The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center is pleased to announce the 26th edition of Open Studios on Saturday, May 20 from 4-8 pm and Sunday, May 21, 2023 from 2-6pm.
This year’s Open Studios weekend will feature five floors of visual and performing arts, with over 46 artist studios and 6 organizations. In addition, the 5th iteration of Public Spaces Open Studios (PSOS2023), juried by María del Carmen Carrión, will feature work from 16 artists, such as Manuel Acevedo, Ophelia Arc, Jennie Booth, Kiani Ferris, María-Elena Pombo, Lucia Warck-Meister, and more!
PSOS will remain on view to the public from May 20 - June 30!
Throughout the weekend, enjoy participatory programming like free art-making activities with Cool Culture, the Capoeira Festival from Afro Brazil Arts and poetry readings from FELT Theater, as well as film screenings as part of the Kabayitos Microcinema Film Festival, and more. All events are FREE and open to the public.
Saturday, May 20
Special Events
Sunday, May 21
Special Events
Participating Artists:
Hector Marín-Arias, Jan Baracz, Itziar Barrio, John Benton, F. Douglas Blanchard, Radek Brousil, Brian Buckley, Linda Byrne, Natalia de Campos, Cazorla + Saleme, Paul Clay, Susanna Coffey, Elisabeth Condon, Steve Ellis, Inka Essenhigh, Jeanette Farrow, Kate Finneran, Flloyd, David Friedman, Linda Griggs, Allen Hansen, Kylie Heidenheimer, Victoire Inchauspé, Sue Jeong Ka, David Kagan, Tine Kindermann, Lisa Lebofsky, Chang-Jin Lee, Ace Lehner, Liliya Lifanova, Wayne Liu, Bill Massey, Alfredo Marin, Jen Mazza, Matahambre (Rita Indiana and Noelia Quintero, with guest artists Raúl Recio and Gerardo Claderón Juliá), Julio Monsalve, Pablo Monsalve, Steve Mumford, Mario Naves, Laura Nova, Selime Okuyan, Libby Paloma, Nicole Parcher, Norte Maar Mural Collective, Mark Power, Marylea Quintana, Seward Ryan, Pal Smet (Paul Smith), Flavia Souza, Lola Stanton, Sherman J. Sussman, Thiago Szmrecsanyi, nikki terry, Miguel Trelles, Suzanne Varni, Melanie Vote, Amy Westpfahl, Kemar Keanu Wynter
Participating Organizations:
ABC No Rio Zine Library, FELT Inc, LES Studio Program (AAI), Mark DeGarmo Dance, NY Mindful Capoeira Academy, Arts for Art
Open Studios is sponsored in part by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Tito’s Vodka.
Studio 303 Miguel Trelles
Studio 304 Suzanne Varni
Studio 305 ABC No Rio Zine Library
Studio 306 Susanna Coffey
Studio 306 John Benton
Studio 307 NY Mindful Capoeira
Studio 310 Mark deGarmo Dance
Studio 311 FELT Theater
Studio 313 Kylie Heidenheimer
Studio 315 Paul Clay
Studio 401 David Friedman
Studio 4.5 Jeanette Farrow
Studio 402 Linda Griggs
Studio 403 Mark Power
Studio 404 Jen Mazza
Studio 404 nikki terry
Studio 405 David Kagan
Studio 405 Selime Okuyan
Studio 407 Mario Naves
Studio 407 F. Douglas Blanchard
Studio 407 Cazorla + Saleme
Studio 409 Lisa Lebofsky
Studio 409 Melanie Vote
Studio 413 Wayne Liu
Allen Hansen
Studio 408 Flavia Souza
Studio 501 Amy Westpfahl
Studio 502 Inka Essenhigh
Studio 503 Chang-Jin Lee
Studio 503 Itziar Barrio
Studio 504 Natalia de Campos
Studio 504 Thiago Szmrecsanyi
Studio 505 Jan Baracz
Studio 507 Tine Kindermann
Studio 508 Kate Finneran
Studio 509 Liliya Lifanova
Matahambre
Studio 510 Nicole Parcher
Studio 512 Laura Nova
Studio 513 Pal Smet (Paul Smith)
Studio 515 Elisabeth Condon
Studio 516 Brian Buckley
Studio 519 Flloyd
Studio 519 Steve Ellis
Studio 502 Steve Mumford
Studio 511 Ace Lehner
Studio 402 Linda Byrne
Studio 515 Norte Maar Mural Collective
Studio 406 Matahambre
Dates: May 20 - June 30, 2023
Location: Building-wide
Opening Reception: May 20, 4-8pm RSVP
Curated by: María del Carmen Carrión
Participating artists: Manuel Acevedo, Ophelia Arc, Jennie Booth, Brian Buckley, Katie Cercone, Kiani Ferris, Andrew Glass, Dalit Gurevich, Sue Jeong Ka, Emily Linares, Hector Marin, Linda Mittel, Julio Monsalvo, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Nicole Parcher, Maria Elena Pombo, Marylea Quintana, Margaret Roleke, Mollie Serena, Paul Smith, Flavia Souza, Lucia Wark-Meister, Fina Yeung
Part of the Annual Open Studios two-day weekend, the Public Spaces Open Studios 2023 (PSOS23) will feature site-specific installations in public spaces throughout the building from a pull of selected artists through an open call. The program was conceived by resident artist Flavia Souza.
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cool culture + the people’s bus
Saturday, May 20
2pm - 5pm
Come kick it with Cool Culture, The People's Bus for an afternoon of free art-making activities for the whole family!
Enjoy a scavenger hunt, art making, and community mapping, as well as health and wellbeing resources and civic engagement activations with The People's Bus!
KABAYITOS MICROCINEMA EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Saturday, 4:30pm and 6pm
Sunday, 2:30pm and 4pm
Kabayitos Theater - Organized by IOM projects
Organized through an Open Call, the program will showcase experimental short films and videos (10 minutes max) that present thought-provoking and unconventional approaches to the medium.
Click here for more information.
saturday poetry performances
Saturday, 4pm and 6pm
Studio 311
Organized by FELT Theater
The Fantastic The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater, Inc. will present Saturday Poetry Performances featuring readings from:
4pm: Jorge Luis Berrios, Nelson Denis, Destiny Padilla, Frances Lozada and AnTONE Pagan with ChoreoPoemSong dedicated to Julia De Burgos and Pedro Albizu Campos.
6pm: Sylvie Baumgartel, Jeremy Hoevanaar, Alfredo Marin
As well as visual art from Hector Marín-Arias, Marylea Quintana, Julio Monsalve, Lola Stanton, Seward Ryan, Pablo Monsalve, and Alfredo Marin.
FELT Theater was founded in 1994. Our mission is to strengthen and develop artistic and cultural awareness of Latinos in New York City. With our thought provoking, multi-media theater production, we reach a multi-ethnic and inter-generational, diverse audience, representative of the nation’s cultural tapestry. Through our written Lab, we develop original work of emerging and professional playwrights. Our Educational Program captures the voice of today’s youth, and provides an opportunity for theater and film-related initiatives.
Capoeria Festival
Saturday, 4pm - 5:30pm
Flamboyán Theater
Organized by Afro Brazil Arts
Afro Brazil Arts invites the families of children in our Mindful Capoeira School Programs to celebrate and honor our young capoeiristas with a performance and graduation event featuring Capoeira masters.
WHAT IS YOUR IDENTITY? workshop With RATHI VARMA & ANABELLA LENZU
Sunday, May 21st @ 3pm
Room 309
Organized by Pioneers Go East
Social media helps you stay connected, learn new skills, and keeps you informed. But, it can sometimes come at the cost of external validation, insecurity, and anxiety. We place our beliefs on the number of followers, comments, and likes on Instagram or the likes of it. Seeking constant validation through social media, I’ve expressed my views from a user’s perspective. We seem to lose our sense of identity amongst a pool of clones. In this workshop, we will explore how we identify ourselves in relation to social media by using our phone camera. We will incorporate camera angles, text, voice, and movements/gestures.
sunday music workshop
Sunday, May 21 @ 4pm
Music is Mine is an intergenerational workshop hosted by Arts for Art that is led by professional improvising musicians! This workshop is for a wide group of generations - we have had participants from 8 years old to early college age to parents of children! The workshops build upon a person's natural ability to improvise while introducing them to the world of music. With improvisation as the basis for our pedagogy, our teachers give students the capacity to create music; both collaboratively and individually, whether the student is a beginner or advanced.
For the past 26 years, The Clemente’s resident artists and organizations have opened their studios in the landmark-recognized building that serves hundreds of arts and cultural workers to showcase new work in a wide range of media.
Open Studios is a free and open platform for local arts that builds, sustains, and supports the thriving creative community of the Lower East Side.
Housing more than 46 visual artists’ studios and 11 visual and performing arts organizations, The Clemente community is thrilled to welcome friends, colleagues, and neighbors back into their home on the Lower East Side. The public is invited to explore this multigenerational community of artists, some of whom have lived and worked in the neighborhood for more than two decades, and residents of participating residency programs. The Clemente stands as a complement and bridge to the area's current development, housed in the beautiful, former PS 160 designed in 1897 by Charles B. J. Snyder in the Dutch neo-Gothic style.
Contact us!
Contact us at info@openstudios.com