TONIGHT! The Inaugural Residents: One Year Later

Tonight, Wednesday, August 10th, EFA Project Space's 2010 Studio Residents will present their experience and the artwork they produced during the inaugural Studio Residency for NYC Arts Workers.  Join us in EFA Project Space gallery from 6:30 - 8:30pm to support these inspiring arts professionals!

Please click on the links for more information about the residency program and tonight's event.

Update on August 16, 2011 by Project Space Admins

Thank you to all who came out for the 'one year later' presentations of our 2010 New York City Art Workers Residency Program. Our returning residents included: Sean Carroll, Paul Clay, Chantel Foretch, Felicity Hogan, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Amber Hawk Swanson, and Beatrice Wolert. For more images from the night, check out our Project Space Flickr feed, here. 

 

 

 

Our 2011 Residency Program has now begun! To find out what our newest residents are working on, visit the Residency Blog, here.

Announcing the 2011 Residents for EFA Project Space’s Studio Residency for New York City Arts Workers

EFA Project Space is proud to welcome 6 arts workers as the 2011 residents for our 2nd annual Studio Residency for New York City Arts Workers. For more information on the Residency Program, please click here.

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Take to the Water! has set sail

Thank you to all who came out to join EFA Project Space in celebrating the work of Constance Hockaday, Mary Mattingly, and Swoon.  Dylan Gauthier led a night of lectures and discussion that offered informative journeys through maritime minds and proved to be a great success!  Stay tuned for upcoming events happening later this summer in the space.

Top Left: Dylan Gauthier, Top Right: Constance Hockaday, Bottom Left: Mary Mattingly, Bottom Right: Swoon

Take to the Water! A Discussion with Artist-Nomads on the Aquatic Open Field

The Floating Neutrinos, "Son of Town Hall"

Join us on Thursday, June 16th for Take to the Water! an evening of presentations and conversation focusing on three significant creative movements that involve the rejection of land-based conventions in order to establish platforms for new possibilities on the ubiquitous waterways. Panelists include Constance Hockaday, who will share stories of her work with the Floating Neutrinos, Swoon, who will talk about her activities with Miss Rockaday Armada and the sea-borne Swimming Cities collective, and Mary Mattingly who will describe the vision and realization of the Waterpod project. Following the presentations, Sea Worthy curatorial team member Dylan Gauthier will lead a discussion and talk-back with the artists.

Sea Worthy is Open!

On Friday, June 10th EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space celebrated the opening of Sea Worthy: An Exhibition.  The opening reception was extremely successful, featuring art in the form of boat models and drawings to water-inspired videos and sound installations, all from 25 locally and internationally based artists.  Thank you to everyone who came out to support Sea Worthy: An Exhibition and kick off the summer of 2011's events organized in collaboration with Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space.  Visit Sea Worthy's website for updates on events and excursions.

The seas part for Haley Hughes's three visually vibrant, thoughtfully provoking totem figureheads.

 

Jason Gandy's Atixipdio was an interactive highlight for the night's crowds with Swimming Citie's collage of drawings, photographs and a video projection close by.

Michael Arcega's Lexical borrowing... provides an opportunity to contemplate intercultural navigation amongst the company of Amze Emmons's Royal Ark plans, Reid Stowe's GPS chart mounted on a sail and Duke Riley's interwoven imagery of maritime history and New York City waterways.