Special Event
Special Event, Workshop
Arts and Letters: A Family Workshop with Cecile Chong
Join artist and Board Member Cecile Chong for a creative artmaking and letter-writing workshop inspired by the current exhibitions at Smack Mellon featuring artists Golnar Adili and Kate Teale. Participants will experiment with combining words, handwriting, and visual marks to create personal messages that reflect their own stories. All materials will be provided. Organized by the Adams Street Library in collaboration with Smack Mellon. Registration at the the link provided.
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Performance, Special Event
Maiko Kikuchi: Kojiki de Creation
Saturday, April 18th, and Sunday, April 19th, NowHere's Studio Program space opens to the public for DUMBO Open Studios, anchored by live showings of a new work-in-progress from artist-in-residence Maiko Kikuchi. Maiko will be in her studio both days from 1–6PM, with works spanning her multidisciplinary practice on view between performances. Art in DUMBO's Open Studios brings together artists across the Brooklyn waterfront, opening studios and workspaces to the public. Access to all performances are free of charge. You’re invited: Live performance of Kojiki de Creation (work…
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Closing Reception, Special Event
Closing Reception: You Can Cut All the Flowers, But You Cannot Keep Spring From Coming
You Can Cut All the Flowers, But You Cannot Keep Spring From Coming is Third Door Brooklyn’s first group art exhibition, inspired by a widely shared line of hope often attributed to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The exhibition reflects on what cannot be taken away. Mary Royall’s paintings of light draw attention to the immediate world around us, urging awareness of what is already present. Dipa Halder’s abstract works made with raw pigment and salt register traces of presence…
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Performance, Special Event
3 Pointz Brooklyn Part 3: Patrol Game!
BerdsCarnival (Maraya Lopez), a New York City–based artist, will patrol 34 miles around Brooklyn’s perimeter on Saturday, April 18, 2026, as part of Dumbo Open Studios and the final part of their multi-year project, 3 Pointz Brooklyn. The patrol lasts 14–16 hours and uses Brooklyn’s edges and crevices to activate overlooked urban spaces, connecting public geography with inquiry. The patrol/game starts at 70 John Street in DUMBO and extends outward: east toward East New York—where the map ends—then south to…
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Special Event
ROM’S 2025 Sketchbook collection
Creatively Wild Artist ROM is a multidisciplinary illustrator, writer, and designer working in Brooklyn. He is best known for his library of comic book publications, including Villains of the Week as well as the underground indie comix hit The Outrageous Adventures of FishLegs. ROM will be exhibiting a collection of his completed sketchbooks from 2025. Including over 1000 pages of material, ROM is proud to share this treasury of life drawings, master studies, and concept work for his personal projects…
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Special Event
CAM Print + Tee Release Party
Mazlish + Wright Contemporary (65 Pearl St) presents CAM (Craig Anthony Miller)’s Skyward Journey. Skyward Journey explores the balance inside chaos — the surrender and control that exist simultaneously as we navigate invisible forces every day. Through symbols of movement, migration, turbulence, and ascension, the work reflects our constant pursuit toward transcendence. Like finding a beach where no beach should exist, this exhibition is about discovering freedom, flow, and possibility in unexpected places. Stay steady. Trust your timing. Always be…
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Opening Reception, Special Event
Opening Reception + Activation: Beyond Dark Flow
On Thursday, June 4th, visitors are invited to create new games from everyday materials with designer collective Aging in Play, and to play an expanded set of digital games created by Boshi's Place and Catherine L. Hansen - some of which are only on view for the evening. This exhibition explores games as digital and physical spaces of collective attention. It centers on the current landscape of independent gaming communities represented by co-curators who create sites and practices for critical…
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Special Event, Talk
Mapping a World Beyond Racism: Art Across Borders, Cultures, and Continents
In conjunction with her exhibition Between Continents, Across the Seas, join Susanne Kessler for an artist talk in conversation with award-winning art historian Dr. Lisa Farrington. The discussion will focus on the role of art in their respective works as a counterfoil to the hypocrisy of racism. Lisa E. Farrington, Ph.D. is an art historian, author, Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair Emerita of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and past Associate Dean of Fine…
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Special Event, Talk
Dakota Mace in conversation with Laura Allen
Join Higher Pictures for a conversation with Dakota Mace and Laura Allen, Curator of Native American Art at the Montclair Museum of Art, on September 12th from 6-6:30 PM. There will be a 15-minute Q&A following the conversation. Doors open at 5:45 PM and seats are first-come, first-served.
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Performance, Special Event
EYE-CATCH! Fashion Show
Please join SoRA for their inaugural fashion show featuring wearable pieces by Jianing Zhao, Nathalie San Fratello, Tanner Kok, Lexi Fujita, and Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, winning stylists from the School’s EYE-CATCH! open call. Each stylist will showcase four looks inspired by the aesthetics and counter-aesthetics of the Attention Economy, brought to life by twenty models as our Dumbo Sanctuary transforms into a runway. In addition to the runway, the fashion show will invite audiences to an attentional score designed in…
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Special Event, Talk
Romina Chuls in Conversation with Laura Harris
Via Zoom In conjunction with her exhibition La Cosecha (The Harvest), 2025-2026 A.I.R. Fellow Romina Chuls will be in conversation with Laura Harris. In this talk, Chuls will discuss La Cosecha, focusing on how it draws on the iconography of a pre-Hispanic funerary textile to imagine a cycle of shared gestation, care, and renewal. Chuls will discuss her research on the funerary shroud and how it evolved into the works presented at A.I.R. Gallery. To register for the talk, click…
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Exhibitions, Special Event
NowHere Open Studios: Maiko Kikuchi
The NowHere Studio Program is a year-long Dumbo residency, launched January 2024, that gives one selected artist a studio before culminating in a solo exhibition at NowHere's Tribeca flagship. This year's resident is Maiko Kikuchi, a Tokyo-born, NYC-based multidisciplinary artist and Pratt MFA whose surreal, handcrafted work spans illustration, sculpture, puppetry, and performance at venues like the Met, The Public Theater, Japan Society, and La MaMa. Following her Hyperallergic-highlighted 2024 NowHere exhibition, Kikuchi's residency kicks off in March 2026, continuing…
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Closing Reception, Special Event
Closing Reception: KNOTTING with Ako Gabbeh x Arts & Crafts Village
For the first time outside Japan, the weavers of Ako Gabbeh present hand-knotted Gabbeh and Dantsu works that carry forward a craft tradition inherited from the nomadic peoples of the Silk Road, transformed through Japan’s own culture and environment, and passed down through generations. Each chair rug is carefully made with cotton yarns dyed in indigo and natural dyes, transforming an everyday object into a distinctive canvas of color, story, and texture. Blending art with contemporary interior and home design,…
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Open Studios, Special Event
BRIClab Open Studios
The BRIClab Contemporary Arts Residency welcomes it's new cohort for 2026-2027. Drop by to see their new projects! Amelia Galgon, Ava Tuitt, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Ha Neul On, Sunny Leerasanthanah
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Special Event, Talk
Rise and Shine: Artist Talk
Canton Projects presents "Rise and Shine", an exhibition of art by Leonard Ursachi curated by Emily O'Leary. The central element of Rise and Shine is a transparent oval vessel resting on a rusted steel base. The vessel is filled with water and a translucent resin rendition of Ada Kaleh—a small island in the Danube River that was submerged by Romania’s despotic leader, Ceaușescu, to realize a hydro-electric project. The resin island, lit from below, is drowned and resuscitated as the…
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Special Event, Talk
Catholic Girl: Talk & Special Exhibition
AMR Art Dumbo is honored to collaborate with the Alice Austen House to present two distinct exhibitions of Andrea Modica's work. As a gallery dedicated to championing women and queer artists, AMR naturally aligns with the Alice Austen House's mission to celebrate the contributions of women photographers and LGBTQ+ histories through the lens of one of photography's pioneering figures. Modica's photographs are captivating. Her artistic mastery and attunement to her subjects inspire us to look closely and recognize the timeless…
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