This page contains videos of current or past installations as well as interviews or panels presented by the West Harlem Art Fund

 

Among the panelists are Kendal Henry, Assistant Commissioner, Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Harlem-based artists Fitgi Saint-Louis and Dianne Smith. The West Harlem Art Fund’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Savona Bailey-McClain, moderate this panel.

 

See the exhibition Root of Color curated by Executive Director Savona Bailey-McClain on behalf of AHL Foundation.  Artists included Francisco Alvarado-Juarez, Chanee Choi, Tai Hwa Goh and Luis Pagan

Hear artist/curator Linda Griggs as she talks about her painting Florence Nightingale’s Lamp which is our current spring 2022 show Life turned Inside Out. An emotional response to ear and conflict.

See our artist in residents Hilary Brown-Istrefi and her husband Lamy Istrefi developed while in residence with us on Governors Island in our exhibition space NP/10.

Meet our artist Melita Cekani in our spring show Life Turned Inside Out.

Here we see the famous Harlem Hospital Murals that were created during the WPA Program years.

At the Hispanic Society we unpacked the Orozco drawings that will be featured in a special exhibition for Master Drawings New York 2022.

 

Fall panel Invisible No More with Iliana Emilia Garcia, Dianne Smith and Kraig Blue. Moderated by Savona Bailey-McClain with a LIVE audience on Governors Island and on Zoom for International Sculpture Center.

Panel Discussion: Artists of African & Mulatto Descent 18th to 19th Century link here 

 

Growing Rice: A Migration Story from Seed to Plate. Savona Bailey-McClain, JJ Johnson, Michael Twitty, and rice farmer Nfamara Badjie. MOFAD Museum of Food and Drink, NY