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.
May 16 | June 20 | July 25 | August 22 | September 26
12pm - 5pm
The Arts Center of Governors Island, Residency Studios
Free Admission | RSVP Requested
Work-in-Progress Showing
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Moriah Evans
[…/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is an immersive performance that confronts the body as an ambivalent place of political and existential conundrums. The work unfolds in a manner that prioritizes non-linear thinking and embodied ways of knowing. The showing will feature collaborators Malcolm-x Betts, Chloë Engel, João dos Santos Martins, and Varinia Canto Vila.
May 16 | 4pm - 5pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A2
Free Admission | RSVP Required
[…/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] will premiere June 5-13, 2026 at The Chocolate Factory Theater. Details here.
Work-in-Progress Showing
Lunar Retreat
Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths
Lunar Retreat is a multi-sensory performance inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. This immersive journey invites audiences to wander, witness, and reflect on how we move through care, loss, and transformation—both individually and collectively.
Selected sections of the developing performance installation will be shared audiences for feedback and reflection.
June 20 | 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 3pm and 4pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A3
Free Admission | RSVP Required
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:
July 25, August 29
Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia Workshop with Nobuho Nagasawa:
August 1, August 15
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Free Admission | RSVP Requested
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.
September 26 | 4-5pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A3
Free Admission | RSVP Required
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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 Tempestry Project is presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The Unintended Blues
Leslie Wayne
Opening July 24, 2026
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 23 - September 27
Fridays - Sundays | 12pm - 5pm
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Upper Gallery
Free Admission
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.
