Queens Museum 2018 SUSTAINABILITY

Open Engagement Table of Contents A note about this program:

This document, just like the conference itself, is a Front and back cover: 4 Director’s Welcome Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon, Iceland, 2017 labor of love split between a tiny part-time staff and a Program Design: 5 Acknowledgments few interns. Please be kind and gentle with us if Lauren Meranda, Andrés Alejandro Chavez, 6 Curatorial Statement you see an error, omission, typo, or any other human Kate Heard mistake while reading this document. 7 OE 2018 Team 8 Locations Social Media 10 Queens Info

Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Schedule @openengagement 12 Overviews Share your posts from this year with #OE2018 18 Featured Presentations #OpenEngagement 19 Pre-Conference Find further details at 20 Open House www.openengagement.info 23 Saturday Parallel Sessions 26 Conversational Dinners OEHQ 28 Sunday Parallel Sessions OEHQ (information and registration) is our conference 31 Parties & Projects hub! OEHQ is the place for the most up-to-date 33 Open Platform information about the conference throughout the weekend, including any schedule or location changes. 36 Trainings

Bronx Museum of the Arts Friday, May 11th: 6:00pm - 7:30pm 37 Featured Presenters 38 Contributor Bios Werwaiss Family Gallery, 2nd Floor, Queens Museum Saturday, May 12th: 9:00am – 5:00pm 42 Schedule at a Glance Sunday, May 13th: 9:00am – 4:00pm

2 3 Director’s Welcome Acknowledgements

It is 6:12am and I have been in bed thinking about writing this I wish I could talk to Ted about where we are now. He This type of event is not possible without the support of many Thank you to Paul Ramirez Jonas for his encouragement, for almost an hour. I have something on my mind from the night was supportive of the project from its inception. He saw individuals and institutions. We would like to thank the following and his belief that Open Engagement is a site that is needed. before. I also have an urge to put everything on the figurative the conference grow from that small convening in Regina, for all they have done to make Open Engagement possible over When the future of OE seemed uncertain, he was an table. This is the tenth time that I have written this opening Saskatchewan with 40 presenters and 120 attendees and evolve the past 10 years: advocate. When it was in search of a new landing point he welcome note for Open Engagement (OE). There is a slight relief into the largest artist-led conference dedicated to expanding even generously offered his kitchen table. that this might be the last. There is also some sadness and a the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of Thank you to my graduate thesis advisors Rachelle Viader sense of failure. socially engaged art, hosting over 200 presenters and over 1,000 Knowles and Randal Rodgers who supported this project from We would like to thank all of the members of the Open attendees annually. Ted went from being an advisor, to a mentor, its inception. Engagement National Consortium: Oakland Museum As we gather to address the theme of sustainability we are faced to a collaborator and member of the OE national consortium. of California, California College of the Arts, School of Art & with our own inability to continue, and a recognition that we want Ted Purves, who served on my graduate committee, and then Art History at University of Illinois at Chicago, the Queens to be doing more, that we do not want to continue a model that is We are resourceful and scrappy. We work with the spirit of DIY continued to work with and support OE over the next 9 years. Museum, and A Blade of Grass. Special thanks this year to our not completely in line with our visions and values. We want to be and DIT. As we move forward I want to retain the punk ethos hosts the Queens Museum, and in particular Prerana Reddy Crystal Baxley, who has been part of the conference in creating and enacting the futures we want to see. that Ted saw in us. I also want to be open to whatever the next who has worked with us since 2014. indispensible capacities since 2010 and now serves as the phase is, even if it means not just radically changing forms, but Associate Director. Open Engagement has in many ways done just that, we have sunsetting all together. Thank you to all the selection committee members created spaces that are fluid, feminist, queer, accessible, who have over the years been responsible for shaping our Latham Zearfoss, our Assistant Director. restorative, anti-racist—that are accountable for its aims while I hope that as Open Engagement moves into an exploratory year amazing programs. also championing radical, visionary, difficult, revolutionary, of reflection, that collectively we reach solutions and find forms Nicole Lavalle, Sarah Deann Baugh, and Taryn Cowart, who for Our invaluable interns, Sophia Fish, Martina Lentino, necessary work. and ways of working that can support and care for the people many years were the design gurus behind OE. engaged in this important work. Christopher Bednash, Rimona Law, Kyra Gross, Max Gottlieb, We have ensured our selection processes are open and We would also like to acknowledge Gemma Rose Turnbull and Ashley Clodfelter, and Sarah O’Neil. democratic. The majority of Open Engagement programming In the process of writing this final welcome message, I reread Alexandra Winters, who both took time serving at the helm of the Our sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to all of the Open continues to be coordinated through an open call for many that came before. A consistent statement I made again and OE Social Media. proposals, and that these committees first and foremost again was that without all of you none of this would be possible. Engagement volunteers who have lent their time and energy. emphasize the local, as well as include national perspectives. We are OE. It is a testament to the political power of art to affect The many former students from Portland State University who And, the over 2,000 presenters and over 6,000 attendees who social change, and in our current moment I find comfort in the dedicated energy, time, and most importantly enthusiasm, have formed the OE community over the past decade. We are proud that the conference continues to be a site energy and support in our coming together. This community is in particular Ally Drozd, Lexa Walsh, Ariana Jacob, Sean committed to diversity and the representation of a wide the most valuable outcome of this work. Schumacher, Jason Sturgill, Erica Thomas, Stefan Ransom, Anyone who has ever called us out, and especially everyone perspective of the multitude of human experience. We have Eliza Gregory, Sandy Sampson, Laura Sandow, Will Bryant. who has had the generosity to call us in. fostered a space that is majority minority. If the future is brown, With hope, love, gratitude, and the pride in knowing that this is femme, and queer, then Open Engagement has been a portal to without a doubt the most important way I could have spent the that future. last decade. With endless gratitude, In our collective curatorial statement for Open Engagement Jen Delos Reyes and the Open Engagement Team 2018 we asked “What happens to our labors of love when love is no longer enough?” What do you do when you don’t have the Jen Delos Reyes resources to live your values as an organization? When you want February 20, 2018 a living wage for all people, but you can’t even pay yourself? Chicago, IL

Like many of us in this field I was deeply impacted by Ted Purves’ book What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art. Ted Purves was my external graduate advisor in 2006. My graduate thesis was Open Engagement. When I Land Acknowledgment started this endeavor, it felt paramount that attending be free, but ultimately I came to the conclusion that this insistence on We would like to acknowledge that the land on which the generosity devalued our supposedly shared site of exchange. Queens Museum stands is the occupied/unceded/seized territory There was no room for collective responsibility, an onus on the of the Matinecock, Canarsie, Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, public who forms Open Engagement to ensure it continues by Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, and the Ramapough Lenape Peoples. investing in it, even if only in a small monetary way. What do we want now when it is not free?

4 5 2018 Curatorial Statement— 2018 Open Engagement Team SUSTAINABILITY

Jen Delos Reyes Lauren Meranda Kyra Gross It is not coincidental that as Open Engagement nears its ten year Our selection committee prioritized proposals that reflected Founder and Director Designer/Creative Director Outreach Support anniversary we choose to examine the theme of sustainability. upon universal sustainability, the sustainability of our While we are thinking broadly about the urgent complexities field, and the sustainability of Open Engagement as both a Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, Lauren Meranda is a Chicago-based in Kansas City who uses painting and of sustainability ranging from social, economic, cultural, site and a form. In the collective review process – made up of educator, writer, radical community arts designer and educator specializing in social intervention as a means to analyze environmental, educational, and institutional, we are also faced volunteer stakeholders – we sought out practical tactics and organizer, and author of countless emails. projects for cultural institutions, social how people view themselves, others, and activism, civic engagement, and public with the issue of our own sustainability as an artist-led project, methodologies for sustainable practices, as well as expansive, She is the director and founder of Open their communities from an anthropological memory. She runs a small design studio and in turn, what that means for all of us committed to socially theoretical propositions of radical departures from the status Engagement. Delos Reyes currently lives point of view. She is the first woman to engaged art and social justice practices. What happens to our quo. In a short string of metaphors, we hoped to form a program (laurenmeranda.com), teaches, and graduate from college in her family and and works in Chicago, IL where she is serves on the board of AIGA Chicago. labors of love when love is no longer enough? As a team of that would leave our bellies full and our brains abuzz. As always, the Associate Director of the School of hopes she is doing this whole living thing five un/derpaid employees, we have worked to create spaces what we found was surprising, affirming, challenging and, Art & Art History at the University of right. She is excited to be joining the team that are fluid, feminist, queer, accessible, restorative, and anti- ultimately, invigorating. We hope you’ll agree. Illinois at Chicago. Andrés Alejandro Chavez at Open Engagement this year. racist—spaces that are accountable for their aims while also Designer championing radical, visionary, difficult, revolutionary, As Open Engagement heads into an exploratory year, let us take necessary work. this weekend of provocation and dialogue to ready a shared and Crystal Baxley Andrés is a radical leftist Venezuelan Max Gottlieb shifting platform, an open(-ended) engagement that encourages Associate Director designer residing in Chicago. Creative, Hospitality Support How are we as artists, activists, students, educators, curious, and collaborative, he is us to think through the sustainability of these practices. And Max Gottlieb is an urban planner and arts administrators, and organizers working towards meaningful Crystal Baxley started working on Open always looking to learn new things and to continue to rethink and rebuild and rethink and rebuild. Over laborer from New York City, completing and sustainable change? How can we ensure that an ethos email, over drinks, overseas and over time. Together, we can, Engagement when she was 22 years start new projects. He is a big fan of good typography, Emma Goldman, a Master’s in City & Regional Planning of environmental symbiosis and equality amongst all peoples and no doubt will, find new ways and re-discover old ways that old; in January she turned 30. In addition to her work with OE, she pays her bills and minimalist graphic design. at the Pratt Institute. He has held is not only sustained, but updated and informed by future nurture our field’s needs while ensuring that those engaged by providing administrative assistance previous positions in arts education and generations? As the world continues to, exhaustingly, (re-)invest in this work can continue to mobilize – sustainably – towards and grant writing for artists and arts administration at MoMA PS1, Socrates in paradigms and institutions that are failing, how are we pushing a more just and liberated future. Onward, with care. non-profits. She is currently seeking Jade Thacker Sculpture Park and Printed Matter, Inc. back against an ethos that prioritizes self-survival over collective opportunities to make a living wage, write Local Liaison and Open House Manager He currently is a Graduate Fellow with the nourishment? How do we imbue our actions with foresight, so Written by Crystal Baxley, Jen Delos Reyes, for television, spend time in nature, travel, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance and that we model holistic methodologies of care and restoration on and Latham Zearfoss Jade Thacker is an independent curator drink natural wine, and collaboratively researcher with the Urban Design Forum. an institutional, perhaps even global, scale? These are questions work to dismantle white-supremacist and creative producer with a focus on Edited by Jade Thacker we are demanding of ourselves, and of you. capitalist patriarchy. site-specific performances, installations, and events exploring the sensorial, Ashley Clodfelter Open Engagement 2018 seeks to explore and honor the ways relational aesthetics, and social justice. Social Media Support that systems and actions are connected; how they fail and Latham Zearfoss She currently resides in New York City how they thrive. How do artists support themselves and their Assistant Director and where she operates an independent Ashley Clodfelter is an artist from Illinois communities? How do we do so in impactful ways that foster new Local Support creative production house and serves as currently working pursuing her BFA at paradigms of inclusion, nuance, safety, criticality, health, agency, Artistic Director to art-house perfumery, University of Illinois at Chicago. Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, justice, and purpose for all? How are artists and their institutions Folie À Plusieurs. www.jadethacker.org where they produce time-based images, impacting the environment, culture, economics, technology, objects and experiences about selfhood politics, social dynamics, and national and international law? Rimona Law and otherness. Outside of the studio, they How do we match our rage with equally impactful modalities of Danny Orendorff Dinner Conversation Coordinator contribute to collective motions toward OEHQ and Volunteer Coordinator care and reparation? joy and reflection through social projects Rimona Law is an artist and optimistic such as a queer dance party (Chances Danny Orendorff is an independent agitator. She makes interactive sculptures Dances), a critical space for white allyship curator, writer, teacher, and activist and incomplete maps that trace lines (Make Yourself Useful), and an itinerant whose work explores the intersections of material culpability and connection. conference on socially-engaged art of DIY and/or craft-oriented cultural Rimona holds a BA in Environmental (Open Engagement). Latham graduated production, histories of grassroots Studies-Art from Whitman College from The School of the Art Institute of social-justice activism, and theories of and believes in radical tenderness, Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the gender and sexuality. Formerly, Orendorff independent media, and young people. University of Illinois at Chicago with an worked as Curator of Public Programs She lives and works in Portland, OR. MFA in 2011. They have exhibited their for the Museum of Arts and Design http://rimonalaw.com/ work, screened their videos, and DJed in New York City and has organized internationally and all over the U.S. www. exhibitions, programs, and publications lathamzearfoss.org for museums and galleries nationwide. DanDannyDaniel.com

6 7 Locations All locations ADA accessible unless otherwise noted.

Queens Brooklyn Area Map Traveling Between Queens Museum and New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) Queens Museum A Blade of Grass Community Access, Inc. Flushing Meadows Corona Park 81 Prospect Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 2 Washington Street, 9th Floor, New York, Some Open Engagement programming New York City Building, Corona, NY 11368 Room 7A NY 10004 will be held at New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). Please give yourself around Main Atrium BRIC Fourth Arts Block 10 minutes of non-motorized travel time First Floor 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 70 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 through the park to reach NYSCI from the Queens Museum, and vice versa. NYC Watershed Model El Museo de Los Sures International Center of First Floor 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 Photography El Museo de Los Sures is not ADA accessible. 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY The Panorama of the City of New York The entrance is located at the bottom of 3 stairs. First Floor The Metropolitan Museum of Art of Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing Eyebeam New York First Floor 199 Cook St, Brooklyn, NY 11206 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

Education Studio B Interference Archive The New York City Department of Second Floor 314 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Cultural Affairs 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007 Theater Recess Second Floor 46 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 Visual Aids 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001 Unisphere Gallery Second Floor Social Justice Tours The southeast corner of Bedford Avenue Werwaiss Family Gallery and North 7th Street (across the street from Second Floor the Dunkin Donuts in Williamsburg) Uptown, Upper Manhattan, and The Bronx Swale New York Hall of Science 140 58th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220 American Folk Art Museum Swale is not ADA accessible at high 47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368 2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023 and low tide, but is ADA accessible with a ramp at other tides. Lab 1 The Bronx Museum of the Arts Queens Museum Floor Plan Lower Level 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY 10454

Lab 2 Downtown, Lower, The Caribbean Cultural Center Grand Central Parkway Lower Level and Mid-Manhattan African Diaspora Institute 120 East 125th St, New York, NY 10035 Viscusi Gallery Upper Level The 8th Floor 17 West 17th St, New York, NY 10011 Marcus Garvey Park 18 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY 10027

Flux Factory Broadway-Lafayette St. MTA Station The Studio Museum in Harlem 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101 Lower Mezzanine Level Lafayette St & Houston Street, Visitor Center New York, NY 10012 144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027 Immigrant Movement International NYC Panorama of the Education The lower mezzanine level is not ADA Watershed Main City of New York Studio A 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue, Model compliant. If you are in a wheelchair and Atrium Corona, NY 11368 need assistance to witness the event, please IMI is not ADA accessible. The entrance is contact Raquel de Anda at 415-425-8674 Education located at the top of 5 stairs Studio B Studio The Bureau of General Gallery 2 Knockdown Center Triangle Services—Queer Division 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Werwaiss The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Unisphere 1st Floor Family Gallery 2nd Floor Transgender Community Center Gallery Theater 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

Unisphere

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Transit Dinner Options Bathrooms Welcome Families . #7 Train Directions for Queens Museum Queens is home to some of the most diverse cuisine in the country, The Queens Museum strives towards a culturally affirming shared space. Open Engagement and its partners are committed to intergenerational Take #7 Train in the direction of Flushing, Queens. Your stop is particularly along the 7 train corridor, which covers parts of Flushing, As such, their restrooms are gender-affirming to those on a masculine or spaces and will support children, parents, and caregivers to the Mets-Willets Point, the second to last stop on the 7 train. Follow the Jackson Heights, and Long Island City. OE has created a map of eating feminine spectrum. There are no gender neutral bathrooms, but all folks best of our ability. We ask all conference participants to be supportive signs to Flushing Meadows Corona Park (exit left after the turnstiles), options within the area, along with several highlights: are encouraged to use whichever bathroom is in closest alignment with of kids, parents, and caregivers wherever they are. As prison walk up the exit ramp of the station, over the boardwalk and into their chosen gender identity. abolitionist Jason Lydon of the Community Church of Boston said, the park. Follow the path past the tennis center to the Unisphere. Imperial Palace, Cantonese, 136-13 37th Avenue, “kid noises are the sign of a growing movement,” so please join The Museum will be on your right. Flushing, NY 11354 us in the community responsibility needed for a supportive and truly Accessibility intergenerational environment. You can also get off at the 111th Street subway stop. Walk south towards The Lemon Ice King of Corona, Italian Ice, 52-02 108th St, Open Engagement is committed to becoming an ADA Welcoming space. 49th avenue and take a left into the park. Follow the path, past the Corona, NY 11368 We partner with venues who share with our goal, and we work to ensure The Queens Museum is stroller-friendly throughout the museum and our garden roundabout and over the highway. You will see the USTA National conference spaces are accessible to all. However, there are challenges bathrooms have baby-changing stations. Tennis Center on your left. The Museum will be on your right. Nick’s Pizza, Neapolitan, 108-26 Ascan Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375 with being an itinerant conference and we are sometimes not able to Language adapted from the NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective’s provide access to every venue. We make every effort to note where Tortillería Nixtamal, Mexican, 104-05 47th Ave, Queens, NY 11368 statement on child care. #7 Train Accessibility Information For Travel to Queens Museum venues are challenging or inaccessible to persons with limited mobility. The Mets-Willets Point stop is wheelchair accessible “on game days Spicy and Tasty, Szechuan, 39-07 Prince St, Queens, NY 11354 and special events only.” According to the Mets’ site, they only have away Please email [email protected] or call 503-319-6015 to Youth Activities at Queens Museum games during OE weekend. The closest constantly wheelchair acces- request accommodations or ask questions about accessibility, or visit us Spring Shabu Shabu, Japanese Hot Pot, 136-20 38th Ave., 2nd Fl., Queens Museum is offering a drop-in Day Camp with activities sible stop is the Flushing-Main Street Stop. If you exit at this stop, head at OEHQ during the conference. Flushing, NY 11354 for youth ages 6 - 11 on Saturday and Sunday in Studio A, located Southwest on Roosevelt for a mile until you reach the entryway for Mets- on the second floor. Day Camps are capped at 15 participants at Willets Point subway stop. Follow the above directions from there. White Bear, Dumplings, 135-02 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, NY 11354 Quiet Rooms and Family Rooms any one time. Families and youth are also invited to take part in QM’s regularly scheduled Sunday Family Workshops on from 1:30pm to The #7 Express train stops at the Mets-Willet and Flushing-Main Street This year we are unable to offer designated lactation or quiet rooms, Café 4:30pm, and gallery tours beginning at 1, 2, and 3pm. Tours meet at the / Roosevelt Avenue stop but not the 111 Street / Roosevelt Avenue stop. but please do contact us to arrange an accommodation if needed. The cafe will open early to accommodate OE attendees. The cafe Park Side Information Desk. The #7 Local train makes all listed stops. features a selections of coffees, teas and pastries and will be open from 9:00 – 5:00pm.

Lunch Options The Queens Museum has invited several food vendors to be present during lunchtime hours on Saturday and Sunday of the conference. Please have cash on hand.

The Queens Museum cafe will also be stocked with box lunches at an affordable rate.

10 11 Thursday–Friday Pre-Conference Open House Overview Featured Presentations After-Hours Event

Thursday Friday 10:00 – 2:00pm 12:00am –1:00pm 1:00 – 3:00pm 1:00 – 6:00pm 6:00-8:00pm Inside the Studio of Artists El Recreo Open House Office Hours with the “Vestiges & Verse: Notes from Art as Social Action: An 3:00 – 8:00pm 9:00 - 10:00am Inventing Our Shared Future at Recess Commissioner: the Newfangled Epic” Introduction to the Principles On Justice & Practice In Honor of Ted Purves Sally Szwed Manuel Molina Martagon, Public Artists in Residence American Folk Art Museum and Practices of Teaching The Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Park Eyebeam Current Recess Session Artist Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, American Folk Art Museum Social Practice Art The Grace Rainey Rogers 199 Cook St. Recess NYC Department of Cultural 2 Lincoln Square Book Launch with Social Auditorium Brooklyn, NY 11206 46 Washington Ave. Affairs; Shirley Levy and Diya New York, NY 10023 Practice Queens The Metropolitan Museum of Art 10:00am – 4pm (Bushwick) Brooklyn, NY 11205 (Clinton Hill) Vij, Co-Directors, Public Artists (Columbus Avenue between The 8th Floor of New York Swale - A Floating Food Forest in Residence, NYC Department 65th and 66th Streets) 17 West 17th St, New York, NY 1000 5th Ave Mary Mattingly, Marisa Prefer, of Cultural Affairs; 2018 PAIRs: 10011 New York, NY 10028 Amanda McDonald Crowley 11:00 – 1:00pm 12:00pm – 5:00pm Rachel Barnard, Onyedika

Swale Williamsburg Gentrification Tour La Austral Open Hours Chuke, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh 2:00 – 3:00pm The New York City Department 140 58th St. Dan Kaminsky, Pablo Helguera, La Austral, S.A. The Making of a Community- 7:30 - 9:00pm of Cultural Affairs Brooklyn, NY 11220 Social Justice Tours de C.V., and the International based Cultural District Open Engagement in 31 Chambers Street 6:00 – 8:00pm (Sunset Park) Starting Location: The southeast Studio & Curatorial Program at Ryan Gilliam Conversation with New York, NY 10007, 2nd floor, Storytelling Slam at La Austral corner of Bedford Avenue and El Museo de Los Sures Fourth Arts Block Laura Raicovich and Room 201 Pablo Helguera, La Austral, S.A. North 7th Street (across the El Museo de Los Sures 70 East 4th Street Paul Ramirez Jonas de C.V., and the International 10:00am – 1:00pm street from the Dunkin Donuts 120 South 1st Street New York, NY 10003 The Bronx Museum of the Arts Studio & Curatorial Program at Interference Archive Tour in Williamsburg). Ending Brooklyn, NY 11249 1040 Grand Concourse El Museo de Los Sures Kevin Caplicki location: Kent Avenue and (Williamsburg) 1:00 – 3:30pm Bronx, NY 10454 El Museo de Los Sures Interference Archive 314 7th North 6th Street. ICP Open House: 120 South 1st Street Street The Image & Social Change 2:30–4:00pm Brooklyn, NY 11249 Brooklyn, NY 11215 1:00 – 4:00pm International Center of “The Schoolhouse and the Bus” 9:00pm – 12:00am (Park Slope) 11:30 – 5:00pm Open House at the Bureau Photography Exhibition Tour OE 2018 Kickoff Party International Center of Defend Puerto Rico Exhibition— of General Services—Queer The Shelley & Donald Rubin Bronx Museum & Photography Public Self-Guided Tours at Division in Open Engagement Foundation / The 8th Floor Maker Park Radio 1114 Avenue of the Americas CCCADI 2018 — SUSTAINABILITY The 8th Floor The Bronx Museum of the Arts 10:00am – 1:00pm New York, NY (at 43rd Street) FIELDWORKS: Artists Who Caribbean Cultural Center Greg Newton 17 West 17th St 1040 Grand Concourse Heal African Diaspora Institute The Bureau of General New York, NY 10011, 8th Floor Bronx, NY 10454 A Blade of Grass The Caribbean Cultural Center Services––Queer Division (between 5th and 6th Avenues) A Blade of Grass African Diaspora Institute @ The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & 1:00 – 6:00pm 81 Prospect Street (CCCADI) Transgender Community Center, Visual AIDS Open House 120 East 125th St. 208 West 13th Street (btw. Brooklyn NY 11201, Room 7A Visual AIDS Tours begin at 4:00, 5:00, and New York, NY 10035 7th/8th Avenues), Room 210, Visual AIDS (Brooklyn Heights) 6:00pm New York, NY 10011 526 West 26th Street Guided Tours: Suite 510, New York, NY 10001 Oded Halahmy & Moses Ros 10:00am – 11:30pm 12:00 – 6:00pm (visitor center) The Bronx Museum of the Arts Brooklyn Free Speech: 4:00 – 6:00pm (conversation) 1:00 – 4:00pm The Bronx Museum of the Arts Community Media at BRIC inHarlem Open House Community Access Paint Fest 1040 Grand Concourse BRIC Community Media Staff Studio Museum in Harlem Community Access and NYC Bronx NY 10454 and Community Producers The Studio Museum in Harlem Mural Arts Project BRIC 144 W 125th St. Community Access, Inc. 647 Fulton St New York, NY 10027 2 Washington Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217 & New York, NY 10004 (Fort Greene) Marcus Garvey Park (meeting place for conversation) 18 Mt Morris Park W. New York, NY 10027

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Saturday Overview After-Hours Event Parallel Session Featured Presentation Open Platform Project Training Conversation Dinner

9:30 – 10:00am 12:30–12:45pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 1:50 – 2:05pm 2:30 – 2:45pm 3:00 – 4:30pm 4:10 – 4:25pm OE 101 Outdoor School: Artist Talk by Wild Panorama Walk Strengthening Communities: Project HEARD: Research, El Recreo: A Place to Treat Lakou NOU – OUR Yard: Where You At? Art, Open Engagement Diane Borsato Chance Ecologies Native American Artists,Social Tech, & Art for Endangered Restaurant Workers Artist-led Community Ecology and Restoring Main Atrium, 1st Floor, The Panorama of the City of Engagement and Museums Sustainability and Social Diane Borsato Environmental Activists Manuel Molina Martagon Connection to Place Queens Museum New York, Queens Museum Andrea Hanley, Jacob Meders, Engagement Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Adrien Tofighi Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Brad Kik Queens Museum Allison Rowe Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Queens Museum Regine Roumain, Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Unisphere Gallery, 2nd Floor, Veroneque Ignace, Diane Queens Museum Queens Museum Queens Museum Exavier, Erika Pettersen 10:00 – 11:30am 3:00 – 4:30pm

What Do We Want to Say? 12:30 – 2:00pm Trees of Tomorrow: A 2:50 – 3:05pm + How Do We Want to Say It? Writing the Social: a Speculative Tour and 2:00 – 4:0pm Digital Activism: Black Bodies 4:30 – 4:45pm Lucy Lippard Workstation 12:50 – 1:05pm participatory workshop Collaborating Across Age Reclaiming Public Spaces Cultivating DC through Maker Park Radio Featured Presentation Margaretha Haughwout, Cody Amazonas Riverine Program Gretchen Coombs Groups - Duke SPL & Usdan Gregory King Permacounterculture Founders: Kristin Wallace & Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Beatriz Escobar Education Studio B, 2nd Floor, Ann Herrmann, Julian Phillips Pedro Lasch, Lauren Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Tom Ferrie Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Naoko Wowsugi, Nicole Dowd, Queens Museum Queens Museum Queens Museum Front Lawn Brandt Schloss, Jillian Queens Museum Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Queens Museum Sarah O’Donoghue, and Greenberg, Lindsay Smilow, Joseph Shaikewitz Queens Museum and Nate Koch Theater, 2nd Floor, Lab 1, Lower Level, New York 11:30am – 12:30pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 3:00 – 4:30pm Queens Museum Saturday Hall of Science (NYSCI) Meet the Artists of The RAGE IS SUSTAINABLE Trees of Tomorrow: Ways of Being: Support 4:50 – 5:00pm 12:00 – 4:00pm Queens Museum ONLY WHEN SHARED: A Speculative Tour Workshop This Lane Doesn’t Exis ArtSit: Assistive device for use Studio Program Studio a workshop for the angry, and Workstation Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martinez 3:00 – 4:30pm Robin Lambert by families and caregivers in Triangle, Artists Studio Wing and the hopeful! Margaretha Haughwout, Cody 2:00 – 4:00pm Poppe, and Caroline Woolard YOUTH CURATE WITH Main Atrium, 1st Floor, museums. 1st Floor, Queens Musuem Charles Long & Theodore Kerr Ann Herrmann, Julian Phillips Becoming an Access of BFAMFAPhD OPINIONS! Youth Rapid Queens Museum Home Affairs Art Collective Lab 1, Lower Level, New York Queens Museum Front Lawn Ambassador: Fostering Anti- Education Studio B, 2nd Floor, Response Collecting Hall of Science (NYSCI) Queens Museum Galleries Oppressive Communities Queens Museum and Curation Rebirth Garments — Sky 12:00 – 4:00pm Brooklyn Children’s Museum Cubacub and Alison Kopit Civic Art Lab: Sustainable 12:30 – 2:00pm and Queen’s Teens Saturday – Sunday Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, Futures Field Station 12:30 – 2:00pm Mirror / Echo / Tilt Curriculum Saturday 3:00 – 4:30pm Unisphere Gallery, 2nd Floor, Ongoing New York Hall of Science Civic Art Lab / Carbon Sponge Presentation 12:00 – 5:00pm The Value of the Long Queens Museum Bad at Sports Live @ OE (NYSCI) GREENSPACENYC Brooke Singer Melanie Crean and Shaun TEEN RAPID RESPONSE Haul: Fundred Duncan Mackenzie, Brian COLLECTING TASKFORCE Werwaiss Family Gallery, Lab 2, Lower Level, New York Leonardo Dawne Langford, Andrews, Dana Bassett, Ryan in real time 2nd Floor, Queens Museum Hall of Science (NYSCI) Theater, 2nd Floor, Mary Rubin, Amanda Wiles 3:10 – 3:25pm Peter Miller, Richard Holland, Brooklyn Children’s Museum Queens Museum 2:00 – 3:00pm and Elijah Williamson Bending the River Back Into Patricia Maloney, Thomas and Queens Teens PulpMobile the City Sanford, Amanda Browder, Queens Museum Galleries + Rejin Leys and Randall Szott 12:00 – 4:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm Lou Pesce, Metabolic Studio Queens Museum Front Lawn Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Tote Bag Intervention with Performing Infrastructure: 12:30 – 2:00pm SUSTAINING IMPACT: Queens Museum Mobile Print Power NYC’s Water Supply People:Power:Place: a cultural Considering a project’s impact 1:10–1:25 pm Mobile Print Power Lize Mogel plan for Chinatown North/ over decades Saturday – Sunday NYC Watershed Model, Sculptures That Talk Queens Museum Front Lawn Callowhill 9:30 – 10:00pm Tiffany Fairey Ongoing 1st Floor, Queens Museum Erin Turner & Vansler Nosie Asian Arts Initiative OE 101 Studio Triangle, Artists 3:30 – 3:45pm The Abortion Herb Garden Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Studio Wing, 1st Floor, Fruit Futures Initiative Landon Newton + Queens Museum Open Engagement Queens Museum Gary- Civic Experiments Queens Museum Front Lawn 12:00 – 5:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm Asian Arts Initiative in Long Time Trees of Tomorrow: Know Admin, Know Art: Look at Art. Get Paid. Frances Whitehead A Speculative Tour and Resource Sharing Through Maia Chao, Josephine 1:30 – 1:45 pm 2:10 – 2:25pm Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Workstation 3:00 – 4:30pm 7:00 – 9:00pm Fiscal Sponsorship Devanbu, Bryn Pernot, and How Far: Prison & Land Use The Power Move Queens Museum Margaretha Haughwout, Cody In the Same Room without Conversation Dinners Toni Moceri, Melissa Hamilton, Maria Paula Garcia Mosquera Sheena Hoszko The Jumping Janes Ann Herrmann, Julian Phillips Screaming: Power, Art, and Various Locations, pg. 26 Jamaine Smith, Courtney Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Queens Museum Front Lawn + Learning at the Seward Park Harge, Polly Riddims, and Queens Museum Queens Museum Urban Renewal Area 3:50 – 4:05pm Allison Duggan How can we reframe cultural Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Social Impact Art & Design Studio Triangle, Artists production working one- Doors, 9:00pm The Panorama of the City of Grace Lynne Haynes Studio Wing, 1st Floor, Performances, 10:00pm on-one with different people? New York, Queens Museum Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Queens Museum Knockdown Center x Lanchonete.org Queens Museum Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, Open Engagement Party New York Hall of Science Knockdown Center (NYSCI) 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, 14 NY 11378 15 Sunday Overview After-Hours Event Parallel Session Featured Presentation Open Platform Project Training Conversation Dinner

10:00 - 11:30am 12:00 – 1:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm 2:10 – 2:55pm 3:00 – 4:30pm 3:00 – 4:30pm 6:30 – 7:30pm Mel Chin Featured IMI Corona: The Monstritx The Attention Economy & The Power of Three: Timelines WE ARE FAMILY FC Part of the Solution Beyond the Walls: Developing Signal Re-dedication Presentation Justicierx Cultural Capitalism of the for Sustainable Community- Jessie McLaughlin Iris Anna Regn and Mayen Agency No Longer Empty, Mel Chin, Mel Chin Milton X. Trujillo and Yessica White Savior Art Market Engaged Projects Queens Museum Front Lawn Alcantara, Los Angeles Liz Slagus, Jan Mun, Brooke and G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Main Atrium, First Floor, Martinez Artists Without a Cause: Ryan Dennis, Isis Ferguson, Country Arts Commission Civic Singer, Sara Perl Egendorf, Nation) Immigrant Movement Queens Museum Diana Arce & Nine La Keisha Leek, Art Program Sahery Arain, Cara Lambrento Broadway-Lafayette St. Station, International Yamamoto-Masson in absentia and Tricia Van Eck. Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, Lower Mezzanine Level 2:10 – 2:25pm + Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, New York Hall of Science + Swale: Workarounds and New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) 11:30am - 12:30pm Coalition Building for Public (NYSCI) Symphony for a Meet the Artists of The 12:30 – 12:45pm No Way to Do This Right Food Broken Orchestra 7:00 - 8:30pm Queens Museum Studio CONSUME(s) ME Roger Peet Leenda Bonilla, Amanda Robert Blackson At The Table Program Studio Triangle, Cat Tyc Studio Triangle, Artists McDonald Crowley, Mary 3:10 – 3:25pm No Longer Empty + Artists Studio Wing Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Studio Wing, 1st floor, 12:50 – 1:05pm Mattingly, Marisa Prefer, and Bearded Flamingos: on Kenkeleba House First Floor, Queens Museum Queens Museum Queens Museum Human Hotel Dariella Rodriguez ‘Passing’, ‘Migration’ and Plantón Móvil: Moving— Martin Rosengaard Main Atrium, 1st floor, ‘Camouflage’ Main Atrium, 1st floor, Queens Museum With to Practice Community Falak Vasa Saturday – Sunday Queens Museum Lucia Monge Main Atrium, 1st floor, 12:00 – 4:00pm 12:30 – 2:00pm Ongoing 12:30 – 2:00pm Theater, 2nd Floor, Queens Museum A Story of Sustenance — Bad at Sports Live @ OE Tote Bag Intervention with Walking Tour: Art, Ecology, Queens Museum Duncan Mackenzie, Brian Mobile Print Power The Ceramic Object as & Spatial Justice in Flushing 2:30 – 2:45pm Andrews, Dana Bassett, Ryan Mobile Print Power Conduit for Engagement Meadows Corona Park 1:10 – 1:25pm Gaza (a)live – Live Streaming Peter Miller, Richard Holland, Queens Museum Front Lawn Anna Metcalfe and Sam Holleran Between the Earth and and Interaction 3:30 – 3:45pm Holly Hanessian The Panorama of the City of the Sky: Intergenerational Marie Skeie & Motaz al 3:00 – 4:30pm SOIL SERIES: A Social Patricia Maloney, Thomas Interactions of Visibility Habbash Centering Community Drawing – A Year in Sanford, Amanda Browder, and + New York, Queens Museum Charlie Michaels, Main Atrium, 1st floor, and Voices: Art Against Appalachia Randall Szott 12:00 – 4:00pm From Here to There: Anne Mondro Queens Museum Erasure and Displacement Francesca Fiore, Hillary Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Picture Stories of Refugee Main Atrium, 1st floor, in Chinatown Wagner Futures Field Station 12:30 – 2:00pm Women’s Lives Queens Museum Chinatown Art Brigade, The Main Atrium, 1st floor, Saturday – Sunday Civic Art Lab / The Power of Time: Social Shira Walinsky, Melissa Fogg, W.O.W. Project, and Melissa Queens Museum GREENSPACENYC 2:50 – 3:05pm Ongoing Practice Eco Artists of a Liu (moderator) Werwaiss Family Gallery, Megan Voeller, and Caroline We the News The Abortion Herb Garden Certain Age Unisphere Gallery, 2nd Floor, 2nd Floor, Queens Museum Christianson 1:30 – 1:45pm Lizania Cruz Landon Newton Education Studio B, 2nd Floor, Linda Weintraub, Betsy Queens Museum Environmental Harassment Main Atrium, 1st floor, 3:50pm – 4:05pm Queens Museum Front Lawn Queens Museum Damon, Lillian Ball, Wendy Training Collaboration with Queens Museum Failure? Art Schools Working Brawer, Aviva Rahmani, and t.e.j.a.s. in Creative Communities 12:00 – 4:00pm Bonnie Ora Sherk Environmental Justice Group 3:00 – 4:30pm Jaclyn Jacunski Tote Bag Intervention with Theater, 2nd Floor, 7:00pm - Midnight 12:30 – 2:00pm Main Atrium, 1st floor, The Development of Creek Main Atrium, 1st floor, Mobile Print Power Queens Museum 3:00 – 4:30pm Sunday Night Wrap Party at Plant Talk Human Talk: An EPA Queens Museum College; Notes from the Field Queens Museum Mobile Print Power Collective Futures Workshop Flux Factory with Party Noire, Training for the Beginning of Creek College Xhoir and DJ Latham Queens Museum Front Lawn Salome Asega and Melanie the World Flux Factory 12:30 – 2:00pm Crean + Environmental Performance 39-31 29th St, Long Island Through the Stories of five 1:50 – 2:05pm Studio Triangle, Artists 4:10 – 4:25pm Agency (andrea haenggi, City, NY 11101 immigrants — New New Energy Well Spent: Complexity Studio Wing, 1st floor, Radicle Engagement: How Can Artists Be Friends of Sunday Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Yorkers Mentoring Program and Complicity in Ecologic Queens Museum Seeds, Art and Storytelling Recovery? 12:00 – 5:00pm Irons, Catherine Grau) Production Katerie Gladdys, Anna Prizzia Daniel Totten Trees of Tomorrow: A Lab 1, Lower Level, New York New New Yorkers Keeley Haftner Education Studio B, 2nd Floor, Main Atrium, 1st floor, Speculative Tour and Hall of Science (NYSCI) Mentoring Program Main Atrium, 1st floor, Queens Museum Queens Museum Workstation 3:00 – 4:30pm + Queens Museum Margaretha Haughwout, Cody Transforming Wastescape

Ann Herrmann, Julian Phillips All that you touch you into Landscape: A Framework Queens Museum Front Lawn 12:30 – 2:00pm change: creating a community- for Art 4:30 – 4:45pm Artistic Intervention in the led AIR program 2:00 – 4:00pm Freshkills Park: Field R/D Toast Ale: Fighting Food Waste Legal Contract The Intergenerational Decolonization and The Panorama of the City of One Beer At a Time Stephanie Mercedes and John Community Arts Council Cultural Institutions New York, Queens Museum Karen Kuhn R. Wierzbicki Unisphere Gallery, 2nd floor, Amin Husain and Main Atrium, 1st Floor, Lab 2, Lower Level, New York Queens Museum Nitasha Dhillon Queens Museum

Hall of Science (NYSCI) Lab 1, New York Hall of Science (NYSCI)

16 17 Featured Presentations Pre-Conference

Date In anticipation of OE 2018, New York based Friday Saturday Sunday Thursday, May 10 organizations offer Pre-Conference programming 7:30 - 9:00pm 10:00 - 11:30am 10:00 - 11:30am to get the conversation started. Open Engagement in Conversation Lucy Lippard Featured Mel Chin Featured Presentation The pre-conference is free and open to all kinds of practitioners attending with Laura Raicovich and Paul Presentation Mel Chin Locations Open Engagement. Please note organizers may require pre-registration. Ramirez Jonas Lucy Lippard “Is it something I said?” Jen Delos Reyes, Crystal Baxley, The Metropolitan Museum What do we want to say? How do we — Richard Pryor 1975 Latham Zearfoss, Laura Raicovich, and Paul Ramirez Jonas want to say it? A polemic about the world of Art of New York we’re trying to change, the issues, and In the presence of ALL OVER the PLACE, The core team behind Open Engagement a somewhat dyspeptic look at the role of an exhibition featuring over 40 years of (Jen Delos Reyes, Crystal Baxley, and art/social practice/polemics. Is radical Mel Chin’s art practice, with themes like El Museo de Los Sures Latham Zearfoss) will be in conversation optimism possible when embedded in Destroying Angels of Our Creation, the with Laura Raicovich and Paul Ramirez voracious capitalism? Will we downsize or Artifice of Facts and Belief, Levity’s Wounds Jonas. Together they will reflect on the die? Is sustainability a mirage? At my age, and Gravity’s Well and the Cruel Light of past 10 years of Open Engagement, and nostalgia confuses visions for the future. the Sun, Chin will critically review some of contemplate future possibilities for the OE How much history do you want to know? Is his methods for engaging with society. His Team. Expect a candid conversation on talk will explore the conjunction of studio it art? Does it matter? Who’s it for? How Thursday, May 10 Pre-Conference SUSTAINABILITY in the context of radical far out into the world of social energies works, like The Funk and Wag from A to DIY ventures, collective processes, and can artists go and still be satisfied they are Z, with a three-city effort like Flint Fit. He holistic approaches to institutions. making art? presents an examination of how art can create the questions necessary in the face 3:00 – 8:00pm The Bronx Museum of the Arts Main Atrium, Queens Museum 6:00pm – 8:00pm of environmental ruin and intense societal Field Notes: On Justice & Practice 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY 10454 Storytelling Slam at La Austral polarization. This half-day pre-conference explores Pablo Helguera, La Austral, S.A. de C.V., Main Atrium, Queens Museum the way artists, cultural institutions, and and the International Studio & Curatorial communities forge ethical collaborations Program at El Museo de Los Sures that result in lasting and transformative exchanges. The program will begin La Austral, S.A. de C.V. is a project with a conversation on shifting the involving the creation of a temporary practice of philanthropy from charity to storytelling center where Dreamers and justice. We then look at the successes other immigrants who share their stories and challenges of collective work, with with the public. organizations from the Kenan Project, El Museo de Los Sures a three-year initiative to develop a 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 collective impact model with twenty- one cultural institutions through the lens of arts education and community engagement. Conversations that look more specifically at the relationship between artists committed to social change, institutions, and communities will follow.

This event is free for OE attendees, but registration is required. To register, please visit oe2018precon. eventbrite.com

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

18 19 Open House Friday, May 11 Open House 10:00am – 1:00pm Downtown, Lower, 2:30 – 4:00pm La Austral Open Hours and Mid-Manhattan “The Schoolhouse and the Bus” Pablo Helguera, La Austral, S.A. de C.V., and Exhibition Tour Date Inspired by Anthony Fyson and Colin Ward’s The the International Studio & Curatorial Program 1:00 – 4:00pm The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation / The at El Museo de Los Sures Open House at the Bureau of Exploding School, OE has adopted an “Exploded 8th Floor Friday, May 11 La Austral, S.A. de C.V. is a project General Services—Queer Division Greg Newton Please join The Shelley & Donald Rubin Conference” model, where conference-goers experience involving the creation of a temporary Foundation and​ The 8th Floor Friday, May 11 The Bureau of General Services-Queer storytelling center where Dreamers from 2:30 – 4:00pm for an exhibition tour of Various Locations the sites and context of the city as part of the conference Division welcomes participants in Open and other immigrants who share their “The Schoolhouse and the Bus” led by the Engagement 2018 — SUSTAINABILITY to and educational experience. This programming is stories with the public. Foundation’s Executive and Artistic Director an open house on Friday, May 11th, from 1 organized by the presenters and varies in their offerings El Museo de Los Sures to 4:00pm. The Bureau of General Services Sara Reisman. “The Schoolhouse and the 120 South 1st Street —Queer Division is an independent, all — Bus” pairs work by two leading artists of the Brooklyn, NY 11249 (Williamsburg) and approaches. Further information about each Open volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, social practice movement, Pablo Helguera and event space hosted by The Lesbian, and Suzanne Lacy, highlighting themes in House, including an interactive map of locations, can be 11:00am – 1:00pm Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community their works including immigration, pedagogy, Williamsburg Gentrification Tour found on OE’s website. Center in New York City. Co-founder Greg memory, and community organizing. Dan Kaminsky Newton will be on hand to speak with Beverages and food will be served. visitors about the Bureau’s mission, history, This two hour long tour of Williamsburg The 8th Floor highlights two main themes: Gentrification and goals. 17 West 17th St. and Environmental Justice. Williamsburg The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender New York, NY 10011 Friday, May 11 Open House offers an extreme example of both of these Community Center 8th Floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues) broader themes, and thus makes a very 208 West 13th Street (btw. 7th/8th Avenues), Room 210, New York, NY 10011 1:00 – 3:00pm interesting case-study neighborhood in 9:00 - 10:00am 10:00am – 1:00pm 10:00am – 11:30am which to delve into these issues. Office Hours with the In Honor of Ted Purves Interference Archive Tour Brooklyn Free Speech: 1:00 – 4:00pm Commissioner: Public Artists Advance registration needed Starting Location: The southeast corner of Kevin Caplicki Community Media at BRIC Community Access Paint Fest in Residence Space is limited Bedford Avenue and North 7th Street (across BRIC Community Media Staff and Community Access and NYC Mural Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, NYC Binoculars recommended but not required the street from the Dunkin Donuts). The mission of Interference Archive Community Producers Arts Project Department of Cultural Affairs; Shirley Join an early morning birding walk led by is to explore the relationship between Levy and Diya Vij, Co-Directors, Public Brooklyn Free Speech is a New York Ending location: Kent Avenue and Join Community Access, NYC Mural Arts a guide from the NYC Audubon Society cultural production and social movements. North 6th Street. Artists in Residence, NYC Department of Emmy-WINNING community television Project, and lead artist Jon “Phes” Souza to in honor of Ted Purves (1964–2017). This This work manifests in an open stacks Cultural Affairs; 2018 PAIRs: Rachel Barnard, network that amplifies and honors paint sections of a mural addressing mental intimate gathering will be an opportunity to archival collection, publications, and 10:00am – 2:00pm Onyedika Chuke, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh alternative voices in media. The initiative health and the ability to overcome adversity reflect on Ted’s legacy as a teacher, artist, public programs. This tour will introduce Inside the Studio of Artists seeks to empower Brooklynites with media and stigma to grow and strengthen Launched in 2015, Public Artists in writer, and abiding influence in the field of participants to the archive’s collections. The dreams to share their brilliance, talent, and Inventing Our Shared Future relationships and community. The mural Residence (PAIR) is a municipal residency social practice. Ted was an avid birder as archive contains many kinds of objects that creativity with the world. Join us for a tour Sally Szwed program that embeds artists in city was his mother - a nature center in Urbana, are created as part of social movements by will be installed summer of 2018 on the of the Community Media Lab and public government to implement creative solutions IL was opened in her honor in 1979. Quiet the participants themselves: posters, flyers, Eyebeam is a nonprofit studio for 176th street pedestrian passage between to pressing civic challenges. PAIR was time observing birds in Central Park will books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, production studios, and a discussion about collaborative experiments with technology Davidson Avenue and Jerome Avenue in inspired by the pioneering work of artist provide insight into Ted’s keen powers of audio recordings, and more. what how BRIC and the Brooklyn Free toward a more imaginative and just world. the Bronx. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the first artist- observation as well as an opportunity to Speech team builds community through Come by for a coffee and a tour with Fourth Arts Block share stories and memories. Interference Archive public access video and audio production. in-residence with the NYC Department 314 7th Street Director of Programs, Sally Szwed. Learn 70 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003 of Sanitation. Drop into Office Hours with Central Park Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Park Slope) BRIC about Eyebeam’s current public programs 647 Fulton St. and the groundbreaking residency that’s the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs 2:00 – 3:00pm 10:00am – 1:00pm Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Fort Greene) been supporting technology by artists for Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl, PAIR The Making of a Community- program directors, and a selection of 2018 Brooklyn FIELDWORKS: Artists Who Heal 20 years. Go behind the scenes to see 12:00 – 1:00pm what Eyebeam is doing to open the world based Cultural District PAIRs to learn more. 10:00am – 4:00pm A Blade of Grass El Recreo Open House at Recess of art, science and technology to new Ryan Gilliam The New York City Department FIELDWORKS is a short documentary film Swale — A Floating Food Forest Manuel Molina Martagon, Current Recess of Cultural Affairs series presented by A Blade of Grass that communities with a focus on openness, Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) was founded Mary Mattingly, Marisa Prefer, Amanda Session Artist 31 Chambers Street invention, and justice. by local arts groups to preserve spaces McDonald Crowley explores the beauty, rigor, and impact of New York, NY 10007 socially engaged art. This FIELDWORKS Recess’s signature program, Session, Eyebeam homesteaded in city-owned buildings on 2nd floor, Room 201 Swale is an experiential and co-educational screening will showcase projects by ABOG invites artists to use Recess’s public 199 Cook St. East 4th Street; with community support, edible landscape on a barge that utilizes Fellows centered around the themes of platform to combine productive studio Brooklyn, NY 11206 (Bushwick) we collectively negotiated for the transfer marine common law to circumvent public Healing and Learning, featuring artists Brett space with dynamic exhibition opportunities. of 8 properties from the city, for $1 each land laws in New York. A public space, Cook, Mel Chin, Joseph Cuillier, Pablo Current Session artist Manuel Molina with deed restrictions that they be used for Helguera, Simone Leigh, The Plug-In Studio, people visit Swale to pick fresh, healthy Martagon will present on his project “El nonprofit cultural use in perpetuity. Learn SexEd, and Adaku Utah. A Q&A will follow perennial foods for free, strengthening Recreo.” Recess creates opportunities for about the process, tour the block, and hear with Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of A stewardship and the commons. how our mission and work has expanded to Blade of Grass. artists to work in a public setting, initiating Swale partnerships among artists and audiences. serve the entire Lower East Side. A Blade of Grass 140 58th St. 81 Prospect Street Recess Fourth Arts Block Brooklyn, NY 11220 (Sunset Park) 70 East 4th Street Brooklyn NY 11201, 46 Washington Ave. Room 7A (Brooklyn Heights). Brooklyn, NY 11205 (Clinton Hill) New York, NY 10003

20 21 Friday, May 11 Open House Saturday Parallel Sessions 1:00 – 3:30pm 11:30 – 5:00pm 4:00 - 6:00pm ICP OPEN HOUSE: THE IMAGE & Defend Puerto Rico Exhibition — Guided Tours: Oded Halahmy & SOCIAL CHANGE Public Self-Guided Tours at Moses Ros International Center of Photography CCCADI The Bronx Museum of the Arts Date After Lucy Lippard’s Featured Presentation, OE offers Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Join the International Center of Photography The Bronx Museum Guided Tours examine Institute (CCCADI) panels, presentations and workshops take place (ICP) for a panel discussion (1:30–3PM) that contemporary artwork on view through Saturday, May 12 considers radical curatorial methodologies, Open Engagement conference attendees inquiry-based discussion. Experienced concurrently. Once these programs have ended, we hope approaches that recognize young people are welcome to view the Caribbean Museum educators encourage participants Locations that you will participate in a conversational dinner and as cultural producers, and image-based Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s to bring their own ideas and experiences work that sits at the intersection of art and (CCCADI) newest exhibition, DEFEND to the discussion, while providing support Queens Museum head to the Knockdown Center to party with us. activism. We’ll use past and upcoming PUERTO RICO. The exhibition explores with historical and cultural information, ICP exhibitions as a starting point the creative documentation and stories told to enhance the visitor experience and New York Hall of for conversation, drawing on learned through the Defend Puerto Rico transmedia engagement with the artists’ works. Current Science (NYSCI) experiences from curators, youth educators, project with a compilation of photography, exhibitions on view are Oded Halahmy, and arts administrators on ICP’s team. video, design and immersive media. Curated “Exile is Home” and Moses Ros, Guided tours of the ICP School facility will By: Mikey Cordero, Defend Puerto Rico “Landing / Aterrizaje.” be offered 30 minutes before and after Co-Founder. Location: 120 East 125th Tours start at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00pm. the program, which includes: classrooms, Street. Hours: 11:00am-4:30pm. The Bronx Museum of the Arts analog and digital labs, a studio, library, www.cccadi.org. 212 307-7420 1040 Grand Concourse and gallery exhibition featuring the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Bronx NY 10454 work of the current students in the ICP- Institute (CCCADI) Saturday, May 12 Parallel Sessions Bard MFA program. Light refreshments 120 East 125th St 6:00 - 8:00pm will be provided. New York, NY 10035 Art as Social Action: An RAGE IS SUSTAINABLE ONLY Performing Infrastructure: International Center of Photography Introduction to the Principles 9:30 – 10:00 am 1114 Avenue of the Americas 12:00 – 6:00pm (Visitor Center) WHEN SHARED: A workshop for NYC’s Water Supply New York, NY (at 43rd Street) and Practices of Teaching Social 4:00 – 6:00pm (Conversation in the park) OE 101 the angry and the hopeful! Lize Mogel Practice Art Book Launch with inHarlem Open House Open Engagement Charles Long & Theodore Kerr Social Practice Queens 90% of NYC’s water comes from rural 1:00 – 6:00pm Studio Museum in Harlem Get an overview of the weekend ahead, ask Were you angry way before election day communities in the Catskills, 150 miles Visual AIDS Open House The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation As we approach our fiftieth anniversary questions, and get ready to make the most of 2017? Are you tired of people telling you north. This relationship is brokered by land Visual AIDS will host a book launch for Art as Social in September 2018, we are preparing to Action: An Introduction to the Principles and your experience at OE 2018! to calm down? Save your energy? Pace use regulation, public policy, and miles of Visual AIDS Open House during office hours. construct a new home right here on 125th Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, yourself? Do you feel guided by the sonic infrastructure— all of which is practically Main Atrium, 1st floor, Queens Museum Visual Aids Street. While the galleries are closed the edited by Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass chants of those who came before you invisible to city residents. Participants will 526 West 26th Street, Suite 510 Museum will continue to inform, engage, of Social Practice Queens (a 2018 Rubin and charged by the spirits of those who create a “human diagram” of NYC’s water New York, NY 10001 and inspire our audiences through inHarlem, will come after? Join the What Would supply system (aqueducts, reservoirs, water Foundation grantee). Art as Social Action 12:30 – 2:00 pm a dynamic set of collaborative programs in is both a general introduction to, and an an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD) collective tunnels, etc), re-inscribing the physical and our neighborhood. Stop by our new Visitor to learn how to own, share, and SUSTAIN social connections between upstate and illustrated, practical textbook for the field Writing the Social: a participatory Center from 12 to 6 pm to view renderings of of social practice. Several of the book’s your rage. This workshop is rooted in urban communities. Props will be provided, Uptown, Upper Manhattan, workshop and The Bronx our new building, share your thoughts on our contributors will be present to discuss their the understanding that for many of us rage be prepared to make some noise! Reflection Wall, and learn more about our work in social practice. Gretchen Coombs is not a choice — but learning how to live NYC Watershed Model, 1st floor, 1:00 – 6:00pm upcoming programs and projects. Later, join with it can be. How can we write about the individuals Queens Museum “Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Studio Museum staff and our collaborators The 8th Floor and communities we encounter in our Lab 1, Lower Level, 17 West 17th St, New York, NY 10011 Newfangled Epic” as we convene in Marcus Garvey Park to practice? How can writing about these social New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) discuss and visualize the intersections of American Folk Art Museum exchanges inform our work and provide Wild Panorama Walk Carbon Sponge collective power and nature as related to our documentation and evaluation of the work? The American Folk Art Museum presents Chance Ecologies upcoming inHarlem installation. Using writing prompts and dialogue with Brooke Singer “Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Chance Ecologies presents an immersive Studio Museum in Harlem (Visitor Center open each other we can consider these questions Newfangled Epic,” a project exploring Carbon Sponge is a new project by Brooke 12–6PM) audio-visual walk around the Panorama, and develop techniques to better express our Singer at the New York Hall of Science cultural sustainability through an exhibition 144 W 125th St. exploring abandoned post-industrial sites encounters and to be ethically informed in exploring an art/citizen science approach of more than two hundred and fifty works by New York, NY 10027 across all five boroughs of New York City. our approach. to enhancing carbon sequestration in urban twenty-one seminal and recently discovered & Combining narration and digital media, the soils. Through promoting soil health and self-taught artists. Marcus Garvey Park (meeting place for artists will describe how each site’s unique conversation, 4–6PM) This session can accomodate pathways for citizens to take charge, can we American Folk Art Museum ecologies are responding to specific post- 18 Mt Morris Park W. 20 participants. slow down the release of carbon and turn 2 Lincoln Square human environmental conditions, weaving New York, NY 10027 Education Studio B, 2nd floor, our soils into better sinks to fight climate New York, NY 10023 (Columbus Avenue together a larger picture of the city’s Queens Museum change? Brooke and her collaborators will between 65th and 66th Streets) adapting and emerging ecosystems, as they lead a tour of Carbon Sponge, discuss evolve in the face of pollution and climate methods for measuring carbon as well change, yet beyond human design. future project developments. The Panorama of the City of New York, Lab 2, Lower Level, Queens Museum New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) 22 23 Saturday, May 12 Parallel Sessions Saturday, May 12 Parallel Sessions

Know Admin, Know Art: People:Power:Place: a cultural 2:00 – 3:00pm SUSTAINING IMPACT: Lakou NOU — OUR Yard: Artist-led YOUTH CURATE WITH OPINIONS! Resource Sharing Through Fiscal plan for Chinatown North/ Considering a project’s impact Community Sustainability and Youth Rapid Response Collecting Sponsorship Callowhill PulpMobile over decades Social Engagement and Curation Toni Moceri, Melissa Hamilton, Jamaine Asian Arts Initiative Rejin Leys Tiffany Fairey Regine Roumain, Veroneque Ignace, Diane Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Shirley Smith, Courtney Harge, Polly Riddims, and Asian Arts Initiative presents an overview This presentation explores how the impacts Exavier, Erika Pettersen Aparicio, Patience Boateng, Kate Calleri, The Pulp Mobile is a papermaking studio on Thomas Conklin, Oasa DuVerney-Gasper, Allison Duggan of its People:Power:Place (PPP) cultural of socially engaged community arts a cart where participants learn to recycle Haitian culture provides a valuable Grey Lambert, Joshua Miller, Sanjida Nisha, plan. PPP is a cultural planning process projects endure and are sustained over What if you could grow your artistic practice scrap paper into beautiful decorative paper. framework for creating collective Aniyah Celius, Zene Willoughby, and create the work you love without rooted in community participation to time. Drawing on research that examines responsibility amongst neighbors: the Lakou. and Clara Youens) and Queens Museum also needing to be your own accountant, create a shared vision of Chinatown Paper is cheap and ubiquitous. So much long-term participatory photography Former slaves created this communal living (CAH youth are proudly from Queens and all over the world, Claudia Dishon, fundraiser, and back office admin? In this North/Callowhill, Philadelphia, PA, as a of it passes through our hands that we projects and the impact for 10 TAFOS system in resistance to the racial and class and Jeannette Rodríguez-Píneda) panel, Allied Media Projects, CultureWorks holistic people-focused neighborhood stop seeing it, and rarely wonder where photographers (Peru), 20 years after the divides perpetuated by colonial plantations. Greater Philadelphia, Fractured Atlas, and vibrant hub of cultural production. As it comes from, how it is made, how project end, it will explore the multi-layered Through Lakou NOU — “OUR Yard” in The Queens Museum and the Brooklyn and Fusion Partnerships will explore neighborhood development intensifies, much energy and resources each piece issue of sustainability as it relates to Haitian Creole – Haiti Cultural Exchange Children’s Museum will present on youth how the resource-sharing model of fiscal this cultural plan offers recommendations represents. The PulpMobile challenges that questions of funding, evaluation, ‘value’ adapts this traditional model toward uniting programs, allowing the youths themselves sponsorship can meet the needs of artists that support and advance the equitable visible-invisibility by enabling participants and practitioner commitment. How does diverse community members in Brooklyn to generate an open dialogue about how + organizers and ensure a more just and growth and sustainable development of the to restore value to paper that our society impact endure? Is sustainability possible? around a shared sense of community their engagement can keep institutions alive. sustainable environment where artists can neighborhood. produces in abundance but soon discards. Is it desirable? and mutual aims through neighborhood The Queens Museums COMMUNITY ART not only survive but thrive. artist “residencies.” HACK program takes a curatorial approach Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing, 1st floor, + Queens Museum Front Lawn to public and community based arts. The Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing, 1st floor, Queens Museum Queens Museum + Brooklyn Children’s Museum TEEN RAPID Look at Art. Get Paid. — Sustaining 3:00 – 4:30pm In the Same Room without RESPONSE COLLECTING TASKFORCE, Socially Engaged Art under Cultivating DC through allows teens to source objects for Screaming: Power, Art, and Mirror / Echo / Tilt Curriculum Capitalism Ways of Being: Support Workshop Permacounterculture permanent addition to the collection — Presentation Maia Chao, Josephine Devanbu, Bryn Pernot, Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martinez Poppe, and Learning at the Seward Park Naoko Wowsugi, Nicole Dowd, Sarah showing how they can keep it current. and Maria Paula Garcia Mosquera Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD Urban Renewal Area O’Donoghue, and Joseph Shaikewitz Melanie Crean and Shaun Leonardo Unisphere Gallery, 2nd floor, Queens Museum The US is over 1/3 people of color, yet 90% Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (moderator) Mirror/Echo/Tilt is an art and education How can we support ourselves and each of core museum goers are white. Even For 50 years, the Seward Park Urban Taking its namesake from ‘permaculture’ project created by artists Melanie Crean, other? This workshop looks at the ways when admission fees are waived, free days Renewal Area on the Lower East Side— —an ecological approach characterized Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith, in which we meet our needs for wellbeing at museums serve predominantly affluent, now “Essex Crossing”—was marked by by ethical self-sufficiency— collaborating with individuals affected by in order to dream, practice, and work on white audiences. displacement, discrimination and a lack of “Permacounterculture” synthesized the justice system. They use participatory any project. Support extends beyond the affordable housing. Growing from the artist’s punk music, urban farming, and diverse storytelling methods to create an ongoing Reframing museum attendance as labor, life of our projects, often shaping the ways five-year collaboration, this talk and related communities to advocate for food justice archive of video, performance, text and artist-run program Look at Art. Get Paid. in which we navigate the contradictions of book reveal untold stories of community and in rapidly gentrifying Washington DC. curriculum exploring personal experience pays people who don’t normally go to living and working on independent projects. activism at SPURA and shed light on the Through an introduction of the project, its with the prison industrial complex. Their museums to visit the RISD Museum as Join us for a “brain massage” and mutual possibility for collaborative creative public collaborative processes, and its community- presentation includes visual documentation, guest critics. connection. projects to foster dialogue in a place where driven outcomes, the team will discuss short reenactments, and discussion of their The artists reflect on the challenges of Education Studio B, 2nd floor, Queens Museum neighbors on opposing sides could rarely be how the work catalyzed local subcultures methods concerning embodied narrative. sustaining work that uses the language of in the same room without screaming. in addition to strategies for supporting capitalism—money and labor—to counter- Theater, 2nd floor, Queens Museum The Panorama of the City of New York, sustainable social practices. hegemonic ends. The Value of the Long Haul: Queens Museum Theater, 2nd floor, Queens Museum Strengthening Communities: + Fundred Native American Artists, Social Dawne Langford, Mary Rubin, Amanda Wiles Engagement and Museums How can we reframe cultural and Elijah Williamson Andrea Hanley, Jacob Meders, Allison Rowe production working one-on-one As the Fundred Project enters its tenth This panel will discuss the Institute with different people? year, team members discuss learnings, of American Indian Art’s Museum of Lanchonete.org challenges, and the future. Topics include: Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Social Lanchonete.org is a durational project, that, working with affected communities, Engagement Art Residency. Previously inspired by a range of ideas and movements, themes of value and empathy, deepening funded through the Artist Leadership celebrates São Paulo‘s ubiquitous lunch partnerships, and sustainability. Initiated Program for Museums and Cultural counters and their role in the life of the by the artist Mel Chin in 2008 as an Institutions, National Museum of the Center. It has worked with multiple partners interdisciplinary, artist-driven project American Indian (NMAI), Smithsonian on thematics exploring the right to the city to advance solutions to lead poisoning, Institution and currently funded by the Andy - such as access to food, right to housing, Fundred has grown into a national effort, Warhol Foundation, this residency serves migration, gender - reaching a different powered by the people. The latest iteration as a catalyst for Native artists to generate range of people/public. It begun as a includes Fundred Reserve Open Lab in community dialogue and dynamic research process that led to working with a Washington, DC. creative experiences. specific community at rua Paim through a + Unisphere Gallery, 2nd floor, Queens Museum community-owned restaurant. Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, New York Hall of

Science (NYSCI) 24 25 Conversational Dinners Saturday, May 12. 7:00pm Conversational Dinners Our Time: Sustaining the Black, Queer + Joyful: Funding Economic Censorship Movement for Equity in the Arts Black Womyn The People’s Cultural Plan Nick Alder & Rae Chardonnay Taylor (Party Date As a very special part of this year’s conference, we have Antonio Serna The People’s Cultural Plan is a 17-page Noire, SOLAR House Studio) invited artists and activists to host a series of intimate We are inviting artists, cultural workers, proposal addressing the short comings of Saturday, May 12 sociologist, city workers, and supporters of How do we create affirming spaces for the city’s first ever cultural plan. Divided conversations over dinner in a selection of restaurants, the movement to reflect on where we are Black joy + Black femmes + queer folk into 3 planks: Housing & Displacement, Various Locations today. Over the past five years, artists and within the confines of capitalism? The Labor Equity, and Cultural Funding mainly around Bushwick and Astoria. workers of color have gained prominence in co-founders of Party Noire facilitate a Equity, the PCP is centered on the idea of all areas of the cultural landscape. Similarly, conversation exploring tactics, strategies, black and indigenous reparations. Dinner in almost every decade since the 60s, and tools for building economic conversations will focus on economic Additional registration is required. there has been an uptick in these cultural sustainability for Black queer womyn. censorship and radical budgeting. Practicing artists, creative entrepreneurs, opportunities, only to return to business as Bunna Cafe usual a few years later. We should, however, space makers, curators + cultural producers,

remain optimistic that real change is here be ready to share resources, and tips to stay. for making coin, navigating capitalistic Invisible Sustenance economic systems, and creating community Invisibility Lab Kurry Qulture sustainability. In a fast-paced, interconnected world

Thriving Beyond the Metropolis Sol Sips where people rarely have time for nurturing themselves or their relationships, the Saturday, May 12, 7:00pm Conversational Dinners Emily Ensminger, Elsewhere Museum Shapeshifting Practices in Invisibility Lab asks: What keeps you going? Join Directors of Elsewhere, a museum Uncertain NYC What sustains you through difficult times? Relaxing into our The Commons: Environmental Singing to the Choir: Dedications and artist residency situated in a mid- What do you rely on for sustenance? Are Catherine Feliz & Sonia Louise Davis Downward Mobility Sustainability based on Economic to Ursula K. Le Guin sized southern city, to discuss sustaining these things measurable? Are they visible? Ariana Jacob & Social Justice Sara Knox Hunter, Summer Forum for Inquiry experimental organizations outside of What does community look like if the people And most importantly, are they sustainable? + Exchange For this dinner discussion we will set our Jim Costanzo, Aaron Burr Society major metropolis. How do artist-run spaces, and places you once called home are Founder and Chief Researcher, Gabrielle disappearing? How do artists reject the Art gaze on a bouquet of topics, including This facilitated conversation will focus on After Ursula K. Le Guin’s recent passing, practitioners and projects existing as part Senza will host a lively dinner conversation World’s complicity with gentrification? Two coming to terms with downward mobility, the growth of the Commons and it’s different quotes from her texts and speeches of a larger experimental field but positioned and participatory investigation into the lifelong New York City artists + community questioning progress and progressiveness manifestations around the world. Social proliferated online, spinning into a near- outside of major art centers thrive? phenomenon of invisible things. During this session we will talk through organizers, Catherine Feliz and Sonia as goals, resisting self-improvement justice movements involving worker coops, immersive pulsing chorus singing out PS Kitchen Louise Davis, lead a conversation starting schemes, dealing with the shame of never community land trusts and other forms of fragmented dreams for this world. We need challenges, discuss ideas, share solutions from their respective practices and share becoming what we thought an adult was collective ownership are often described as nourishment for the dreamwork to be done. and collaboratively articulate the values of tactics for resistance. Come join us for food, supposed to be, and continuing to believe part of the Commons. This is the antithesis Let’s gather over a meal and recite (from engaging communities in all directions. laughs, and tears as we exchange 2 cents in justice even as we see that the arc of of a market economy that is based on memory, if possible) our favorite Ursula Dumpling Galaxy on how we sustain our connection to home. history is not bending in that direction constant growth and the maximization of K. Le Guin quotes to each other. This at the moment. We will approach all this in profits. The question is can sustainability be visionary’s words will surely generate a Sweet Science bite size chunks and see what we are achieved through hyper-local, community special conversation. able to digest. production and direct democracy. Cape House Radio Free Brooklyn: Balancing Forrest Point Seva Indian Cuisine Sustainability, Responsibility and Sustaining Our Movements Freedom Gender Justice & Abolition Decolonize This Place / MTL+ Radio Free Brooklyn Juana Peralta & Kimberly Mckenzie, Sylvia This facilitated conversation will center Radio Free Brooklyn is a community Rivera Law Project around the following questions: What can be organization that produces radio How do we center TGNCI liberation in done in the city to sustain our movements programming ranging from storytelling to the fight for abolition? Staff & collective and each other? What are strategic actions local politics and music hosted by local members of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project beyond our issue silos and practice of artists, musicians and activists, representing facilitate a dialogue about centering TGNCI protests and rallies? How do we reorient the diversity of Brooklyn communities. Its folks that are incarcerated in the struggle ourselves to see and create decolonial infrastructure is self-sustaining through for liberation. Grounding on practices that spaces and formations in the city? How do dues, partnerships, donations and volunteer lift up the art, writing, and movement work we translate “becoming ungovernable” into efforts. The balance between structure, of SRLP’s members behind the wall. SRLP concrete action? And what is the role of the responsibility and freedom are at the core of will share strategies and resources on how artist, the gallery, and the museum today? Radio Free Brooklyn’s philosophy, and will to support TGNCI people on the inside and Tortilleria Nixtamal be the topic of this discussion. how to movement build through art and Radio Free Brooklyn writing to support abolition. Cheryl’s Global Soul

26 27 Sunday Parallel Sessions Sunday, May 13 Parallel Sessions Exploring, Revealing, and Walking Tour: Art, Ecology, Through the Stories of five Healing: Art and Watersheds & Spatial Justice in Flushing immigrants - New New Yorkers Date After Mel Chin’s Featured Presentation, OE offers panels, Sarah Kavage and Vaughn Bell Meadows Corona Park Mentoring Program More than ever before, artists are Sam Holleran New New Yorkers Mentoring Program presentations and workshops take place concurrently. During this session, the audience will learn Sunday, May 13 reconnecting people with their local This tour will explore the potential for how NNY Mentoring Program helped five Once these programs have ended, please join us for a watersheds and revealing the largely hidden inclusive approaches to community artists to create high quality projects by Locations interface between the natural world and decision-making in parks planning, and dinner and party at Flux Factory. expanding concepts, receiving training our water supply. Examples show artists the role of creative interventions. Through on technical skills and/or resources, while Queens Museum creating this work in many ways, with a this signature Queens site—a World’s encouraged throughout the creative process. range of funders and collaborators. There Fairground turned park and testament to The program involved professional advice New York Hall of is a growing need for current and future Jetsons-era optimism—we will examine the through one on one mentorship offered practitioners to build and intentionally history of civic green spaces with a look at Science (NYSCI) by professional artists. Projects explored critique this practice. This workshop will mega events, urban renewal, privatization, themes such as Cultural Revolution in be structured as an open, conversational and DIY reclamation. Additionally, we Immigrant Movement China, search for roots, identity, and social discussion among participants and as a will discuss the design process for park justice. International sharing session for those interested in the improvements and the mechanisms by practice of working in watersheds. which they are funded. + NYC Watershed Model, 1st floor, The Panorama of the City of New York, Queens Museum Sunday, May 13 Parallel Sessions Queens Museum All that you touch you change: The Attention Economy & The Power of Time: Social creating a community-led AIR 12:00 – 1:00pm water and food distribution and the rituals guides in imagining new urban systems/ Cultural Capitalism of the White Practice Eco Artists of a Certain program involved with domestic sustenance. Two ecologies. The Queens Museum’s Savior Art Market Age The Intergenerational Community Arts projects will be discussed that overlap with surrounding landscape serves as a site IMI Corona: The Monstritx Artists Without a Cause: Diana Arce and Linda Weintraub, Betsy Damon, Lillian Ball, Council contemporary issues of agriculture, farming, for applied fieldwork where participants Justicierx Nine Yamamoto-Masson in absentia Wendy Brawer, Aviva Rahmani, and Bonnie The Intergenerational Community Arts water and how the ceramic medium plays a will engage in EPA’s embodied scientist Milton X. Trujillo and Yessica Martinez Ora Sherk Council (ICAC) program is a model for unique role in an engaged dialogue about training for cultivating plant-human relations This session is first a presentation, community-led decision making in the arts. Five pioneers of ecologically and socially The Monstritx Justicierx (Justice Monster) sustainability. and interspecies alliances. Tactics include then discussion, about the pervasive, Hear from: an ICAC member on building engaged art present one social practice/ is the symbol for the IMI Corona Justice wild plant unmapping, radical care sitting, unadressed privileges that form the very community through practice, the lead artist eco art project created before 1990, and in Schools campaign. Each part of the + and creating embodied scores for a world premise of “socially engaged art” in on the selection process and proposed Germany since the “beginning” of the one project created since 2010. These Monstritx symbolizes one of our demands: beyond human. project, and the organizational partners language justice, more resources, “refugee crisis” in 2015. presentations will be followed by a Lab 1, Lower Level, on how this work has challenged their From Here to There: Picture discussion among the panelists comparing restorative justice and our own vision. We New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) As B/PoC immigrant artists/activists in institutions. We’ll close with a discussion will show a video that documents 6 months Stories of Refugee Women’s Lives ‘then’ and ‘now’ of social practice art. Topics Shira Walinsky, Melissa Fogg, Megan Voeller, Berlin, we have observed the intensification about how this model might apply to other of collective community work in Corona, Artistic Intervention in the Legal include shifts in thematic focus, public and Caroline Christianson of the white saviour artist industrial partnerships between arts organizations Queens led by the IMI Corona Community Contract interface, financial support, professional Southeast by Southeast, a project of complex and analysed its financial art and NYCHA-based community centers. Council and other members from the recognition, and opportunity. Philadelphia Mural Arts, is a cultural hub Stephanie Mercedes and John R. Wierzbicki economy, in which cultural institutions are Unisphere Gallery, 2nd floor, Queens Museum community, followed by an open discussion. Theater, 2nd floor, Queens Museum programmed with mural workshops, art How can the most basic legal exchange catalysts&profiteers. “Affective discharge” Immigrant Movement International (IMI) is thus an art commodity, circulated only education, ESL and other social services - The Contract - be reinvigorated to create The Power of Three: Timelines for is located 1 mile away from The Queens among the privileged, with marginalised to benefit South Philadelphia’s refugee long term rather than short term ‘change’ Sustainable Community-Engaged Museum. populations. These populations experience Others as mere projection screen and art 2:10 – 2:55pm models for: activists, artists and social Projects Immigrant Movement International elevated risk to physical and mental health entrepreneurs. The presentation will outline material. Ryan Dennis, Isis Ferguson, La Keisha Leek, 108-59 Roosevelt Avenue as a result of resettlement. The presentation how individuals in the past have used WE ARE FAMILY FC + and Tricia Van Eck Corona, NY 11368 offers a history of SExSE and discussion of contracts to secure sustainable social Jessie McLaughlin how photo elicitation has been used at the change. Alternative contract models used by This panel will discuss creating meaningful IMI is not ADA accessible. No Way to Do This Right WE ARE FAMILY FC is a participatory and lasting community-engaged projects The entrance is located at the top of 5 stairs hub space to understand community needs artists will be presented so that institutions, Roger Peet workshop aimed at exploring the possible over time. Focusing on the development and develop programs. museums, non-for profits and individual Drawing on art & conservation work in relationships between queerness, sport of four projects of varying scale and form, and arts practice. Over 45mins, participants Education Studio B, 2nd floor, Queens change makers can reconsider the role of DR Congo, this talk will examine how all have the commonality of a three-year will be given the opportunity to explore Museum the law in sustainable activism. contradictory priorities for the natural starting timeframe; ranging from research and reflect on queerness using various 12:30 – 2:00pm Lab 2, Lower Level, world combat each other through crises periods to pilot phases. Each panelist will research materials and tools such as Plant Talk Human Talk: New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) economic, familial and military, and dig into A Story of Sustenance - The share their individual projects and will video, music, sports equipment and gentle An EPA Training for the Beginning a dark and personal history of colonialism. non-competitive physical exercises. This collectively discuss the challenges and Ceramic Object as Conduit for of the World It will address the contradictions of working workshop is open to everyone of any ability, bright moments through the inception, Engagement Environmental Performance Agency (andrea within state structures in a failed state, the especially those who identify as queer. Anna Metcalfe and Holly Hanessian haenggi, Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons, planning periods, relationship building, possibilities of community theater and Queens Museum Front Lawn Catherine Grau) activation, and finding a sustainable rhythm. Agriculture, food, water and ceramics have comedy in the far forest, and ramifications had an interconnected history. Today these Plant Talk Human Talk explores the of crime and treason on the management of Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, New York Hall of human productions are revisited through the biocultural possibility of spontaneous urban foreign ideas in a wild meat economy. Science (NYSCI)m lens of environmental effects on access to plants (aka weeds) as collaborators and Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing, 1st floor, Queens Museum 28 29 Sunday, May 13 Parallel Sessions Parties & Projects 3:00 – 4:30pm Symphony for a Broken Orchestra The Development of Creek College; Robert Blackson Notes from the Field Collective Futures Workshop Creek College There are over 1,000 broken instruments Salome Asega and Melanie Crean owned by Philadelphia’s public schools Creek College is a project bridging art and environmental conservation. Dates Transformative acts of change are made possible, in part, Collective Futures is a speculative design and no budget to fix them. Symphony for We offer a range of art classes and workshop, created with the belief that new a Broken Orchestra has united hundreds experiences in exchange for aid in through accessible blueprints of the utopias we strive for. of Philadelphia musicians and audiences Friday, May 11 world views begin with popular imagining. the restoration of watersheds. Art Any sustainable politics of dissent, is deeply indebted to The session involves participants interested in support of music education by playing participation becomes a catalyst for Saturday, May 12 in creative activism, education, art, design a composition written specifically for the stewardship. At OE we ask, how can artists Sunday, May 13 disruptions of collective joy. Join us as we close each day and resilience, collectively designing a sounds these broken instruments can make. make the broadest impact in encouraging scenario, event or social system which After the performance instrument repair personal engagement with sustainable of OE 2018 with celebrations co-hosted by femme-centric, instantiates a future they would like to professionals will repair all of the fixable practices? Contemplating the role of art Locations queer-inclusive nightlife organizers from across NYC. see. Work involves the group developing instruments and return them to the public in both concept and practice of sustainability, scenarios prompted by three different schools they came from in the fall of 2018. we will highlight successes and failures that Various Locations have aided us along the way. design methodologies and discussing Artists’ projects enliven this year’s conference with actionable steps to follow. + + provocative and playful interventions. These activations Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing, 1st floor, Plantón Móvil: Moving-With to Queens Museum Practice Community Radicle Engagement: Seeds, expand beyond the traditional conference model add to Art and Storytelling Transforming Wastescape into Lucia Monge our collective envisioning of sustainability. Katerie Gladdys and Anna Prizzia Landscape: A Framework for Art Plantón Móvil is a participatory performance Freshkills Park: Field R/D that has happened yearly since 2010. Seeds are agents of exchange and People and plants come together as a expressions of community, culture and place. Bronx, Queens Parties & Projects Freshkills Park: Field R/D is a project to Art give us metaphors to better understand “walking forest” to advocate for accessible develop a visionary, community-responsive and connect with societal issues. Katerie public green spaces as a basic right, to residency program for the former NYC Gladdys and Anna Prizzia. will discuss Parties Projects landfill. Artists work on site in flexible, promote the value of native species without their experiences with “Seed Cabinet,” an conjunction with the Open Engagement collaborative, long term engagements with stigmatizing “invasives,” and to recognize interactive exhibition of images, stories, Friday, 9:00pm – 12:00am SUSTAINABILITY conference. Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00pm plants as our living neighbors in the city. seeds, and community food systems. We the landscape as it develops from landfill to Friday Night Party co-hosted by Official drink sponsor for the event is TEEN RAPID RESPONSE park over the next 25+ years. Co-organizers To walk-with plants is a way to practice will then facilitate a discussion of how the Bronx Museum, DJ Treej, and COLLECTING TASKFORCE community that includes life-forms beyond storytelling can inspire the public to cultivate Kombrewcha, the first hard kombucha that and participating artists will illustrate the Maker Park Radio in real time human. a personal relationship with local agriculture. allows you to socialize without compromise. history and flows of waste and recycling in Bronx Museum and Maker Park Radio Brooklyn Children’s Museum and Queens Teens Theater, 2nd floor, Queens Museum Education Studio B, 2nd floor, Queens Museum NYC on the Panorama. Free with Open Engagement Following a robust day of programming, The Brooklyn Children’s Museum has The Panorama of the City of New York, Conference Pass Centering Community and we will cut loose with sounds and visuals launched a TEEN RAPID RESPONSE Queens Museum General Admission $5 at the door Voices: Art Against Erasure and Beyond the Walls: by DJ Treej in the main room and terrace COLLECTING TASKFORCE. Teens have Displacement in Chinatown Developing Agency vibes from Maker Park’s contributing DJ, Knockdown Center gone out into the community and gathered 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Part of the Solution Chinatown Art Brigade, The W.O.W. Project, Liz Slagus, Jan Mun, Brooke Singer, Raidience. Bronx-based culinary visionaries objects they feel are important enough to be Iris Anna Regn and Mayen Alcantara, and Melissa Liu (moderator) Sara Perl Egendorf, Sahery Arain, and Empanology and Born Juice will craft included in BCM’s collection for perpetuity. Sunday, 7:00pm – 12:00am Los Angeles Country Arts Commission Cara Lambrento refreshments to be sold through Fountain Throughout the day, they will be using the Members and collaborators from Manhattan Wrap Party at Flux Factory Civic Art Program House, the museum’s in-house cafe that specific site of the conference, museum and Chinatown-based groups Chinatown Tired of environmentally-focused exhibits aims to serve good food as well as mental Party Noire, Xhoir and DJ Latham park to engage with the public and conduct In Part of the Solution: YES to ADU, Art Brigade and The W.O.W Project will and one-time collaborations? We need sustained action, multi-pronged involvement, health resources to the Bronx community. oin us for a tender turn up, as we sing and rapid response collecting in real time. the Civic Art program coalesces the discuss how they build community and broad distribution, and wider/flexible dance our farewells - to each other and interests of many departments in the center the voices of local residents using Free with Open Engagement Queens Museum Galleries collaborations. Enter: the community-based County around Affordable Housing Strategy Conference Pass to Open Engagement. OE staff will be creative practices and publicly accessible platforms of artists, Jan Mun and Brooke Saturday & Sunday, 11:30am – 12:30pm F4 of the Homeless Initiative to design performing (Jade, Xhoir), DJing (Latham) participatory art. Both collectives have been The Bronx Museum of the Arts Singer. Join Liz Slagus, for a conversation and working the bar (Rimona and Kyra). Meet the Artists of The Queens a framework, which invites the creative addressing the racial, social, and economic with current NYSCI Designers-in-Residence, And our lovely buddies from last year’s Museum Studio Program community to find balanced approaches inequities their communities continue to face, Brooke and Jan, and their long-term Saturday, Doors, 9pm – 1am conference, Party Noire will carry us into the to building cities and towns. The program such as gentrification and cultural erasure, partners. Explore models that foster agency Performances, 10pm The Queens Museum Studio Program is future with vibes galore. Get there on the promotes the development of Accessory while using art to envision and build toward and promote working with, not against one Knockdown Center x Open one of very few to be embedded within early side for a free hosted dinner! Dwelling Units- ADU’s- by gathering ideas future solidarity and resilience. another toward environmental/social justice. Engagement : Discwoman a US museum. The program offers that can be referenced as a resource to Free with Open Engagement Unisphere Gallery, 2nd floor, Queens Museum Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, New York Hall of Showcase with BEARCAT highly subsidized, long-term studios for generate solutions related to new affordable Science (NYSCI) and Riobamba and a live Conference Pass development of new work on-site, and housing typologies. performance by Lykanthea Flux Factory creates a community of artists. You are 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101 invited to meet our current artists-in- + Knockdown Center x Open Engagement residence and our Queens College MFA Knockdown Center and Open Engagement student group (Social Practice Queens/ present an evening of performances SPQ) during the lunch break on May 12th and dancing with opening act Lykanthea and May 13th. followed by a Discwoman showcase with BEARCAT and Riobamba in Studio Triangle, Artists Studio Wing 1st Floor, Queens Musuem 30 31 Queens Projects Open Platform Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 4:00pm Margaretha Haughwout, Cody Ann Herrmann, crossroads, which was once a key point in Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Futures and Julian Phillips the trading route for the Six Nations. Five Field Station members of the Six Nations will host the Trees of Tomorrow is a guided, speculative event and share remarks on current climate Civic Art Lab / GREENSPACENYC tour of the trees of Flushing, Queens — justice conflicts in the region. Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Futures Field exposing the ways trees shape and are Date Open Platform has been designed as a space in the See our website for additional instructions on Station explores both utopian and dystopian shaped by its neighborhoods, economies, how to access this event. conference to facilitate the sharing of many ideas, variations of “sustainable futures” through and soils; a self-guided tour publication; Saturday, May 12 a micro-exhibition, short demonstrations, and a speculative workstation where, Broadway-Lafayette St. Station, strategies, projects, actions, and efforts within the field. takeaway tool kits, and pamphlets created in collaboration with teens from John Bowne Lower Mezzanine Level Sunday, May 13 by members of the collaborative. Civic High School, ToT collapses the nature/ Conference goers are encouraged to drop in and out Art Lab is a volunteer-led project created society divide through stories, art 7:00 - 8:30pm and cultivation of Flushing’s trees. ToT Location at their leisure throughout the weekend. Open Platform by GREENSPACENYC that takes the At The Table form of an annual storefront laboratory asks how to empower natural/cultural No Longer Empty presentations are ten minutes long with five minutes for community exhibitions, experiments, futures that enable solidarity and survival Main Atrium, First Floor, workshops, and symposiums in art, design, across species. As part of Mel Chin’s All Over the Place, No for Q&A with the audience. Open Platform presentations Longer Empty (NLE) invites audiences to Queens Museum and sustainability. Tours begin at 12:30, 2:00, and 4:00pm. a dinner and discussion with indigenous are free and open to the public. Werwaiss Family Gallery, 2nd Floor, Queens Museum Front Lawn cultural bearers at Kenkeleba House. The Queens Museum event, co-hosted by American Indian

Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) and NLE, is Saturday, May 12 Open Platform Saturday & Sunday, Ongoing developed as a follow-up conversation to Saturday, 12:00 – 4:00pm Bad at Sports Live @ OE the rededication ceremony of Signal, an ArtSit: Assistive device for use Duncan Mackenzie, Brian Andrews, Dana installation developed in collaboration by families and caregivers in Bassett, Ryan Peter Miller, Richard Holland, with Peter Jemison (Heron Clan-Seneca) Saturday 1:10 – 1:25pm 1:50 – 2:05pm museums. Patricia Maloney, Thomas Sanford, Amanda and members of the Iroquois Six Nations Sculptures That Talk Project HEARD: Research, Browder, and Randall Szott 12:30 – 12:45pm Erin Turner and Vansler Nosie Tech, & Art for Endangered Home Affairs Art Collective (Haudenosaunee). Dinner will be inspired by Bad at Sports is delighted to again partner indigenous contributions to the culinary arts. Outdoor School: Artist Talk by ‘Sculptures that Talk’ is a collaborative Environmental Activists Responding to the question “Does Your with Open Engagement to broadcast and Diane Borsato artwork and public sculpture that promotes Adrien Tofighi Gallery, Museum, Conference Center or Pre-registration required.See our website record presenter interviews throughout the Diane Borsato engagement and direct action. Imagery Festival Provide Childcare?,” posed by their for additional instructions on how to access The Harbor for Environmental Activists duration of the conference. OE interviews this event. Award-winning Toronto-based artist Diane as a material becomes a site in itself and Rights Defenders (Project HEARD) 2015 work And Everything Else, Home will be available as a podcast following Bad to promote a conversation about the Affairs designed an assistive device for use Borsato will show and discuss recent is a platform created to improve the at Sports’ live radio program in Queens. relationship to the land of Oak Flat, Arizona, understanding and security of rural and by families and caregivers in museum and social and ecologically themed projects sacred to the San Carlos Apache in a past, environmental rights defenders. gallery settings. This prototype offers a On View at the commissioned by galleries and museums. present, and future oriented manner, as well The purpose of this session is to explore possible solution to expand access to those Knockdown Center Projects include: YOUR TEMPER, MY Saturday & Sunday, Ongoing as a broader conversation about why it is potential actions that can help push who might be otherwise disinclined to bring WEATHER, ALL THE NAMES FOR The Abortion Herb Garden EVERYTHING, and the recent performance important to protect our public lands as a the project from a strictly resource- their children to a museums, festivals, and April 21 – June 17, 2018 for Creative Time : CLOUD PARTY. Each whole. The Apache Stronghold and Social rich database to a pro-active space for other art events. Landon Newton The Book of Everyday Instruction of the socially-engaged and educational Practice Queens will present on Oak Flat. innovative artists, activists, technologists, Chloë Bass Gallery 2, 1st Floor, Queens Museum The Abortion Herb Garden is a site works variously involve the collaboration of and researchers to work with organizations responsive pop-up garden installation Bass’ eight-chapter investigation of museum patrons, beekeepers, naturalists, 1:30 – 1:45pm and companies in less traditional and comprised entirely of abortifacient plants one-on-one social interaction will Indigenous scholars, botany experts and How Far: Prison & Land Use more transformative manners. and herbs. Abortifacients are plants and Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 4:00pm be exhibited for the first time in its entirety many others. herbs that can be used for birth control Workshop Tote Bag Intervention with Mobile within the galleries and include interventions and/or abortion. The garden will function Sheena Hoszko 2:10 – 2:25pm Print Power in response to Knockdown Center’s 12:50 – 1:05pm as a site for potting demonstrations, seed How Far: Prison & Land Use Workshop The Power Move public spaces. Amazonas Riverine Program Mobile Print Power packets, plant id booklets, and hands-on examines how prisons sites are intrinsically The Jumping Janes workshops that serve to promote and 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Beatriz Escobar linked with resource extraction. Through Mobile Print Power (MPP) invites OE Inspired by Jane Fonda, The Jumping expand upon the knowledge surrounding http://knockdown.center DIY mapping practices, workshop attendees to take part in a tote bag The Amazonas Riverine Program seeks Janes want to get people up and moving participants will link water supply maps with intervention. MPP, is a multi-generational herbal abortion. to foster an ecology of knowledges by and stimulate their creative problem collective based in Corona, Queens. MPP collaborating with schools in the remote prisons close and far. Queens Museum Front Lawn Treatment: The Plan for Rain solving. To encourage both activist and will have a series of conversational prompts Brazilian Amazon, where communities active audience participation, The Jumping that attendees can silkscreen onto their OE Nicholas O’Brien are looking for alternative alliances as they Janes offer a 7-minute choreographed resist mechanisms of control imposed tote bags. MPP collaborated with several Sunday, 6:30 – 7:30pm A project by Nicholas O’Brien that rethinks sequence of power moves. The sequence local community organizations to create the on them in the name of development. practices both utilitarian movement skills Signal Re-dedication the NYC Department of Environmental The project initiators will discuss their prompts beginning with the question, “What and strength training to prepare participants No Longer Empty, Mel Chin, and G. Peter Protection’s (DEP) stormwater collection collaboration with the Boas Novas School, does a community of trust, compassion, for real-life situations. Jemison (Heron Clan-Seneca) program by focusing on soil biodiversity, where a communal kitchen was built and inclusion look like and how do we build transparency, maintenance, and its impact with students and parents. The presentation As part of Mel Chin’s All Over the Place, relationships to make that real?” on citizens. Through a series of animations, will include a critical discussion of the No Longer Empty (NLE) invites audiences Queens Museum Front Lawn sculptures, and public programs, O’Brien chosen approach. to a rededication ceremony of Signal, an questions how the DEP’s plan ignores the installation developed in collaboration human element in undertaking large-scale with Peter Jemison (Heron Clan-Seneca) Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00pm urban infrastructure projects. and members of the Iroquois Six Nations Trees of Tomorrow: A Speculative (Haudenosaunee). Signal draws upon 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Tour and Workstation the history of the Broadway-Lafayette http://knockdown.center

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2:30 – 2:45pm 3:30 – 3:45pm 4:50 – 5:00pm 1:30 – 1:45pm 2:50 – 3:05pm 3:50 – 4:05pm El Recreo: A Place to Treat Fruit Futures Initiative Gary- Civic This Lane Doesn’t Exist Environmental Harassment We the News Failure? Art Schools Working in Restaurant Workers Experiments in Long Time Robin Lambert Training Collaboration with Lizania Cruz Creative Communities Manuel Molina Martagon Frances Whitehead In “The only thing I know for sure is while I t.e.j.a.s. We the News is a newsstand that distributes Jaclyn Jacunski El Recreo, hosted during May 2018 at Fruit Futures Initiative Gary is a series am looking for you, you are looking for me” Environmental Justice Group and sells immigrant-focused publications Can art schools working in communities Recess in Brooklyn, is a project that of linked, civic, agri+cultural projects two people are moved to a city for 28 days To “make the invisible visible” for Texas and products. It features zines that archive commit to long-term projects creating provides a physical space for restaurant that initiate a new small fruit culture and and tasked to find the other, without clues or Environmental Advocacy Services, our stories and conversations shared by black sustainable programming with community workers to hang out and relax, eat and economy in Gary, IN with multipurpose the internet. The work explores how we cope group is working to develop Environmental immigrants and first-generation Americans needs and timelines? What ways can art unwind. With good food, purposely designed landscapes that sustain, engage and with the human desire to connect & build Harassment Training. Discussion during a series of story circles in Brooklyn, schools address civic goals with long-term, programs and activities, El Recreo wants to educate the public.The Remediation relationships. In the end, the ephemera & of the successes and challenges of New York. The project is a collaboration successful, sited cultural outcomes in which be a place for connection of different views Arboretum reboots urban soils; The Climate detritus created is all that remains. This Lane environmentally focused artist/activist with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration village value overrides art school value. and experiences that come from working in Corridor, transforms the streetscape into a Doesn’t Exist is a film project founded on the collaboration in Houston, where art is funded (BAJI) and it started with the support of The How do teaching artists creatively and the food industry. Lunch is free for restaurant climate visualization; and The Community belief that documenting a new iteration of by the oil industry. Laundromat Project. ethically work within spring and fall semester workers that visit the project. Lab Orchard hosts citizen scientists who this project can make Social Practice more calendars while also acknowledging For schedule and details: explore the culture of favorite and forgotten accessible. complex lives, structures and authentic www.recessart.org/manuelmolinamartagon- small fruits for a resilient future. 1:50 – 2:05pm relationships- because trust takes time. elrecreo/ Energy Well Spent: Complexity 3:10 – 3:25pm

3:50 – 4:05pm Sunday and Complicity in Ecologic Bearded Flamingos: on ‘Passing’, Social Impact Art & Design Production ‘Migration’ and ‘Camouflage’ 4:10 – 4:25pm 2:50 – 3:05pm 12:30 – 12:45pm Grace Lynne Haynes Keeley Haftner Falak Vasa How Can Artists Be Friends of Digital Activism: Black Bodies CONSUME(s) ME Recovery? Garbage is a state, not an object, and states ‘Bearded Flamingos’ is a visual art and Reclaiming Public Spaces Grace Lynne Haynes is a LA based social Cat Tyc Daniel Totten impact artist who will be discussing how we change. But phase transitions require energy writing project, an exploration of strategies of Gregory King CONSUME (s) ME is a relational can utilize art and design as a way to create expenditure. In the studio, Haftner employs survival (passing, migration and camouflage) Since his brother’s heroin overdose in This curating this virtual space of interactive equity and raise awareness. She will discuss performance project that addresses numerous transformational processes: through embodiment and recitation. How July 2016, Daniel Totten has been trying installations, and digital portraits, threads the intersection between social impact and the ethical problems surrounding textile “recycling” trash via 3D printing, glassmithing, can the hegemonic conditions that center to understand his role as an artist and a linear/ familiar narrative between artists design, and how the two can be formed to production, consumption, and our metallurgy, and lapidary methods, among cisgendered heterosexual white men be community member within his hometown of of color who continue to work in white create maximum impact in underrepresented relationship to what we wear as well as how others. Through her work, she will discuss reinvented (rather than reversed) to offer Red Hook, NY (Dutchess County). In this spaces... uncomfortable spaces, and whose communities. Grace will also be showcasing varying feminisms maintain patriarchy and the complexity and complicity of using space to the augmented self, the bearded presentation he’ll share his recent efforts works have sometimes been marginalized, the process behind her social impact art capitalism. energy to salvage the material exiles of our flamingo? How can such a reinvention, such of creating a support network and arts misinterpreted, and gravely misunderstood. practice and how she develops her designs failing human systems, and the “hopeful an augmentation be sustained? mentoring program for young adults and his Considering the body as a contested site, and illustrations. 12:50 – 1:05pm nihilism” required for the task. newly informed life practices. ~bearded flamingos exist~bearded we invited a wide range of artists to submit a Human Hotel variety of work with digital mediums as tools 2:10 – 2:25pm flamingos think they’re the shit~bearded 4:10 – 4:25pm Martin Rosengaard of resistance. Swale: Workarounds and Coalition flamingos are~ 4:30 – 4:45pm Where You At? Art, Ecology and Human Hotel is a curated travel community Building for Public Food 3:30 – 3:45pm Toast Ale: Fighting food waste one Restoring Connection to Place 3:10 – 2:25pm for artists and creatives organized as a Leenda Bonilla, Amanda McDonald SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing – beer at a time Bending the River Back Brad Kik social sculpture and run by the Danish Crowley, Mary Mattingly, Marisa Prefer, A Year in Appalachia collective behind the Wooloo.org open call Karen Kuhn The industrial economy is both a displacer and Dariella Rodriguez Francesca Fiore and Hillary Wagner Into the City platform. Artist and Wooloo/Human Hotel co- and an eraser, intent on creating a single Swale is an experiential and co-educational Karen Kuhn, head of Business Lou Pesce, Metabolic Studio founder Martin Rosengaard will talk on their SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing is an overarching narrative to replace the edible landscape on a barge that utilizes ongoing collaboration between artists Development, will discuss how Toast Ale is This year, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic long-term collaboration with OE, the largely rich mosaic of stories binding people in marine common law to circumvent public Francesca Fiore and Hillary Wagner and fighting food waste through their delicious Studio will break ground on Bending the unused potential for social-engegement in membership with each other and the land. land laws in New York. A public space, the rural Appalachian community of Bethel, craft beer, which is brewed in New York River Back Into the City. This will begin travel and tourism - and invite to directly Artists have the power to resist, by engaging people visit Swale to pick fresh, healthy Ohio. Since the 2016 presidential election, the process of diverting water from the LA participate in their upcoming projects during using surplus loaves of bread from local with these mosaic stories. Art institutions are perennial foods for free, strengthening Appalachia has come to the fore in American River through a wetland and cleaning facility uniquely positioned to become thoughtful Frieze NYC this fall. bakeries that would have gone to waste. stewardship and local common spaces. political discourse. Currently one year into at the Metabolic Studio. The water will be “centers” that foster the relationship between Plus, 100% of their profits go to charities their project, the artists will reflect on the distributed through subterranean irrigation to artists, community and these tens of 1:10 – 1:25pm tackling food waste. A true Rev-Ale-ution! 2:30 – 2:45pm new forms socially engaged praxis can and the Los Angeles State Historic Park and the thousands of stories. Between the Earth and must take when carried out in the context of future Albion River Park. Bending the River Gaza (a)live – Live Streaming rural America. Back Into the City culminates Lauren Bon’s the Sky: Intergenerational and Interaction 4:30 – 4:45pm Interactions of Visibility cycle of works reconnecting the LA River to MakerPark Radio Marie Skeie and Motaz al Habbash it’s floodplain. Charlie Michaels and Anne Mondro Gaza is known as the largest open prison Founders: Kristin Wallace and Tom Ferrie Between the Earth and the Sky: in the world. There are no airports, open Maker Park Radio is a streaming community Intergenerational Interactions of Visibility borders or seaport, no ways to get in or out. radio station on the north shore of Staten brings together youth and older adults How does artists find some space for artistic Island, NYC. Started in July of 2017, Maker living with memory loss to build respect expression and freedom? Park Radio has over 75 volunteer DJs and compassion through art-making. and show hosts, and can be heard around Recognizing that young people represent Gaza (a)live is an artistic initiative to create the world. They have shows that feature the next generation of professionals and a social meeting space were people outside disco, house, hip hop, metal, latin jazz leaders, the program increases youth Gaza can meet the artists from Gaza classical, indie, etc, as well as talk shows understanding of persons with dementia through presentations and live streaming. focusing on Urban farming, brewing, cooking, & builds facilitation skills. Older adults are It was first time presented in the EU Quarter the maker community, and literary shows in given opportunities to serve as mentors, in Brussels with a 7 hours streaming. Spanish and English. They are grassroots allowing for active participation in their radio aiming to bring communities together community. through a shared love of music and the arts. They can be found on www.MakerParkRadio. nyc and heard on the TuneIn app. 34 35 Trainings 2018 Featured Presenters

Date These trainings are offered to provide attendees Saturday, May 12 with skills and tools to help better address creative Sunday, May 13 work at the complex intersection of art and social justice, with skill-sharing opportunities from professional Location facilitators for practicing artists, administrators and New York Hall of activists to use in the field. Trainings have limited capacity; Science (NYSCI) pre-registration online is highly recommended.

Lucy Lippard Lucy R. Lippard is a writer/activist/sometime curator, author of 24 books on contemporary art activism, feminism, place, photography, archaeology, and land use. Most recently: Saturday, May 12 & Sunday, May 13 Trainings Mel Chin Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Mel Chin, from Houston, Texas, is known Politics and Art in the Changing West (2014), for the broad range of approaches in his art, Time and Time Again (on Chaco and Mesa Saturday Sunday including works that require multi-disciplinary, Verde, with photographer Peter Goin) and collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 2:00 – 4:00pm 2:00 – 4:00pm 2:00 – 4:00pm cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. 1250-1782,( 2010) as well as Mixed Blessings: Collaborating Across Age Groups - Decolonization and Becoming an Access Ambassador: He developed Revival Field (1989-ongoing), New Art in a Multicultural America (1990) and Duke SPL & Usdan Fostering Anti-Oppressive Cultural Institutions a project that pioneered the field of “green The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Pedro Lasch, Lauren Brandt Schloss, Jillian Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon Communities remediation,” the use of plants to remove toxic, Multicentered Society (1997). Recipient of nine Greenberg, Lindsay Smilow, and Nate Koch Rebirth Garments - Sky Cubacub The moment is overdue for museums heavy metals from the soil. A current project, honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Many socially engaged artists care for and Alison Kopit to acknowledge how and why they have Fundred Dollar Bill/Operation Paydirt, focuses and a Lannan Grant, among other awards, bridging age groups through collaborations, been built on occupied land and filled on national awareness and prevention of Rebirth Garments facilitates an Access she lives off the grid in rural New Mexico, but institutions that work with broad age with plundered objects. Contemporary art childhood lead-poisoning through art-making. Ambassador workshop where participants where for 20 years she has edited the monthly Paul Ramírez Jonas ranges are rarely open to such work. institutions can no longer disregard well- Mel is also well known for his iconic sculptures develop tools to foster anti-oppressive documented evidence about the role they community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo. Paul Ramírez Jonas selected solo exhibitions ‘Dreaming in the Woods’ is a three-year and installations, works that often address the collaboration by artist Pedro Lasch and and accessible spaces. The interactive play in helping to elevate local rents and include The New Museum, Pinacoteca do importance of memory and collective identity, Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, including curriculum includes terminology and basic displace residential populations. Details Estado, Sao Paulo; The Aldrich Contemporary and for inserting art into unlikely places, over 1,500 participants ages 4-18 each year. information about access and disability, surrounding the recent Brooklyn Museum Museum, Connecticut; The Blanton Museum, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, Join Lasch, Usdan staff, and producer Nate creative problem-solving, coalition-building curatorial hires are only a gateway to Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and broader structural changes desired today. and even popular television, investigating Koch, to learn what is at stake, share (y)our opportunities, and action planning. This Cornerhouse (UK). Selected group exhibitions experiences, and develop models for such What are necessary steps to decolonize our how art can provoke greater social awareness workshop is suitable for community at P.S.1 (NYC); the Brooklyn Museum; The large or small scale collaborations. institutions? and responsibility. organizers, museum workers, performance Whitechapel (UK); Irish Museum of Modern Lab 1, Lower Level, Lab 1, Lower Level, venues, and others who are interested in Art (Ireland); The New Museum (NYC); and New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) learning how to infuse cultural spaces with Kunsthaus Zurich. He participated in the 1st accessibility. Johannesburg Biennale; 1st Seoul Biennial; 6th Viscusi Gallery, Upper Level, Shanghai Biennial; 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) 53rd Venice Biennial and 7th and 10th Bienal do Mercosul. The Contemporary Art Museum

Houston presented a 25 year survey of his work in 2017. He is an Associate Professor at Hunter Laura Raicovich College, CUNY. Laura Raichovich is a writer and art worker based in New York City. Until recently she served as Director of the Queens Museum, and is currently co-curating (with Manon Slome) ‘Mel Chin: All Over the Place’ which opens this spring at various sites across New York City. Raicovich’s recent books include, as author, At the Lightning Field (Coffee House Press, 2017) and as co-editor, Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production (OR Books, 2017).

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E G an itinerant discussion-based Ariana Jacob makes artwork residency program. She lives that explores political and Elsewhere is a living museum, Ryan Gilliam is the Executive in Queens, NY. personal interdependence artist residency and learning Director of Fourth Arts Block Contributor Bios and disconnection through laboratory set inside a former (FABnyc) and Downtown Art. Amin Husain is co-founder of conversation. She currently thrift store. Elsewhere provides She is an artist, cultural producer, MTL, a collaboration that joins teaches in the Social Practice a platform for site-specific and organizer working with the research, aesthetics, organizing, MFA Program at Portland State experimentation, social action Lower East Side community for and action. As MTL, she founded University and is the Chair of and interdisciplinary the past three decades. G.U.L.F., the action arm of Bargaining for PSUFA Adjunct A A Blade of Grass is a hybrid arts Chance Ecologies is a REPOhistory and participated collaboration. Elsewhere Gulf Labor Artists Coalition, Faculty Union. organization that creates web framework for artworks and in Occupy Wall Street working explores the role of art in life, Strike Debt/Rolling Jubilee, Nickecia “Nick” Alder is creator and print media, engaging public research exploring un-designed, groups Strike Debt/Rolling work, play, and learning. H Direct Action Front for Palestine, K & editor-in-chief of Black Girl programs, and research about post-industrial ecosystems in Jubilee, the Commons and and most recently, Decolonize Fly Mag, and co-founder of Beatriz Escobar is an MFA Keeley Haftner is a Canadian Dan Kaminsky was born, raised, socially engaged art projects; New York City. Catherine Grau Occupy Museums. He lives This Place. Party Noire. She is a doctoral candidate born in Brazil and artist. She has exhibited and still lives in Brooklyn, New advocates for artists working in and Nathan Kensinger, co- in Brooklyn and teaches at candidate & researcher, & digital based in Berkeley. Her work internationally in the US, Canada, York. From Palestine to Chiapas the expanded field; and provides curators of the project, are both Pratt Institute. content creator & strategist, spans performance, installation and Europe at venues including Mexico, labor organizing to the direct financial support to artists. artists whose work investigates I engineering online communities Melanie Crean is an artist, and socially engaged art projects. MOCA Toronto, Transmediale environmental movement, he’s urban ecologies and the roles we and digital stories that celebrate Diane Borsato, (MFA Concordia, educator and filmmaker whose She is an educator and mentor Berlin, and the AIC Chicago. She Veroneque Ignace, a public been involved in organizing play in them. the complexities of Black women MA NYU) is a Toronto-based work explores how systems to youth (First Exposures, de received her BFA (2011) from health practitioner, Haitian efforts of one kind or another and girls. artist and professor who explores Rae Chardonnay specializes of power are represented in Young Museum) and co-chair of Mount Allison University and her feminist theorist, and throughout most of his adult social and experiential modes in the fields of: event planning, media, culture and technology. the DMC Latinx Committee MFA (2016) from SAIC. participatory arts researcher, life. He now runs the non-profit The American Folk Art Museum of learning, and has worked music curating, and performance Crean is an Assistant Professor at the Oakland Museum of CA. uses dance and writing to merge Social Justice Tours. is the premier institution devoted Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo closely with various practitioners art management. She began at Parsons School of Design, her passion for public heath and to the creative expressions of Environmental Justice Group Nation) is the Membership Brad Kik is the co-founder including artists, dancers, DJing in 2010 and was voted where she teaches courses community wellness. She seeks self-taught artists, past and is a group of artists and activists and Program Manager for the and co-director of Crosshatch and amateur naturalists. Chicago’s Best DJ in the on emerging media, social to impact social change using present. who were introduced through IAIA Museum of Contemporary Center for Art & Ecology. Brad’s www.dianeborsto.net Chicago Reader in 2016. Rae is engagement and visual culture. the arts by connecting spiritual Art Takes Action Houston’s Native Arts, in Santa Fe, New varied background—film study, American Indian Artists Inc. the Founder of Black Eutopia, a balance and self-understanding. BRIC is the leading presenter Creek College is an alternative Artist/Activist matchmaking Mexico. She has over three environmental activism, graphic (AMERINDA), established in community engagement pop-up of free cultural programming approach to traditional education event, organized by artist Carrie decades working in the field IMI Corona is a volunteer-led design, community organizing, 1987, is a community-based series and co-founder of Party in Brooklyn. We present and models. Part art project, part Schneider in 2017. of exhibition development and community space for alternative traditional music, ecology multi-arts organization that works Noire. incubate work by artists and school, it aims to generate arts management, focusing on education, composed by low and permaculture—plays a key to empower Native Americans, Environmental Performance media-makers who reflect the The Civic Art program provides collaborative engagement and to American Indian art. income, latinx and indigenous role in directing Crosshatch’s break down barriers and foster Agency, artist collective using diversity that surrounds us. BRIC leadership in developing high create a platform for challenging mixed-status migrant community work in the community. intercultural understanding and embodied/social practices to Pablo Helguera is an artist and House offers a media center, quality civic space by integrating conversations surrounding the from Corona, Queens. Since appreciation for Native culture advocate for the agency of all an educator based in NYC. La Gregory King received his MFA contemporary art galleries, artists into planning and design state of our environment. 2013 IMI Corona has been through its arts programs and living performers co-creating our Austral is his current socially in Choreographic Practice and performance venues, TV studio, at the earliest opportunity, led by the Consejo Comunitario services to artists. Lizania Cruz is a participatory environment, specifically through engaged art project. He is the Theory from Southern Methodist and artist work spaces. encouraging innovation, and (Community Council), an artist interested in how migration the lens of spontaneous urban author of the book Education for University. Mr. King was recently Asian Arts Initiative advances providing access to artistic inter-generational body of The Bronx Museum of the Arts effects being & belonging. In plants. EPA agents: andrea Socially Engaged Art (2011). seen in Disney’s The Lion King racial equity and understanding, experiences of the highest local leaders. is an internationally recognized 2016 she launched, Flowers haenggi, Christopher Kennedy, on Broadway and is a tenured activates artists, youth, and their caliber for the residents of Los Home Affairs, since cultural destination that presents for Immigration, a photo project Ellie Irons, Catherine Grau The International Center of track professor of dance at Kent communities through creative Angeles County. 2011, creates open-ended free, innovative contemporary through which undocumented Photography (ICP) is an State University. practice and dialogue grounded collaborations with other artists, art exhibitions and education Civic Art Lab is an annual immigrant flower workers exhibiting, collecting, and in the diverse Asian American designers, and art historians. We Knockdown Center. Featuring programs with a commitment community space in NYC for express their stories through F teaching institution dedicated to experience. are interested in art practices programming of diverse formats to promoting cross-cultural artists, designers, environmental arrangements. Cruz is from the photography and visual culture. Catherine Feliz is an that engage resistance and and media, Knockdown Center dialogues for diverse audiences. advocates, and neighbors Dom. Rep. & lives in Brooklyn. Through our exhibitions, classes, interdisciplinary artist born and healing relative to ongoing global aims to create a radically cross- to experiment, build, discuss public and community programs, B raised in New York City. challenges and with respect to disciplinary environment. The and present sustainability ICP explores photographs, Her multimedia projects are the welfare of all human but in particularity of our architectural Bad at Sports: Founded in 2005 C and community engagement D videos, and new media as personal reflections on the particular women and children. environment and history leads by Duncan MacKenzie, Richard initiatives happening both at a mediums of empowerment and Kate Calleri is a multidisciplinary Sonia Louise Davis (b. 1988, social-political constructions of us to gravitate toward projects Holland, and Amanda Browder, local and global scale. Sam Holleran is a writer, as catalysts for wide-reaching artist, educator, and is the New York City) works across power and knowledge. that demonstrate a sensitive Bad at Sports (B@S) features researcher, and interdisciplinary social change. Collections Manager of Community Access expands installation, writing and over 20 collaborators and is a For Freedoms is a platform for artist investigating topics reactivity to site and environment. Interpretation at the Brooklyn opportunities for people living performance. She is currently The Invisibility Lab is an weekly podcast produced in civic engagement, discourse, in visual culture, design, and Karen Kuhn joined Toast Ale Children’s Museum. with mental health concerns investigating the varied political international creative research Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and direct action for artists. urbanism. His projects in public in August 2017 after four years to recover from trauma and and practical applications of a platform investigating the and New York City featuring Founded in January 2016, For space include a series of World’s at a health-tech startup in NYC. discrimination through affordable practice of critical improvisation. phenomenon of invisibility interviews about art and the Freedoms strives to model how Fair-inspired sculptures for Her passion for sustainability, Kevin Caplicki is a Brooklyn- housing, training, advocacy and across cultures. Functioning as a surrounding community. Claudia Dishon is a printmaker, art and discourse can urge Flushing Meadows Corona fighting food waste, and sharing based artist born and raised in healing-focused services. We mobile laboratory, the Invisibility arts educator and Manager communities into greater civic Park with the collective Mobile the Toast story led her to take Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is an the Hudson Valley. Preferring to are built upon the simple truth Lab conducts and presents of School Programs at the action and participation. Print Power. on business development efforts artist, urbanist, and curator work in social and collaborative that people are experts in their multimedia research on the seen Queens Museum. at Toast USA. pioneering arts and urban environments, he is a founding own lives. Flux Factory, Located in a three Sheena Hoszko is a sculptor, and unseen aspects of life – practices for community member of the Justseeds Artists’ Nitasha Dhillon is co-founder of story post-industrial building in anti-prison organizer, and settler and how they are experienced. Gretchen Coombs researches engagement. She is principal Cooperative, Visual Resistance MTL, a collaboration that joins Long Island City, Queens, Flux living and working in Tio’tia:ke socially engaged art in the L of the design and research collective, NYC Ghost Bike research, aesthetics, organizing, Factory hosts over 40 Artists-in- (Montréal), in Kanien’kehá:ka US, the UK and Australia, studio Buscada, and teaches Project, and Interference Archive. and action. As MTL, she founded Residence and offers hundreds territory. Her art practice J Robin Lambert was born in and her writing has appeared urban studies and public art at G.U.L.F., the action arm of Gulf of free exhibitions and events to examines the power dynamics of British Columbia. He earned a CCCADI, Founded by Dr. Marta in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Jaclyn Jacunski is a Chicago- the New School in New York. Labor Artists Coalition, Strike our community each year. Flux geographic & architectural sites, BFA from Alberta College of Art Moreno Vega in 1976, the Rail, and Temporary Art based artist and the Director of For more on her work, Debt/Rolling Jubilee, Direct Factory grew out of an artist- and is informed by her family’s + Design in Calgary and an MFA Caribbean Cultural Center Review. Gretchen is Research Civic Engagement at the School visit www.buscada.com. Action Front for Palestine, and collective and remains an artist experiences with incarceration from the University of Regina African Diaspora Institute Fellow at RMIT University in of the Art Institute of Chicago most recently, Decolonize This run space today. & the military. in Saskatchewan. Awards BFAMFAPhD makes Art, Reports (CCCADI) is a multi-disciplinary Melbourne, Australia. where she directs the first Place. include a Social Sciences & and Teaching Tools to advocate center based in East Harlem, Sara Knox Hunter is an artist, off-campus space dedicated to Jim Costanzo is the founding Humanities Research Council of for cultural equity in the United New York City focused on writer, and musician, and the social practice and community director of the Aaron Burr Canada Master’s Grant. States. We bring people together documenting and presenting founder/director of Summer led art projects in the North Society. He was also a founding to analyze and reimagine power the creative genius of African Forum for Inquiry + Exchange, Lawndale neighborhood. member of the artist collective relationships in the arts. Diaspora cultures. 38 39 Dawne Langford is an in the intersection between as Form (and Why it Should be Nine Yamamoto-Masson is colorfully painted with humor. Marie Skeie and Motaz al Daniel Totten was born, raised, awareness and creating dialogue independent documentary empathy and design. She utilizes Female).” She performs and a French-Japanese artist, a must watch part of a must Habbash are based in Oslo and and lives in Red Hook, NY. There around HIV issues today, by producer and curator. She is art as a tool for communication, makes art across the Americas. practising theorist, translator, watch new station. have lived in Palestine, Japan, he continues his desire for a producing and presenting visual currently working as Manager empathy and critical thinking. community organiser and Brazil and Scotland. They have more kind, creative community art projects, exhibitions, public Charlie Michaels is Assistant Lakshmi Ramgopal is a multi- and Curator of Programs for the Her background in Illustration PhD candidate at the Univ. of worked on social projects since by farming, performing acts of forums and publications — Director of the University of instrumentalist, vocalist, and Fundred Reserve Open Lab. She and Design has allowed her Amsterdam. Her academic and 2011. Marie Skeie is working as public making, and doing work while assisting artists living Michigan’s Center for Socially composer who performs under has curated special exhibits for to develop a unique style of artistic work examines power an artist, curator and producer towards addiction prevention and with HIV/AIDS. Engaged Design. He teaches the moniker Lykanthea and her the Smithsonian Asian Pacific raising awareness. and epistemologies, and for art in public space. Motaz long-term recovery advocacy. courses on the design process given name. She integrates synths Center’s Culture Lab, Spring/ mobilises art and counter- al Habbash is working as film and facilitates public and with processed vocals and sruti He received his BFA at Alfred Break, and Transformer. narratives as critical forum and producer and director. W M curatorial projects involving box drones using improvisatory University in 2015. method of resistance. Pedro Lasch is an artist, Duke youth and incarcerated artists. techniques that draw on Liz Slagus is the Director of Red Washburn, PhD, is Assistant Manuel Molina Martagon is an Treej (Katrina Allick) is a queer professor, and FHI Social No Longer Empty (NLE) is an Carnatic musical traditions and Public Programs + Residencies Professor of English and artist working in performance Mobile Print Power is a multi- producer, artist, and DJ. Practice Lab director. Author of arts organization that activates Bharatanatyam dance. for the NY Hall of Science, Co-Director of Women’s and and video. His work has been generational collective based Originally from San Francisco, four books, he has exhibited at engagement with art and social an adjunct faculty member at Gender Studies at Kingsborough exhibited in venues like ICA out of IMI Corona. MPP uses Rebirth Garments creates she now lives in New York as a The Phillips Collection, MoMA issues through site-responsive Parsons-The New School, Community College. She is in Philadelphia or AMA in DC. portable silkscreen printmaking custom fashion for people across creative producer and member PS1, Hayward Gallery, MUAC, exhibitions, education, and and Founder/Co-director of a coordinator at the Lesbian Martagon has been a recipient carts and a methodology for the full spectrum of gender, size, of art collective Babycastles. Prospect Triennial, Gwangju public programs located in the SexEd Project. She directs Herstory Archives and of the of awards and grants such participatory design in public and ability. They produce fashion With a love for all things Biennial, Havana Biennial, distinctive urban settings. Our NYSCI’s DiR program with Rainbow Book Fair. as Fulbright and CONACYT. spaces in collaboration with local shows and provide interactive internet, her greatest focus is Documenta 13 (ANDANDAND), work generates participatory an art + technology back- He holds a MFA in Photography, organizations that addresses Access Ambassador workshops how she can positively impact and 56th Venice Biennale (CTS). platforms that build and ground and passion for Video and Related Media issues of injustice. to performance venues, the queer community at large. Linda Weintraub (moderator) strengthen networks of cultural community engagement. La Keisha Leek is a Brooklyn- from SVA. community organizers, and other teaches, lectures, creates, and Toni Moceri manages AMP’s resources. Trees of Tomorrow is based arts professional and groups seeking to foster anti- writes about eco art. Her last Maker Park Radio. Co-founder, sponsored projects program, conceptualized and executed Manager of the Kenan Project Laura Nova is an artist and oppressive, accessible spaces. SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing book is TO LIFE! Eco Art in Kristin has worked in the music a network of 80+ projects by Margaretha Haughwout at The Metropolitan Museum of educator who makes work that is is an ongoing collaboration pursuit of a Sustainable Planet business for 30 years as a growing at the intersection of Juan Recamán ( b. Bogotá, (Guerrilla Grafters), Cody Art, a new residency and larger action oriented and site specific, between artists Francesca Fiore (University of California Press). tour manager, booking agent, media + social justice. Toni Colombia) is a filmmaker and Herrmann, and Julian Phillips initiative to develop a collective encouraging both activist and and Hillary Wagner and the Her forthcoming book is WHAT’s executive assistant and personal combines nearly two decades educator based in New York in alliance with Social Practice impact model with 21 cultural active audience participation. rural Appalachian community NEXT? Eco Materialism and assistant for many international of nonprofit + public sector City. He often works with small Queens and John Bowne High institutions through the lens of of Bethel, Ohio. Since the 2016 Contemporary Art (Intellect artists. She produces music and experience with years of communities teaching video School, initiated with Greg arts education and community presidential election, Appalachia Press). DJs techno music on her radio consultancy in leadership, production and video editing. Sholette and Randall Szott. engagement. P has come to the fore in American station. She lives in Staten Island small business, + community He has taught workshops in the Frances Whitehead is a political discourse. Currently one Erin Turner is a site-specific Rejin Leys is a mixed media with her 4 kids and husband Tom. development initiatives Juana Paola Peralta is a queer United States, Colombia, Italy, civic practice artist bringing year into their project, the artists installation artist interested artist and paper maker based fat hard femme Latin@ who and Palestine. the methods, mindsets, and Mary Mattingly is an artist Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary will reflect on the new forms in land-based practices, in New York, whose work has dreams of finding new ways of strategies of contemporary based in New York. She recently artist and counter-cartographer. Recess reimagines a public for socially engaged praxis can and preservation, and collaboration. been exhibited internationally loving, organizing & building art practice to the process transformed a military trailer Her work intersects with the art. By envisioning our public must take when carried out in the Her work questions place, and is included in several public each other up in a world that of shaping the future city. into a public reflection pool and fields of popular education, as participants, we challenge context of rural America. the usage of land, and collections. She is a recipient hurts a lot. Juana is the Former Questions of participation, founded Swale, a floating food cultural production, public policy, common distinctions between the ephemeral qualities of of a New York Foundation for the Director of Outreach and The Studio Museum in Harlem sustainability, and culture forest on a barge. Mattingly and mapping. She creates maps process and product and maker communication. Arts fellowship. Community Engagement & is the nexus for artists of African change animate her work with is engaged in questions about and mappings that produce and consumer. Recess is a Collective Member for The Sylvia descent locally, nationally, and Cat Tyc explores dynamics multiple ecologies in the post- Melissa Liu is a 2017 More Art how art can influence policy and new understandings of social generative meeting place for an Rivera Law Project (SRLP). internationally; and for work that of speculative relations industrial city. Engaging Artist Fellow and strengthen common spaces. and political issues. inclusive creative community. has been inspired and influenced on the precipice of a poetic the inaugural 2017 storefront The People’s Cultural Plan is a Kimberly Mckenzie is a trans Martin Rosengaard. Co-founder, by black culture. It is a site for mediology that include the artist-in-residence at The W.O.W group of artists, cultural workers X woman of color organizer with Wooloo and Human Hotel.. the dynamic exchange of ideas page, video, sound, installation Project in Chinatown, Manhattan. N and activists united to address over 6 years of work experience Have exhibited at a wealth of about art and society. and performance. Xhoir was founded in 2013 in As an artist and cultural worker, short comings to the city’s first in grassroots organizing for Greg Newton completed his venues such as Artists Space, New York City by Colin Self, she has collaborated with the ever plan. As artists we cannot Sally Szwed is Director of marginalized trans, gender coursework and examinations NYC;; Manifesta 8, Murcia, and has since transformed College Art Association, Kelly accept policy that allows further Programs at Eyebeam. She non-conforming, and intersex for a Ph.D. in art history at the Sixth Momentum Biennial, V into a multi-city amorphous Street Garden Bronx, Arts/Admin, luxury development. We demand currently co-chairs the Board of communities. Kimberly is CUNY Graduate Center before Moss;; Göteborg Biennial for network of Xhoir organizers Arts & Labor, and more policies that insure all New Directors of Flux Factory, a non- Falak Vasa is an interdisciplinary the Director of Outreach and leaving academia to co-found Contemporary Art, Gothenbrug;, and participants. The current Yorkers can afford to stay where profit artist in residence program artist from Kolkata, India. Their Charles Long uses print to Community Engagement the Bureau of General Services- Athens Biennial, Athens and the NYC Xhoir is organized by they live. and community space. Before work intersects performance, communicate narratives of for SRLP. Queer Division with his partner 55th Venice Biennial, Venice. Caitlin Baucom, René Kladzyk, her current role at Eyebeam, video, photography and writing remembrance and legacy. For Donnie Jochum. Lou Pesce has worked with Leticia Sampedro, and Jade Jessie McLaughlin is an artist & Sally served as the Director of to explore notions of the (post) him, material history responds to Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Thacker. Weekly Xhoir sessions amateur footballer (no sporting Landon Newton is a the Creative Time Summit. colonial and the (post)human questions of what happens when S convene in homes, studios, ambition beyond doing excellent multidisciplinary artist based in Studio since 2009. Lauren Bon’s mediated through their own individuals, places & spaces and public spaces and kick ups in the park). They work New York. She has a BA from art practice engages a team of Amy Sadao, is the Daniel intersecting identities. Falak are taken away and stand include pre-meditated vocal from a queer brown (sometimes Smith College and an MFA from individuals that work together W. Dietrich, II Director at the T is also renowned for their unacknowledged. Long knows exercises, spontaneous games, sad) perspective, foregrounding the Massachusetts College of Art to transform resources into Institute of Contemporary Art, adorable smile. art can build capacity to organize Tom Tenney is the co-founder and the ongoing collection emotional experiences & and Design. Her research-driven energy, actions and outcomes. University of Pennsylvania. for the advancement of liberation and Executive Director of Mariel Villeré is a researcher, of Xhoir scores. proposing these as valid practice explores the history of Lou relocated to downtown Los Brooke Singer’s work blurs Radio Free Brooklyn. He is a designer, and Manager for is a multi- methods of research. herbal medicine, specifically the Angeles after receiving BFA and Lykanthea Ramgopal the borders between science, Programs, Arts and Grants instrumentalist, vocalist, use of plants and herbs for birth MLA degrees on the east coast. media educator, writer and Anna Metcalfe and Holly technology, politics and at Freshkills Park, a position #’s and composer who performs control and abortion. artist who lives and works in Hanessian are both educators arts practices. Her work she has held since January under the moniker Lykanthea Bushwick, Brooklyn. The 8th Floor is an independent that make ceramic work inspired The New York City Department lives “on” and “off” line in the 2014. Her interests in urban and her given name. She R exhibition and event space by tactility, water, agriculture, of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is form of websites, workshops, Adrien Tofighi started Project conservation/adaptive integrates synths with Is an up and established in 2010 by Shelley and food. dedicated to supporting and DJ Raidiance photographs, maps, installations, HEARD in 2016 after reading re-use, public space, community processed vocals and sruti box and Donald Rubin to promote strengthening New York City’s coming DJ from Staten Island social spaces and performances a report by Global Witness engagement, and theories drones using improvisatory Mercedes believes artists and artistic and cultural initiatives. vibrant cultural life. Among our New York; they host a show that involves public participation indicating that about 1 of collection and display inform techniques that draw on lawyers should work together. Inspired by The Shelley & primary missions is to ensure on Makerparkradio.nyc called in pursuit of social change. environmental activist is killed her projects. Carnatic musical traditions and Mercedes is Argentinian/ Donald Rubin Foundation, adequate public funding for non- Channels & Winds a new age every week. He has worked Bharatanatyam dance. American and her mother was Visual Aids, Founded in 1988, the gallery is committed profit cultural organizations, both variety show of sorts, mainly for various environmental and a lawyer. Workshops she has focused around a wildly is the only arts organization fully to broadening the access Grace Lynne is an LA based large and small, throughout the human rights organizations on taught include: “How to Use Art ecclectic blend of music, and committed to raising AIDS and availability of art to New social impact designer interested five boroughs. both U.S. coasts and is now as a Political Tool” and “Law York audiences. based in Amsterdam, NL. 40 41 Open Engagement In Print is a publishing imprint dedicated to the creation and distribution of printed matter focused on socially engaged art. OE In Print features edited volumes, artist conversation series, and small

Open Engagement is an annual artist-led conference Edgar Arceneaux in conversation with Amanda dedicated to expanding the dialogue around Browder, Amy Mooney, Duncan MacKenzie, publications that highlight the work of Open Engagement and creating a site of care for the field of socially and Abigail Satinsky; Paul Ramirez Jonas engaged art. in conversation with Tania Bruguera, John Spiak, Janine Anonti, Jacob Wick, Randall presenters and beyond. Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast, a series of Szott, Duncan MacKenzie, and Abigail Satinsky; Shannon Jackson in conversation with Brian objects, events, and a daily blog produced in Bad at Sports Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City, which Andrews, Duncan MacKenzie, Abigail Satinsky, features artists and art worlders in conversation and Randall Szott; Claire Doherty in about art and the community of makers. conversation with Caroline Picard; Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney Bad at Sports and Open Engagement are two of the principal spaces from which artists witness and investigate the scope of an emerging practice. We Will Think Through This Together: Conversations on Art & Practice presents nine luminaries, fellow travelers in Conversations on Art & Practice conversation about a dynamic meaning making. Conversations on Art & Practice OEIP_006 | Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art & Practice by Bad @ Sports | Available NOW @ OEHQ We Will Think This We Vol. 1 Vol. Through Together Through We Will Think This We Together Through Past OE In Print Publications:

OEIP_005 | Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art & Practice by Bad @ Sports | Available 2017

OEIP_004 | I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in my Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning by Jen Delos Reyes | Released 2016

OEIP_003 | Place and Revolution In Conversation: Lisa Lee and Rick Lowe | Released 2015

OEIP_002 | Open Engagement: Looking Back, Looking Ahead by Jen Delos Reyes | Released 2015

OEIP_001 | The Questions We Ask Together Edited by Gemma-Rose Turnbull. Featuring contributions from 100 members of the Open Engagement community. | Released 2015

43 Call for Collaborators!

We now turn to our community to ask how should we move forward? We want to continue to serve as a site of care for our field, and we can’t do so without direct input from its practitioners.

You all are our collaborators, our co-conspirators. We exist because of you. What do we need to do next? What work is not being done that we can manifest and conjure for the field? We welcome and value your thoughts on how you would like to see OE evolve.

We’ve been ruminating on the words there is always a better idea. We are hoping to fortify that which has made Open Engagement most powerful — our radical attempts at inclusion and our steadfast insistence on the importance of care and reflection within this ever-expanding and complex field.

Open Engagement believes in the power of art and artists to enact creative change in the world. It is this political potential of art and dialogue that guided OE from its earliest days as a student project. Year after year it has been made possible because of a DIY spirit, a punk ethos, and an incredible group of community members who rally around the idea and work hard to make the conference happen with wildly limited resources.

OE first took shape in 2007 because Jen recognized an urgent need for community and support in this field. ince then, gatherings such as the Creative Time Summit and Common Field have emerged, who also take on the work of creating sites to address the critical issues of artists and organizations at the intersection of art & social justice.

Open Engagement is not a non-profit organization — it is an artist-run project that has always operated primarily with volunteer labor. OE has never had a full-time staff member, our founder/director is not paid for her contributions, and our operating budget doesn’t reach even half of the average funding for convenings a fraction of our size. We have never been in a financial position to compensate presenters, subsidy the cost of their travel, or pay staff a fair wage. As we imagine the future, we are searching for ways to value and sustain everyone involved. At present, we do not have any funding secured beyond 2018.

What could OE be in the future? What’s there, what’s missing? How can we generate resources that ensure everyone involved is valued? What do you want, what do you need? What do you want to give? How can we be a safe space for radical thought? How can we be and support the artists, activists, writers, organizers, witches, and punks that we want to be and want to see in the world? How can we work to dismantle the white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy? How can we support alternative economies, and what structures are there to be imagined and enacted?

These are just some of the questions that we’ve come up with — surely there are a million more. Anything that you’d like to share with us — your thoughts, your time, your resources to move OE forward — we would be so grateful to receive.

You can reach us through [email protected], or various other social platforms. We’ve also set up an anonymous Google Form on our website, if that better suits your needs.

Can you or your institution host us for an artist talk, workshop, residency? We are looking for sites to hold intimate and broad conversations with local artists, organizers, students, educators, activists, and communities invested in arts and social change. We are also looking for opportunities for pure rest and relaxation, to reconnect with each other and our individual and shared dreams for the future.

We are here with you. We are here to work hard, fight for change, and show up for one another in the continued struggles of our time.

With all the weirdness, magic, care, and love our hearts, minds, and spirits can muster, Jen Delos Reyes, Crystal Baxley and Latham Zearfoss