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December 20, 2024, 12:30 – 5:00pm

Dancing While Caged + DJ Set with Stefan Ruiz

June Canedo de Souza

a conversation around the experience of dancing inside prison while incarcerated; whether individually, socially, in a classroom, or choreographer.

June 19, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Meeting #4: Juneteenth Closing Event – A Meditative Celebration of Liberation and Community Facilitated by Wildcat Ebony Brown, Nour Batyne, Adelle Lin & Manushka Magloire of the Wide Awakes

Helina Metaferia

Celebrate Juneteenth with the Wide Awakes at a closing event designed as a meditative space for grounding and celebration.

Fall 2022 - Present

Assembly x Red Hook Community Justice Center

Assembly

visualization & embodiment exercises that invite us to challenge our preconceived notions, while developing a historical understanding of policing

May - June 2022

For Freedoms: Another Justice By Any Medium Necessary

Assembly

This For Freedoms billboard campaign will culminate their series of creative programming exploring dimensions of carceral justice.

January 13–March 4, 2022

A Common Thread

Rowan Renee

A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.

March 11, 18, & 25, 2021

Assembly x NYU 2021: Art and Abolition

Assembly

The Gallatin Galleries, Assembly, with Shaun Leonardo and Peer Leaders—What role can art, the image and and performance play in abolition?

September 14–October 26, 2020

something else (Variations on Americana)

Kiyan Williams

The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.

March 21–May 11, 2019

blue are the feelings that live inside me

AMERICAN ARTIST

From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing

April 19, 2018

Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

Shaun Leonardo, along with members of the program’s peer leadership group led a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum

On view

Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum and co-curated by our collaborators

January 9–March 3, 2018

Invisible Man Tattoo

Doreen Garner

Invisible Man Tattoo is a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.

January 4–March 3, 2018

Primetime

Alexandra Bell

exploring the role of stereotypes, messaging, and news media to directly engage issues of racism, gun violence, and police brutality

June 23–September 1, 2017

then the street lights–like a warning bell

Sable Elyse Smith

a project by Sable Elyse Smith consisting of constellation of works that simultaneously reference sites of play and enclosure

January 12–March 9, 2017

Shaun Leonardo: Assembly

Shaun Leonardo

Assembly is invested in reframing the narrative around the justice system with and for court-involved participants

May 30–August 9, 2012

Invisible Men

Abigail DeVille

DeVille will amass bricolage, painting, and sculpture into a selective history of culturally invisible classes of people.

April 13–June 11, 2011

Worn Thin

Jeff Williams

Williams will develop a series of sculptures, photographs, and videos along with a stratum of accumulated site-specific experiments.