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Events

Join us for discussions, workshops, and collaborative events

2021

JUN 1
Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help?


JUN 23 & 24
Black Movement Library:
Movement Portraits


MAY 6 & 13
The Song That I Sing is Part of an Echo


APR 22 & 29
Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us


APR 15 – JUL 15
Minimum Viable Hologram Sessions


MAR 24 – APR 28
Understanding, Transforming, and Preserving Movement in Digital Spaces


MAR 23
Radical Care with Miki Kashtan and Cassie Thornton, moderated by Kaira Jewel Lingo


MAR 17
Practicing the Future with Ari Melenciano, Samuel F. Reynolds, and Colin Rusch, moderated by Roderick Schrock


MAR 4
Making Change Now: Contextualizing Cancel Culture, Hyper-Partisanship, and the Politics of Progress


2020

NOV 11
What To Do When We Don’t Know What To Do: In Creative Service


OCT 27
What To Do When We Don’t Know What To Do: How I Stopped Worrying About The Election


OCT 14
Conversations@Moore: Grupo de Arte Callejero and Solana Chehtman


OCT 13
Premiere of STTLMNT: An Indigenous Digital Occupation


AUG 27
Film Premier & Talk: Reimagining Reentry at Alcatraz


JULY 27
4MX Greenhouse: Artist Jordan Weber and Kathryn McKinney in Conversation


JULY 2
Resiliency Moments: Art & Healthcare During a Time of Crisis


MAY 28
Deep Future: Building Lateral Institutions


2019

DEC 5
Museum of Capitalism:
Curator-led Tour and Discussion


OCT 19
Fall 2019 Assembly


SEP 27
Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas


SEP 13
Fellowship Workshop in Los Angeles


SEP 10
Fellowship Workshop with Shaun Leonardo


AUG 20
Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio


JUL 31
Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio


JUN 6
Rooted in Neighborhood: Bronx Artists Working in Their Communities


APR 13
Spring 2019 Assembly


FEB 9
Inspired by Malcolm X: Healing & Self-Determination Through the 4MX Greenhouse


2018

Decolonizing the Land,
Decolonizing the Mind


Fellowship Workshop
with Miguel Luciano


Join us at our Annual Gala!
Night of Alchemy
November 13, 2018


What It Takes to Be Free: Artists Respond to the Criminal Justice System


Health, Food and Healing: Pa’lante – Puerto Rican Activists in Conversation


City as Partner:
Artists Working in Government


The Next Five Years:
Telling the Story of ABOG’s Future


Inhale, Exhale: The Arts of Healing and Learning


I Speak for the Trees: A Mock Trial


A Blade of Grass

What does AI need from you? Approaching Artificial Intelligence with Compassion


Stephanie Dinkins

Not Gone Tomorrow: Fellows Freeman Word and Rick Lowe on Sustainable Community Spaces


Victoria Square Project

2017

Black Quantum Futurism and the Reentry Think Tank at Philadelphia Museum of Art


BQF Mapping Workshop

November 7, 2017
Night of Alchemy Annual Benefit


New Cultural Exchange: Sustainable Partnerships with Artists


FIELDWORKS: BRIC


FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement


Open Engagement, April 21-23, 2017


Aesthetics of Doing: Performing to Transform


Public Servants in the Future Imperfect

A Double Book Launch Co-presented with the New Museum


Decolonizing Workshop: Performative and Engaged Practices


2016

Parallel Fields: Housing Justice


Fellowship Workshop with Chinatown Art Brigade


Fellowship Workshop with Black Quantum Futurism


FIELDWORKS: The 8th Floor


Projects A-E: Celebrating the Art + Social Justice Working Group


Reports from the Field: Harriet’s Apothecary


Aesthetics of Doing: Decolonizing


FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement


Open Engagement, April 29-May 1, 2016


Entry Points: Recent Writing on Art and Social Justice


FIELDWORKS: MassArt


Parallel Fields: Mindful Leadership


Reports from the Field: Apps for Power


Book Launch and Discussion: Remapping Performance by Jan Cohen-Cruz


FIELDWORKS: Parrish Art Museum


Aesthetics of Doing: Tangible Utopia


2015

FIELDWORKS: Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 4


FIELDWORKS: Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 3


Fellowship Workshop with Dread Scott


Fellowship Workshop with Laura Chipley


Aesthetics of Doing: Community Organizing


Aesthetics of Doing: Sleeping with the Enemy


Fiesta de Cierre de Donceles – Closing Party!


Reports from the Field: SexEd


Open Engagement, April 17-19, 2015


Reports from the Field: Beauty in Transition


Parallel Fields: Alternative Economies


2014

Fellowship Workshop with Pablo Helguera


Republic of New York: Perfect City Discussions


Fellowship Workshop with Norene Leddy & Liz Slagus


Parallel Fields: Coming Home


Parallel Fields: Will Work for Food


Open Engagement, May 16-18, 2014


Aesthetics of Doing: Is Socially Engaged Art Always Progressive?


Parallel Fields: Kitchens in Conversation


Parallel Fields: Heavy Metal


Aesthetics of Doing: Effectiveness


2013

Talking Transition: BEYOND ACCESS


Fellowship Workshop with Mierle Laderman Ukeles


Artist Files Book Launch Party


Does Capitalism Work? with Steve Lambert


The Active Partnership


Fellowship Workshop with John Ahearn


Aesthetics of Doing: Learning as Social Empowerment


What We Learned From The Hive


A Conversation with Robby Herbst


Opening Reception: Empathy Corporation


Parallel Fields: Forming a Debtors’ Union


The Hive Presents: Empathy Corporation


F**king Up: How Long Will You Work on This?


F**king Up: How Will You Talk About What Happened?


F**king Up: Why Are You Taking So Many Photographs?


F**king Up: Who Gets to Speak Up?


Parallel Fields: Building a Future for PlaNYC


Aesthetics of Doing: Ethics


Eyal Danon In Discussion with Reem Fadda


2012

Parallel Fields: Farming


Artists Helping Artists


Artists Helping Artists


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