The Studio Museum in Harlem

"This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920" is now on view at MoMA PS1! Entry to MoMA PS1 is free at limited capacity. To visit, please reserve a timed ticket in advance. In the second year of a multi-part collaboration, The Studio Museum in Harlem will present its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1. "This Longing Vessel" will feature new work by the 201920 cohort of the Studio Museum's foundational residency program, artists E. Jane (b. ...1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI). With practices spanning new media, performance, and painting, this collaborative exhibition enacts a radical intimacya vessel to hold and be held by. In longing, the works shown here find the intersection between queerness and Blackness as a waypoint: one to yearn from, to reach toward, to leap beyond. "This Longing Vessel" troubles and excites ways of seeing, seeking new language for the building of extraordinary futures. For more information and to reserve your ticket visit: https://bit.ly/3mgTSS0 -- Image: This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920, MoMA PS1 December 10, 2020March 14, 2020. Photo: Kris Graves

This season, give the gift of membership! Champion Black artists and diverse audiences by becoming a Studio Museum Member. In these challenging times, the power of art and commitment to community is more important than ever. Your support continues to make a meaningful difference for artists of African descent and the audiences we serve. Become a member by visiting: https://bit.ly/3qPQ9OZ

The Studio Museum in Harlem is pleased to announce that "This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920" is now on view at MoMA PS1 through March 14, 2021! "This Longing Vessel" features new work by the 201920 Artist-in-Residence cohort, artists E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed. With practices spanning new media, performance, and painting, this collaborative exhibition enacts a radical intimacya vessel to hold and be held by. Reserve timed tickets ...here: https://bit.ly/341vLRk -- Images: This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920, MoMA PS1 December 10, 2020March 14, 2020. Photo: Kris Graves

Wangechi Mutu recontextualizes images from popular culture, myth, and art history to create hybrid figures of black femininity and power. The nguva, a mythical water woman from East African folklore, is thought to be derived from the dugong, a relative of the manatee and one of the most endangered mammals in East Africa. Here, Mutu monumentalizes the nguva by casting it in bronze to pay homage to the mythic power of this female being while considering the complexities of our ...relationship to the environment. #StudioMuseumCollection -- Image: Wangechi Mutu, Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004. Paint, ink, collage, mixed media on Mylar, 48 42 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn 2004.13.3

#RequiredReading from #StudioMagazine | Ilk Yasha, Studio Museum Institute Coordinator, checks in with Paloma Hutton, Membership and Annual Fund Associate at the Studio Museum! When asked about her role at the institution, Paloma responded: "I am the Membership and Annual Fund Associate, so I oversee our membership program as well as our Annual Fund campaigns and donations. For membership, I help plan member events, package and send membership acknowledgments, and make sure w...e communicate with members about the status of their membership and that we fulfill the benefits associated with their membership level. For the Annual Fund, I oversee the campaigns that we do for those, which are a mix of mailed letters, e-mails, and social media posts. Both Membership and Annual Fund gifts go towards the Museum's general operating support, which is the hardest to find support for, especially Annual Fund, since there are no benefits involved with your donationonly the benefit of knowing you're truly supporting the Studio Museum in an impactful way!" Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/2IwIzHB

TODAY is the last day to vote! The Studio Museum in Harlem encourages you to head to the polls to make sure that your voice is heard and your vote is counted. The Museum sits in community with the artists and the audiences that we serve. On this day and everyday, we advocate for your stories and truths as we work to build a better tomorrow. -- Image: Yara El-Sherbini, Given Directions, 2009. Courtesy the artist

"My 'Dream' postcard unites my 1995 drawing with the historic Apollo Theater. 'Dream' evokes and transforms the most iconic speech of the civil rights movement and of American history itself: 'I Have a Dream,' by Martin Luther King Jr. 'Dream' also expresses reverence for the dreams of the many who have performed at the Apollo, as well as those who aspire to. Every year, 1.3 million people visit the Apollo Theater, and thousands have performed there over the years, including ...Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Pearl Bailey, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker, Etta James, Sammy Davis Jr., Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Otis Redding, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Dionne Warwick, Charles Mingus, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Mahalia Jackson, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Lena Horne, Little Richard, Bob Marley, Buddy Holly, Count Basie, Richard Pryor, Dinah Washington, B.B. King, John Coltrane, Diana Ross, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry, Fats Waller, Sidney Poitier, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ray Charles, and Miles Davis. Those are just a few of the EXTRAORDINARY geniuses who have graced that stage and achieved international stardom. I have lived in New York for over fifty years! The city changes constantly but the landmarks that stay are integral to our collective identity as New Yorkers. The Apollo is HARLEM! The Apollo is NEW YORK CITY!" - Judith Bernstein (featured artist, "Harlem Postcards Spring 2019") #HarlemPostcards -- Image: Judith Bernstein, Dream, 2019. Chromogenic color print.

#RequiredReading from #StudioMagazine | Read "On Abstraction: Things You Can't Tell Just by Looking at Us" by Daonne Huff, Director Public Programs & Community Engagement. In this article, Huff explores how we view and understand abstraction. Layering image, audio, and text, she aims to expand our entry points for appreciating and connecting to non-figurative works of art by viewing it from multiple perspectives and in different contexts.... Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2TDgTTg -- Image: Jack Whitten, Khee I, 1978. Acrylic on canvas, 72 84 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Lawrence Levine, New York 1981.9

In continued celebration of the announcement of Cauleen Smith as the winner of the fifteenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, hear Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, share her remarks on this achievement! Cauleen, we continue to celebrate your achievement and workacross experimental film, science fiction, poetrythat so deeply engages with black cultural history to create moving film and installation works that hold space for c...onversation. On behalf of The Studio Museum in Harlem, we celebrate you! -- Video: Johann Rashid

"It was a cold and crisp morning, with the light streaming along 125th Street, when I chose a simple path off the subway and turned to walk west. In Los Angeles the previous week I had shown my students the work of Roy DeCarava; his work was a touchstone during my early years as a street photographer. There is a moment when I look at things when they align for a composition that has the essence of narrative. That frozen moment is what photography does so well. A mixture of old with new, and evidence that Christmas has passedthis is my ode to DeCarava." - Catherine Opie (featured artist, "Harlem Postcards Spring 2016") #HarlemPostcards -- Image: Catherine Opie, Harlem Winter, 2016 Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York & Hong Kong

Tonight, at 6pm on Instagram, watch filmmaker Garrett Bradley in conversation with Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, at The Studio Museum in Harlem. In this live conversation, Bradley and Russell will discuss Bradley's growth as tied to being a filmmaker and artist and America as it is staged in the forthcoming exhibition, "Projects: Garrett Bradley." "Projects: Garrett Bradley" is organized by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, with Legacy Russell, Asso...ciate Curator, Exhibitions. This exhibition is part of a multiyear partnership between The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1. #StudioLIVE #GarrettBradley -- Image: Garrett Bradley, America, (video still, detail), 2019. Photo: courtesy the artist.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is thrilled to announce that Los Angeles-based artist Cauleen Smith has been selected as the winner of the fifteenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. Established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician, and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife Joyce Alexander (19282005), a long-time Trustee of the Studio Museum, the Prize honors the achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise, and creati...vity and bears a cash prize of $50,000. A multidisciplinary artist rooted in mid-twentieth-century experimental film, Cauleen Smith describes her work as reflecting on "the everyday possibilities of the imagination." Her first solo New York City exhibition, "Mutualities," is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which also presented her work in the 2017 Biennial. Her most comprehensive and immersive exhibition to date, "We Already Have What We Need," was recently presented at MASS MoCA (May 2019March 2020), with the central portion scheduled to travel to Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2021. The Studio Museum in Harlem presented her work in the Afrofuturist-themed group exhibition "The Shadows Took Shape" (201314). Past Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize recipients include: Torkwase Dyson (2019), Diedrick Brackens (2018), and Simone Leigh (2017). Congratulations, Cauleen Smith!

Tomorrow at 6pm EDT, join us for our next #StudioLIVE conversation with filmmaker Garrett Bradley! Garrett Bradley (b. NYC, 1986) works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, southern culture, and the history of film in the United States. Bradley has received numerous prizes which include the 2019 Prix de Rome, and the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize for the short film "Alone...," which was released by The New York Times OpDocs And became an Oscar Contender for short nonfiction filmmaking, included in Academy Shortlist. Bradleys work can be seen across a variety of spaces including her Second Unit Directing work on Ava DuVernays "When They See Us" and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow night on Instagram to watch the conversation between Garrett Bradley and Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions. #StudioLIVE #GarrettBradley -- Photo: Garrett Bradley

On Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00 pm EDT, join us for our next Instagram live conversation between filmmaker and director Garrett Bradley and Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions! Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, Southern culture, and the history of film in the United States. Her first solo New York exhibition, "Projects: Garrett Bradley," op...ens November 21, 2020 at The Museum of Modern Art and is presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1 as part of a multiyear partnership. Bradley's film "America" (2019), which the exhibition is centered around, imagines black figures from the early decades of the twentieth century whose lives have been lost to history. The multichannel video installation is organized around twelve short black-and-white films shot by Bradley and set to a score by artist Trevor Mathison and composer Udit Duseja. The exhibition is organized by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, with Legacy Russell. In this live conversation, Bradley and Russell will discuss Bradley's growth as tied to being a filmmaker and artist and America as it is staged in the forthcoming exhibition. #StudioLIVE #GarrettBradley More info: https://bit.ly/31CxyuI

The Studio Museum in Harlem's Shanta Lawson, Education Director, and Jennifer Harley, School & Community Partnership Coordinator, recently met with our artist educators to kick off the new partnership year! They reconnected, ideated, and planned out what partnerships will look like in the year ahead. Meet the artist educators below: Imani Parkinson ... Blake Paskal Aya Rodriguez-Izumi Nia I'man Smith Jano Cortijo Laura Betancur Monique Schubert Cecil Clay Jones Iviva Olenick Jeannette Rodriguez Pineda (not pictured, but we wanted to shout out!) For more information on School Partnerships at the Museum, visit: https://bit.ly/2J3EsTq For more information on Community Partnerships at the Museum, visit: https://bit.ly/3fCzZBG

Thank you to all who attended Wednesday's Studio Lab: shades of blues panel discussion presented in collaboration with Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. The program continues! On November 14th, join Ivan Forde and Dave Adewumi in an online workshop to create a collective quilt using the cyanotype process. Discover the beauty of Prussian blue through exposing found, and significant domestic objects to sunlightthe magic of the luminous blue will be evoked in an improv...ised performance by Adewumi. The workshop is by application only as space and supplies are limited. Apply by Wednesday, October 28th! For more information and to apply, visit: https://bit.ly/35wqIbc #StudioLab #shadesofblues -- Featured Image: Ivan Forde, Holograph no.1 (wisdom eye), 2019 and Holograph no.2 (Timehri: mark of the hand), 2019. Silkscreen print on transparent holographic vinyl film and plexiglass, 4 x 8 ft. each. Photo: Paula Croxson/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute