Join us to celebrate our Session 2 Artists in Residence at The Arts Center. Engage with the artists, learn about their creative practice and works in progress at Open Studios. Session 2 artists include: Bazeed, Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación, Regina Evans, GOODW.Y.N., Ruth Jeyaveeran, Juyon Lee, Jemila MacEwan, Yumiko Ono, María Elena Pombo, Kevin Quiles Bonilla,…

Teach Me What Love Is: Saturday, September 14th 2-5 pm, Upper Gallery, The Arts Center at Governors Island Teach Me What Love Is is a participatory performance series and karaoke workshop that explores the linguistic diversity of the word "love" across languages. Focusing on the often-invisible experience of ESL (English as second language) speakers, the…

Curator Kiara Cristina Ventura will lead an exhibition tour of Tropical Frequencies at 12:30pm, followed by an exciting lineup of programs inspired by themes of family, home, and ancestral roots woven together in the exhibition. DIDIDADA, movement workshop by artist Coco Villa 2:30 - 4:30 pm Conducted in follow-along style and guided improvisation, it is…

Join curator Meghana Karnik for an exhibition tour followed by a reading of Unity Newspaper (2024), a new publication by Hope is a discipline artist Maggie Wong. Wong's installation, The Red what reading did re-adding stems from the artist's intergenerational study of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) and present parts of the publication, Unity…