates between painting, sculpture, and photography. Inspired by nature and informed by Science and Sufism, Zahra is fascinated by how humans, birds, and microbes all form groups for protection and …
