Evidence of Becoming

Assembly Photography Workshop, Camilo Godoy, 2021

On View July 18-August 15, 2026

Open hours: 12-5pm, Thursday-Saturday.

46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205

Free and Open to the Public

Visitor info

The gallery space at 46 Washington Avenue, where the exhibition is on view, is fully wheelchair accessible. Our restrooms are gender-neutral and ADA compliant. Please note that some public programs associated with the exhibition will take place upstairs and require one flight of stairs. If you have questions about accessibility, would like to discuss possible accommodations, or would like to schedule a private visit to the exhibition, please email info@recessart.org.

“Assembly has allowed me to not only imagine bigger but also create bigger.”

CUERO CARO, former Assembly Fellow

A Living Archive of Becoming

For a decade, Assembly has existed as a space for young people to expand their dreams, actualize themselves into being, resource their communities, and utilize collaboration as a path toward collective healing.

Founded in 2016, Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art and connections to working artists, while serving as an alternative to incarceration and intersecting systems of oppression. What began as an intervention and diversion from the criminal legal system has evolved into a community of organizers, artists, youth, and educators united by a commitment to collective liberation, creative practice, and the belief that all young New Yorkers deserve the resources, relationships, and space to be themselves.

“Now I create with purpose, a plan for longevity & positioning to continue my career as a multifaceted artist and expand my reach.”

Son of Brandy AKA Premeyung, former Assembly Fellow

Evidence of Becoming marks ten years of artists taking personal and creative risks, creating collective safety outside of harmful systems, and telling their stories on their own terms. Rather than offering a fixed history, the exhibition unfolds as a living archive through a collection of artworks, performances, workshops, events, and community resources. Together, these works demonstrate that "becoming" is not a destination but an ongoing practice that is collective, changing, unfinished, and deeply embedded in community. Presenting 67 artworks by 24 artists, this exhibition speaks to the diverse interests pursued by Assembly participants and teaching artists, ranging from tattoo designs to repurposed police barricades, from DJ mixes to watercolors. The works gathered here ask us to consider what art can hold: memory, grief, healing, accountability, survival, and joy. Asking what becomes possible when young people are met with care, resources, and each other. Together, these materials trace the ecosystem of a living community shaped by artists, fellows, peer leaders, educators, organizers, staff, and collaborators whose contributions point towards the flourishing that can occur when we collectively resource each other’s imaginations and ambitions.

“Recess encourages people to show up as they are and reminds us that the resources we have at hand are enough.”

Warner Meadows, Assembly Teaching Artist

Programming throughout the run of the exhibition will offer a glimpse into the values that shape Assembly. Occurring weekly on Saturdays, the public is invited to experience traces of our liberatory approach to art education through a series of performances, community meals, art-making workshops, guided somatic exercises, an abolition teach-in, and a community safety workshop.

Evidence of Becoming aims to honor every person who has shaped and impacted the Assembly ecosystem. It is a visual representation of the transformative power of art that is rooted in abolition, collective care, and the belief that young people deserve spaces of becoming.

Exhibiting Artsits

Co-curated by KT Kennedy, Associate Director of Youth Organizing and Lindsay C. Harris, Co-Director with Kyle Ingram, Associate Director of Facilities and Production.

Lai (Delailah Ramos)