Contents for March 10th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Jonathan Berger, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Aug. 2-24, and more
2. Lorraine O’Grady, Martha Wilson, Steven Watson, FF Alumns, now online
3. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at Córdoba Culture Agency, Argentina, opening March 10
4. Joseph Keckler, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
5. Jess Dobkin, Brendan Fernandes, General Idea, Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumns, at Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, opening March 13
6. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Times Square, Manhattan, March 14, and more
7. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Crow Museum of Asian Art, University of Texas, Dallas, thru Sept. 7
8. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, at The Getty, Los Angeles, April 11, and more
9. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, spring news
10. Harley Spiller, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumns, now online at https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/harley-spiller
11. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, now online at MIT.edu
12. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at June Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 3
13. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, wins 2025 Design Incubation Educators Communication Design Award
14. Steve Epstein & Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Arts Center, Manhattan, Mar. 22
15. Colette, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
16. Martha Edelheit, Judith Bernstein, Jane DIckson, Joyce Kozloff, Mira Schor, Carolee Schneemann, Betty Tompkins, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 13
17. Will Bermudez, FF Alumn, now online at Variety.com and more
18. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, March 13
19. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Derfner Museum, RIverdale, The Bronx, thru June 29
20. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Mar. 28-29
21. Frank Moore, FF Alumnn, now online at eroplay.org
22. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at Romanian Cultural Institute, Manhattan, thru May 30, and more
23. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1063335682
24. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at SVA Flatiron Gallery, Manhattan, March 15-16
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1. Jonathan Berger, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Aug. 2-24, and more
Jonathan Berger, FF Alumn, will be a part of The 2025 Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio lineup at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which kicks off this week with Mariana Valencia’s Jacklean (in rehearsal) featuring sound artist and musician Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero. Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5763
The 2025 Studio program features a dynamic lineup of leading contemporary artists working in media and performance: Mariana Valencia: Jacklean (in rehearsal) (March 12–23, 2025), Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause (May 3–July 6, 2025), Studio Residency: Jonathan Berger (August 2–24, 2025), and Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise (September–December 2025). Their work spans across performance, cinema, sound and physical art.
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2. Lorraine O’Grady, Martha Wilson, Steven Watson, FF Alumns, now online
Lorraine O’Grady’s
Final In-Depth Interview —
Now Available
Artifacts is honored to present the final comprehensive video interview with Lorraine O’Grady (1934–2024), recorded in June 2024 less than six months before her passing.
Conducted by Artifacts Founder Steven Watson & Franklin Furnace Founder Martha Wilson at O’Grady’s Westbeth studio, this rare and intimate conversation offers an unparalleled look into the life and work of one of the most influential artists of her time.
Watch now:
https://artifacts.movie/lorraine-ogrady/
This release is part of NYU Skirball Presents Downtown Performance, a new collaboration between NYU Skirball and Artifacts dedicated to capturing in-depth interviews with the directors, performers, and artists who shaped the movements loosely defined as “Downtown.”
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3. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at Córdoba Culture Agency, Argentina, opening March 10
On March 10, 2025, the exhibition “Traces, Routes and the Firmament” by Anahí Cáceres will be inaugurated
The exhibition consists of 3 installations that raise archaeological investigations and possible artist interpretations.
The exhibition will be complemented by the presentation of his book “Neither monarchs nor starlings, humans who migrate, Routes in etymology” Patronage – Cultural Participation Buenos Aires City -.
Paseo del Buen Pastor Exhibition Hall, Córdoba Culture Agency. Argentina.
best!!
Anahí Cáceres
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4. Joseph Keckler, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
“‘An aria about an important squirrel’ may not be what you’d expect to encounter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but this is one of the things that Joseph Keckler – an artist of operatic talent and irreverent taste – promises the audience at ‘A Good Night in the Trauma Garden,’ newly commissioned for the lapidary surroundings of the museum’s Petrie Court (May 9-10, 2025).”
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5. Jess Dobkin, Brendan Fernandes, General Idea, Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumns, at Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, opening March 13
13 Mar. – 11 May 2025
Queer Multiples
Please join us on March 13th from 6:00-9:00 PM to celebrate the launch of Queer Multiples, presented in a new exhibition space within our College Street shop.
Queer Multiples presents works by queer artists drawn from Art Metropole’s inventory and spanning from 1978–2025. The featured works trace a queer tradition of artists’ multiples permeated with absurdity, sexuality, and magic, gesturing towards the slipperiness of everyday objects. The exhibition considers the form of the multiple and its potential to subvert (or queer) normative and capitalistic expectations.
Queer Multiples features works from Derya Akay, Barbara Balfour, Adrien Crossman, Jess Dobkin, Brendan Fernandes, General Idea, Terence Koh, Phillip Lý, Van Maltese, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Robert Anthony O’Halloran, Peaches, Cleopatria Peterson, P.G. THING CO. (Paige Gratland), Finn Simard, Maximilian Suillerot Wilke, Derek Sullivan, Chelsea Thompto, Mary Tremonte, and Tobaron Waxman.
Queer Multiples will be launched in tandem with Fan Wu’s Reactivating the Archive presentation on Terence Koh’s edition A Beaver Tail (2008). Reactivating the Archive is a series of artist talks and performance lectures responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50-year history. Please join us at 6:00 PM for a performance from Fan Wu, followed by a reception.
https://artmetropole.com/events/queer-multiples
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6. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Times Square, Manhattan, March 14, and more
ON VIEW: MIDNIGHT MOMENT
Brendan Fernandes: Build Up the House II
March 1–31, 2025 | Nightly, 11:57pm–12am
Co-presented with ART on THE MART
Dance Party: Friday, March 14 | 11:30pm–12am
Broadway between 46th & 47th Streets
Artist Brendan Fernandes transforms the screens of Times Square into a technicolor dance space every midnight in March. In Build Up the House II, silhouettes of dancers leap, spin, and vogue across vibrant pulsing compositions as an homage to the artist’s East African heritage and the legacy of house music.
And what better way to celebrate than a dance party in the middle of Times Square? Come out for a late night DJ set by Chicago’s Karsten Sollors on Friday, March 14 from 11:30pm to 12am and move to Fernandes’ Midnight Moment with us. Free and open to all, but we invite you to register so we can keep in touch https://www.timessquarenyc.org/
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7. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Crow Museum of Asian Art, University of Texas, Dallas, thru Sept. 7
SAYA WOOLFALK
Floating World of the Cloud Quilt
(Crow Variation)
Crow Museum of Asian Art
The University of Texas, Dallas
We are extremely pleased to announce Saya Woolfalk’s newest one-person exhibition, an immersive, multimedia installation featuring still and moving images from the artist’s vast digital archive, and sculptural objects in dialogue with works from the Crow Museum’s collection. This monumentally-scaled work is a new variation of the multi-channel digital projection that was first presented at The Rudin Family Gallery at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Strong) in 2022, now uniquely reimagined for the Crow Museum.
Floating World of the Cloud Quilt continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of hybrid identity, through an elaborate fiction inspired by her family background. Inspired by elements of Japanese, African American, and European cultures, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, Eastern religion, and fashion, Woolfalk depicts the story of a chimeric species she names the Empathics, botanic humanoid beings with a highly evolved ability to understand the experiences of others. She writes:
With this work I want to immerse everyone in the archive of the Empathic Universe in the form of what I call The Cloud Quilt. Quilts often take the well-worn pieces of our everyday lives and combine them to create something new. When the elements are combined, the quilt retains all of the traces of history while becoming an object used in service to something else. A quilt is an object of comfort, warmth, and protection. It is also a space for dreaming.
Saya Woolfalk has participated in exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia including solo shows at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey: the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; the Montclair Art Museum, among others, and group shows at the AKG Buffalo Art Museum; ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and many other institutions worldwide.
Her many public commissions include The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden, at the King Center in Atlanta. Monuments to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg (in Miami and Los Angeles respectively) are forthcoming.
Works by Saya Woolfalk are in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum; the Hunter Museum of American Art; AKG Buffalo Art Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Chrysler Museum of Art; the Mead Museum of Art; the Everson Museum of Art; the Newark Museum of Art; the Weatherspoon Art Museum; and many other institutions
Saya Woolfalk: The Woods Woman Method is currently on view at Susan Inglett Gallery in New York (through March 15). Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe, a full-scale mid-career survey, opens on April 12 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Saya Woolfalk is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.
Leslie Tonkonow Art Works + Projects
401 Broadway, Suite 411
New York, NY 10013
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8. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, at The Getty, Los Angeles, April 11, and more
Getty in Los Angeles
What They Saw Reading Room
8 April – 11 May 2025
Mark Your Calendar to Explore Photobooks by Women10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce the What They Saw Reading Room at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Curated in collaboration with Getty Research Institute Photography Curator Isotta Poggi, this Reading Room presents a diverse selection of 117 historical photobooks by women from the museum’s collection. The reading room is complemented by notable photobooks by 22 Southern California women artists after 2000.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/what-they-saw
8 April – 11 May 2025
Free Admission, but requires a timed-entry reservation
Tuesday to Friday, Sunday: 10 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday: 10am to 8pm https://www.getty.edu/visit/center/
Friday, 11 April, 6 pm to 8 pm
Public Talk: Photobooks by Women
with Isotta Poggi, Russet Lederman, Catherine Opie and Melodie McDaniel
Free admission, register here for the talk https://www.getty.edu/calendar/photobooks-by-women/
https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/what-they-saw
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9. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, spring news
SPRING 2025 Art & Film News
Hi all,
Realizing it’s been a couple of years since I’ve made a newsletter, and I’m currently flirting with the idea of shifting away from the mega social media platforms of the world.
Going to *try* keep it short, but wanted to share some recent things. It’s hard for me to believe, but my first solo museum show at the St. Louis Art Museum is closing tomorrow. Here’s some quick info on it below:
Campbell, a 2021 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and a 2022 Creative Capital award, is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer. Campbell’s work sheds new light on often overlooked historical narratives around the “underloved.” In this exhibition, the works focus on the complex history of the Philippines, particularly its time as a US colony from 1898 until 1946 and the aftermath. The varied media of this display are unified by their material presence as “skins,” whether manila envelopes, fragments of abaca paper, or scientific glass forms. For Campbell, each medium holds a colonial history embedded within it. The exhibition will include a video installation and a range of new work, including mixed media compositions in handmade paper and manila rope; metal and suede prints; and blown glass sculptures. Currents 124 provides a fascinating and nuanced interrogation of histories of colonialism, colonial exploitation, and ongoing attitudes to empire, nature, and the natural world.
Prior to the opening of Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell, the artist spent a semester teaching a Washington University class of their own design, titled “Artists in the Archive,” which incorporated visits to archives in St. Louis.
Thanks to Simon Kelly for curating the show, and for the Freund Fellowship for the opportunity to live and work in St. Louis and teach at Washington University for a semester. The work was also supported by Creative Capital, and a SPARC fund at University of Buffalo.
During my residency at the papermaking studio, Dieu Donné, I’ve been working with renowned papermaker Tatiana Ginsberg. In my research, found that almost 80% of the world’s abaca is produced by the Philippines, and the industry was seized by the US during colonial rule. I’ve been doing these forays into offshoots of the abaca industry, that include manila envelopes, manila rope, and material I’ve collected in the Philippines and US.
Thanks to curator Jabari Owens-Bailey, I did a residency at the Museum of Glass last summer, where I got to manifest these apothecary vessels.
Go-Rilla Means War will be part of group show curated by Ekrem Serder at Squeaky Wheel. The Image in Its Absence is a group exhibition and public events featuring work on archives that have been displaced and destroyed, and how communities care for and imagine them in their absence. The exhibition includes contemplative essay films, speculative video, poetry, and more, featuring work by Azza El-Hassan, Carolina Ebeid, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh. Opens March 21-May 30, 2025
CURRENCY (2019), is a sound film of refusal––a woman wears bygone forms of currency on the tips of her hair while preserving the greatest currency for herself. Featuring artist, Angela Davis Johnson, the film screened at Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) with my film distributor, Video Data Bank. The work is also on view as part of a group show at Wa Na Wiri in Seattle, Washington. Open March 1-May 31st, 2025.
https://www.wanawari.org/events/lg58jfkaw527ex93edc4ywfscwgxle
I shot this film on 16mm film a few years ago as part of a commission at Indiana University. I’ve been sitting on it but am finally ready for it to be out in the world, if you think there’s a program or place for it…
Title: A Motion for All Beginnings
Synopsis: A provisional family portrait made in the wake of a familial transition.
2’30” seconds
Had a lovely visit to Rutgers last month, where filmmaker Caroline Key invited me to speak to the undergraduate Film Students who asked incredibly thoughtful questions about finding the balance between telling and amplifying, and holding stories close or modes of opacity…
The Site of Whispers, a pandemic-borne publication project, finally landed in the world. It’s edited by Ashon Crawley, copyedited by Rachel Valinsky, and features guest writing by Erica N. Cardwell, Allison Noelle Conner, Jheanelle Brown, and Sarah Jane Cervenak:
Writer Ashon Crawley and artist Crystal Z Campbell will examine the various ways that ideas, stories, and narratives are collected and ask what happens when the things collected are ephemeral? They will imagine ways that knowledge about Black geographic translation—in its variance and shade, in its color and texture, in its weight and lightness, in its vibration and sound—moves, how it spreads. The sound of glances and glimpses, the sight of whispers and hushed words, is where their research resides. They ask if the sonic component in film is the augmentation of the relationship between remembering and forgetting, or is the sonic a way to get at the archive and what exceeds its capture? Campbell’s sonic-centered documentary work honors the untranslatable, strategies of opacity, and rumor. They will posit together if fragments and gaps in archives can act as historical conductors, offering new translations or urgent questions, around Black geography, land and body, and the public secrets embedded in landscapes.
Snag a copy here: https://uniondocs.org/product/the-site-of-whispers/
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10. Harley Spiller, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumns, now online at https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/harley-spiller
Harley Spiller and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel in Conversation.
To read the full interview published with The Interior Beauty Salon, go to:
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/harley-spiller
Thank you.
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11. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, now online at MIT.edu
From Leonardo Journal / MIT Press
Subject: Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in Benoît Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures
Cordially
Benoît Maubrey
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12. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at June Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 3
Claudia DeMonte, Drowing in my Own Expectations, June Kelly Gallery, NYC , opening April 3-through May 13th, 2025.
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13. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, wins 2025 Design Incubation Educators Communication Design Award
Honored to receive news that my first fully electronic multimedia book app—Riveted in the Word—won this year’s Design Incubation Educators Communication Design Award in the category of Scholarship: Creative Work. Inspired by a true story, I wrote and designed the multimodal book app in a way that places the reader inside the mind of a retired history professor as she recalls her hard-fought but triumphant journey regaining language after a devastating stroke. The custom interface, programmed in collaboration with electronic literature developer Ricardo Artemio Morales, toggles between columns of text that readers navigate at their own pace, and animated sections that evoke gaps between perceptions (thoughts, memories, desires) and the words needed to communicate. The immersive book app uses kinetic typography and an original soundtrack by composer, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Griffin. Grateful to both my collaborators and to Willie Lee Rose, who inspired the project, and to Judith Sloan who has been performing excerpts with me out on the road.
Established in 2014, Design Incubation is a cutting edge organization that “fosters collaboration, promotes development, encourages discourse, cultivates theoretical frameworks, challenges notions, and awards creative work through a lens of scholarly activity and academic review.” Their Creative Work Award is given to one project a year that “demonstrates originality, scope, rigor, impact on communication design’s theoretical, critical, historical and/or visionary foundations.” Grateful to this year’s illustrious jury, Steven McCarthy (Chair), Douglas Kearney, Basma Hamdy, Doug Barrett, and Kali Nikitas. Congratulations to the winners of the other three Communication Design award categories, Leslie Atzmon for Scholary Publication, Kelsey Elder for Teaching, and The People’s Graphic Design Archive for Service. This is the second time I’ve received this award, a great honor.
Riveted in the Word is available exclusively through the Apple App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/riveted-in-the-word/id1588132518
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14. Steve Epstein & Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Arts Center, Manhattan, Mar. 22
“39 Years Between First Kisses”
You only get one shot at a first kiss..If its magical many more will follow…the power of the heart expressed thru a kiss…i keep dreaming of you Naimah…Writing shows about you &me..Saturday March 22 8 Pm
Balance Arts Center 151 w 30 street.
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15. Colette, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
Please visit this link:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/colette-lumiere-2611782
Thank you.
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16. Martha Edelheit, Judith Bernstein, Jane DIckson, Joyce Kozloff, Mira Schor, Carolee Schneemann, Betty Tompkins, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 13
Eric Firestone Gallery
Erotic City, curated by Martha Edelheit
40 Great Jones Street, Manhattan
opening March 13, 6-8
continues thru April 26
please visit this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/05/martha-edelheit-erotic-city-exhibition
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17. Will Bermudez, FF Alumn, now online at Variety.com and more
Grassland ~
Exploring the failures of the criminal justice system from a unique angle, Grassland follows a single Latina mother whose illegal marijuana business is jeopardized when her young son befriends their new neighbors — a white boy and his police officer grandfather.
Recent press:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gravitas-ventures-acquires-grassland-common-1236303021
Trailer:
Link for Pre-Order below.
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/grassland/umc.cmc.3ub5o8fpow1n5ft1trr9ddwd0
Thank you.
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18. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, March 13
Galinsky presents POETRY IN NEW YORK now in it’s fourth year at the acclaimed NYC venue BOOK CLUB BAR. This is NOT an open mic, all artists are curated and book ahead of time.
Thursday March 13th! A terrific line up of NY poets!
1st artist hits the mic at 8pm!
10 Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: LuxLun, Daniel Damiano, Nichole McFarland, Matthew Koebele, Mia Judy, Kir O’hanlon, Godsent and Michael Richardson all hosted by Galinsky and co-host Anna Carlson and Ian McFarland Music with props to Avalon Akahoho.
The show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN / FREE and all donations, here on Eventbrite and live at the venue, are accepted – your generosity at any level is valued. The show starts at 8pm and the Book Club cafe is fine place to relax before and after the show.
Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NYC.
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19. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Derfner Museum, RIverdale, The Bronx, thru June 29
I am thrilled to invite you to see Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven, a solo exhibition of my artworks. See details below!
Share this news with interested folks! And follow me on Instagram or Facebook for updates.
Should you want to meet me at the exhibition, please contact me and we can make a date!
Please join me in person or in spirit!
Shelley
www.instagram.com/shelley.haven.art
@shelley.haven.art
https://www.facebook.com/shelley.haven
Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven
March 2–June 29, 2025
Derfner Museum
on the Main Campus of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale
5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, New York 10471
Sunday-Thursday, 10:30am-4:30pm. Closed Friday and Saturday.
Reception and Artist’s Talk: Sunday, May 4, 1:30 pm. RSVP at 718-581-1596 or art@riverspring.org
To view the online catalogue, go to https://derfner.org/natures-persistence-recent-work-by-shelley-haven/
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20. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Mar. 28-29
Avant-Garde Arama spins again, Fri-Sat Mar. 28-29, 6 pm $20 suggested The Lace Mill 165 Cornell St. Kingston, NY 917-673-9023
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21. Frank Moore, FF Alumnn, now online at eroplay.org
Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den Archives
The online archive of all of the Shaman’s Den episodes is now complete!
https://www.eroplay.org/p/frank-moores-shamans-den-archives
After many, many years we have finished digitizing all of the videos of
Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den and they are now available online at:
https://eroplay.com/underground/shamansden.html
Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den streamed live on the internet almost every
Sunday night from 1998 until Frank’s death in 2013. The Shaman’s Den was
a 2 1/2-hour variety show featuring in-studio concerts by bands from
around the world and in-depth conversations about politics, art, music,
and life.
The Shaman’s Den was possibly the very first long-form podcast on the
internet.
Here is how Frank described the show:
“The Shaman’s Den will arouse, inspire, move, threaten you, not with
sound bites, but with a two hour (usually longer) feast of live
streaming video show. You might get an in-studio concert of bands from
around the world…or poetry reading…or an in-depth conversation about
politics, art, music, and LIFE with extremely dangerous people! But then
you may see beautiful women naked dancing erotically. You never know,
because you are in THE SHAMAN’S DEN with Frank Moore.”
Here is the complete list of the Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den shows:
https://eroplay.com/pdfs/complete-list-shamans-den-shows.pdf
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22. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at Romanian Cultural Institute, Manhattan, thru May 30, and more
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am excited to invite you to my events this Spring!
Group Exhibition:
Duae Lingua
Curated by Daniela Holban
Artists: Adina Andrus, Katya Grokhovsky, Elena Kalkova, Lilian Shtereva, and Alex Wolkowicz
March 7- May 30 2025
Opening Reception: Friday March 7th 2025 6-9pm
Artist Talks: 6.30-7.30pm
Brâncuși Gallery
Romanian Cultural Institute
200 E 38th St,
New York, NY 10016, USA
The Brâncuși Gallery at the Romanian Cultural Institute is pleased to present “Duae Lingua”, a group exhibition exploring the complexities of migration and dual identity through the experiences of Eastern European women navigating the tensions between tradition and assimilation. Featuring works by Adina Andrus (Romania), Katya Grokhovsky (Ukraine), Elena Kalkova (Russia), Lilian Shtereva (Bulgaria), and Alex Wolkowicz (Germany/Poland), the exhibition invites reflection on the ever-evolving process of self-translation. Curated by Romanian-born Daniela Holban, “Duae Lingua” takes its name from the feminine translation of the Latin phrase “Two Languages” (Duae Linguae). The exhibition deliberately alters the phrase, playfully referencing the popular language-learning app, DuoLingo, while underscoring how meaning can shift—or get lost—in translation.
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TED Talk:
TED x SVA Women
March 10th 2025 6-8.30pm
SVA Feature https://sva.edu/features/tedx-sva-women-the-intersection-of-art-and-gender
The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents a series of TEDxSVA Women talks in honor of Women’s History Month. Six members of the SVA community will give talks on “The Intersection of Art & Gender.” Topics include: women’s representation in the arts, power dynamics within creative industries, and other issues related to women and fine art, animation, film, and more.
Featured Speakers:
Schantelle Alonzo, Katya Grokhovsky, Brenda Perry Herrera, Ishita Jain, Joseph O’Malley, Laura Valenza
Katya Grokhovsky
“Beyond Borders: Art, Gender, and the Immigrant Experience” examines the intersections of migration, art practice and gender. This talk explores how displacement shapes creativity while highlighting the transformative power of art making.
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Artist Talk:
Artist talk by Katya Grokhovsky
March 20th 2025 6pm
Auditorium
GRAM – Grand Rapids Art Museum
101 Monroe Center St NW,
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Info and Registration https://www.artmuseumgr.org/events/artist-talk-katya-grokhovsky
Grokhovsky’s practice is deeply rooted in her autobiographical journey of migration and engages with the shared histories and collective memories of displaced communities. During the artist talk, Grokhovsky will premier video works and provide insight into her current creative endeavors as GVSU’s 2024/25 Padnos Distinguished Artist In Residence.
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Residency:
Since August 2024, I have been working in Michigan, as GVSU – Grand Valley State University’s 2024/25 Padnos Distinguished Artist In Residence. I have been researching and exploring issues of migration and displacement in different mediums, working towards a solo exhibition, opening on campus in June 2025.
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RECENT PRESS
GVSU Forum, Artist-in-residence opens installation at downtown gallery, Jan 2025
The Rapidian, Local Artist Highlight: Katya Grokhovsky, October 2024
Impulse Magazine, Dinner with ORLAN, a Feminist Icon, October 2024
Vogue Scandinavia, Why do we love to predict? Inside ‘Clairvoyant’ at Ceysson-Bénétière NY, Sept 2024
Grand Rapids Magazine, Artists Come Home to KCAD, September 2024
Hyperallergic, These Are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum’s Open-Call Show, Aug 2024
Lanthorn, GV Artist-in-Residence hopes to inspire, educate future artists, Aug 2024
GVNEXT, New Padnos Distinguished Artist in Residence, June 2024
Copyright © 2025 Katya Grokhovsky Studio. All rights reserved.
https://www.katyagrokhovsky.net
https://www.studios-efanyc.org/katya-grokhovsky
https://www.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com
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23. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1063335682
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
PZ, MARCH 7, 2025
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24. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at SVA Flatiron Gallery, Manhattan, Mar. 15-16
Hi all,
I’ll be hosting a Carousel comics performance at the MoCCA Arts Fest in Manhattan on Sunday, March 16 at 3pm.
And Kriota and I will be tabling at MoCCA all weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, March 15 and 16.
Plus more news and events below!
Carousel at MoCCA, Sunday, March 16 at 3 pm.
Live comics readings and visual performances by exhibiting artists and guests.
Featuring
Caroline Cash (Pee Pee Poo Poo)
Bim Eriksson (Baby Blue)
Olivia Fields (cartoonist and illustrator of this year’s MoCCA badge art)
John Vasquez Mejias (The Puerto Rican War)
Katie Skelly (The Agency, My Pretty Vampire)
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
MoCCA Programming check-in is at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, located at 133 West 21st Street.
From there. MoCCA staff will direct you to our room, Space 2.
Tickets and info: https://www.moccafest.org/tickets
https://www.moccafest.org/25programming
More details below!
MoCCA Fest on March 15 and 16
Kriota Willberg and I will be at Table # 122.
We’ll have all our books and minis, including her latest Cadaver Chronicles and my Whaling Sketches.
Metropolitan Pavilion: 125 W 18th St, NYC.
https://www.moccafest.org/exhibitors
https://www.moccafest.org/about
Kriota will also be moderating a panel, Drawing Bodies, with Chloé Wary & Lale Westvind, on Saturday at 3 pm.
https://www.moccafest.org/25programming
Next to us at Table # 123, Birdcage Bottom Books and my brother Joe Sikoryak will have his graphic memoir, When We Were Trekkies, and more new comics.
https://www.joesikoryak.com/when-we-were-trekkies
Day and weekend tickets are available for purchase online and in-person.
Buy tickets here – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/si-mocca-arts-fest-2025-tickets-1116817293589?aff=oddtdtcreator
And elsewhere:
I’m part of a comics exhibit at the William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
Sunday Comics: The Creative Page
Court Gallery, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts
We did a Carousel there last month, and I’ll be back this week for their Opening Reception:
Tuesday, March 11, 5:00-6:00 p.m
The exhibit runs through March 20
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