Contents for October 27th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Carla Stellweg, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Buffy, Anh Vo, FF Alumns, receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2025 Creative Research Grants
2. Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, at Kaufman Astoria Studios’ Zukor Theater, Astoria, Queens, NY, Nov. 16
3. David Cale, FF Alumn, at The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, thru Nov. 8 and more
4. Galinsky, FF Alumn, in Vanity Fair magazine, Oct. 23
5. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Queens College, Flushing, Oct. 29 and more
6. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, thru April 25, 2026
7. Carey Lovelace, FF Member, at Museum of Tomorrow, Praça Mauá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 9-17 and more
8. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Queens World Film Festival, Astoria, NY, Nov. 14
9. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at SquareCylinder.com
10. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at Standard Space, Sharon, CT, opening Nov. 8 and more
11. Symin Adive, FF Alumn, at QED Astoria, Queens, Nov. 23
12. Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, FF Alumns, at Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA, thru Jan 24, 2026
13. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1128934843
14. Christen Clifford, Cnristine DeFazio, Peggy Diggs, Yuliya Lanina, Sungjae Lee, Clarinda Mac Low, Grace Roselli, Arlene Rush, Harley Spiller, Asia Stewart, Veronica Vera, FF Alumns, at Judson Church, Manhattan, opening Nov. 11
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Carla Stellweg, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Buffy, Anh Vo, FF Alumns, receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2025 Creative Research Grants
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Creative Research Grants. This second cohort of 35 experimental artists each received a $10,000 grant to support their artistic exploration and development over a period of 18-months. Activities proposed by the grantees include archival research and field work, collaboration across disciplines and cultures, focused study and studio time, material exploration and experimentation, and travel across the United States and to 15 countries and territories.
The awarded artists plan to explore a wide range of issues and topics, including but not limited to: diasporic temporalities; folk traditions and ritual; geography and psychogeography; historical trauma; indigenous material culture; memory and memorialization; migration; the politics of belonging; punk and Blackness; queer place-making; resistance and survival; sound and speech; transfeminist aesthetics; and transhumanism.
2025 grants were supported by a generous bequest from the estate of Margo Leavin.
Dance
mayfield brooks, Rockaway Beach, NY
Wally Cardona, Brooklyn, NY
Miguel Alejandro Castillo Le Maitre, Brooklyn, NY
Gabriel Mata, Washington DC
Anh Vo, Brooklyn, NY
Music/Sound
Eliza Bagg, Los Angeles, CA
DoYeon Kim, Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Ostrowski, Brooklyn, NY
Marta Sanchez, Brooklyn, NY
Nate Wooley, Brooklyn, NY
Luke Wyland, Portland, OR
Performance Art/Theater
Ian Andrew Askew, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Bassichis, Brooklyn, NY
Rashida Bumbray, Baltimore, MD
Yanira Castro, Brooklyn, NY
Erin Markey, Brooklyn, NY
Jessica Mehta, Hillsboro, OR
Ahamefule Oluo, Quilcene, WA
Buffy, Brooklyn, NY
Poetry
Hannah V Warren, Trusville, AL
Visual Arts
Zain Alam, Brooklyn, NY
Carmen Amengual, Los Angeles, CA
Maura Brewer, Astoria, NY
Alexandria Douziech, Los Angeles, CA
dean erdmann, San Diego, CA
Yacine Fall, New Haven, CT
Maya Jeffereis, Brooklyn, NY
Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Lax, Ridgewood, NY
Cristina Molina, New Orleans, LA
Edison Peñafiel, Miami Beach, FL
Macon Reed, New Orleans, LA
Catalina Schiebener Muñoz, Brooklyn, NY
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Wallkill, NY
Evelyn Hang Yin, Los Angeles, CA
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2. Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, at Kaufman Astoria Studios’ Zukor Theater, Astoria, Queens, NY, Nov. 16
‘The live screening of Return to Valhalla (dir. Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, in person) is Sunday, Nov. 16 at Kaufman Astoria Studios’ Zukor Theater, 12 pm, in a bloc of short films called Wide Awake Dreams. The theme for this year’s QWFF overall is Connections Made, Missed, and Longed For.
Here’s the film’s page at the festival:
https://queensworldfilmfestival.org/films/return-to-valhalla/
The eventbrite link to purchase tix to this bloc is on the film’s page.Return to Valhalla screened earlier this year in the FF LOFT Series. This is a chance to see the movie with the filmmaker present and ask your own questions!
Tickets are $20 with some discounts available for seniors/students, discount code QueensWorldST when you check out. If you’re a friend of the filmmaker, get in touch! I have discounts for you, too!
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3. David Cale, FF Alumn, at The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, thru Nov. 8 and more
BLUE COWBOY
Written and performed by David Cale
Directed by Les Waters
A writer from New York travels to Ketchum, Idaho to work on a film script set in Sun Valley. His plans and life take a wildly unanticipated turn after he has a chance encounter with an elusive ranch hand at the town’s annual “Trailing of the Sheep Festival”. Blue Cowboy, the new solo work from David Cale, is the frank and sexually explicit story of two men from very different worlds. One who is open about his life, and the other whose life remains a self-imposed mystery to everyone around him, but who both share a profound need to intimately connect to another human being. Cale tells the story in his signature style full of vulnerability and blunt confession.
The show runs thru November 8 at The Bushwick Starr: 419 Eldert Street, Brooklyn
Tuesdays – Saturdays at 7:30pm
https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/blue-cowboy
and please visit this review of the show in the New York Times:
Thank you
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4. Galinsky, FF Alumn, in Vanity Fair magazine, Oct. 23
Are Reality TV Stars Born, or Can They Be Made? Meet the Coaches Scripting Television’s Best Unscripted Drama
As the unscripted genre reaches new heights, two men are coaching the next crop of reality stars—aspiring influencers, single workaholics, and disgraced politicians among them.
OCTOBER 23, 2025
“Take a breath and go ahead,” Robert Galinsky says, eyeing his student from across a Zoom screen. Dylan, a 45-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, dressed in a light blue button-down, exhales and begins to explain for the third time why he wants to search for true love on the Netflix reality-dating series Love Is Blind.
Dylan says he has prioritized his real estate career over romance, and dating apps have failed to produce lasting love. But when he talks about building a connection sight unseen, or “from the inside out,” as he puts it, Galinsky stops him. “That’s killer—we want to save that phrase,” he says, advising Dylan to shave his three-minute explanation down to a sound-bite-worthy chunk. After all, reality TV narratives are built by producers and editors (he cleverly refers to them as “preditors”) who favor pithy catchphrases.
Dylan has only made it past the first round of Love Is Blind casting so far, but is already in his third session of 10 with Galinsky, a self-described “presentation coach” who has guided hopeful clients to spots on shows, ranging from Project Runway to Survivor, since 2007. That was when Argentinian dog groomer Jorge Bendersky became the first reality TV hopeful to contact Galinsky, who also coaches TEDx presenters, corporate executives, and students at The Juilliard School (he’s currently advising jazz musicians on how to introduce the historical context of their music before a performance). With Galinsky’s guidance, Bendersky became a top-three finalist on the short-lived Animal Planet series Groomer Has It, and the kNew York Reality TV School
was born.
Like many of those who have sought Galinsky’s services, ranging from Millionaire Matchmaker and Bad Girls Club alum to Chelsea Clinton and 50 Cent, Dylan wants to put his best foot forward onscreen. Think of it as hiring a private tutor before the SAT—with the knowledge that millions of eyeballs will be watching your exam. (The cost of Galinsky’s one-on-one services for reality TV coaching begins at roughly $300 per session, with rates increasing for more specific training once a client is cast on their desired show.) Galinsky, who has a background in acting, treats reality TV as improvisational theater. During the session that Dylan has allowed me to observe (provided I omit his last name), Galinsky quizzes his client on dating deal-breakers, urging him to use the stating of any potential red flags as an opportunity to accentuate his own strengths. What if, as Galinsky posits, a suitor is turned off by someone who is rude to waitstaff, for instance? Dylan immediately discusses his time as a bartender in college. Galinsky smiles approvingly; in one answer, Dylan has both reassured his future wife and revealed a personal detail that will bolster his overall storyline.
“Fakes are the first ones kicked out of the house and voted off the island,” Galinsky says. “So if you know thyself, you’re going to be that much more powerful….You have to have an immense amount of self-awareness to be on these shows, to understand how you’re not going to let someone bulldoze you…so that you become the funniest, most pathetic meme that’s out there.” To get a better sense of how he can best orient a client toward reality TV stardom, Galinsky asks them to provide their origin, scar, and aspiration: where they’re from, what shaped them, and their postshow hopes. “A girl [once] walked in and said, ‘I want to be able to live in the Real World house and drink everybody under the table,’” he recalls. “After two sessions she said, ‘I’m quitting the class because I realize now all I really wanted to do was say “fuck you” to my dad by getting drunk in front of everyone.’”
Mining personal trauma is also central to the methodology of Chad Kultgen, the Los Angeles–based coauthor of How to Win The Bachelor: The Secret to Finding Love and Fame on America’s Favorite Realty Show and cohost of the Game of Roses podcast, who began coaching contestants for The Bachelor and its spin-offs back in 2021. “Reality television and influencing are the same thing, at this point, as our American politics—it’s all one lie,” he says. “How long can you maintain the lie of the persona you’ve created? And I love helping people do it.” Kultgen gets clients, who have included Taylor Hale, the first Black woman to win Big Brother, to establish what he’s branded a “personal tragedy card”—the sob story contestants share on camera. “You’re going to be stacked up against people who have death in the family or addiction. Is ‘I didn’t get into my favorite sorority in college’ really going to get you on the show?” he asks. “And if not, how do we spin something to make it more likely that you will?”
When a reality show hopeful contacts Kultgen, he first scans their social media, weeding out candidates as a producer might. A prospective contestant’s Instagram account should mimic the look of the show they want to be on—if that’s The Bachelor, they should be wearing cocktail dresses that call to mind the rose ceremony or pool-party-worthy swimwear. Each season, the same slots need to be filled: the villain, the girl next door, the fool, the professional—think lawyer or doctor. After clients fill out a short questionnaire, Kultgen meets with prospective contestants to determine the persona that makes them the most castable. “The hardest conversation to have is always, ‘I think you’re going to be the villain,’” he says with a laugh. “No one thinks they’re the villain.” Using his assessment, Kultgen helps write applications and edit video auditions, and he has even written love songs and poetry for his clients to perform should their group date call for it. That’s a particular thrill for Kultgen, who is a novelist and screenwriter—and charges nothing for his reality TV coaching services, saying he does the work “for the thrill of playing reality TV like a video game.” “It literally is like writing a TV show except it’s reality,” he says, his eyes lighting up with joy. “Whenever people are like, ‘No, but it’s real,’ in the back of my head, I’m just like, You have no idea. I’m literally writing dialogue for these scenes.”
Then the coaches watch the fruits of their labor play out on TV—the good and the bad. “I don’t have kids, but I would say this is the closest I’ve ever felt to being a parent,” Kultgen says, “sending my little player off into this game.” Galinsky once accompanied a client onstage at Shark Tank to instill extra confidence when he pitched his empanada business. But he cringed when a client on the Netflix real estate series Owning Manhattan failed to bring up her broken marriage during a key moment of conflict. “It was the most poignant moment to bring that up and get the audience on her side. It was the perfect time to bring up the broken marriage and why her heart hurts so much…but she wouldn’t do it,” Galinsky says with a sigh. “So she lost what might have been more camera time, and she lost…a certain amount of empathy and understanding that people would have given her. She would have lost some of her privacy, but…she might’ve harvested more fruits from that had she gone in that direction.”
As Tina Fey once wisely said, “authenticity is dangerous and expensive.” Disclosing something like marital strife on reality TV can bring reward—or ruin. When Galinsky began coaching in the mid-2000s, most clients sought “fame for the sake of fame,” with “no endgame,” he recalls. “Now there’s way more intention. People know they can make a living out of it.” The proof is in the numbers: According to Deloitte’s 19th annual digital media trends survey, released earlier this year, 56% of Gen Z’ers and 43% of millennials feel that social media content is more relevant to them than traditional entertainment—and much of that relationship gets monetized on social media. About 40% of both Gen Z’ers and millennials follow reality stars or athletes after seeing them on TV, Deloitte found, which makes said reality stars’ time on these shows incredibly lucrative.
Even the villains have softened their approaches, keeping their personal brands in mind. “The ones who spit in somebody’s face or slap them—those things don’t add to your portfolio,” Galinsky says. But there will always be a place for scandal in the landscape that catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency. Galinsky has consulted for a few New York–based politicians, one of whom has had a public downfall. This person has yet to appear on reality TV, but Galinsky suspects their time is coming. “The vast majority of producers of reality TV shows have no scruples,” Galinsky says. “So the more disgusting and raunchy that some people can be, the more likely and happily they are put into place.”
So are reality stars born, or can they be made with the help of an experienced coach? Like professional athletes, some are “naturally gifted,” while others will “just fucking outwork you,” Kultgen says, noting that he thinks the genre’s LeBron James is a caddish Australian playboy from Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, who will soon headline his own dating series on the streamer, Let’s Marry Harry, produced by Alex Cooper. “Harry Jowsey has created a fictional version of himself, like a pro wrestling identity,” Kultgen says. “I don’t think it’s any coincidence he has the biggest social media following of any male reality-dating player.” That’s over 4 million Instagram followers—more than those of the last six Bachelors combined.
Those numbers—and the existence of reality coaching itself—suggest that the genre isn’t going anywhere, even if shows would rather deny that such mentoring occurs. (Galinsky says he’s signed multiple NDAs with series that have privately enlisted coaching services for their players.) “It’s actually part of the fabric of this country,” Galinsky says. “For better or worse.”
Dylan from Phoenix feels freer since starting his preshow training. And if he does meet the love of his life, he has no qualms about divulging how he prepared. “I don’t think that would be something that I could hide,” he explains. There are more dire fates than receiving whatever judgment awaits him. “To get on that show and not find anybody,” Dylan says, “that’s kind of my biggest fear.”
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5. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Queens College, Flushing, Oct. 29 and more
Exhibition and Talk. And New Publication Reviewed (in print and online)
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn: Exhibition (Oct 27-Nov 6), with Talk Oct 29, at CUNY/Queens College, where she received her MFA in Painting, in 1974, will have two 13 x 19 prints of photos of open page spreads from two of her Journal Volumes (Vol 10, Nov 13, 1971 and Vol 90, May 31, 2025, in a show of work by ten alumni.
LOCATION: Klapper Art Gallery, Klapper Hall #405, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY 11367.
EXHIBITION: NOW, THEN and HOW. Curator: Celle Balducci M-F 10AM-5PM
TALK: Oct. 29, 12noon, in gallery
MORE INFO: https://barbararosenthal.org/frameEleven.htm
Rosenthal will give a talk in the gallery about her life and career over these over 50 years since her MFA. “”I think I’m going to talk about the relationship between making art and “keeping track of it, yourself, your life, your universe and your career: ie Journaling and Archiving. She says, “I MIGHT show some slides of my then paintings and now wall works, I’ll see… My early training started at age 14 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, then the Art Students League, then BFA at Carnegie-Mellon, then here, so I still approach the surface as a painter, even if I’m using different media.”
And “Odd Men Out (and in)” Xanadu Press, NYC 2025, chapbook of Barry Wallenstein’s poetry and Barbara Rosenthal’s photographs was just reviewed (in print and online:
MANOR INK Review by Anthony Heusel, in print and online https://manor-ink.org/october-2025-story-6
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6. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, thru April 25, 2026
John Giorno: No Nostalgia
October 25, 2025 – April 25, 2026
Marciano Art Foundation
4357 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
The Marciano Art Foundation opens its second floor Window Gallery with a solo exhibition of works by John Giorno.
Known for taking poetry beyond the printed page into the realms of performance, sound installation and painting, Giorno once stated that he was “determined to make poetry a razor blade cutting through the ego of America’s karma,” and he captured the humor and horror of daily life in lines at once erotic, tender, and sly.
Less known is Giorno’s painting practice, born from the same impulse to reach people within and beyond the museum. With language as his medium, he brought his ear for a sharp phrase into the art world, infusing it with a mix of gravity and levity. The works gathered here—text paintings, early prints, and rainbow canvases—form their own collective poem. They distill Giorno’s worldview: the delights of New York street life, Buddhist thought, and the raw immediacy of language. Like koans, they invite viewers to finish the thought, to carry the fragments into their own lives.
This exhibition also highlights Giorno’s archive, revealing his collaborative methods and the friendships that sustained him. Dial-A-Poem allows visitors to hear recordings by 132 poets, artists, musicians, and activists. And beyond art, the show reflects Giorno’s character, his moral courage. His Buddhist practice, rooted in compassion and clarity, shaped his response to the AIDS crisis: through his AIDS Treatment Project, he provided rent, food, and medicine for those abandoned by the US government.
John Giorno: No Nostalgia is curated by Marciano Art Foundation Director Hanneke Skerath and writer and critic Carlos Valladares.
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7. Carey Lovelace, FF Member, at Museum of Tomorrow, Praça Mauá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 9-17 and more
Some announcements from Visions2030
The Lumisphere has opened in Brazil!
Visions2030 began as a dream—well, an insight, really—about the power of imagination. Ever since we stepped into the shaping and sharing of that dream, it’s manifested and re-manifested in kaleidoscopic forms, evolving with the spirit of inspiration and the contributions of our collaborators.
The Lumisphere installed in front of the Museum of Tomorrow, Praça Mauá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã) stands on the vast expanse of Guanabara Bay, a panorama with mythic connotations dating back to Brazil’s origins. A place of astonishing inspiration, the white latticework of Santiago Calatrava’s up-soaring futurist architecture seems to aim toward the blue heavens. The Lumisphere Experience, created almost exactly two years ago, looks tailor-made for this plaza with its three glistening white domes nestled next to the Museum’s entrance. Visions2030 believes in the power of envisioning, and it’s as if we envisioned the Lumisphere here.
The Museum, which began as a science museum, focuses on the future—and is dedicated to sustainability. Similarly, the Lumisphere invites people to imagine their ideal eco-future; to enter into a dream space, to free themselves from the seductive habits of catastrophizing, and instead reach inside themselves and find the future that they—and they alone—would like to head toward. Rather than a goal, we believe that having a vision is a much more powerful motivator—and the Lumisphere also paves a road to turn those impulses into reality.
Our three-dome immersive innovation debuted at Earth Edition: A Festival of Eco-Consciousness in Los Angeles in fall 2023. And that itself was a dream come to life. We had the idea of doing a major event exploring “consciousness”; CalArts, one of our founding partners, invited us to stage it institute-wide. We believe there are different aspects of consciousness—mind/body, for example, and “altered states.” Technology itself changes our consciousness daily. We decided to focus in on what it might mean to “think like the Earth.” Our team, wildly diverse in background, age, and skill, came together around that shared mission: to explore eco-consciousness.
If “what you hold in your consciousness you attract,” consider the effect of dystopian imaginings. Rarely are we asked: “What is the world you want to create?”
At Earth Edition, the Lumisphere was the crown jewel of a gathering of activations that sought to fill consciousness with alternatives to images of forest fires and melting icebergs. We had an EcoExpo of innovations, an indigenous deep knowledge circle, solutions-oriented eco-art, and collaborations and events with some of the greatest minds working on the future.
In Dome 2, Lumisphere visitors lie back and experience a sound-and-light display presenting them with possibilities of ideal eco-futures — to spark their imaginations.
The Lumisphere was created with Minds Over Matter, a design firm noted for creating towering projections and immersive environments. The idea was to create a sense of spectacle and awe while carving out a journey of the psyche, reminiscent of a theme-park ride, but one that also offered the possibility of a ride into a dream space and touch our deepest desires. And then to use AI to help people to turn those visions into images. Who knew whether it would work or not?
At CalArts people were deeply moved and inspired by the experience. They were particularly delighted by the part of the journey in the third dome where they were able to translate visions into a huge LED image, displayed next to those of others. But also with the magic of touching the utopias they have within themselves.
We suspected it was only the beginning of the Lumisphere’s story, and, as Elizabeth Thompson pointed out, gathering these visions allows us to make a “Census of the Future.” We thought we would take it on the road.
Fabio Scarano, the Museum of Tomorrow’s Chief Curator, holds the UNESCO Futures Literacy Chair, and himself has written about “pragmatic utopias” and the power of the imagination. He is steering the Museum away from being a pure science museum to one involving culture—taking into account what people think about the future, beyond lifestyle innovations or the latest tech. Our presence is particularly significant as the United Nation’s international climate conference, COP 30, is being held in the Amazon in Belém, Brazil this year— a gathering that’s being called the most important COP in history. To serve this event, the Museum has been hosting a series of warm-up events called ESQUENTA COP—including exhibitions, education programs, workshops, and other community engagement activities.
The Museum of Tomorrow signals an engagement on a global level, emblematic of everything we hope to do in our work going forward. And given the Museum’s average of 100,000 visitors per month, this free-to-the-public installation enables us to reach others on a wider scale than ever before.
It is the first stop on our global tour. We hope to reach one billion people over the next five years, to ask them, “What do you want the future to look like?”
In the years since we first launched Visions2030, our world has continued to change and evolve. It is wonderful to see people go through the Lumisphere Experience and start to consider other possibilities, even to really feel some joy. As tumultuous as these times are, we are moving forward, collectively dreaming with a momentum we never could have imagined. As always, we’re so grateful to be on this journey with you. Keep dreaming. We need each other now more than ever.
See you in Rio!
Yours, Visions2030
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The Lumisphere Experience—as seen by a Minds over Matter drone— before its opening. It has enjoyed capacity crowds since October 2nd.
Get Involved
There are many ways to join in our journey to Brazil! Of course we hope you can come visit us in Rio — and spread the word!
The Inhotim Institute, a contemporary art center and botanical garden, home to 23 galleries and pavilions and 4,300 rare plant species.
Notably, we have a very special trip planned for those who want an exclusive peek backstage at the Lumisphere, the Museum, and Rio & São Paulo’s art scenes—with an optional extension to the Inhotim Institute, the largest open-air museum in the world.
The trip, which will take place November 9th–17th, will include meetings with artists and collectors, visits to leading institutions at the forefront of dialogue between art and ecology, and access to the 36th São Paulo Biennial and the newly expanded MASP (Museum of Art of São Paulo)—as well as to a selection of private collections and studios. The journey concludes near Belo Horizonte at Inhotim, one of the world’s most important open-air museums, where monumental contemporary art meets lush botanical gardens.
It’s a rare opportunity to engage with Brazilian artistic production in its full complexity. More than a sequence of visits, this is a living itinerary that emphasizes dialogue, encounter, and the joy of being together. To confirm your interest, please contact Yona Backer, Director, Collaborations & Programs (yona@thirdstreaming.com). Space is limited, so we kindly ask for your confirmation as soon as possible. We’d love to share this celebration with you!
And let us know if you want to be a Dream Builder! For $25, we’ll send you stickers to circulate reading: “What do you want the future to look like?”
We’d be incredibly grateful for any support, whether that through individual or organizational gifts, or spreading the word to fellow dreamers.
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8. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Queens World Film Festival, Astoria, NY, Nov. 14
And Then, Now, screens at the Queens World Film Festival on Friday, November 14th at 3:45 PM at the KAS Zukor Theater. The festival features a lineup of international shorts and features. I’m thrilled to be part of it. https://queensworldfilmfestival.org/2025-queens-world-film-festival-film-line-up-2/
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9. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at SquareCylinder.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.squarecylinder.com/2025/10/enrique-chagoya/
Thank you.
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10. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at Standard Space, Sharon, CT, opening Nov. 8 and more
Hello all you beautiful people basking in the hot fall sun bursting through the newly chilly air,
Theo Coulombe and I are having a two person show at Standard Space in Sharon, CT, opening November 8th. I love Theo’s work and for this one, we did a mash up!
Fields of Snakes – Eve Biddle – Theo Coulombe
November 8th through December 21st, 2025
Opening Reception Saturday, November 8th from 4:00 – 6:00pm
Disco After Party Le Gamin in Sharon – 9:00pm
Friends are what dreams are made of. Come enjoy the art, buy a t-shirt (SURPRISE MERCH DROP!), and dance your butts off.
and we have a slate of phenomenal events coming up in Wassaic. Sneak peek of the coffin photo booth on my IG.
Cheers and love,
Eve
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11. Symin Adive, FF Alumn, at QED Astoria, Queens, Nov. 23
How To Make Friends In The Water:
QED Astoria
Sunday, November 23rd at 5pm.
Please tell all your friends and hopefully you’ll make a new one as well. I can promise the movie will be unlike anything you have ever seen. Normally, the film pairs with five interactive stations, one of which literally requires a pool. But QED doesn’t have a pool so after the film, we will be signing friendship contracts (non-legally binding, probably)
FILM BLURB:
A Semi-Educational, Semi-Fun, Tragi-Comic Film, “How To Make Friends In The Water” is about the mental and environmental blocks that keep us from connecting and thriving “in the water” especially if you weren’t taught to “swim” when young. The absurdist short film, which is inspired by 1940s social educational films from the U.S., follows the journey of Susie as she tries to learn about both the people and the water that surrounds her.
More info here:
https://syminadive.com/s/howto.html
Sincerely,
Symin
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12. Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, FF Alumns, at Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA, thru Jan 24, 2026
Please visit this link:
https://www.cushionworks.org/projects/bazoombas/
Thank you.
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13. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1128934843
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
OPEN STUDIO
315 W. 39TH ST. NYC
10/18/25
PZ, October 20, 2025
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14. Christen Clifford, Cnristine DeFazio, Peggy Diggs, Yuliya Lanina, Sungjae Lee, Clarinda Mac Low, Grace Roselli, Arlene Rush, Harley Spiller, Asia Stewart, Veronica Vera, FF Alumns, at Judson Church, Manhattan, opening Nov. 11
ANNOUNCING OUR PEOPLE’S FLAG SHOW ARTISTS!
Judson Commons is thrilled to announce the incredible artists whose works will be on view in the 55th Anniversary People’s Flag Show exhibition opening on Sunday, November 9th through November 15th with gallery hours from 5 – 9pm. Join us at the Opening Reception to raise a glass to our artists on Tuesday, November 11th from 6 – 9:30pm. Please remember to RSVP or reach out to YooRae Choi at yoorae@judsoncommons.org.
As part of the People’s Flag Show celebrations, we are delighted to share the events scheduled for the week of the exhibition! Each evening will feature an event led by artists and partnering organizations that proudly represent Judson’s commitment to art and justice, and free speech. Please see below for the schedule.
We look forward to seeing you there!
https://www.judsoncommons.org/arts
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