Public Programs

Our public programs examine the meaning, value, and challenges of socially engaged art from diverse perspectives

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2018

August 31, 2018

Decolonizing the Land,
Decolonizing the Mind

Decolonization Environment Racial Justice

Photographic documentation of trees painted with a casein of buttermilk and ultramarine blue pigment to grow moss. Detail shot from a grouping of 160 trees painted over a 1/3 mile “measure” of a conceptually based symphonic event which extended over 18 months, at 12 sites, across several miles, primarily in the United States. This location is Brush Mountain, Virginia, location of proposed New Market pipeline. Photo: Sarah Miller, 2016

August 29, 2018

Fellowship Workshop
with Miguel Luciano

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August 23, 2018

What It Takes to Be Free: Artists Respond to the Criminal Justice System

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Solitary Gardens in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, Photo: Olivia Hunter

Health, Food and Healing: Pa’lante

Food Health History

Free the Panther 21 march, 1969 by Hiram Maristany, courtesy Miguel Luciano

City as Partner:
Artists Working in Government

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “Sanitation Celebrations: Grand Finale of the First NYC Art Parade, Part III: Ceremonial Sweep, 1983.” Sanitation and union executives and municipal, arts, and cultural leaders clean the entire parade route along with the artist and her family. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, photo: Paula Court.

The Next Five Years:
Telling the Story of ABOG’s Future

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Inhale, Exhale: The Arts of Healing and Learning

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I Speak for the Trees: A Mock Trial

Environment Policy

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February 22, 2018

What does AI need from you? Approaching Artificial Intelligence with Compassion

Design Ethics Identity

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January 11, 2018

Not Gone Tomorrow: Fellows Freeman Word and Rick Lowe on Sustainable Community Spaces

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2017

December 9, 2017

Black Quantum Futurism and the Reentry Think Tank at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Criminal Justice Housing

BQF Mapping Workshop

August 16, 2017

November 7, 2017
Night of Alchemy Annual Benefit

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New Cultural Exchange: Sustainable Partnerships with Artists

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Siembro Una Rosa Blanca Pa’ Ti, 2010, screen print on paper, 20 x 24 in. Courtesy the artist.

FIELDWORKS: BRIC

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FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

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Open Engagement, April 21-23, 2017

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Aesthetics of Doing: Performing to Transform

Marc Bamuthi Joseph and ensemble, /peh-LO-tah/ — a futbol framed freedom suite…, YBCA, November 2016. Click here to learn more. Photo: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

January 26, 2017

Public Servants in the Future Imperfect

A Double Book Launch Co-presented with the New Museum

Cover Image: Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, left, published by the New Museum and MIT Press, and Future Imperfect, right, published by A Blade of Grass

January 12, 2017

Decolonizing Workshop: Performative and Engaged Practices

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Anne Pesata, Rulan Tangen, Natalie Beally and Lupita Salazar at Santa Fe Art Institute, in rehearsal for "Running for Water, Running for Land." Image: © Paulo T. Photography. Courtesy the artist.

2016

October 26, 2016

Parallel Fields: Housing Justice

September 6, 2016

Fellowship Workshop with Chinatown Art Brigade

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Fellowship Workshop with Black Quantum Futurism

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FIELDWORKS: The 8th Floor

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Projects A-E: Celebrating the Art + Social Justice Working Group

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Reports from the Field: Harriet’s Apothecary

Collectivism Equity Gender

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Aesthetics of Doing: Decolonizing

Decolonization History Indigenous Rights

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FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

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Open Engagement, April 29-May 1, 2016

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Entry Points: Recent Writing on Art and Social Justice

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FIELDWORKS: MassArt

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Parallel Fields: Mindful Leadership

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February 23, 2016

Reports from the Field: Apps for Power

Immigration Labor Policy

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January 26, 2016

Book Launch and Discussion: Remapping Performance by Jan Cohen-Cruz

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January 22, 2016

FIELDWORKS: Parrish Art Museum

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January 13, 2016

Aesthetics of Doing: Tangible Utopia

Waterpod Dome, 2009. Photo by Mike Nagle.

2015

December 4, 2015

FIELDWORKS: Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 4

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December 3, 2015

FIELDWORKS: Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 3

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November 2, 2015

Fellowship Workshop with Dread Scott

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September 29, 2015

Fellowship Workshop with Laura Chipley

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Aesthetics of Doing: Community Organizing

Collectivism Power

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Aesthetics of Doing: Sleeping with the Enemy

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Fiesta de Cierre de Donceles – Closing Party!

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Reports from the Field: SexEd

Health Sexuality Youth

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Open Engagement, April 17-19, 2015

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February 18, 2015

Reports from the Field: Beauty in Transition

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January 14, 2015

Parallel Fields: Alternative Economies

Decolonization Ethics Labor

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2014

November 4, 2014

Fellowship Workshop with Pablo Helguera

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October 6, 2014

Republic of New York: Perfect City Discussions

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October 1, 2014

Fellowship Workshop with Norene Leddy & Liz Slagus

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September 17, 2014

Parallel Fields: Coming Home

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Parallel Fields: Will Work for Food

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Open Engagement, May 16-18, 2014

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Aesthetics of Doing: Is Socially Engaged Art Always Progressive?

Ethics Ideology

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Parallel Fields: Kitchens in Conversation

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Parallel Fields: Heavy Metal

Environment Health Policy

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February 19, 2014

Aesthetics of Doing: Effectiveness

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2013

November 18, 2013

Talking Transition: BEYOND ACCESS

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November 4, 2013

Fellowship Workshop with Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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October 10, 2013

Artist Files Book Launch Party

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October 2, 2013

Does Capitalism Work? with Steve Lambert

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October 1, 2013

The Active Partnership

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September 17, 2013

Fellowship Workshop with John Ahearn

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September 5, 2013

Aesthetics of Doing: Learning as Social Empowerment

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What We Learned From The Hive

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A Conversation with Robby Herbst

Opening Reception: Empathy Corporation

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Parallel Fields: Forming a Debtors’ Union

Collectivism Innovation

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The Hive Presents: Empathy Corporation

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F**king Up: How Long Will You Work on This?

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F**king Up: How Will You Talk About What Happened?

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F**king Up: Why Are You Taking So Many Photographs?

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F**king Up: Who Gets to Speak Up?

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Parallel Fields: Building a Future for PlaNYC

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January 31, 2013

Aesthetics of Doing: Ethics

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January 17, 2013

Eyal Danon In Discussion with Reem Fadda

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2012

November 28, 2012

Parallel Fields: Farming

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November 15, 2012

Artists Helping Artists

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October 18, 2012

Artists Helping Artists

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