Contents for September 8th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
2. Susana Cook, FF Alumn, at Centro Cultural Barco de Papel, Jackson Heights, Queens, NY, Sept. 13
3. Ann P. Meredith, FF Alumn, at Under St. Marks Theater, Manhattan, Sept. 25
4. Judith Bernstein, Stuart Brisley, William N. Copley, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Morgan O’Hara, Willoughby Sharp, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, opening Sept. 20
5. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, at Los Angeles Center for Photography, CA thru Sept. 20 and more
6. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, now online at untitled-space.art
7. Jenny Polak, FF Alumn, at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 8 and more
8. Walter Krochmal, FF Alumn, at La Nacional, Manhattan, Sept. 16
9. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 13
10. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, opening Sept. 11, and more
11. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, not on 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 18-19
12. Peter Cramer, Lizzie Olesker, Sur Rodney Sur, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Sept. 11-14
13. Kriota Willberg, FF Alumn, Autumn news
14. Larry List, FF Alumn, at McNally Jackson Booksellers, South Street Seaport, Manhattan, Sept. 16
15. Tamar Ettun, Dread Scott, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at 127 Elizabeth Street, Manhattan, opening Oct. 10 and more
16. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at MIT, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 3-4
17. Judy Glantzman, Michael Goldberg, Jody Pinto, Lucio Pozzi, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 19
18. Dee Shapiro, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Manhattan, thru Nov. 7
19. Christina Schlesinger, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, thru Sept 28
20. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at Columbus State University, GA, Oct. 14-Nov. 15 and more
21. Mattie McGarey at Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY, Sept. 13
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link, and Coco Fusco’s solo exhibition at Museo del Barrio, Manhattan:
Thank you.
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2. Susana Cook, FF Alumn, at Centro Cultural Barco de Papel, Jackson Heights, Queens, NY, Sept. 13
Susana Cook will be reading (in Spanish) from her play Samanta Ibarrola, la mujer inexplicable, with actress Nicole Betancourt
En Construccion, New Works by Latin American Writers.
With: Sara Abadia (Colombia), Claudia Garibaldi (Peru), Claudia Salazar Gimenez (Peru), Marisa Lopez (Mexico), Evolet Aceves (Mexico)
Saturday September 13th @ 7 PM
Centro Cultural Barco de Papel.
4003 80th street. Jackson Heights
Queens. NY 11373
FREE
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3. Ann P. Meredith, FF Alumn, at Under St. Marks Theater, Manhattan, Sept. 25
“O” The Murder of Christa McAuliffe and Judith Resnik
The N.A.S.A. President Ronald Reagan Challenger Disaster
by award winning writer director producer Ann P Meredith
September 25th 700pm Doors Open 645pm $20 cash
Under St Marks Theater, 94 St Marks Place NY 10009
https://tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1237/6897:6686
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4. Judith Bernstein, Stuart Brisley, William N. Copley, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Morgan O’Hara, Willoughby Sharp, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, opening Sept. 20
OPENING
AN AMERICA
SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 1, 2025.
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, 11-6 PM.
OPENING RECEPTION
SEPTEMBER 20, 5-8 PM.
An America, is an exhibition curated and first exhibited by Mitchell Algus at his gallery in NYC. Traveling this exhibition to our gallery in LA, is an act of art world solidarity. And yes you are right in thinking that we just did an exhibition, Burn Me!, that was a politically charged show. We will continue. America needs to see this work now, they need to see political artwork that confronts the political catastrophe that is happening in this country. This exhibition is a collection of bold works both historical and recent that address the corrupt fascists that have run this country for decades. Trump is just the most recent, and in many ways the most extreme example of said fascism. Mitchell Algus and The Box choose to show this work and not shy away from the difficult political work being made and much ignored. An America is art exhibition as political statement. A political statement against the capitalist greed that drives much of the Art World, and much of the Western World we live in.
From Mitchell Algus:
The country is in crisis. The government is being dismantled by nihilists, conspiracy theorists, oligarchs and white nationalists who see our allies as our enemies. The sovereignty of other nations is being threatened by an administration’s imperial imaginings. We are becoming a surveillance state. Retribution, not unity, is now our national motto. And the galleries. We have a platform. We cannot be silent.
ARTIST LIST
Gene Beery, Ed Bereal, Judith Bernstein, Stuart Brisley, Kathe Burkhart, Neke Carson, William N. Copley, Gabriel D’Annunzio, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Agustin Fernandez, Ryan Forester, Cristos Gianakos, Wayne Gonzales, Oshay Green, Scott Grodesky, Philippe Halsman, Barkley L. Hendricks, Deborah Kass, Steve Keister, Richard Kostelanetz, Lee Lozano, Robert Mallary, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Morgan O’Hara, Stephen Pollock, Boyd Rice, Ira Richer, Kerry Schuss, Willoughby Sharp, Jack Smith, Dash Snow, Anita Steckel, Harold Stevenson, Banks Violette, Roger Welch, Martha Wilson, Alexi Worth
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5. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, at Los Angeles Center for Photography, CA thru Sept. 20 and more
I have one of my diptychs from my Being Seen Project, awarded honorable mention, in “Fearless,” the tenth annual members exhibition at the Los Angeles Center for Photography, 8/21/25-9/20/25. Darren Ching, Co-Owner of Klompching Gallery, New York, is the curator.
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I’ll also have two photographs in “Past. Present. Seen,” a landmark exhibition honoring the rich history and vibrant presence of Professional Women Photographers (PWP) on their 50th Anniversary. The show is curated by Jennifer McClure and opens September 19th at the Salmagundi Club. As the theme suggests, members were invited to submit image pairings, including one photograph from their earlier work and one from their current work. The two images I submitted include a recent portrait of a woman with her baby that I took during a Being Seen workshop, along with a family I photographed in 2012 while working on my series, In the Presence of Family.
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6. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, now online at untitled-space.art
The Untitled Space
WE ARE WOMEN
Works on Paper
End Of Summer Promotion
In Collaboration with Art4Equality
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The collection showcases works by a dynamic lineup of contemporary women
artists whose practices span diverse themes and aesthetics, from feminist
commentary to explorations of intimacy, identity, and emotional landscapes. The
Untitled Space is pleased to present "WE ARE WOMEN: Works On Paper," a curated collection of works on paper highlighting the gallery’s celebrated roster of women artists.
Running from August 26 – September 14, 2025, the online event offers collectors the
opportunity to acquire featured artwork at 25% off, exclusively through untitled-
space.art. A portion of proceeds will benefit Art4Equality, the non-profit initiative
founded by Indira Cesarine to champion gender equality through art and activism.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Elena Chestnykh, Fahren Feingold, Grace Graupe-
Pillard, Helena Calmfors, Indira Cesarine, Joanne Agabs, Katie Commodore, Martha
Zmpounou, Rebecca Leveille, Robin Tewes, Sarah Maple, Sophie Goudman-
Peachey, and Tabitha Whitley.
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7. Jenny Polak, FF Alumn, at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 8 and more
I’m excited to share news of my solo show ‘Labor Market’ at Cuchifritos gallery, inside the Essex Market on the Lower East Side, in NY, opening this Friday! Included are a new site specific ICE Escape Sign, drawings and embroidered textile works based on text by poet Daniel Kelly. And in the UK opening 18th September, my latest collaboration with Nancy Willis is included in a beautiful group show, ‘The Sleepers’, at the Women’s Art Collection. More info below.
Amid intensifying government support of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and the crackdown on protest against it, I am working to make art that can build solidarity, empathy and resistance.
Labor Market
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
(located inside the Essex Market)
88 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002
Opening reception: Friday, Sept. 5, 6-8pm
HOURS
Wednesday–Saturday; 12–6pm
(or by appointment – let me know if you’d like to visit with me)
September 5 – November 8, 2025
Detail of We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest, 1
and
The Sleepers
18 September 2025 – 22 February 2026
Opening Reception 18 Sept. 6-8pm
Tickets here
At The Women’s Art Collection
Murray Edwards College
Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF
UK
A group show exploring how women artists have articulated complex and differing experiences of sleep and rest. The Rest Before The Revolution is a new work made in collaboration with UK artist Nancy Willis, that revisits our collaborative montages from the 1990s UK disability arts movement.
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8. Walter Krochmal, FF Alumn, at La Nacional, Manhattan, Sept. 16
DATE & TIME: Tue. September 16, 2025 5:30 pm – 9:30 pmVENUE: La Nacional – 239 West 14th Street (MANHATTAN) full program here: https://www.bronxworldfilm.org/a-night-at-la-nacional
Downtown Manhattan welcomes September’s edition of “A Night at La Nacional” with its worldly mix of contemporary arthouse, performance, music, visual arts and more in the great downtown tradition and at landmark venue La Nacional (Spanish Benevolent Society) on West 14th Street. Produced in partnership with Bronx World Film, the pilot series offers filmmakers, performers, artists and communities a lively hub to share work and forge partnerships while drawing new patrons to La Nacional, one of the city’s oldest non-profits recently dubbed “a hidden gem” by the Daily News and last, but proudly standing remnant of Manhattan’s old “Little Spain” district.Following an August programme strong on animation, September’s marqueé brings us headliners The Gorgon Cycles, an animated film by Miles Inada, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tessa Brinckman and Cevyn McConachie; Roman Shave by Paul Shottner in its US premiere; All About Marketing and Miracles (SCR/DIR Serena Lazzaro, ITALY, 2025, 15:00. Comedy) in its New York City premiere; and Hsuan Yu Pan’s Weaving: Stockholm Through the Eyes of Ukrainian Refugees, an advance viewing of her most recent documentary.Headliner for the live performance component is singer and performance artist Mayuka Ezure with live painting by Jim Su; and a surprise performance/poetry incubator project that marries poetry to acting and micrométrage production. Doors open at 5:30 for a mixer and cash bar, performances are at 6:30, the screening at 8 followed by a Q & A, with an after-party and mixer. Bronx World Film and La Nacional welcome one and all to an event, venue and company you will not want to leave. La Nacional is now in its 100th year at its present location! Admission to “A Night at La Nacional” is free. Donations accepted.
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9. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 13
Please join me for Illuminations, an exhibit at BWAC Gallery!
September 13 – October 12
Weekends, 1-6 PM
BWAC Gallery
481 Van Brunt Street, 2nd Floor
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, Sept 13, 3-6 PM
ART TALKS: Sunday, Sept 28, 1-4pm
20+ artists of the Park Slope Windsor Terrace collective invite you to view their artwork in a variety of mediums — painting, prints, photography, collage and paper relief — during the weekends of September 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28, October 4 & 5, and 11 & 12, at 1:00 to 6:00 PM each day.
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10. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, opening Sept. 11, and more
Suzanne Lacy: Birlikte/Togaether
September 11 at 11 am – Exhibition Preview
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Birlikte/Togaether, curated by Prof. Dr. Ahu Antmen and presented with the support of the Sabancı Foundation, esteemed for advancing social progress toward a more equitable and sustainable future, will open on September 11 at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
The exhibition at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum will, for the first time in Turkey, bring together an extensive selection of Suzanne’s video installations and collaborative works spanning from 1975 to 2015.
Through this exhibition—at once aesthetic and political—the Sakıp Sabancı Museum seeks to highlight the power of museums to engage with pressing social issues; to draw audiences into dialogue with the social dimensions of contemporary art; and to underscore the responsibility and influence of artists in this field.
and
Suzanne Lacy and Prof. Dr. Ahu Antmen
in conversation
September 13th at 2:00 PM
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Suzanne Lacy joins curator Prof. Dr. Ahu Antmen for a discussion about Suzanne’s projects on the exhibition.
Ahu Antmen is a professor of modern and contemporary art at Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research is based on issues of modernity, identity and gender in modern and contemporary Turkish art. Besides her teaching, she has worked as an art critic for Turkish daily newspapers Cumhuriyet and Radikal, co-founded the Turkish Art Annual, and served as arts editor at Yapı Kredi Publishing.
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11. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, not on 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 18-19
In celebration of Art in Odd Places’ (AiOP) 20th anniversary and in response to the dismantling of arts funding, AiOP returns to 14th Street to do NOTHING.
This year’s festival, Art in Odd Places 2025: NOTHING, takes place from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM on:
Saturday, October 18 on 14th Street between First and Third Avenues
Sunday, October 19 on 14th Street between Sixth and Ninth Avenues
For two decades, AiOP has presented visual and performance art in the public sphere along 14th Street in Manhattan, as well as across the U.S. and internationally. AiOP has always brought art out of galleries & theaters and into the public realm in conversation with the diverse communities of 14th Street and beyond. In 2025, to mark this milestone, we turn to the topical and apropos theme of NOTHING – curated by no one, and open to everyone.
AiOP 2025: NOTHING invites artists of all mediums to share their interpretation of NOTHING – whether through action, silence, stillness, performance, installation, or simply by being present.
Please join us in this collective public action of doing NOTHING.
Founder and Director
Ed Woodham is an independent elder Southern queer conceptual social absurdist artist, curator, producer, and educator entangled in a mélange of NYC and global activities across media and culture for over 45 years. Woodham employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style to encourage greater consideration of – and provoke deeper critical engagement – with the urban environment. Ed created the project Art in Odd Places (AiOP) as a response to vanishing public space and personal civil liberties.
Art in Odd Places
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC, from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. Using 14th Street as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space nationally & globally. Art in Odd Places is fiscally sponsored by GOH Productions.
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12. Peter Cramer, Lizzie Olesker, Sur Rodney Sur, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Sept. 11-14
Allied Productions/ Le Petit Versailles returns to Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair 2025, September 11-14 at MoMA /PS 1.
https://nyabf2025.printedmatterartbookfairs.org
Fair Hours
Thursday, September 11
7–10 PM OPENING NIGHT Ticketed, $40
Friday, September 12
11 AM – 7 PM Ticketed, $8
Saturday, September 13
11 AM – 7 PM. Ticketed, $8
Sunday, September 14
12–6 PM, Free admission with with advanced registration
*12 PM–12 PM are masked hours
Allied/ LPV has a double presence at the Fair this year at Table T17
AND a site specific installation -INTERSECTIONS. for PM’s new project, The Reading Room.
Among the book artists at our Table T17 we will present –
Joyce McDonald- catalogue published in conjunction with Visual AIDS and Bronx Museum for her upcoming exhibition at Bronx Museum.
Lucia Maria Minervini – Not Selfies, Portraits.
Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance , Process, and the Labor of Laundry published by punctum books,
Sur Rodney Sur – Ribald
Jack Waters – Pestilence #8
GRRRR -Various unique art books
Peter Cramer – Acqua Dotte/ Covid TImes / B& W Study-The Zine.
And other unique publications from our archives.
Allied Productions/Le Petit Versailles presents INTERSECTIONS, a multi media installation for The Reading Room at Printed Matter NY
Art Book Fair 2025. This project will encompass archival materials from various projects initiated by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters that highlight decades of art, activism and advocacy. Subjects include LGBTQ identity & AIDS politics, gentrification and preservation of NYC gardens, and will feature cable access videos as represented by HoMoVISIONES, a Latino caucus of ACT UP.
The Reading Room is a new incarnation of Friendly Fire, a program initiated in 2011 to highlight activist and grassroots-focused Fair exhibitors. The Reading Room highlights Fair exhibitors engaged in activism and grassroots struggles related to a particular theme. The NYABF 2025 Reading Room is produced in dialogue with Archivos Desviados, an ongoing exhibition at Printed Matter’s bookstore in Chelsea, and explores the relationship between publishing and queer and trans liberation, third world solidarity, and revolutionary action. In contrast to the rapid speed at which visitors move through the Fair, this program offers an alternative space to engage in close reading, critique, and reflection.
Allied/ LPV Exhibiting Artists Books
Peter Cramer – various titles
GRRRR – An ever-growing collection of books by Swiss artist Ingo Geizendanner of his many travels and projects including Nuiork 2002 featuring Le Petit Versailles garden.
Joyce McDonald- Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald
Catalogue published in conjunction with Visual AIDS and Bronx Museum for her upcoming exhibition at Bronx Museum. 2025.
The first book dedicated to the sculptural practice of Reverend Joyce McDonald, published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum. Through sculpture, Reverend Joyce McDonald crafts moving testimonies to themes that have shaped her life: hope, grace, and serenity, but also hardship, loss, and devotion. Her work often depicts figures in repose or embrace, embodying the strength, support, and unconditional love that has sustained her life.
McDonald began working with clay in 1997 through an art therapy program, shortly after her diagnosis with HIV. She quickly recognized the medium’s potential for healing and transformation. Working intuitively, she allows figures to emerge from the clay, giving form to memories and emotion while processing experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and illness.
The fully-illustrated catalogue features essays by Kyle Croft and Dr. Jareh Das, alongside a conversation between McDonald and fellow artist Rafael Sánchez.
Lucia Maria Minervini – Not Selfies, Portraits.2025
“Not Selfies, Portraits” began in 2012 as a reaction to the rise of the very popular and still invasive mania of taking selfies. The great respect for the long history of Portraiture inspired this digital project in response to selfies, which appeared to the author as a degradation of the historical genre of portraiture.
For Lucia Minervini as a follower of Jungian psychology, these portraits trace her path of individuation through some of Jung’s great ideas: the collective unconscious, archetypes, the anima/animus and the shadow.
Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance , Process, and the Labor of Laundry – 2025
Hand Book is a collection of writings and images that came out of a hybrid documentary performance and film made by Sachs and Olesker that was set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our city. With a focus on the people who wash and fold “drop-off” loads, Hand Book explores the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire.
Ethan Shoshan – Signs.
Sur Rodney Sur – Ribald, 2022
Jack Waters -IN/OUT , Pestilence #8 – 2025
Unique Titles include Diseased Pariah News, HYPE, Leilah Babirye monograph, RED TAPE Magazines.
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13. Kriota Willberg, FF Alumn, Autumn news
Hi Everyone!
Hope all is well with all of you. Even though I’m teaching Senior Thesis at Parsons School of Design and Art and Anatomy for the Humanistic Medicine Department at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, I still manage to stay engaged with graphic medicine and interdisciplinary arts. I’m writing to let you know what, where, and when I’m participating in events and creating projects accessible to you.
They are:
A podcast with The Illustration Department
Workshops and tabling at the Small Press Expo
A Workshop at the Society of Illustrators
Tabling at The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE)
Details below!
On September 5th I joined Giuseppe Castellano, the founder of IllustrationDept.com for a podcast about artists’ physical self-care. You can access it here: https://illustrationdept.com/idpodcast. It will be offered soon!
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Attending the Small Press Expo (SPX) https://www.smallpressexpo.com/ at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville MD, September 13 and 14? If so, you can come by my table number I14B, to shop for my comics and/or my spouse, R. Sikoryak’s comics at table I14A.
I’ll also be teaching workshops there. On September 13 at 5:00-6:30pm in the Glen Echo Room, I’ll be teaching Physical Self-Care Artists And Writers, based on the info and principles from my book, Draw Stronger: Injury Prevention for Artists and Cartoonists published by Uncivilized Books, plus my past massage therapy and exercise careers.
On Sunday, September 14 at 1:30-3pm, in the Forest Glen Room I’ll be teaching Drawing Anatomy In Action. No matter what we are doing, the shapes of our bodies are determined by the positions of our bones, the contraction and stretch of our muscles, and the contours of our tissues and skin covering the anatomy underneath. Understanding anatomy helps us create real or imaginary characters—in any style—that are consistent and physically believable. This workshop explores drawing the body based on the anatomy of movement. I will—literally—draw on Babs New(d), our live model, tracing muscles and bones for participants to draw in any style they choose. After this workshop I’ll be at the Uncivilized Books table signing Draw Stronger.
If you’re going to SPX and want to sign up for any workshops, including mine, here’s the link: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/workshops/
WED17SEP
September 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Sketching Anatomy: A Special Sketch Night with Kriota Willberg & R. Sikoryak
At the Society 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY, United States
No matter what we do, the shapes of our bodies are determined by the positions of our bones, the contraction and stretch of our muscles, and the contours of our tissues and skin covering the anatomy underneath. Understanding anatomy helps us create real or imaginary characters—in any style—that are consistent and physically believable. This sketch…
Get Tickets $10.00 – $20.00
Want to do something in December? Perhaps the 6th and 7th. You can come to The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) at Boston University and visit my table full of graphic medicine comics and minicomics. If you’re curious, here’s the link: https://www.micexpo.org/events/mice-2025
Best of times this fall and winter!
Kriota
And, if you’d like to take an anatomy for artists workshop where I drawing muscles and bones on a live model, here’s the info about it. This is an initial workshop at the Society of Illustrators and we will be offering a series of 4 workshops in January. Here’s the link: https://societyillustrators.org/event/sketching-anatomy-09-17-25/
Kriota Willberg
she/they
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14. Larry List, FF Alumn, at McNally Jackson Booksellers, South Street Seaport, Manhattan, Sept. 16
You’re invited to a public book launch September 16th of Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess by Larry List. It has been published by Hirmer Verlag to coincide with the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition When Objects Dream, about Man Ray’s Rayograms and paintings. This 265 page book with 350 color illustrations is the first to document Man Ray’s life-long passion for chess as a “sculpture of many parts.”
Though less widely known, Man Ray’s chess set designs were/are as highly sought after as his innovative photographs. His chess art works were collected by everyone from the Maharajah of Indore to Lee Miller, musicians Igor Stravinsky, Artie Shaw, David Bowie, Madonna, and Elton John and filmmakers Albert Lewin and Jim Jarmusch.
Larry will be interviewed by Isabel Münter, Co-Director of The Pawn Chess Club at 6 PM. Around 6:45 visitors are welcome to join the Pawn Chess Club, if they wish, for the evening to play chess in a friendly, low-stakes environment open to both new and experienced players in pursuit of connection across (or away from) the board. Drinks will be available and Larry will be happy to sign books and chat throughout the evening. Please RSVP at https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/larry-list-presents-permanent-attraction
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15. Tamar Ettun, Dread Scott, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at 127 Elizabeth Street, Manhattan, opening Oct. 10 and more
Art at a Time Like This Announces Programming for
DON’T LOOK NOW: A DEFENSE OF FREE EXPRESSION
24 Artists Exercising Their First Amendment Rights
Special Program–October 18th, 2 PM
Censorship Now: Who Fears Free Expression?
With Elizabeth Larison, Director of National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program; Brian Boucher, regular contributor to Artnet; and Sara Nadal-Melsió, former associate director of the Whitney Independent Studies Program
Exhibition on view October 10-25, 2025
127 Elizabeth Street, New York
Opening Reception October 10, 6-8PM
In a climate increasingly fraught with the suppression of creative voices, the nonprofit organization Art at a Time Like This is proud to announce, DON’T LOOK NOW, the first major exhibition addressing recent censorship in the United States in New York City. The group exhibition, opening October 10, 2025 in New York City, brings together 25 contemporary artists who have experienced censorship firsthand.
Artists on View:
Evan Apodaca, Leopoldo Bloom, Mel Chin, Abigail DeVille, Tamar Ettun, Shepard Fairey, Andil Gosine, Clarity Haynes, Yvonne Iten-Scott, Alex Jochim, Sari Nordman, Katrina Majkut, Jean-Paul Mallozzi, Jessica Doe Mehta, Vũ Khanh Nguyen H., Shey Rivera Rios, Dread Scott, Danielle SeeWalker, Susan Silas, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Marilyn Minter, Ali Syverson, Michelle Talibah, Spencer Tunick, and Martha Wilson.
“We support the fundamental right of free and creative self-expression,” says Barbara Pollack, co-director of Art at a Time Like This. “Our goal for this exhibition is to create meaningful dialogue about the perils of artistic censorship in a democratic society.” .”
The works on view affirm the shifting context for contemporary art and provide clear evidence of censorship in action. City officials Arizona attempted to remove Shepard Fairey’s print, My Florist is a Dick, from the checklist of the artist’s traveling solo exhibition because it offers a searing critique of police brutality. An entire exhibition by Andil Gosine, Nature’s Wild, which included ceramic works by Kelly Sinnapah Mary, was canceled by Washington, D.C.’s Art Museum of the Americas earlier this year.
The exhibition also chronicles the increasing personal and professional cost of creating provocative art. Danielle SeeWalker’s 2024 artist residency in Vail, Colorado, was rescinded over her painting G is for Genocide, which depicts a Native American woman in a keffiyeh; Vail just reached a settlement with the artist on Labor Day weekend. Yvonne Iten-Scott’s intricate quilt, Origin, was ejected from a national exhibition for its reference to the female body and, by extension, abortion rights.
DON’T LOOK NOW will also give a voice to art students whose graduate programs were shuttered following the loss of NEA funding, and a former USAID employee who painted a tribute to the now-defunct agency.
This exhibition is a direct outgrowth of the organization’s own history. In 2023, Art at a Time Like This faced censorship when billboard companies in Houston, Texas, refused its public art campaign,8×5: Artists Responding to Mass Incarceration. That experience led to a 2024 symposium, Dangerous Art, Endangered Artists, and has now culminated in DON’T LOOK NOW, an unflinching survey of censorship on American soil.
Programming on October 18th, including:
Censorship Now: Who Fears Artistic Freedom?
With
Elizabeth Larison, Director, NCAC’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program
Brian Boucher, regular contributor to Artnet
And Sara Nadal-Melsió, former director of the Whitney Independent Studies Program
Addressing the current wave of censorship of arts and culture in the United States, these panelists will examine the range of responses to this complex situation. All of the speakers have first hand experience with the increasingly chilly arts atmosphere, not only caused by the latest government mandates and strengthening of conservative policies. Major museums and arts organizations, galleries, public art projects and community events have also curtailed their support of free expression due to fear of losing funding or encountering retaliation. The situation begs the question: What’s so scary about freedom of expression? And what do we fear will happen if we fail to respond to the latest challenges?
Art at a Time Like This is a nonprofit arts organization providing opportunities for artists and curators to address current events and pressing issues. Now in its fifth year, Art at a Time Like This has consistently upheld the first amendment rights of its participants even when challenged. It has provided platforms for artists from Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Ukraine and other locales where authoritarian regimes prevent free expression for artists. In the United States, we have presented works by artists with experience with the criminal justice system and others with limited rights and recognition.
Our thanks to National Coalition Against Censorship, Don’t Delete Art and Artists at Risk Connection for their invaluable advice and encouragement. Art at a Time Like This also thanks Prisoner Wine Company for their repeated support since 2023.
Visit our website at www.artatatimelikethis.com
Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/artatatimelikethis
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16. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at MIT, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 3-4
Please visit this link:
https://arts.mit.edu/people/jeanette-andrews/
Thank you.
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17. Judy Glantzman, Michael Goldberg, Jody Pinto, Lucio Pozzi, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 19
Hal Bromm Gallery Presents
50: The View From Tribeca
On the Occasion of the Gallery’s 50th Anniversary
September 19 – November 29, 2025
Installation view of Rosemarie Castoro, 1939-2015, at Hal Bromm Gallery, 2016
Hal Bromm Gallery
90 West Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Opening Reception: September 19, 5pm–8pm
Hal Bromm Gallery is pleased to present 50: The View
From Tribeca, an exhibition celebrating the Gallery’s 50th anniversary. Founded in 1975, Hal
Bromm was the first contemporary gallery to open its doors in Tribeca, a neighborhood that
has since become an international hub for contemporary art. On September 19, the gallery
will also launch New Art, Old Buildings: Stories From Hal Bromm’s Tribeca, a collection of
stories chronicling the 50 year history of the gallery. At 5:30 PM, the gallery will host a short
talk with Hal Bromm and the creators of the publication, Logan Payne and Katie Svensson.
50: The View From Tribeca will showcase works by key artists from throughout the gallery’s
history, including Alice Adams, Mac Adams, Carlos Alfonzo, Frederic Amat, Andre Cadere,
Rosemarie Castoro, Roger Cutforth, Joel Fisher, Jean Foos, Linda Francis, Luis Frangella,
Chris Gianakos, Judy Glantzman, Michael Goldberg, Mark Golderman, Robert Goldman,
Grace Graupe-Pillard, Keith Haring, Paolo Icaro, Andrew Logan, Peter Logan,
Jean-Paul Mallozzi, Natalya Nesterova, Letty Nowak, Christian
Peltenburg-Brechneff, Jody Pinto, Vincent Pomilio, Lucio Pozzi, Rick Prol, Eric Rhein,
Terry Rosenberg, Lorenza Sannai, Russell, Sharon, Susan Sugar, Joey Tepedino, and
David Wojnarowicz. Works by these artists will be accompanied by excerpts from the
book, which not only complement the visual experience but also weave together the
narratives of the artists and the gallery’s storied history.
Throughout the last 50 years, Hal Bromm has remained committed to providing a space
which allows artists to present work on their own terms, cultivating a close community of
artists and collectors, many of whom have become his lifelong friends and colleagues.
Whether out of a loft in Washington Market (the neighborhood now known as Tribeca), or a
storefront in the East Village (before it was cool), Bromm has always naturally gravitated to
communities that foster the avant garde.
50: The View From Tribeca revisits the works of these artists, honoring their contributions to
the gallery, and to contemporary art as a whole: from the post-minimalism of Rosemarie
Castoro, to the conceptually driven Arte-Povera works of Lucio Pozzi, to the
neo-expressionist works of Joey Tepedino, to the erratic energy of the 80s east village with
artists like David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring, and Carlos Alfonzo. Across style, subject
matter, material, and time, these works come together to tell the story of Hal Bromm Gallery’s
legacy as a pioneering enterprise within the greater art scene of New York City and beyond.
About Hal Bromm Gallery:
A downtown pioneer, Hal Bromm established Tribeca’s first contemporary gallery in 1975,
followed by an East Village branch in 1984. Since its establishment, Hal Bromm Gallery has
organized historically significant exhibitions in New York City and beyond, presenting and
championing the early work of many important contemporary artists, among them Alice
Adams, Carlos Alfonzo, Mike Bidlo, Andre Cadere, Rosemarie Castoro, Peter Downsbrough,
Joel Fisher, Linda Francis, Luis Frangella, Judy Glantzman, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Michael
Goldberg, Keith Haring, Suzanne Harris, Paolo Icaro, Derek Jarman, Alain Kirili, Greer Lankton, Nicholas Moufarrege, Richard Nonas, Jody Pinto, Lucio Pozzi, Rick Prol, Walter Robinson, Russell Sharon, Kiki Smith, Ted Stamm, Lynn Umlauf, Jeff Wall, Krzysztof Wodiczko, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and Joe Zucker, highlighting the creative energy and depth of talent surfacing in Downtown Manhattan throughout the 1970s, ’80s and beyond. For five decades, Hal Bromm’s rich history of collaborating with artists, galleries, museums and institutions on the development and curation of avant-garde exhibitions, has provided meaningful context around storied moments in contemporary art.
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18. Dee Shapiro, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Manhattan, thru Nov. 7
A Return to Beauty: The Pattern and Decoration Movement, 1975–1985 celebrates the birth of a new art style with 23 works by 9 artists. The Pattern & Decoration (P & D) artists insisted that beauty, pattern, and ornament were not embellishments but central to artistic expression. This challenged both the reductive aesthetics of Modernism and the hierarchy of art materials, as the artists incorporated craft materials and techniques into their works.
The Pattern and Decoration artists found inspiration from sources historically excluded from the canon of Western Modernism, drawing freely from the visual languages of craft, architecture, and functional objects from around the globe.
The femmage of Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), which combined painting with floral fabrics, beading, and glitter, made the language of domestic craft inseparable from that of high modernist collage. Dee Shapiro (b. 1936) used the colorful hatchmarks of her earlier Fibonacci series to create multi-bordered geometric compositions that resemble Persian rugs.
Kendall Shaw (1924-2019) merged bold abstraction with decorative motifs in Mochica, 1981. His distinct dabs of paint and embedded squares of mirror reference mosaics. Nancy Graves combined painting and sculpture in her Australia Series, with added painted aluminum elements attached to the canvas to heighten the energetic lines of the composition.
While Blue Heron, 1978 by Robert Kushner (b. 1949) is shaped like a kimono, its mounting onto the wall emphasizes its adherence to traditional painting. Kushner’s staining into the canvas in Blue Heron recalls the Washington Color School’s use of that technique. The use of raw canvas by these 1960s artists first drew attention to the canvas indeed being a fabric. For this reason, we have included three 1980s works by Gene Davis (1920-1985), which also show the broad reach of textiles as the loosely painted stripes of alternating colors resemble weavings.
The fiber artists Lia Cook (b. 1942), Diane Itter (1946-1989) and Cynthia Schira (b. 1934) used craft techniques in painterly ways while demonstrating the underlying patterning of weaving. Cook’s Through the Curtain and Up from the Sea (1985) in our exhibition previously appeared in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in 2019-2021.
In recent years the Pattern & Decoration movement has been the focus of many museum exhibitions in the US and Europe including With Pleasure as well as Surface/Depth: The Decorative after Miriam Schapiro at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2018; and Pattern and Decoration: Ornament as Promise at Mumok (Museum of Modern Art), Vienna, 2019.
In today’s contemporary art, we see the Pattern & Decoration movement’s embrace of cross-cultural sources, dismantling of hierarchy between fine art and craft, and celebration of beauty.
The exhibition is on view through November 7, 2025.
The gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10-6. We look forward to seeing you.
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19. Christina Schlesinger, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, thru Sept 28
Christina Schlesinger and Robin Tewes, FF Alumns at Art House Gallery, 345 Marin Blvd. Jersey City NJ 07302, thru Sept. 28
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20. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at Columbus State University, GA, Oct. 14-Nov. 15 and more
COMMON LANGUAGE
Katya Grokhovsky
June 13 – September 22 2025
Closing and Catalogue Launch: September 22 5-7pm
Padnos Student Gallery
Alexander Calder Arts Center
Grand Valley State University
3936 Calder Dr, Allendale, MI 49401
RESIDENCY + SOLO EXHIBITION
Visiting Artist in Residence
September 25-October 31 2025
Solo Exhibition: Common language
October 14 – November 15 2025
The Norman Shannon and Emmy Lou P. Illges Gallery
Corn Center for The Visual Arts
CSU – Columbus State University
921 Front Ave, Columbus, GA 31901
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21. Mattie McGarey at Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY, Sept. 13
Fabric on the Beach, a site-specific performance project on Rockaway Beach
September 13 at 6:30 on Beach 112th st.
Fabric on the Beach brings free, live performance to audiences in unexpected places. Dancers will perform under a 1000-foot net that transforms Rockaway Beach into an immersive, kaleidoscopic stage. Beachgoers and audience members are encouraged to explore this new environment as the performance unfolds over a mile of evolving shoreline. Fabric on the Beach invites us to tap into our community in the face of shifting attitudes towards productivity, leisure time, social connection, and the space we occupy. Coinciding with the setting sun, this performance will move you and move with you to renew a sense of discovery in our everyday world. Enjoy one last beach day of the summer with us.
Mattie McGarey (she/her)
Choreographer | Performer | Artist
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