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Exploring the history of Bomba, a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican art form rooted in resistance

A set of musical works, sculptures, and performances working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US.

a series of events, political polls, and artistic gestures chronicling events of 2020 in hindsight

A community event about community safety and abolition, highlighting the abolitionist benches and paper alchemy created at Recess Art.

Exploring Palestinian culture, history, and resilience through the lens of movement and contemporary performance.

Artist Marcela Torres and Assembly will make a series of food vessels and ask Recess community members and the public who want to attend, to bring dis

Torres in collaboration with Assembly will explore the history of New York through its soil and natural clay deposits.

a community talk + artist showcase centering and celebrating Black queer safety through joy and dance

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

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

Assembly collaborated with Performance Artist Ayana Evans for C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me): A career fair for more than survival

Political Intimacy, a collaboration between Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute students, demystifies and humanizes local electoral candidates.

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

Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music.

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

exploring printmaking as a vehicle for engaging the ways trauma and memory are shaped by institutionalized violence, displacement, and exile

a multimedia video presentation and as a documentary filmmaking studio to compile a series of interviews designed to decenter Whiteness

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

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

inspired by traditions of West African portrait photography and the cultural practice of using the wicker throne peacock chair

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

an investigation of algorithms exposing pervasive forms of digital discrimination

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