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What is Session?

Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.

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Opens September 19, 2026

The Khajistan Institute for Advanced Research and Necessary Development

Khajistan

Khajistan preserves art, words, & media from forgotten or silenced communities, from the Indus to the Maghreb, archiving banned and censored materials

May 30–June 27, 2026

DAWN-DUSK-DAWN

Bel Falleiros

a space to reconnect with the cycles of life—light and dark, beginning and ending—as a way to reflect on regenerative practices

April 2–May 9, 2026

A sonata to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the American empire

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice