An Evening with Multimedia Artist Paul Heintz
January 9, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Villa Albertine and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts are pleased to invite you to an evening with multimedia artist Paul Heintz, currently in residence at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. The presentation will be followed by a conversation between the artist and EFA Executive Director George Scheer. Light refreshments will be served.

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Due to limited space, RSVP is encouraged.

New Start, New Hope by Xin Song
Public Art Installation
July 10, 2024 - January 2025

This series of 135 ornate, illuminated lanterns is now sparkling above the Broadway plazas, bringing light and vibrancy to the heart of Midtown Manhattan. Located between 36th and 39th Streets, Xin Song’s radiant lanterns not only enhance the pedestrian experience but also invite city-goers to pause and enjoy a moment of tranquil reflection amidst the hustle and bustle.

Photo by Alexandre Ayer.

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Panel Discussion: Space as Organizing Principle
June 4, 6:30 – 8 PM
Panelists: Ramsay Kolber, Lydia Mullin
Moderator: Lise Kjaer

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Screening: “Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap” by Billy Gerard Frank
February 22, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

As part of the exhibition Seeing Is Realizing There Is Always More to See, please join us for a special screening of Billy Gerard Frank's film Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap which premiered at the Venice Biennale 2019 Grenada National Pavilion. The film is 40 minutes long, and the artist will participate in a discussion with critic Alex Fialho after the screening. Free, RSVP here (required).

North Fork Report: Clare Churchouse, Lise Kjaer, Ole Lejbach
December 4 – 6, 2023, 10 AM – 6 PM
Reception: December 5, 5 – 7 PM

Please join us for presentation of work from recent residents of the EFA North Fork Residency. Observing Long Island’s tidal waters, light, air, geology and time, Churchouse, Kjaer and Lejbach respond to impressions of the island’s unique environment, both built and natural. Coastal light, seashells, maps, waves, shadows, boulders, and wildlife are caught through camera lenses, rendered in sketch books, traced through rubbings, and transformed into works.

Cracked Ice by Del Geist
Public Art Installation
November 30 - March 2024

EFA Studios and The Garment District Alliance unveiled Cracked Ice by renowned artist Del Geist – a series of three towering structures made of stone and stainless steel titled Laurentide, Muir and Champlain that represent erratic boulders being held by immense ice-age glaciers. Located on the Broadway plazas in the Garment District between 39th and 40th Streets, the free installation invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic forces of nature and profound impact of climate change and will be available to the public through March 2024.

Photo by Sabrina Eberhard.

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Woman, Life, Freedom: Discussion, Screening, and Artist Book Launch
Friday, September 15, 5 – 7 PM
Hosted by Nazanin Noroozi and Kaarnamaa Institute of Art and Visual Culture

To celebrate the first anniversary of the "Woman, Life, Liberty" movement led by Iranian women, who have resolutely said "no" to patriarchal and religious control over their bodies, EFA Studio Member Nazanin Noroozi will host an artist book launch, show and tell, and a panel discussion between Iranian and Afghan artists, activists, and dissidents who are fighting through words and works against totalitarian regimes.

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Kosuke Kawahara: North Fork Report
August 7 – 14, 2023 by appointment
EFA member artist Kosuke Kawahara presents White Noise, a 40-foot scroll drawing. Created during the EFA North Fork Residency in March 2023, the piece weaves a mysterious narrative connecting his studio at Manhattan to Long Island’s silence. Kawahara's work incorporates North Fork's nature, inspired by the retreat's calm seaside environment. The artist's multi-layered imagery reflects growth, decay, perception, and human behavior in shifting conditions.

Keren Anavy: North Fork Report
May 8 – 23, 2023 by appointment
Reception: May 11, 2023 6 – 8 pm
EFA member artist Keren Anavy transforms an empty studio into an immersive exhibit that bridges EFA and the Long Island Sound, presenting drawings, paintings, materials, sound, and video. Anavy's experiences in North Fork influenced her work during retreats at Uncommon Art Residency and EFA North Fork Residency, fostering creative contemplation by the sea.

Legacy Planning Seminar
April 18, 2023 10am – 5pm
Lead by Mary Dinaburg.
The seminar focuses on developing studio practices to aid in legacy planning, covering systems for inventory, documentation, tracking, cataloging, and storage methods. Participants receive a private 20-minute session with Dinaburg in their studios, customizing advice to their specific needs and goals. Establishing these practices ensures future preparation, preserving one's legacy and estate foundation.

NADA Curated: After the End
March 27 – May 5, 2023
Curated by Catherine Taft.
Featuring EFA member artists Nazli Efe and Nazanin Noroozi.
The exhibition invited artists to envision diverse future worlds beyond apocalypse, exploring adaptations to the new present. A variety of responses showcased hybridity, utopian concepts, AI, virtual reality, and more, suggesting the artists as crucial world-builders shaping a fresh human order through imaginative speculation.

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Ukrainian Independence
August 24th, 6 – 8 pm
Artists: Yana Bachynska, Pavlo Grazhdanskij, Katya Grokhovsky, Alena Grom, Kathie Halfin, Oleksiy Radynski, Slinko
Kateryna Ruban and EFA Studios member Katya Grokhovsky organized a program of video art in honor of Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24), which also marks six months since the current invasion by Russia—presented by the EFA Studio Program and Ukrainian Artists and Allies.

"STOP BEING POOR!" by Jake Brush
December 11 at 4 pm
"STOP BEING POOR!" is a short film created by Jake Brush at Wave Hill during Brush's New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship. The film relies on irreverent humor and reality television tropes to consider where power, class and beauty collide—at Wave Hill and in our culture at large.

A panel discussion with Jake Brush, David Moses, and Candystore, was moderated by Wave Hill’s Curator of Visual Arts Eileen Jeng Lynch and Co-founder of DUPLEX Sydney Fishman followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Supporting Artists with Grants | ESD Small Businesses Grant
November 10, 5 – 6 pm via Zoom
Info session supporting small businesses and individuals to apply for the Empire State Development Small Business Recovery Grant. This is a grant that provides small businesses that were impacted by COVID-19. 

Virtual Opening & New Member Artist Panel
Tuesday, September 7th, 6:30 – 8:30pm via Zoom
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program warmly welcomes the 2021 New Studio Member Artists in the exhibition: [body]2[body]. This cohort of New Studio Member Artists were selected by a jury panel from a competitive pool of applicants. The nine selected New Studio Member Artists are awarded a two-year renewable membership that includes a subsidized studio and professional development opportunities in our Midtown Manhattan arts building.

Is There Poetry on Mars?
Panelists: Sofia Garcia, Sasha Stiles
Moderator: Natalia Nakazawa, Assistant Director of EFA Studio Program
Date: May 12, 2021
NFT’s (non-fungible tokens) seemingly blasted into the public consciousness overnight causing equal amounts of joy, intrigue, and disgust. One of the most divisive and thought-provoking mediums to hit the art community, it has quickly become adapted by some and yet remains mysterious to a majority of artists. In this candid conversation between coder and digital design strategist, Sofia Garcia, and poet Sasha Stiles, we will discuss what it means to be working within these new potentials and speculative digital spaces. Join us and bring your questions.

MAKI AMAZON LAUNCH RECEPTION - Naghmeh Shirkhan
November 12, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
Join us for a private reception with EFA Board Member Naghmeh Shirkhan to celebrate the debut of MAKI on Amazon. MAKI, a Japanese-Language Film, was shot in New York and directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Naghmeh Shirkhan.

MARKETING AND PRESS RELEASE WRITING WORKSHOP
June 11, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
Frances Cathryn, founder of wip projects joins us for a workshop on how to market events.

DEB FRIZZELL PRESENTS NANCY SPERO: ALL AROUND THE MAYPOLE
May 14, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
A discussion presented by Deb Frizzell that examines the concepts, process, aesthetics and lexicon of Nancy Spero’s life work.

CONSERVATION SEMINAR WITH METTE CARLSEN AND MARTHA SINGER
April 30, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
During this presentation and discussion, conservator, Martha Singer, and conservator and collections manager, Mette Carlsen, will address various aspects of caring for works of art and an artist’s practice.

EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN & UNSEEN: LOOKING AT BELLINI
EFA Studio Member Artist Justin Kim presents a formal-historical analysis of Giovanni’s masterpiece.
Date: Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

INDIAN STEPWELLS: VR IMAGING BY BRYAN WHITNEY
A conversation with Bryan Whitney about his VR images and 360 videos of subterranean architecture and discussion of their role in traditional Indian culture.
Date: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Time: 4 – 6 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

DIALOGUES IN ART AND CRITICISM
An afternoon of conversations at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, held in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Organized by SIAC professors David Getsy and Michelle Grabner.

Date: Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Time: 1 – 5 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

Schedule:
1:00 - 2:15         Gordon Hall and Troy Michie on abstraction and the body                      
2:30 - 3:15         Emily Colucci and Alex Jovanovich on online art criticism
3:30 - 4:45         Sean Fader (EFA member) and Amber Hawk Swanson on contemporary portraiture

A Traveling Show: Poems about artists
Presented by: Deborah Elliot Deutschman & Jonathan Goodman
Date: Wednesday, March 15
Time: 6 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

Join us for a reading where Deutschman and Goodman will read their poems about artists.

Joburg Fringe
Presented by: Howard Smith
Date: Wednesday, February 22nd
Time: 6 – 7 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

EFA Studio Member, Howard Smith, will give a short presentation on the JOBURG FRINGE; an artist run, alternative art fair, held annually in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Smith participated in the fair this past September and feels it might be of interest to a number of you. The costs were extremely reasonable and there are potentially numerous benefits for participants. He will discuss the fair, show some photos, elaborate on other things of interest in Johannesburg and nearby, and answer questions.

Welcome Reception and Exhibition Opening: Rashwan Abdelbaki
Presented by:
Date: Wednesday, February 8
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Metropolitan College of New York
RVSP: HERE

Join us in the welcome reception and exhibition opening for an Artist Protection Fund Fellow, ArteEast Artist-in-Residence, and EFA Studio Member, Rashwan Abdelbaki!

KICKSTARTER WORKSHOP!
Presented by: Scott Teplin
Date: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
Time: 6 – 7 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

EFA Studio Member Artist Scott Teplin has found success in raising over $75,000 with two Kickstarter campaigns in one year.  He will advise on running a campaign as an artist and what he learned along the way.

Bring you questions and a note pad!

MID-CAREER BOOST: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Date: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Location: 2nd Floor

Video: Watch the entire panel on our website, HERE

Moderator: Amei Wallach, Art critic, Journalist, Author, Filmmaker

Panelists:
Sandford Hirsch, Executive Director, Gottlieb Foundation
Sharon Louden, Artist, Educator, Editor
Rachel Selekman, Artist, Archivist and Project Coordinator, Dan Flavin Estate
Sue Scott, Former Gallerist, Curator, Writer

As a counter point to the many panels geared for young emerging artists, the Oral Lerman Trust/Soaring Garden’s Artists Retreat is proud to sponsor the upcoming panel, Mid-Career Boost: Challenges and Opportunities. A topic that is seldom discussed but sorely needed, this panel is designed to help artists with mid-career challenges, to facilitate positive actions for sustainability, create new prospects, and a renewed sense of empowerment. Members of the panel will address the concerns of artists at this stage of their careers and make concrete recommendations for setting realistic goals and meeting them. A complementary handout with a list of resources and recommended readings will be available.

This event is free and open to the public.

DEVEN GOLDEN: ARTIST STATEMENT WORKSHOP
Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

No artist likes writing their statement but it is, as they say, a necessary evil. This talk will focus on the best ways to think about this unpleasant task. It will include practical strategies and rules to increase the likelihood of a successful finished piece, and discuss how this can become a useful exercise in thinking about your art.

About Deven Golden: A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Deven Golden has been an exhibiting artist, museum curator, alternative gallery board member and chairperson of exhibitions, independent curator, art consultant, director of two galleries – one in Chicago, one in New York – and ran his own gallery in Soho and Chelsea. He has been a visiting artist/critic or guest lecturer at multiple universities and colleges, and taught professional practices at The School of the Art Institute and University of Illinois. He has curated over 30 exhibitions, and has been writing catalogue essays and reviews on a regular basis for various publications since 1984, including The New Art Examiner, Dialogue, Bomb, and www.artcritical.com. He is currently a contributing editor for www.artcritical.com and runs the blog www.artmonkeywrench.com. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. 

MARGARET LANZETTA: FULBRIGHT RESEARCH SCHOLAR PRESENTATION
Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm

In conjunction her solo exhibition, Blues For Allah, at Heskin Contemporary, painter Margaret Lanzetta will discuss her experiences living and working in India, Syria and Morocco as a US Fulbright Research Scholar. The lecture will chronicle the development of her work, both conceptually and professionally, as inspired by these foreign research opportunities.  

• Utilizing and incorporating foreign influences into one’s practice

• Fostering and growing from personal exchanges with international artists

• Preparing to “move” one’s studio from NY oversees

• Working in foreign studio situations

• Sharing your work/exhibiting abroad

ROSS WISDOM: ARTIST ACCOUNTANT
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Location: Third Floor Conference Room

Ross Wisdom is the Managing Partner at Kimerling & Wisdom, LLC.  Ross provides audit and tax services to nonprofit organizations, small businesses, coops, attorneys, estates, and trusts. His clients include Louis Kahn Project’s My Architect; Souvenir Pictures' My Funny Valentine; Pacifica Radio; the Pulse Ensemble Theatre; artists, independent filmmakers, producers, playwrights, screenwriters, authors, directors, editors, and talent.

ARTIST TALK: EVA LEE
IN SEARCH OF MANDALAS: AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS
Date: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Time: 6 pm
Location Conference Room, 3rd Floor

Artist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee will share experiences from her 2013 Fulbright research on 10th - 12th century Buddhist mandalas in ancient Tibetan monasteries of Spiti, Lahaul, and Ladakh. Her presentation will include:

• incredible photos of Himalayan journey

• examples of contemporary mandalas

• several video clips including the astonishing interior of Tabo Monastery's main temple, the famed Tsung Lhakhang

• the creation and dissolution of a Compassion Sand Mandala by Drepung Gomang monks from Southern India

• investigation on how the research and experience with Buddhist philosophy inspires her work.

LIVING AND SUSTAINING A CREATIVE LIFE: FORUM FOR DISCUSSION
Date: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
Time: 6 pm
Location: EFA Project Space, 2nd Floor 

Moderated by Sharon Louden, Artist and Editor

Panelists include:
Sean Mellyn and Jennifer Dalton, Artists and Contributors to "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life"
Christian Viveros-Faune, Writer, Curator and Art Critic for the Village Voice
Paddy Johnson,  is the founding Editor of Art F City and writes a column on art and Internet for artnet news

At a time when art is increasingly viewed as a commodity and art-school graduates feel that gallery representation is imperative for making a living and a career, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how an artist sustains a creative practice over time. The 40 essays collected in "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" are written by artists in their own voices and take the form of narratives, statements and interviews. Although each story is different and unique, the common thread is an ongoing commitment to creativity, both inside and outside the studio, that helps define what "success" means to a professional artist today.

DANNIELLE TEGEDER'S CATALOG RELEASE
Date: Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Location: Conference Room, 3rd Floor

Please join us on Tuesday, April 29th, from 5 - 7pm in the Conference Room, 3rd floor, to celebrate the release of "Dannielle Tegeder: Painting in the Extended Field". This monograph was published on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Essays by Tracy L. Adler, art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky, and Claire Gilman, Curator of The Drawing Center in New York City, as well as an interview with the artist by Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, offer new insights into Tegeder’s work. 

Refreshments will be served, including Dannielle's own special mojito cocktails, an artist presentation with book signing, and of course, an opportunity to purchase your very own copy. EFA Studio Members will be able to purchase the catalog for $30. General purchase amount is $40.

CREATIVE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR ARTISTS
NATALIA NAKAZAWA AND DAN WONG
Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Time: 6 pm
Location: Conference Room, 3rd Floor

Description: Spend an evening learning about the broader field of social media - and how to get the most exposure for your work with a focused plan. Artist and arts administrator, Natalia Nakazawa, will elucidate key players in the critical art world online and discuss ways to engage with the larger dialogue. Dan Wong, will delve into the specifics of websites and an artist's enduring online presence, privacy concerns, how to measure your online efforts, alternate marketing strategies for artists, and best practices for your work and career.

Natalia Nakazawa (b. 1982) is a Brooklyn-based artist working in painting and installation. Nakazawa is programmed to mix signals and reconfigure meaning. Drawing upon a hybridized cultural background (Japanese, Uruguayan, American) and an incessant desire to travel (India, Brazil, Mexico) her images seek to capture the uncanny, juxtaposing unlikely objects together. Her work has been recently exhibited at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA), PLAySPACE Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Casa de la Ciudad (Oaxaca, Mexico), Queens Museum of Art (Queens, NY), Topaz Arts Inc. (Queens, NY) and ISE Cultural Foundation (Soho, NY).

Dan Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts, at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY. He directs the web design module and was responsible for the development of the program’s 10 web design courses. In 2012, Dan Wong received a supplemental Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation and spent 8 months working with students to innovate a mobile game application to promote and network creative professionals. Dan Wong received his Master of Fine Art (1997) from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, specializing in sculpture. He also holds an AOCA (1995) from the Ontario College of Art and Design, specializing in Sculpture and Installation, and a BS in Psychology (1990) from the University of Toronto.

ARTIST LECTURE: MARIA ELVIRA ESCALLON
Date: Thursday, December 19th, 2013
Time: 2 pm
Location: Conference Room, 3rd Floor

Maria Elvira Escallon is an artist-in-residence at EFA Studios: Partnerships with support from the Colombian Foreign Ministry. Maria's residency will continue through the end of December, 2013. 

Project Description: "About what has fallen from the Sky"

This artistic project aims to track the scattered fragments of Santa Rosa de Viterbo meteorite story and the scattered fragments of its material body dispersed in many Museums in the US and Europe. The Project includes a historical and scientific survey and a series of ink drawings on the different episodes of the story.

A large portion of the meteorite, which constituted the first piece of the National Museum's collection in Colombia, is still on view at this Museum. It is also the only piece in the entire museum that can be touched by the public. The other fragments of the meteorite and the story about what happened to that celestial body since it fell on 1810 have been dispersed.

At the same time that Maria is conducting historical research, she aims to visit libraries and museums in the U.S. that have fragments of the Santa Rosa´s meteorite in order to see and record them.

Historical Background: The meteorite fell on Holy Friday, 1810 (the same year as Colombian Independence from Spain), close to the small town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo. In 1923, Boussingault and Rivero, two eminent naturalists of the time, conducted a scientific expedition and bought the meteorite to the National Museum Collection.  However, due to its weight of approximately 650 kilograms, the meteorite could not be transported. The meteorite became a significant presence to the community of Santa Rosa and was placed in the main Plaza in front of the church on top of a Doric column, commissioned by the citizens of the town.

NEW MARKETS FOR ARTISTS: EXHIBITS, FUNDING & SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ART
BY BRAINARD CAREY
Date: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Time: 6 pm
Location: Conference Room, 3rd Floor

As well as talking about his book:"New Markets for Artists", Brainard Carey will also be talking about: getting into the Whitney Biennial, making an epic kickstarter project that brought in James Franco as a collaborator and got over-funded how to meet curators, seduce them, and get your art work funded and share it with the world the value of social media as it pertains to your art and well being.

Biography: Brainard Carey is the co- founder of the art collective known as Praxis which he created with his wife. Praxis is an internationally acclaimed art collaborative whose works have been featured in the Whitney Biennial, MOMA, PS 1 Greater New York, and The Reina Sofia and most recently in a solo show at The Whitney Museum.  Currently Praxis has several traveling shows in progress.  Brainard Carey also is the author two books for artists, "Making It In the Art World" and "New Markets for Artists"