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May 30–August 3, 2019

Disco Gardens

Ash Arder

Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music.

March 21–May 11, 2019

blue are the feelings that live inside me

AMERICAN ARTIST

From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing

September 6–December 22, 2018

States of Exception

Oscar Rene Cornejo

exploring printmaking as a vehicle for engaging the ways trauma and memory are shaped by institutionalized violence, displacement, and exile

April 19, 2018

Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

Shaun Leonardo, along with members of the program’s peer leadership group led a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum

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Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum and co-curated by our collaborators

March 8–April 28, 2018

A Moment in the Sun

Tiffany Smith

inspired by traditions of West African portrait photography and the cultural practice of using the wicker throne peacock chair

January 4–March 3, 2018

Primetime

Alexandra Bell

exploring the role of stereotypes, messaging, and news media to directly engage issues of racism, gun violence, and police brutality

September 7–December 22, 2017

Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK) POP-UP Workshop

Stephanie Dinkins

an investigation of algorithms exposing pervasive forms of digital discrimination

June 23–September 1, 2017

then the street lights–like a warning bell

Sable Elyse Smith

a project by Sable Elyse Smith consisting of constellation of works that simultaneously reference sites of play and enclosure

March 30–June 17, 2017

Iyapo Repository

Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde

a speculative lab and resource library operated by Salome Asega and Ayodamola Okunseinde that maintains a collection of digital and physical artifacts

January 12–March 9, 2017

Shaun Leonardo: Assembly

Shaun Leonardo

Assembly is invested in reframing the narrative around the justice system with and for court-involved participants

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