Category: West Harlem
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Stargazing
Star-gazing has been around for thirty thousand years before Christ. Babylonians and Mesopotamians (modern-day Iraq and Syria) studied the stars along with early Chinese, Central American, and European cultures. Astronomy was used by early cultures for timekeeping, navigation, spiritual practices, and agricultural planning. Now, moving forward to present times, Black Americans have historically…
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Greg Tate Horus in Harlem
West Harlem hosted a mural unveiling and celebration of the visionarywriter, bandleader, and cultural theorist Gregory Stephen ‘Ionman’ Tate, whose work reshaped Black music and thought. The day featured a major new public artwork by acclaimed artist Brett Cook as well as live performances and from Melvin Gibbs for Honk…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens 2025 Highlights
Images of three works in Harlem Sculpture Gardens that caught the imagination of viewers. Skateboarding Cat by Eunkyung Lee in Jackie Robinson Park. The Beacon at Montefiore Park by artist Shervone Neckles and the Beam Center, a youth based organization in Brooklyn. Then we have the Gates at Morningside Park…
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Romance in the Garden
Nika Antuanette will animate on Saturday, August 16th at 2 pm, the sculptural installation Romance in the Park with a 20-minute dance, embodying the spirit of romance woven into the artwork in Morningside Park, Harlem. Inspired by the fleeting, joyful encounters that Romance in the Park celebrates, the performance is an…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens presents Ukrainian culture and art to Morningside Park
Post-Tango by artist Mikhailo Levchenko, is a sculpture about the aftermath of human devastation. The state where one has to face unpleasant circumstances, where emotions may have passed, but the body still remembers the physical pain. It is about the search for form after destruction — about a dance turned…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens expands this summer to the Broadway corridor with two new important works
This summer, Harlem Sculpture Gardens will expand to reach residents along upper Broadway in Manhattan with the help of new partners. As part of a collaboration between the Beam Center, a youth-based organization, fabricator Gary Linares, and the Lewis Latimer House Museum, NYS Senator Cordell Cleare and the Broadway Mall…
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Notable Women from Harlem
On Friday, June 6, 2025, NYC Department of Transportation in partnership with artist Fitgi Saint-Louis and the West Harlem Art Fund will unveil the sculp- ture “Aunties” on the 124th Street and Lenox Avenue median. The work presents three figures, each standing 6.5 feet high, 6 inches deep, and 16…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens Returns in 2025
West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association are pleased to announce the second rendition of Harlem Sculpture Gardens (HSG), a large-scale outdoor exhibition, curated to foster joy and beauty within the Harlem community. Opening on May 2nd this exhibition runs until October 30, 2025. Sculpture and design…
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Delonte Crossing 110th Street
West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with NY Artist Equity Association is seeking to present Coby Kennedy’s Delonte Crossing 110th Street this spring in Morningside Park. This is a bold work that will spark conversations about shaping identity. How do marginalized people define their own image and bring healing. ARTIST…
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Fitgi Saint Louis chosen as Community Commissions artist with West Harlem Art Fund
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the layered and intertwined nature of identity, remembrance and community within African, American and Caribbean cultures. Appearing in paint, textiles and sculpture, her abstracted figures honor the multifaceted ancestry of the African diaspora. With a background in…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens opens May 2nd
April 18, 2024–New York, New York: Harlem Sculpture Gardens is honored to announce the launch of its debut art project, curated to foster joy and beauty within our local community. Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition on May 02, 2024, and run through October 30, 2024.…
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Space Uptown 2024
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the artists selected for Space Uptown 2024. Co-curated by Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator, West Harlem Art Fund and Jiyoung Lee, Gallery Director, AHL Foundation. The artists for this year’s exhibition are Ara Ko, Carlos Mateu, Bishop McIndoe, Kai Oh and…
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Top Birds in West Harlem Parks
Top Birds in Morningside Park American Robin Black and White Warbler Black poll Warbler Cedar Waxwing Chimney Swift Common Grackle Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant European Starling Gray Catbird Hermit Thrush Herring Gull Mallard Northern Parula Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Ruby Crowned Kinglet Tufted Titmouse Yellow-bellied sapsucker Yellow-rumped warbler Total…
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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,…
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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…
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Sculpture Partnerships Forged in Harlem
New York, NY… Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition in Spring, 2024. The historic parks Morningside, St. Nicholas, and Jackie Robinson have been selected to be the featured sites for these works. Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be led by the West Harlem Art Fund and New York…
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Haint Blu comes to West Harlem
Haint Blu is an ensemble dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming,…
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West Harlem Art Fund co-presents Horses Full of Steam
Director & Choreographer Hilary Brown-Istrefi Dancers Sabrina Canas, Maira Duarte & Joey Kipp Composer Mahsa Matin Visual Artist Heather Weston Art Historian & Narrator Savona Bailey-McClain Horses Full of Steam will premiere as part of the Trisk Presents’ Spring 2023 Season, June 8-10 at Trisk Theater in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; followed…
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[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…
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Coming to West Harlem
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced details of the 2023 annual New York edition, following the notable success of last year’s return to an in-person fair event in Harlem. The 2023 iteration will take place at Malt House in the Manhattanville Factory District, 429 West 127th Street, from Thursday, May…
