With Open Studios, LMCC invites the public into the workspaces and creative processes of the 2026 Cohort of Arts Center Residents. These open house events are free and welcoming, informal, and accessible to all ages.

In addition to the ongoing practices of Arts Center Residents in their studios, LMCC Dance Resident Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths, present Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory performance inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. Learn more about the showing here. 

Also on view at the Arts Center, New York City’s first Tempestry Collection: a project featuring sixteen hand-knitted panels or “tempestries,” each depicting a full year of the city’s daily temperature data rendered into various colors. More information on the Tempestry Project at the Arts Center can be found here.

Artist Activations

Phoebus Osborne, Oh, it’s my ass and my anus | All Day
A single-channel version of a 4-channel video work by Phoebus Osborne, Oh, it’s my ass and my anus explores underground and interior environments as sites of resistance, intimacy, and imagination. Weaving footage of limestone caves, cemeteries, bathroom DJ sets, queer beaches, and domestic spaces, the piece unfolds as a sensorial field. A layered soundscape of field recordings, vocals, and rhythmic pulses guides viewers into altered states of attention, inviting embodied perception and a luminous, collective interiority.

Rachel Garber Cole, My Family Photos |  All Day
Please come and use my family photos to tell me stories from your own life. It will be fun and you can voyeur into someone else’s life while I try and voyeur into yours! The workshop is part of project development for my residency project My Family Photos, which explores 20th century narratives of time and progress against a 21st century backdrop of the climate crisis.

Sari Nordman, Anxiety Boutique Activation Dance | 2:30pm
This activation invites viewers to imagine climate extremes and learn more about the story behind the Anxiety Boutique.

About The Arts Center Residency

The 2026 Arts Center Residency cohort includes 18 artists, one On-Site Assistant, and, for the first time, two Scholars-in-Residence from Stony Brook University and an Organization-in-Residence: Seaweed City.

2026 marks the inaugural year of a new partnership with Stony Brook University and Seaweed City, expanding the residency as a platform for sustained climate inquiry across artistic and academic disciplines.

LMCC’s 2026 Arts Center Residents are Garrett Allen, Rachel Garber Cole, Nicole Cooper, RedMoon Arts Movement Inc, Duy Hoàng, Derek Lee McPhatter, Tijay Mohammed, Sari Nordman, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Phoebus Osborne, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Gabriela Salazar, Lisa Ann Schonberg, Sara Stern, Nora Treatbaby, Tanika I. Williams, Darla Migan (Stony Brook University) Nobuho Nagasawa (Stony Brook University), Seaweed City, (Organization-in-Residence), and Noga Cohen (On-Site Assistant).

Learn more about the residency here.

About The Tempestry Project

Madison Square Park Conservancy is proud to present New York City’s first Tempestry Collection. Part of the nationwide Tempestry Project, a collaborative fiber arts initiative that turns climate data into striking visual and tactile works, this collection offers a unique, hands-on perspective on environmental change.

Created by a community of volunteer knitters, the project features sixteen hand-knitted panels or “tempestries,” each depicting a full year of the city’s daily temperature data rendered into various colors. The collection weaves together climate storytelling and civic history. The sixteen years selected, one from each decade spanning from 1870 to the present, highlight pivotal moments in Madison Square Park’s evolution, from its 19th-century redesign to the first public Christmas tree lighting in 1912 to its recognition as an accredited Level 2 Arboretum in 2018.

Presented in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the Arts Center at Govenors Island.

On View at the Arts Center May 16 – September 27, 2026.

Photo by Elana Engelman-Lado