Tag: Savona Bailey-McClain
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens launches May 2nd 2026
Visit our official site : https://harlemsculpturegardens.com For the third year, West Harlem Art Fund and NY Artist Equity Association present 21 sculptures across six venues in West Harlem. The exhibition opens May 2nd and runs through October 30, 2026. Venues that will display art are as follow: Morningside Park Featuring Joseph Iacona,…
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DESIGN WEEK NEW YORK
New York City’s annual, citywide design festival, was inaugurated in May 2012 to showcase the city’s, and the world’s, creative talent across various disciplines. Founded as a municipal initiative by the Bloomberg Administration and NYCEDC, it has grown from a local effort into a premier global event, now operating as an independent…
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It’s that time of year again with Harlem Sculpture Gardens 2026
New York, NY… The 3rd rendition of Harlem Sculpture Gardens (https://harlemsculpturegardens.com) presented by West Harlem Art Fund and NY Artist Equity Association will feature more women artists and academic teams, this year. Joining the lineup is Natalie Colette Wood, a seasoned artist who uses recycled materials that are turned into botanical forms. Harlem-based artist…
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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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New Venture
A collective of artists and creative professionals, HUE Design Group seeks to bring more design to open, public places. Bringing public art and design together, will create immersive experiences with compelling narratives. In 2024, our aim is to develop prototypes of benches, chairs, and accent pieces. We will fabricate compelling sculptures…
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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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From Drawings to Sculpture: The Harlem Renaissance to Now
MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK PANEL February 3, 2024, 3pm National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY, 10003 Early 20th-century Black artists primarily depicted portraits of people and daily life as they lived it. Fighting against false narratives, artists of this period strove to show their humanity. Their…
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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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West Harlem Art Fund celebrates its 25th year
Kicking off the organization’s 25th anniversary, Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund and her organization presented a panel discussion–New Narratives in Museum Collectionsfor Master Drawings New York at the Academy of Arts and Letters on January 22nd. According to Bailey-McClain, “This is our 4th year participating…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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A NEW DECADE
The West Harlem Art Fund will turn 22 years old on January 1, 2020. A double digit year like 2020. Number 4 resonates with the vibrations and energies of practicality, organization and exactitude, service, patience, devotion, application, pragmatism, patriotism, dignity, trust, worthiness, endurance, loyalty, mastery, building solid foundations, conservatism, determination,…
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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…
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20TH ANNIVERSARY
We wish to thank the artists that we have presented to serve the people of New York City with diverse art work. …
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SANFORD BIGGERS DEBUT AT MARIANNE BOESKY
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Selah, Sanford Biggers’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.…
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NIGERIAN ARTIST TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA
Born in Nigeria, Toyin Ojih Odutola is a contemporary artist who focuses on the sociopolitical construct of skin color through her multimedia drawings. Her work explores her personal journey of having been born in Nigeria then moving and assimilating into American culture in conservative Alabama. “I’m doing black on black on…
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BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AT SCHOMBURG CENTER
Black Power! serves as another touchstone in the Schomburg’s “Black Power 50” focus, a yearlong examination into the 50th anniversary of the Black Power movement. Stokely Carmichael and fellow Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Willie Ricks introduced Black Power as a concept in June 1966. Black Power! is located…
