From Past to the Present & into the Future

THE OPENING OF

FRESH OUT OF STORAGE

Fresh Out of Storage is organized in partnership with Manhattan Mini Storage.
Conceived and curated by Ariela Kader. 

Check out the exhibition's Promo Video!
Visit freshoutofstorage.com to learn more about the project.

SUGAR HILL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2016-2017

DEREK FORDJOUR

Photo by TalismanPHOTO

Following a rigorous selection process lead by NLE in partnership with Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, we are delighted to announce that Derek Fordjour is the Artist in Residence 2016 - 2017 at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. 

Derek is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, film, sculpture and painting, and currently resides in Sugar Hill. His work has been featured in group shows at Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles, Sotheby's S2 Gallery in New York and Jack Bell Gallery in London. Derek received a BA from Morehouse College and a Master's Degree in Art Education from Harvard University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College.  
 
The residency program includes open studio events and a culminating exhibition in the studio which will be curated by NLE’s Chief Curator Manon Slome. Throughout the year, Fordjour will work with the Museum’s primary audience of three- to eight-year-old children as well as spending time in the complex’s early Childhood Center. He will hold two family workshops and participate in a monthly open studio public program.
 
This partnership extends our connection to Sugar Hill. In 2014, NLE curated If You Build It at Broadway Housing Communities' new building in Sugar Hill. The residency program reflects both Broadway Housing and NLE’s commitment to engaging children with art by providing them with opportunities to interact and connect directly with working artists. 

NLE & NEW NEW YORKERS COLLABORATION

@ QUEENS MUSEUM

Photos by Guido Garaycochea, New New Yorkers Archive

On September 25, in collaboration with the New New Yorkers Program, NLE brought Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful’s performance project HERE IN JAMAICA to the Queens Museum. Fifteen participants of diverse ages, nationalities and cultures joined together in performative actions, sharing a moment that transformed the museum theater into what the artist together with the participants called a time capsule, a cave, a subterranean, a womb, and a rocket, where our group spent four hours choreographing dances, centering minds and bodies, writing the stories of our lives -- inspired by teachings on movement, performance art, art in everyday life, theater, activism, and self-care articulated by Anna Halprin, Augusto Boal, Linda Mary Montano, and Luke Dixon. The digital exhibition HERE IN JAMAICA will launch on NLE’s website soon. Experience Nicolás' performatic curatorial work for yourself at his upcoming exhibition Enacting the Text: Performing with Words, opening this Friday, October 7th at the Center for Book Arts.

Read more about the workshop here on the New New Yorkers Blog.

CURATOR AND DIRECTOR OF NLE CURATORIAL LAB

RACHEL GUGELBERGER

Photo by Ariela Kader

NLE is pleased to announce that Rachel Gugelberger has been promoted from Associate Curator to Curator and Director of NLE Curatorial Lab. Since joining the organization in 2015, she has organized Bring in the Reality, and most recently, Jameco Exchange. Under her leadership, NLE Lab 2015, which was sited in the South Bronx, culminated with Intersecting Imaginaries.
 
Gugelberger is leading NLE Lab 2016 in Jamaica, Queens. This current session features a Queens-centric curriculum; secured guest speaker visits by Brooke Davis Anderson, Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans and Prerana Reddy, Director of Public Events at Queens Museum; and secured partnerships with three anchor cultural organizations in Jamaica: Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Fine Arts Gallery York College CUNY. The NLE Lab 2016 exhibition will take place at the legendary Jamaica Colosseum Mall.