Art Kibbutz Summer Studios are open to the public every Sunday in June, July, August, and mid-September
    - Art Kibbutz Open Studios are open each Sunday 11:00AM - 6:00PM
    - Rain or Shine
    - Line Up / Set times subject to change
    - Public Programs are for all ages

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Upcoming Events for Artists

Every other Tuesday
Lunch & Learn: Social Justice in the Context of Jewish Art with
Jewish learning for artists in our community with experts in the field about various topics related to social justice including trans rights, women's rights, migration, social inequality.

September 14
Scholar-in-residence Shaina Goldberg, Director of Volunteer Services at Met Council on Jewish Poverty

Bring Your Own Art
Sign up to present, exhibit or host your event at Art Kibbutz this summer here

Past Public Events for Artists
Special learning with scholar-in-residence: Nigel Savage (Hazon) on July 19th and dr. Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat, (Hebrew Institute of Riverdale) on August 16th, Pearl Gluck on August 30th.

Mixer at the Center for Fiction
Tuesday, July 26 6:30-9:00PM
17 E 47th Street
Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellows invite current and recent recipients of New York’s most prestigious emerging writers fellowships to join for drinks at The Center for Fiction for their first ever cross-fellowship mixer.

Sponsoring organizations: Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Lambda Literary, Whiting Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, A Public Space, Millay Colony, One Story, Omi International Arts Center, Poets House, Kundiman, BuzzFeed, Art Kibbutz, Yaddo, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The MacDowell Colony, Norman Mailer Center, Tent: Creative Writing, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, Lewis Center for the Arts, Cullman Center at NYPL.

Group Visit: Yiddish Theater's Legacy in American Performance
Monday, July 18 at 6:30 pm
Panel and artist reception with Tovah Feldshuh, (Actress, Singer, and Playwright), Adam Kantor (Actor), Jackie Hoffman (Actress), Michelle Slonim (Stand-up comedian), and David Chack (moderator), Professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University and President of the Association for Jewish Theatre @ 1220 Fifth Avenue. 

Creatives Community Dinner
Friday, July 8
In collaboration with the group art show, "BROOKLYN: JUXTAPOSITION" at our partner organization, Repair the World NYC, our group participated in a Shabbat dinner on July 8th. We met the artists, connected with local musicians and ate too much challah. Nourished by OneTable.

Upcoming Events for the Public

Exhibition: History, Heritage & the Lower East Side

August 21 - September 18
A collaborative project by Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer exploring New York City's historic Lower East Side through mixed media paintings incorporating augmented reality. More here.

Last Open Studios on Sept. 18th!

Lost Sock Project ‘Oneness’  
Come an participate in a public sewing project on September 18th to celebrate our diversity and to create connections with Canadian artist Lori Goldberg. 

"The Lost Sock project refers to my identity as a Jewish woman, mother as well touching on issues such as diversity and inclusiveness. It consists of a daily ritual: sewing single, lost socks together to create a long tube. Part of my process involves collecting scraps of fabric from the garment industry and lost socks at Laundromats while I am in NYC. The scrap fabric will be used to fill the long sock tube. Visitors of Governors Island will be asked to assist me in connecting the socks."

SaraNoa Mark will present artworks showing her relationship with physicality – what it feels like to step on sand, and how materials decay over time - temporality, and our desire to document experience. She uses carving tools in her drawing process to irritate, scratch, poke, cut, and crawl on paper and fabrics to create sculptural drawings and paper sculptures asking when do works on paper become works of paper?"

Belgian artists Wannes Duponcheel and Nadia Randriamorasata will present Arbeit Machs Frei, a 12 hours long performance art piece with installations.

Past Events

Figment Festival 
On June 5th we participated at a busy day of art making when Governor's Island was transformed into an artsy playland with an art minigolf course, architectural pavilion, interactive sculptures, and over 130 projects. Art Kibbutz presented its first Open Studios of the season. Photos
 
Oy, Oy Gevalt Book Release Party
On June 9th with alumni artists Moshiach Oi! at the Town & Village Synagogue.

Tikkun Leil Shavuot Celebration
Group visit on June 11th to view resident artists performing with the Jewish Plays Project for Tikkun Leil Shavuot at 14thStreetY with Shira Kline, Naomi Less, Max Jared, Sarah Sokolic, and Max Jared.

Father's Day Very Special
On June 18th Moshiach Oi! Hassidic punk concert - honoring Punk Island on Governor's Island. The New York Times Summer Academy group visited Art Kibbutz's Open Studios. Photos

Residency Unlimited Artist Dialogue
On June 19th H.E.A.L. Kentucky-based fellows of our partner organization Residency Unlimited visited. Artists shared their experiences in building community-based projects in the Jewish and African American communities. Photos

Lev Ari Primaal Art Workshop
Sunday, July 15 and 23
Immersion into Lev Ari's method

New York Poetry Festival
Sunday, July 31
Hillel Broder, Pinny Bullman, and Tamra Plotnik will read at 11am. Later that day in our building German-born photographer and writer Julian Voloj explores aspects of identity and heritage in his work. His critically acclaimed graphic novel "Ghetto Brother" (with artist Claudia Ahlering) tells the story of Benjamin Melendez, the founder of the notorious "Ghetto Brothers," a South Bronx gang who initiated an iconic 1971 gang truce. In the aftermath of this peace meeting, a new culture later known as hip hop emerged in the region, while Melendez discovered and reclaimed his Jewish roots. At Art Kibbutz the author is a Bechol Lashon fellow and will be in conversation on July 31st with Melendez about his upbringing in the Bronx, New York's gang culture, conflict resolution and Jewish identity.

Klezmer Aerobics
Sunday, August 7
Daniel Brenner and 80s Klezmer Aerobics. Daniel started performing in 1987 alongside the late comic legend Chris Farley and has been doing theater ever since. In rabbinical school, he created the one-man-show Faster, Rabbi, Drill! Drill!, won an All Out Arts New York playwriting award (2000), and wrote a series of Chassidic folktale plays for Philadelphia’s Theatre Ariel. Since then, he had a play produced by New York’s Vital Theater. Shvitz! The 80s Klezmer Aerobics Experience is a family-friendly interactive dance/storytelling workout where “the 1880s meets the 1980s.”

Tamra Plotnick Interactive Poetry Presentation, August 7
Photos here

Meet-up
Wednesday, August 17 7:00pm
NYC Kumzitz for young professionals with band ZUSHA
The Carlebach Shul (305 W. 79th Street)

Creative Queers Picnic
Sunday, August 28
Join together to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community through dance, art, spoken word, and all other forms of creative expression. Guests are invited to eat, drink, and enjoy entertainment spread across the sprawling green grounds of Governor’s Island and Art Kibbutz summer studios. We will share food, meet and greet the artists & enjoy movement and audial work-in-progress performance of interdisciplinary artist Moriah Ella Mason as well as a sneak preview of Pearl Gluck's new film. Judith Margolis will present the Women of the Book. See our facebook event.

Jewish Women's Foundation visit
August 30
Open Studios and group visit of the  Jewish Women's Foundation. See blog entry.