Art Where You Are: Creating Emerging Worlds at Abolitionist Place

You’re already a member. Thank you for your support! You’re already a member. Thank you for your support! You’re already a member. Thank you for your support! Text goes here that starts the relationship with the donor. Thank you for your interest in joining the President’s Guild. Your inquiry has been received, and a member of the Powerhouse Arts team will be in touch shortly with next steps. As a President’s Guild supporter, you help shape the future of contemporary art in Brooklyn: expanding access, deepening community engagement, and sustaining the artists who define our cultural landscape. We look forward to connecting with you personally. Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. Make a contribution in any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your support directly strengthens Powerhouse Arts’ mission—advancing artist production, expanding public programs, and sustaining a creative community where art and craft thrive. Every gift makes a difference. In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ upcoming exhibition, Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, participants are invited to create their own paper world inspired by the exhibition's immersive themes. With support from Powerhouse Arts staff, attendees will craft either a pop-up paper scene that recreates the feeling of moving through virtual space or that captures the sensation of stepping inside a painting. Through folding, layering, and storytelling, participants will experiment with paper engineering to bring imagined masterpieces to life. Drop in anytime to make artwork for yourself, friends, or family. All ages are welcome and encouraged to create with us. Art Where You Are is a seasonal outreach program that brings free, accessible art-making pop-ups directly into neighborhoods across Gowanus and Brooklyn. The program meets community members where they live and gather — in NYCHA housing developments, public parks, plazas, and local businesses — providing hands-on creative experiences for individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll paint and sculpt small-scale artworks to fill our museum diorama. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages. Explore the rich possibilities of cyanotypes,as well as alternative photographic printing using organic materials such asgreen tea, coffee, and wine. Strengthen the connection between observation and gesture in live model figure drawing, through this session led and supported by an instructor. In two sessions, experiment with the traditional art of marbling and then create expressive collages using the marbled designs. Presented in dialogue with Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, the Staff Art Show will showcase a range of artistic practices while exploring the broader ecosystem of influence within the arts. Each participating artist will identify an artwork from art history that has shaped their practice, revealing networks of inspiration that connect artists across generations and offering a glimpse into the creative lives of the people who make Powerhouse Arts run. Taking a software-agnostic* point of view, useboth subscription-based and open-source digital tools to create expressivecollage, patterns, texture and graphic language. With support from Stained Glass Studio founders Bryane and Jenny Fleming, attendees will learn the fundamentals of stained glass techniques while creating their own glass artwork inspired by the masterpieces featured in Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado. Explore various mosaic techniques through hands-on making and create an individual artwork. Move beyond traditional flat collage andexperiment with the layering of mixed media materials at the intersection ofpainting and sculpture. Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll design puppets inspired by Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages. Learn evocative and sensory storytelling techniques to create a mini comic exploring memories as sights, sounds, feelings, and moods. Using watercolor to create an observational illustration of a live model, experiment with shapes, structures, lines and colors in brush work. Create narrative textile works using the Japanese embroidery technique of Sashiko and patchwork techniques rooted in the compositional elements of Boro. DJ and community builder April Hunt brings her Mixtape series to Powerhouse Arts for Delighted, an evening of music, conversation, performance, and spectacle. Along with a DJ set by Hunt, the evening features Wardell Milan, Teedra Moses, and DJ Saint James Joy. Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience