Arts Center Open Studios
With Open Studios, LMCC invites the public into the workspaces and creative processes of the 2026 Arts Center Artists-in-Residence. These open house events are free and welcoming, informal, and accessible to all ages.
New Date: October 17*
12pm - 5pm
The Arts Center of Governors Island, Residency Studios
Free Admission | RSVP Requested
*Rescheduled from September 26 due to inclement weather.
All Ages Climate Art Workshops
Throughout the summer, LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island will host free Saturday Climate Art Workshops. These family-friendly events invite participants to engage in hands-on, creative experiences, and to take home their artistic projects. Each workshop will be led by Sari Nordman and Nobuho Nagasawa, both current 2026 Arts Center Artists-in-Residence, sharing an activity related to themes of art and climate. All ages are invited to connect, create, and be part of LMCC’s artistic community.
Recycled Runway with Sari Nordman:
August 29
Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia Workshop with Nobuho Nagasawa:
August 15
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Free Admission | RSVP Requested
Homecoming: For the Harbor
Save the Date!
On Saturday, September 26, The New York Climate Exchange, LMCC, and hundreds of New Yorkers will gather on Governors Island for Homecoming: For the Harbor to cheer for the New York Harbor!
With Minneapolis-based artist Amanda Lovelee, we’ll wrap up Climate Week NYC 2026 with the full spirit of a Pep Rally—marching bands, cheerleaders, and art-making workshops, plus climate scientists and environmental advocates.
New Date: October 17*
10:30am-3:30pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Free Admission
*Rescheduled from September 26 due to inclement weather.
Work-in-Progress Showing
A sign, a signal, a delivery, a deliverance
Anh Vo
A sign, a signal, a delivery, a deliverance brings Ca Trù, a rare northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition, into dialogue with possession rituals. Drawing from Ca Trù’s austere, trance-like soundscape and its precise rhythmic structures, the project explores quieter states of losing oneself. Here, possession emerges through discipline and devotion rather than abandon and catharsis, where control itself becomes the condition for being overtaken. This work will premiere at Danspace in Fall 2026.
Please note: This performance has been canceled due to inclement weather on Saturday, September 26.
The Tempestry Project
New York City’s first Tempestry Collection. 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. Part of the nationwide Tempestry Project, a collaborative fiber arts offering a unique, hands-on perspective on environmental change.
May 16 - September 27*
The Arts Center of Governors Island, Upper Lobby
Free Admission
*The Arts Center will be closed September 26 and September 27 due to inclement weather.
The Tempestry Project is presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The Unintended Blues
Leslie Wayne
Leslie Wayne's new exhibition, The Unintended Blues documents rising sea levels through aerial landscape paintings of vulnerable US shorelines and melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle. Additional multi-media pieces will engage viewers with issues around present day climate science. In these works, Wayne captures the beauty of our natural environment and renders with graphic clarity one of our greatest existential threats.
July 24 - September 27*
Fridays - Sundays | 12pm - 5pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Upper Gallery
Free Admission
*The Arts Center will be closed September 26 and September 27 due to inclement weather.
Sponsors
Support for LMCC’s Arts Center Residency Programs is provided by The Cowles Charitable Trust, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, The Norman and Bettina Roberts Foundation, Stony Brook University, and Tiger Baron Foundation. Support for The Arts Center Dance Residency program is provided by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
