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July 16–August 18, 2024

The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object 

Onyedika Chuke and Assembly

June 1, 2024 at 2:00pm

Meeting #3: Gathering Workshop — Creative Tools for Collective Movement Facilitated by Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

Helina Metaferia

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

January 27, 2024, 2:00 – 3:30pm

Holding Water: Workshop 2

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 5, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Community Potluck

Marcela Torres and Assembly

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

November 11, 2023–January 25, 2024

Session & Assembly Collaboration: BARRO

Marcela Torres and Assembly

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

May 5, 2023

Gallery Noir: A Celebration of Black Artisty

Assembly

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

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.

April 9 – May 15, 2022

C.R.E.A.M.: A career fair for more than just survival

Assembly

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

March 2021 - April 2022

Political Intimacy

Assembly

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

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?

May 30–August 3, 2019

Ash Arder: Disco Gardens

Ash Arder

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

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

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Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice

Assembly

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

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

March 8–April 28, 2018

A Moment in the Sun

Tiffany Smith

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

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

September 7–December 22, 2017

Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK) POP-UP Workshop

Stephanie Dinkins

an investigation of algorithms exposing pervasive forms of digital discrimination

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

March 30–June 17, 2017

Iyapo Repository

Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde

a speculative lab and resource library operated by Salome Asega and Ayodamola Okunseinde that maintains a collection of digital and physical artifacts

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