Matthew Mottel & Edwin Torres EVENT DETAILS:TICKETSWednesday, January 9, 2019, 8:00 pm g e o d e s i c l i n g u i x ; Charas as Infinite Thought Object The history of dome building on the Lower East Side goes back to when CHARAS built domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller [...]
Join us on Tuesday, January 29 at 6:00 pm for the first engagement of our 2019 artists in residence; Project LAZO by Alva Mooses & Claudia Cortinez. LAZO's inaugural event will present an exhibition of small works by 15 interdisciplinary artists. The selected works and their artists are align with LAZO's mission to create dialogue among artists working in NYC and Latin America as well as local artists that have been actively working, teaching, or living in the Lower East Side.
2018 Loisaida, Inc. Artist in Residence: Ecological City is planning its yearly neighborhood wide Procession for Climate Solutions. Come to the meeting and learn how to get involved
Make beautiful ceramic tiles to bring art to your garden! This workshop is the first of two parts. Led by artists Alejandro Epifanio Juan of Loisaida, Inc. and ceramic specialist Essye Klempner, participants will paint ceramic tiles during this class and pick up their fired tiles from the GreenThumb office at a later date. The second part will be held in the spring where we will install our new decorative ceramic tiles in gardens through mosaic paver stones and other options.
ANALEMMA - March 2nd through March 12th
Exhibition curated by LAZO & Javier Bosques
Javier Bosques/ Mauricio Cortes/ Alva Mooses/ Sofía Reeser del Río/ Ana Vaz
CROSSROADS - March 19th through March 30th
Exhibition curated by Silvia Benedetti in collaboration with project LAZO
Isabella Cruz-Chong / Jose Joaquín Figueroa / Catalina Schliebener / Pedro Wainer
MEDIA USED FOR EQUITY JUSTICE & RESPECT
A PROGRAM FOR LES YOUTH AGES 16 to 24
$250 stipends upon completion of course.
Every Monday & Wednesday from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
March 25th through May 15th, 2019
Pre-Registration Required
Limited Spaces
Simultaneous events at Loisaida Center and Pública will explore the tension between the traditional and the 21st century as it relates to all things FOOD. Themes and topics will include: growing ingredients, recipes, colonization and agriculture, farming and imported food, where traditional cuisine comes from, where and how Puerto Rican food can be found and prepared locally – both on LES and in Santurce/on the island.
Fabián Villegas is a writer, journalist, spoken word artist, scholar and researcher in Global South epistemologies, decolonial thoughts and racial studies. Since 2007 to date, Villegas has been invited to give multiple conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops in various universities and academic centers, renowned art biennials and community cultural centers across the globe. He is also the co-founder of Contranarrativas, a collaborative project that seeks to create horizontal knowledge production spaces to stimulate the visibility, dissemination and production of epistemologies, decolonial narratives and peripheral aesthetics of the Global South. Born in Mexico City, Villegas currently resides in the Dominican Republic.
The Loisaida Center, in partnership with the Nathan Cummings Foundation, are pleased to announce the opening of Pasado y Presente: Art After the Young Lords, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords Organization in New York that will be on view at the Nathan Cummings Foundation offices through October 25, 2019.
