Join us for a full day of Public Programs at The Arts Center at Governors Island!
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Open Studios with Arts Center Artists-in-Residence 12pm - 5pm Connect with LMCC's Arts Center artists-in-residence at Open Studios! Visit artists in their studios, where they will share works-in-progress as well as hands-on and engaging activities for attendees. Learn more here→ Artist Studios, Upper Level |
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Self Actualization Portraits Workshop with Paul Deo 1pm - 4pm Paul Deo’s self-actualization portrait painting classes offer a fun, calm, and safe environment to find your inner essence and unwind while learning to create beautiful works of portraiture. This workshop invites you to open your mind to the wisdom all around us by letting go of past trauma and exploring your purpose and destiny in this interconnected universe. Paint yourself surrounded by your visions, reinforcing your positive affirmations and manifesting your goals. Learn more here→ Studio A4, Upper Gallery |
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Sankofa, a new performance by Anna Parisi 3pm and 5pm Sankofa, an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana, conveys the ancient wisdom in learning and retrieving from the past to ensure a brighter, healthier and wiser future. Sankofa, a new performance by Anna Parisi, portrays a young Black woman named Self, who is contending with the voices in her head and her self-worth in a world where the standards of beauty and value do not match her identity. Parisi is joined by Jawuan Hill who plays Damon, a menacing specter and trickster, and Zamo Mlengana who plays Nina, a kind, quiet 10-year-old Black girl who returns from her first pool party feeling heartbroken and deceived. Learn more here→ Lower Gallery |
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Watercolor Workshop with Rhonda Weppler 12pm - 2pm Work with artist Rhonda Weppler to design your own lantern, inspired by her current exhibition there is nothing you can think that is not the moon on view in the Lower Gallery at The Arts Center at Govenors Island. Participants will be asked to recall an object of personal significance they have lost and then invited to resurrect the object by painting it. Rhonda will transform these paintings of lost objects into lanterns. Participants’ lanterns will be illuminated and exhibited in the artist’s installation titled the Museum of Lost Things. Come back to The Arts Center in September to see your lantern on view. Learn more here→ The Arts Center Cafe |