Category: Governors Island

  • West Harlem Art Fund presents its first Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Gov Island

    West Harlem Art Fund presents its first Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Gov Island

    The West Harlem Art Fund is expanding their seasonal residency on Governors Island through Winter 2024. The first organization outside of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, to offer year-round public art with an indoor installation available by appointment only. This year marks our 25th anniversary, according to Executive Director Savona Bailey-McClain,…

  • West Harlem Art Fund Joins Fall Season With New Exhibit

    West Harlem Art Fund Joins Fall Season With New Exhibit

    New York, NY… West Harlem Art Fund will present their fall art exhibition UNDAUNTED: We Are Still Here on Governors Island in Nolan Park, Building 10B (NP10). Opening September 9th, six artists will show paintings of urban scenes, graffiti, collage, and mixed media works. This exhibition includes an immersive component…

  • Free Jazz Concert August 26th and 27th at NP10 Gov Island

    Free Jazz Concert August 26th and 27th at NP10 Gov Island

    Arts for Art proudly announces a new partnership with the West Harlem Art Fund to present In Gardens at Governors Island. In Gardens at Governors Island will feature two afternoons of FreeJazz performances, Melanie Dyer’s Siren Xypher on August 26th and Alexis Marcelo Trio on August 27th. The performances will…

  • Summer Pop-Up Exhibit

    Summer Pop-Up Exhibit

    The West Harlem Art Fund is pleased to present our 2023 Visual Muze/Summer Artists in Residence on Governors Island. Visual Muze is a unique storytelling residency and retreat. It provides visual artists, performance artists, multi-media designers, and writers the opportunity to explore narrative forms within collaborative projects, works in progress,…

  • [DIAP] collaboration City College

    [DIAP] collaboration City College

    Today, personal narratives are largely communicated, digitally. And a small graduate program at City College in West Harlem impacts these trends by blending movement, photography, printing, spatial mapping, and more to tell meaningful stories across disciplines. A partnership between West Harlem Art Fund and this MFA program makes such stories more…

  • Presenting Tanika I. Williams

    Presenting Tanika I. Williams

    Since the start of the pandemic, only during summer months, the West Harlem Art Fund hosts a residency with artists from NYC and around the country on Governors Island. Visual Muze is a unique storytelling residency and retreat. It provides visual artists, performance artists, multi-media designers, and writers the opportunity…

  • Gabriel Rivera Natural Dyeing

    Gabriel Rivera Natural Dyeing

    The art and craft of natural dyeing is a practice that yields beauty in both process and result. Every piece of naturally dyed cloth is it’s own unique creation, irreproducible. Natural dyeing is a combination of knowledge, skill, and openness to surprise. It also requires a good amount of patience,…

  • West Harlem Art Fund kicks off the fall season with an all female exhibition & public mural where NATURE MATTERS

    West Harlem Art Fund kicks off the fall season with an all female exhibition & public mural where NATURE MATTERS

     Elements presented by the West Harlem Art Fund is a multi-disciplinary exhibition, that features an international roster of women artists in their exhibition space (NP/10) on Governors Island, beginning September 10th. Also featured is Floral Love Project, a participatory mural led by veteran artist Kraig Blue from September 10th through…

  • New Program

    New Program

    Covid 19 revealed that many Americans wanted to connect more with nature, people, and meaningful activities. For years, the arts community has been trying to engage the public. It wasn’t until we lost those connections that people rallied to save them. The West Harlem Art Fund is developing two Public…

  • CITY OF WATER DAY INSTALLATION

    CITY OF WATER DAY INSTALLATION

    New York, NY… The West Harlem Art Fund is proud to present for City of Water Day, Brooklyn-based floral designer Joshua Werber. Werber will “flower bomb” an outdoor sculptural work adjoining Building 10B on Governors Island in Nolan Park. Joshua Werber’s installation “Goals are Fluid” is a site specific reaction…

  • CHURCH BY SHANTELL MARTIN

    CHURCH BY SHANTELL MARTIN

    The Trust for Governors Island presents Church, and immersive, contemplative work by Shantel Martin, who enlivens the facade of Our Lady Star of the Sea, a former military chapel, deconsecrated for over 20 years and located in the Island’s Historic District. The season-long exhibition is on view daily through October…

  • GOVERNORS ISLAND

    The West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF) is returning to Governors Island in 2019 with two exhibitions that will spotlight human migration across Asia and then west from Africa to the Americas beginning June 1st. The organization is working with the Eli Klein Gallery based in the West Village, the Aicon…