Process and Progress: Impressions from this past year's RAWA artists

Please join EFA Project Space and our 2012-13 RAWA residents--Jonathan Durham, Francis Estrada, Howard Halle, Elizabeth Hamby, Jamie Kim, Naomi Miller, Sarah Walko--on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 for their presentations about the Residency for Arts Workers as Artists year-long experience. To read more about each resident, visit www.efanyc.org/arts-workers-residency-2012/

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The Story Behind The Hive (EFA Project Space Director Michelle Levy Explains)

The Hive initiative evolved out of an event series at EFA called the Artist/Organizer series. The basic aim was to support activities by artists who re-shape the framework for engaging with artistic practices by orchestrating experiences that invite participation through interaction and services and extend to different audiences. Originally, specific artist-organizers were invited by EFA to conceive of a project that would be realized on our premises- a slow process that could take up to two years at times just in planning. We eventually decided to expand possibilities through an open call: the open call would raise the visibility of such practices, encourage artists who may already have something in process, and introduce us to those from other communities we may not be exposed to. This was when we started speaking to A Blade of Grass (ABOG). ABOG is an essential new New York City based organization- a funder and champion of socially engaged art practices, and we found a synergy here between our two organizations’ goals.  We partnered with ABOG on this next stage of the initiative. The two orgs put our heads together to come up with a clear concept, named it The Hive, and announced a request for proposals in late 2012.

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Tonight: What we learned from the Hive

Thursday, July 18, 6:30pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 W. 39th St, 2nd Floor

Join EFA Project Space Director Michelle Levy in conversation with artists Piero Passacantando and the Feminist Economics Department (Cassie Thornton and Byron Peters) as they reflect on the outcome of their respective projects, MyNerva: Transmigration of the Cubicle, and Poets' Security Force, as part of their participation in The Hive: Empathy Corporation.

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A Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual

Arts supports EFA Project Space

EFA is thrilled to announce that we have received a a two-year grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in support of the EFA Project Space Program. After five years of producing exhibitions and projects in conversation with the arts community, this level of endorsement is a milestone for the Project Space and for EFA as a whole.  We are extremely grateful to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for supporting the work we are doing, and for contributing to the growth and sustenance of this important program.

Keep up with Empathy Corporation Events!

Keep up with EFA Project Space and A Blade of Grass' first presentaiton of The Hive, Empathy Corporation, by visiting the Tumblr page (efa-abog-hive.tumblr.com). Images and news from each workshop and event are posted daily. Remember to RSVP for the events! Email projectspace@efanyc.org for more information or click here for the schedule of events.