Contents for August 18th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Maria Bauman, Jacki Apple Award Recipient 2024-2025, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, August 23-24
1. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, at Fulton Center, Manhattan, Sept 3 and more
2. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, in Louisville, KY
3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, receives 2025 NYFA Fellowship
4. Ishmael Houston Jones, Neal Medlyn, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumns, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, 2025-26
5. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, receives 2025 NYFA Artist Fellowship
6. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA, thru Sept. 21
7. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, in Coupeville, WA, Aug. 23
8. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1109986291
9. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, Aug. 16
10. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Stand4Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Aug. 22
11. Doug Beube, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at Columbia University, Butler Library, opening Sept. 11
12. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Aug. 19
13. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at Blue Hill Public Library, Maine, Aug. 19
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Weekly Spotlight: Maria Bauman, Jacki Apple Award Recipient 2024-2025, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, August 23-24
Upcoming Jacki Apple Award performance: Maria Bauman (Jacki Apple Award 2024)
“These are the bodies that have not borne”
August 23 and 24, 2025 at 6pm
The Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens
1000 Richmond Ter, Staten Island, NY 10301
Project Description:
“These are the bodies that have not borne” is an outdoor performance ritual amplifying Afro-Indigenous stewardship praxis, collective reckonings on resource inequity and invocations of embodied autonomy and wellness. Informed by land art, choreography, movement scores and ritual, the piece is a reckoning and a healing portal, a monument to those of us who are unresolved around not having children through our bodies.The work is for seven people, choreographed and directed by Maria Bauman, assisted by Audrey Hailes. Mankwe Ndosi composed original music for the artwork, which will premiere on Lenapehoking aka Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden on August 23 and 24, 2025.
As Black queer and trans folks who have not birthed children, we offer our dancing bodies in an outdoor public setting as evidence and reminder of our inherent worth, obstructing institutional efforts to vilify and invisible-ize us. Informed by various womb experiences, by land art, choreography, original music, soil ecologies and ritual, These are the bodies that have not borne. is a healing portal and monument to those of us contending with maladies like endometriosis and with socio-economic barriers to Black queer family-building. Employing Afro-diasporic contemporary dance techniques, site-specific collaboration with the land, and land art, we construct a necessary processing and visioning space for all people to contend with unrequited desires within an artistic, Earth-based context. We submerge ourselves in portals we’ve already dug into the ground in a circle, and we literally dance out of the Earth. By placing our dancing bodies in the Earth and in soil, we provoke images and questions of burial, of re-birth and of Earth as first parents. We invite witness-participants to remember their own bodies’ kinship with nature and join in the intersectional, coalition-building care work necessary for this time. Afterwards, we close up the portals, restoring the soil back into the holes and praying for the space.
At its core this work is both a collective and individual somatic processing of unrequited desires and inherent worth in our bodies and livelihoods.
Credits:
“These are the bodies that have not borne” is supported by Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation. This work was made possible by the Jacki Apple Fund, administered by Franklin Furnace, in memory of Jacki Apple’s contributions to the New York community since the early 1980s through her writing, teaching, radio shows, and artistic practice.
This work was developed in part during a residency at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. We’re are deeply grateful for the additional support provided through funding, residencies, and partnerships with the following programs, organizations, and individuals: CUNY Dance Initiative, Field Funds: A Blade of Grass, RESIST, Alvin Ailey Artist-in-Residence Program, NYFA Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award, Brooklyn Arts Council, BAAD! Queer Art Exchange, The Field Center, and Bearnstow.
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1. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, at Fulton Center, Manhattan, Sept 3 and more
NEW FROM CREATIVE TIME
Chloë Bass’s If you hear something, free something
September 3 – October 5, 2025
Creative Time, in partnership with MTA Arts & Design, is thrilled to present a major new public commission by Chloë Bass, If you hear something, free something, starting September 3 through October 5, 2025.
Marking the first innovative artist project on the MTA broadcast system—and Bass’s first sound work—the project features 24 poetic multilingual announcements across four boroughs. Voiced by a chorus of everyday New Yorkers and professional performers, each one offers a fleeting invitation to pause, reflect, and feel differently together in public space.
“We’re used to thinking of certain conditions as given, when they’re actually a product of design. If you hear something, free something offers one opportunity to feel how a system might be different, or introduce us to other possibilities, if it were designed with a more open emotional mindset. It’s not just about the announcements. It’s about the ways we feel together in public space.”—Chloë Bass
Join us on Wednesday, September 3 at 12pm at the Fulton Center for a special live performance that launches If you hear something, free something.
On September 3rd at 12pm in the Fulton Center, the project will launch with a new, live performance composed by Bass with ten performers, four of whom were involved in the original recordings. Scattered throughout the Fulton Center atrium, the performers will be mixed among everyday transit riders and will usher in new forms of public address and communal care. It is also an opportunity to hear the entire sonic artwork—all 24 announcements—in a single context.
To attend the performance, please enter at the street level of Fulton and Broadway. The performance will take place in the atrium at the bottom of the escalator inside Fulton Center and will run for no longer than 30 minutes.
Attendance is free. Please RSVP here to secure your spot.
Project support is provided by Molly Gochman, Eric Richter and Charles Shoener, The New York Community Trust, VIA Art Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The MAP Fund, and Trellis Art Fund.
We are also grateful for the support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams.
Creative Time programming support for 2025 has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
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2. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, in Louisville, KY
In the winter of 1985, David Wojnarowicz and several other East Village artists mounted The Missing Children Show: 6 Artists from the East Village on Main Street—in the rubble strewn first floor of an abandoned warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky—to benefit Kentucky’s Child Victims’ Trust Fund.
In subsequent decades, the building was converted to apartments, the neighborhood revitalized and, in 2022, David’s murals were found preserved behind drywall while preparing the space for commercial use. The building owners decided to move ahead with plans to convert the space where the murals are located into a gym in 2025. On August 7th, 2025, the murals were once again covered up with drywall, protected, but no longer to be seen.
Please visit our website to learn more about this exhibition and see today’s press coverage in Artnet, Hyperallergic, and The Art Newspaper.
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3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, receives 2025 NYFA Fellowship
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Ishmael Houston Jones, Neal Medlyn, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumns, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, 2025-26
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ANNOUNCES
ITS 2025 / 2026 SEASON
The Chocolate Factory Theater is thrilled to announce its 2025/2026 season of performances featuring 8 Commissioned Premieres, 9 Early Stage Creative Residencies, several additional interdisciplinary events, and partnerships with L’Alliance New York / Crossing The Line Festival, Under The Radar Festival, New York Live Arts, and the Walker Art Center.
Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City NY 11101. Details and tickets at chocolatefactorytheater.org.
CATCH 79
Saturday September 13, 2025
Doors at 6pm. Performance at 7pm
With James Harrison Monaco + Avi Amon ! Maria Baranova ! Shiloh Blue ! lily gold ! Gabriella Gonzalez ! Ishmael Houston-Jones ! Noah Latty ! Edgar Oliver ! Garrett and Scout ! Alex Tatarsky ! Dominic Yarabe !
CATCH is organized by Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, Jeff Larson, and Matt Romein. CATCH is the Obie award-winning, itinerant, rough and ready series of performance events that whirls through Brooklyn and other cities. For years, Catch has given stage to emerging artists and downtown luminaries, pouring equal portions of community, love, and beer. Founded in 2003 by Jenny Seastone Stern as a home for the emerging avant-garde, CATCH has become an integral part of the downtown community.
Ruth Childs – Blast!
October 8-10, 2025
Wednesday through Friday at 7pm
Co-Presented with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival
In her solo performance Blast!, Ruth Childs crafts a choreographed dialogue with the percussive sound design of Stéphane Vecchione, weaving its rhythms and ruptures together with movement into a choreographic circle. Drawing from her observations of how humans express themselves, Childs confronts and interacts with representations of bodies that embody a terrible violence. What sounds, expressions, and words emerge from these bodies? Are they storytelling, ballad, poetry, or nonsense?
Netta Yerushalmy, Tuçe Yasak, Mieke Ulfig, Katherine Profeta, Paula Matthusen, Alla Kovgan – nothing personal, just everything
October 30 – November 1, 2025
Alla Kovgan (film), Paula Matthusen (sound/music), Katherine Profeta (text), Mieke Ulfig (graphic arts), Tuçe Yasak (light/installation), and Netta Yerushalmy (movement) come together to devise nothing personal, just everything – a multi-sensory tangle of pictures, bodies, and objects in motion. Interrogating ideas of femaleness, fleshiness, the passage of time, the evasive notion of belonging, and the survival practices of their artist-heroines through history, these six makers move in and out of step with one another, constructing and dismantling jagged landscapes. With no leader and no center, they propose something like a home – or at least a temporary shelter.
Autumn Knight – Nothing #4: Pattern
January 16-18, 2026
Co-Presented with Under The Radar Festival
This new work is a somatic inquiry into an ongoing research of nothingness – its form, theory and practice. 3 performers experiment continuously to access emergent material, images, and impulses. The moment is a meditation on acting with and on and as objects in ways that generates and privileges impermanence as a viable strategy for survival.
Performers: Kaylah Farrish, Dominica Greene, Jasmine Hearn. Producer: nick von kleist. Lighting Design: Tuce Yasak. Object Design: Matt Shalzi.
Saturday Salons
March 7 + May 16, 2026
In the spirit of the unfinished, the unformed, and the untamed, the Saturday Salons bring together visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, performers, and others to present selections from works-in-process. The rougher the ideas—the more unexpected and outlandish the projects—the better. Participating artists TBA.
Curated by writer-critic Jennifer Krasinski and artist Amy O’Neill.
Karinne Keithley Syers – Your Ghost Body & Companion Piece
March 2026
Your Ghost Body is a memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard. Its genesis was an inquiry into the way I carry the landscapes of childhood and adolescence with me as a psychic possession and the question of what to do in middle age with the vestigial homing instinct for a place I no longer inhabit. What emerged was the visitation of three avatars – two of my own childhood, one 9 and one 17, and one of the me who was writing and remembering, 45, laid out in three landscapes played as levels in the junkyard. Its form is a point and click video game interspersed with songs. The video game will be accompanied by Companion Piece, a spoken and sung performance text sourced from the same raw material as the game. Created by Karinne Keithley Syers with collaborators: Kate Benson (performer), John Gasper (performer), Aviva Jaye (performer), and Sara Walsh (designer).
Neal Medlyn – Made In Heaven
March 2026
Made in Heaven is a new performance and visual art piece by Neal Medlyn in collaboration with Ulrika Andersson featuring live music, dance, painting, and video. Inspired by the Jeff Koons/Cicciolina art disaster, and following large scale works by Medlyn on themes of death and God, Made in Heaven is about sex and the doomed and comic creation of something alluring, menacing, and holy.
Created and Performed by Neal Medlyn in collaboration with Ulrika Andersson.
Ayano Elson – Control
May 2026
Control emerges from research into yōkai (shapeshifting entities) and henshin (transformational processes) from Okinawan folkloric traditions. Drawing on postwar Japanese cinema’s treatment of corporeal transformation and sexualized violence in films like Paradise View and Woman in the Dunes, invites six paired performers into a shared, occupied site where sensual memory, historical trauma, and embodied shame oscillate and intersect within the dark, heavily surveilled space of the theater.
Collaborators: Matt Evans, Amelia Heintzelman, evan ray suzuki.
Moriah Evans – BANKing: […/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^]
June 2026
Co-Commissioned with the Walker Art Center
BANKing: […/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is an immersive performance that confronts the body as an ambivalent site of political and existential inscription. Through a sequence of evolving circumstances—internal and external, individual and collective—the piece stages the circulation of bodies and value, asking what it means to give, to take, to receive, to be taken. It is not merely a choreography of movement and sound, but of power, dependency, and worth.
Jasmine Hearn – Memory Fleet
Co-Presented with New York Live Arts (performances will take place at NYLA)
June 2026
Memory Fleet is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared embodied memories and stories. Memory Fleet is rooted in lands now known in Houston, TX. Lead artist and researcher Jasmine Hearn has been tracing their movement lineages centering the work / rest and past / future of the Black people who have mothered and mentored their artistic trajectory as an organizer, storyteller, dancer, and performer. As the project moves across the country from Houston to Queens to Pittsburgh to Manhattan, Hearn expands their research and listening practices to include a variety of places and people who have shaped their understanding of color, direction, gesture, and rhythm.
Choreography, Performance, and Design: Jasmine Hearn. Sound: Jasmine Hearn and Ashley Teamer. With additional choreographic collaboration: Begee, Melanie George, Harrison Guy, Acquenette LeBlanc, Kendra Portier, jhon r. stronks, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Project Coordinator: Areli Navarro Magallón. Creative Producing Consultant: Nora Alami.
Early Stage Creative Residencies
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
Throughout the Fall 2025 / Spring 2026 season, 9 interdisciplinary artists, selected via a peer nomination process, will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects. Participating artists TBA.
ABOUT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER
Founded in 2004, The Chocolate Factory Theater (CF) supports the creation of new work by interdisciplinary performance artists from its post-industrial facility in Long Island City, Queens. We encourage risk-taking and innovation within the experimental performing arts community by responding to artists’ needs with space, time, money and administrative support throughout their careers. As an artist-founded, artist-run institution—and one of the few remaining spaces wholly devoted to experimental performance in New York City—we believe that the ideas generated within our walls have the potential to improve the lives of New Yorkers, shape broader cultural movements, and inspire change.
Each year, CF builds a robust Artistic Program comprising 8-10 commissioned premieres by interdisciplinary artists; 6-8 early stage creative residencies; a number of contextually-relevant interdisciplinary events (organized by guest curators) including cinema, music, and literature-focused gatherings; and organizational partnerships intended to deepen and expand connections between specific interdisciplinary artist communities.
As a team of practicing artists themselves, CF staff engages with its artist community from a place of direct understanding, as partners in a shared endeavor—making the process of developing new work within our spaces incredibly unique. Artists receive exclusive 24/7 access to our spaces and technical equipment for a period of 1-6 weeks, culminating in premiere performances for the public. We literally hand artists the keys and—in addition to substantial financial, administrative and technical support—provide a level of flexibility, trust, autonomy and appreciation that is rare in New York City. CF has earned a strong reputation—among its artist community, its peer institutions, and the field at large – as an organization that is truly “by artists, for artists”.
Over 20+ years, CF has remained artist-led, continuing to respond to the evolving needs of independent artists in NYC. The organization was born from challenges the founders faced as young makers, and that culture remains central to its mission. Rather than curating based on polished proposals, CF invests in the potential of an artist to grow over time, on their own terms, according to individual needs, interests, and points of view—expanding the notion of what performance can be and how it can be shared publicly. We do not curate for immediate success, but rather the potential to succeed long-term. In many ways, this process is largely instinctual—though in a larger sense, efforts are continuously made to ensure a balance among the age, aesthetic, race, sexuality, gender and discipline of the artists who appear in any given season.
CF is nationally and internationally acclaimed for the strength of its artistic programming, which draws thousands of visitors to its Western Queens neighborhood each year. CF has cultivated a devoted multigenerational audience (many of whom self-identify as artists based in NYC, but include arts-goers from all five boroughs and a growing number of national and international visitors) whose most common unifying trait is an attraction to risk-taking, experimentation, and interdisciplinarity.
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5. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, receives 2025 NYFA Artist Fellowship
HOORAY!!!! I am incredibly honored to receive a 2025 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting!!!!!! It’s a thrilling surprise to receive the fellowship this year. Thank you, New York Foundation for the Arts!
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program makes unrestricted cash grants of $8,000 to artists working in 15 disciplines, recognizing five disciplines per year on a triennial basis. Finalists were also recognized with unrestricted cash grants of $1,000. The program is highly competitive, and this year’s recipients and finalists were selected from 3,672 applicants in discipline-specific peer-review panels. Since it was launched in 1985, the program has awarded over $36.5+ million to 5,611 artists.
More info and a complete list of the Fellows and Finalists at: https://www.nyfa.org/uncategorized/introducing-the-2025-nysca-nyfa-artist-fellows-finalists-and-panelists/?utm_source=NYFA.org&utm_campaign=594a2c818d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_59a564163f-594a2c818d-147216693&mc_cid=594a2c818d&mc_eid=0be3bf9a22
and
Alice Eve Cohen is in residence in August at the La MaMa Umbria Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy.
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6. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA, thru Sept. 21
Susan Bee in is a show at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, Mass, August 16-September 21.
My painting, Billie Holiday, is in On the Edge, in association with the SALLY Project,
The online catalog is at this link:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/0435e9c8-c7b6-41b7-8ee2-0bfb9c3c6a58
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7. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, in Coupeville, WA, Aug. 23
StoneDance Productions presents
WANDER/WONDER
A Sculpted Dance Happening
Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Dancer Audrey Rachelle at “Inside Out 14 and 15” by MacRae Wylde
“Come journey on a lush forest trail to witness thought-provoking dance by 10 stunning professional PNW dance artists alongside a beautiful outdoor collection of art.”
Giant Mic. by Richard H. Alpert has been chosen as a featured outdoor work in “WANDER/WONDER: A Sculptured Dance Happening” at the Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, Coupeville, WA. This immersive event is choreographed by Eva Stone, who is also a producer, curator, and teaching artist.
Immediately after the main event, the choreographer and dancers will come to the park entrance, where you can meet and speak with them in person.
Suggested donation: $20 or pay-what-you-can. All donations are accepted at the event. No reservations required.
WANDER/WONDER is sponsored by Island County and the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee
About Giant Mic.
Giant Mic. is based on the classic RCA 77-D microphone used by notable figures such as Larry King, David Letterman, and Dick Clark. This sculpture is a second-generation piece designed and constructed by the artist for a parade float representing a radio station where he served on the board of directors. Alpert utilized expanded polystyrene (EPS) coated with a polyurethane finish called Styroplast®, along with acrylic automotive paint, aluminum, and steel. It has been noted that the sculpture authentically reflects the Golden Age of broadcasting.
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8. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1109986291
Greetings, all!
I’m pleased to share two new music videos, “Squeeze and Be Squeezed/Trees Song” and “Bears Song with 4-Layer Drone”
Please visit these links:
Thank you.
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9. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, Aug. 16
Flux Saturday: August 16, 2- 6 PM
A Screening, A Tasting, A Learnshop, Oh My!
Flux IV (56-21 2nd Street, LIC)
Our serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays are organized by different artists and take many forms, including pop-up exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist presentations and more.
Learnshop: Making Mussel Island/Crafting the Creek with Priscilla Stadler
Mussel Island vanished 100 years ago, when it was dredged to make more room for industrial ships in Newtown Creek. Yet today mussels still thrive nearby—perhaps descendants of the island’s original inhabitants. Join the “Making Mussel Island” learnshop to make creek-related crafts and learn more about Newtown Creek’s fascinating history, science, and mussels in a relaxed, fun environment!
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10. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Stand4Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Aug. 22
Greetings, My Friends,
Please join me at this Bay Ridge showing of my work!
Houses of Memory, a solo show by Quimetta Perle
Opening Reception, Friday, August 22, 6-8pm
August 23-31, Saturdays and Sundays 12-3pm
Stand4 Gallery
414 78th St., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (between 4th & 5th Ave., R train to 77th St.)
Quimetta Perle thinks of older women as houses, filled with memories. In this exhibition of textile paintings, she represents each woman as a complex, creatively fertile, empowered being. Rather than illustrate vignettes from their lives, her images suggest a rich inner life and a library of memory within.
To create a fabric piece, Perle begins by photographing her subjects. She then draws the figures onto rag paper, canvas or wood panels. She collects patterned silk and cotton prints, seed beads, sequins and found materials, which she adheres to rag paper, canvas or wood panels. Much is gained in translation as the figures transform their poses and locate themselves in imaginary spaces, often surrounded by birds and flowers. The images become filled with vivid color and shimmer with sequins and beads.
Quimetta Perle is an American artist of Spanish and Jewish descent. Born in Washington, DC, she lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a studio in Delray Beach, FL. She earned a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 and an MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts in 1997. She has been a feminist artist and activist since the 1970’s, and an early member of WARM Gallery, a women’s collective in Minneapolis in the 70’s/80’s. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including recent showings at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Florida and Carter Burden Gallery in New York City, as well as numerous group shows in museums and galleries nationally and in the UK. A grouping of 17 textile hangings have just been installed at the Mandel Library in West Palm Beach. In addition to her studio work, she is the former Director of the HAI Art Studio and Gallery in New York City, which served artists with mental illness; and led YAI Arts, another inclusive studio, for which she now serves as an artist mentor.
Houses of Memory is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature and administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. Houses of Memory is also made possible by the grace and generosity of Stand4 Gallery.
For more information, please contact qperle@gmail.com.
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11. Doug Beube, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at Columbia University, Butler Library, opening Sept. 11
PRESS RELEASE
CONTEXT: Art, Books, & Freedom
Curated by Meg Hitchcock
Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
6th Floor, Butler Library
535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 11, 5 -7:00 p.m. (ExhibiXon is up through May 2026)
ARTISTS: Audra Wolowiec (NY), Brian De\mer (IL), Brian Singer (CA), Buzz Spector (NY), Carolyn Thompson
(UK), Donna Ruff (FL), Doug Beube (NY), Gary Gissler (NY), Jeff Wallace (NY), Julia Bloom (DC), Kerith Lisi
(CA), Lisa Kokin (CA), Meg Hitchcock (NY), Oriane Stender (NY), Stefana McClure (NY)
CONTACTS: Meg Hitchcock, Curator: meghitchcock@gmail.com, www.meghitchcock.com 718-594-7928
Courtney CharXer, Director of Rare Books & Manuscript Library: cc4785@columbia.edu 212-854-2232
In CONTEXT: Art, Books, & Freedom, artist and curator Meg Hitchcock brings together 15 artists whose work incorporates books and text. The artists diverge in their approach and content, from social commentary to political statement to literary allusion, but their common ground is their love of the printed word. The artists use books and text as tools of investigation, exploring the psychological impact of visual language while pushing the boundaries of our freedom to express views that conflict with popular opinion. Paradoxically, the book is used as a means to question its own authority within the context of a revered liberal arts library.
Books are dissected and flayed, pages are torn and sliced, words are burnt and whited or blacked out in a process of poetic transformation. Donna Ruff’s Federalist Papers are enlarged copies of the original documents, with the letters removed by laser-cutting and burning. Brian Singer’s Art of the Deal is a copy of Trump’s 1987 book, wrapped in the threads of a Russian flag. In the Chang Gallery, a small octagonal room within the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Jeff Wallace has created an installation of 300+ stripped book covers that spotlight the formal elegance of the book after it has been denuded of text.
Over the years, the artists in CONTEXT have shown together in text-based group exhibitions across the country and have formed a loose community around their common medium. Their work takes on new meaning at Columbia University, where they exercise the freedom of expression at a critical time and place in our nation’s history.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to access restrictions on the Columbia campus, the opening reception will require an
RSVP and a photo ID. To see the show during regular business hours, please contact Courtney Chartier to request campus access: cc4785@columbia.edu
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12. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Aug. 19
“I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society,”
Henry David Thoreau
It’s almost the end of summer but the heat and the beat keep on so we are keeping on with the Care Cafes at La Mama. Please come, take a chair, and spend a couple hours with us at the
End of SUMMER Care Café, a free event created by Lois Weaver and cohosted with Kim Ima and La Mama
Tuesday 19 August from 5-7pm
Community Arts Space at La Mama
74A East 4th Street. New York, NY 10003
https://www.lamama.org/care-cafe/
A Care Café asks us to turn up as we are, with no specific agenda, expectation, or discussion topic, simply asking the question:
How can we maintain an attitude of care in an uncaring world?
Set up like a conventional café with small tables and chairs, the Care Café acts as a temporary venue for community and conversation with some simple table activities set up within a framework of care. Just by entering the room, we acknowledge something of our own needs in the present moment and our desire to give and receive care.
You can RSVP to let us know you are coming, but you can drop in anytime between 5-7 pm
https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1246157
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13. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at Blue Hill Public Library, Maine, Aug. 19
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer perform/read at the BLUE HILL Public Library, Blue Hill Maine. 5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill, Maine.
7 pm.Tuesday August 19th. Free and Open to the public
More info: www.earsay.org
Blue Hill Books will be on site for book sales.
New York and Maine based award-winning writer/artists Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer return to the Blue Hill Library to present excerpts from three decades of book and performance projects. As co-founders of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to nurturing and portraying stories of uncelebrated individuals, the couple have been collaborating on multi-media works that embrace stories of immigration, refuge, war and peace, and finding home and sanity in an out of balance world. Join them for a free event of readings, music, visuals, wordcraft, laughter, and pathos.
“In Lehrer’s books… words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow.” The New York Times Book Review
“Funny and sad, topical and biting… Exquisite comic timing. Sloan can make you see your world in a slightly different way. And that’s what theater is supposed to do.” The Indianapolis Star
“Warren Lehrer’s books are graphically and typographically eye-popping, and his multi-media works have influenced two generations of designers.” Debbie Millman Design Matters
“Crossing the BLVD is a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America.” New York Times
“A welcome voice crying in the contemporary wilderness of political correctness. On-the-money satire seasoned with tolerance and joie de vivre.” Theater Week
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