Show Don’t Tell Symposium

July 15th to 18th, 2022.

For the fifth anniversary of our Show Don’t Tell Symposium, take a peek into the ongoing projects of our Fellows and Associated Artists. Join us for events in person and online, outdoors and indoors, all over New York City.

Working in several locations and in collaboration with like-minded institutions FABnyc and Amos Eno Gallery, these public workshops, screenings, and presentations are an opportunity to get an up close and participatory view into the projects of artists working at the intersection of imagination, social change and civic participation. In this confusing time--mid-pandemic, but re-emerging, in the midst of a chaotic and difficult time--come together to connect and share and create. Check out the current events, and check back soon
—more to come!

 

Please note: Registration is not required for all events, but is recommended.

Registration is REQUIRED and capacity is limited for Place, Body, NYC and the Panel for “Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC. Proof of vaccination and masks are required at both events.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMMING:

Featured
Embodied Healing - Sounds and Sights - with Bianca Moná
Jul 18
Embodied Healing - Sounds and Sights - with Bianca Moná

Join sound artist and oral historian, Bianca Mońa, for the premiere of 3 short films Embodied Healing. She will discuss her process for building personal narratives. This will be an experience centered in Black womanhood and healing. Photo credit is Joel Mentor"

Climate Justice Fellowship Panel - with Bl3ssing Shun Ra, Cody Herrmann and Ray Jordan Achan
Jul 18
Climate Justice Fellowship Panel - with Bl3ssing Shun Ra, Cody Herrmann and Ray Jordan Achan

Join our Associated Artist Ray Jordan Achan and our Climate Justice Fellows Bl3ssing Oshun Ra and Cody Herrmann as they discuss their Fellowship journeys and the changing needs and desires of artists working in climate justice, climate advocacy and environmental racism.

Panel for "Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC"
Jul 17
Panel for "Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC"

As part of Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC, an exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery, Culture Push and Amos Eno Gallery will be co-presenting a panel on practice by recent and current Culture Push Fellows from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice and Associated Artists. Please join Alexandra Hammond, Andrew Ingall, Ray Jordan Achan, and Zain Alam for interactive presentations and a roundtable discussion.

Boa's Repair Shop - with Alexandra Hammond
Jul 16
Boa's Repair Shop - with Alexandra Hammond

Boa’s Repair Shop offers workshops to repair physical objects and metaphysical states of being. Caring for objects (which are imbued with human labor, networks of supply chains and raw materials) is caring for each other, Earth and ourselves. Much is made of the brokenness of our nation and our big divides. Surely this is true. But perhaps our search for final solutions is what keeps us from practicing more beneficial ways of being. What if systems are meant to be broken because breaking is always happening? In Boa’s Repair Shop Flag Repair, we approach the construction of a flag from the inside out by tapping into our deepest individual and collective resource – imagination. We journey to an imagined home, find its shape, bring these symbols out of our imaginations, develop them, and use them to create a flag together.

Artist Visit at Angela Miskis' "It’s a Luxury to Look Back" Exhibition
Jul 16
Artist Visit at Angela Miskis' "It’s a Luxury to Look Back" Exhibition

Meet with the artist and talk through the themes for her exhibition It’s a Luxury to Look Back, at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

DayonesArt Back2Basics Drawing Class - with Artschoolscammer (Denae Howard)
Jul 16
DayonesArt Back2Basics Drawing Class - with Artschoolscammer (Denae Howard)

On July 16th we will be collaborating with Dayonesart to bring you art classes.

This program will be held at Fort Greene Park and run from 11am - 1PM {priority will come to those who complete this registration and submit a $5 donation to $artschoolscammer on CASH APP with B2BxCP as the Note}.

Back2Basics is a series of Life Drawing Classes hosted by #Dayonesart. Each class is held throughout the Summer 22" in a beautified aerated private Studios and Gardena locations in Brooklyn.

This program is for All ages! Please keep in mind Artists will be drawing from an array of live nude and semi nude models - we do not body shame or discriminate in regards to ableism.

Participating will receive materials at the beginning of each class along with 1 fresh squeezed libation.

Place, Body, NYC - with Zain Alam, Alcia Raquel Morales, & Ray Jordan Achan
Jul 15
Place, Body, NYC - with Zain Alam, Alcia Raquel Morales, & Ray Jordan Achan

Zain Alam, Alcia Raquel Morales, and Ray Jordan Achan share their practices and process, with a roundtable discussion following the presentations.

  • Morales will be sharing a peek into crowning in october, or how to change shape while remembering your name, and their practice of city scape ritual dance. What does it mean to sink into a place? What does this challenge, unearth, and offer?

  • In his presentation, Achan guides the audience through a vivid history of Newtown Creek and discusses his work in connecting marginalized communities with the complicated history of the Creek.

  • Alam will share the latest reserch from his work with re-framing Muslim chant, story, and song.