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

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2019

February 12, 2019

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Spring 2019 Assembly
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February 9, 2019

Watch a Community Conversation on Healing and Self-Determination through the 4MX Greenhouse
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Jordan Weber, "4 Malcolm X Greenhouse," 2018. Image courtesy the artist.

2018

October 22, 2018

Decolonizing the Land,
Decolonizing the Mind
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Earth mandala by cultural artist Venaya Yazzie as part of the culminating performance of SEEDS : REGENERATION, a project by ABOG Fellow Rulan Tangen and her Indigenous dance company Dancing Earth
October 9, 2018

Fellowship Workshop
with Miguel Luciano
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September 25, 2018

Join us at our Annual Gala!
Night of Alchemy
November 13, 2018

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September 21, 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
August 18, 2018

Health, Food and Healing: Pa’lante – Puerto Rican Activists in Conversation
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Free the Panther 21 march, 1969 by Hiram Maristany, courtesy Miguel Luciano
June 27, 2018

City as Partner:
Artists Working in Government
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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.
June 20, 2018

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

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May 11, 2018

Inhale, Exhale: The Arts of Healing and Learning
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April 25, 2018

I Speak for the Trees: A Mock Trial
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February 22, 2018

What does AI need from you? Approaching Artificial Intelligence with Compassion
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Stephanie Dinkins
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
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BQF Mapping Workshop
August 16, 2017

November 7, 2017
Night of Alchemy Annual Benefit
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June 21, 2017

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.
May 30, 2017

FIELDWORKS: BRIC
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April 23, 2017

FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement
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April 21, 2017

Open Engagement, April 21-23, 2017
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March 22, 2017

Aesthetics of Doing: Performing to Transform
Power
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
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September 6, 2016

Fellowship Workshop with Chinatown Art Brigade
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June 29, 2016

Fellowship Workshop with Black Quantum Futurism
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June 21, 2016

FIELDWORKS: The 8th Floor
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June 4, 2016

Projects A-E: Celebrating the Art + Social Justice Working Group
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June 1, 2016

Reports from the Field: Harriet’s Apothecary
CollectivismEquityGender
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May 12, 2016

Aesthetics of Doing: Decolonizing
DecolonizationHistoryIndigenous Rights
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April 30, 2016

FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement
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April 29, 2016

Open Engagement, April 29-May 1, 2016
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April 24, 2016

Entry Points: Recent Writing on Art and Social Justice
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April 11, 2016

FIELDWORKS: MassArt
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March 16, 2016

Parallel Fields: Mindful Leadership
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February 23, 2016

Reports from the Field: Apps for Power
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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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June 17, 2015

Aesthetics of Doing: Community Organizing
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June 3, 2015

Aesthetics of Doing: Sleeping with the Enemy
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May 14, 2015

Fiesta de Cierre de Donceles – Closing Party!
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May 12, 2015

Reports from the Field: SexEd
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April 17, 2015

Open Engagement, April 17-19, 2015
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February 18, 2015

Reports from the Field: Beauty in Transition
Housing
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January 14, 2015

Parallel Fields: Alternative Economies
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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
Identity
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May 21, 2014

Parallel Fields: Will Work for Food
FoodLabor
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May 16, 2014

Open Engagement, May 16-18, 2014
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April 22, 2014

Aesthetics of Doing: Is Socially Engaged Art Always Progressive?
EthicsIdeology
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April 9, 2014

Parallel Fields: Kitchens in Conversation
Food
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March 19, 2014

Parallel Fields: Heavy Metal
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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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July 18, 2013

What We Learned From The Hive

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July 1, 2013

A Conversation with Robby Herbst

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June 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Empathy Corporation

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June 26, 2013

Parallel Fields: Forming a Debtors’ Union
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June 22, 2013

The Hive Presents: Empathy Corporation

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June 19, 2013

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

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May 22, 2013

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

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April 17, 2013

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

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March 20, 2013

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

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March 13, 2013

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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