Events
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CATCH Performance Series
Lower Gallery, The Arts Center at Governors Island 110 Andes RoadTaking place the day after the 4th of July, join in a convening of artists and audience for an unruly evening of performance that considers the complexities of that history and this moment (in a building first erected as a munitions warehouse for a military headquarters and repurposed as a 40,000 square-foot cultural destination). Hosted…
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City of Water Day Panel
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesFree | Saturday, July 25 at 3:15pm | Lehman Gallery, LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island LMCC in partnership with Stony Brook University invites you to a City of Water…
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July Open Studios
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesWith 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,…
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Recycled Runway
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesRecycled Runway: an All-Ages Climate Art Workshop with Sari Nordman. Create a colorful, one-of-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Arts Center Resident Artist Sari Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. Drawing on 15 years of experience as a teaching artist…
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Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesStep into a space of imagination and invention, where new hybrid creatures begin to appear! Using images from books and their own drawings, participants will create collages that merge dinosaurs with present-day animals. As these creatures take shape, participants enter a world of storytelling and transformation. Together, these creatures form a speculative bestiary—an imagined collection…
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esperanza spalding
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park 20 Battery Place, New York, NY, United Statesesperanza spalding in collaboration with dancer, theater and filmmaker Kayla Farrish, presents an evening of new dance and music – crafted live and in real time. Growing from spalding’s years of study and experimentation around how to re-merge “jazz” music & dance, and Farrish’s multi-disciplinary work of transforming feeling, story, and humanity through dance, this…
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Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesStep into a space of imagination and invention, where new hybrid creatures begin to appear! Using images from books and their own drawings, participants will create collages that merge dinosaurs with present-day animals. As these creatures take shape, participants enter a world of storytelling and transformation. Together, these creatures form a speculative bestiary—an imagined collection…
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August 22 Open Studios
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesWith 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. Artist activations will take place throughout the day, including a hands-on art-making workshop, listening experience and work-in-progress performance. August…
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Recycled Runway
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Building 110, Governors Island, New York, NY, United StatesCreate a colorful, one-of-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Arts Center Resident Artist Sari Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. Drawing on 15 years of experience as a teaching artist in NYC public schools, Sari finds joy in sharing their…
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Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn!
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park 20 Battery Place, New York, NY, United StatesFree | September 10, 12, 13, 7:30pm | Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park Join us for the world premiere of a new work from visionary two-time Tony winner, National Medal of the Arts and Kennedy Center Honoree, Bill T. Jones. Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! responds to a performance commissioned by LMCC…