Staying Power by Ariana Allensworth
For the Lower East Side iteration of Staying Power, artist Ariana Allensworth will expand upon a collaborative, multidisciplinary art and research project that celebrates the people’s history of New York City public housing in the neighborhood through photography, personal collections, and interview with residents. The project offers counter-narratives to the stereotypes surrounding the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) through the lens of residents raised and living in NYCHA.
LES Black & Red by Dennis RedMoon Darkeem
An installation honoring the Black and Indigenous histories of the Lower East Side.
Opening June 19th at M’Finda Kalunga Garden’s annual Juneteenth Celebration.
Intermittent Imprints(to walk along the river) by Raul Ayala
FAB is a local partner in LESReady! a network supporting community resiliency in the face of climate change. Our most recent collaboration with Downtown Art is on artist Raul Ayala’s installation on the facade of 70 East 4th Street.
Intermittent Imprints (to walk along the river) is an installation and performance by Raul Ayala that unveils the neighborhood’s pre-colonial ecologies, with the waterway that once flowed through East 4th Street down to the East River acting as a reference point for considering our vital relationship to water in a time of rapidly advancing climate change.
LES Community Culture Council
The Lower East Side Community Culture Council is a group of LES residents and workers interested in strengthening opportunities for LESiders to connect to, enjoy, and actively participate in local arts and culture experience. These connections may be as audiences, arts learners, or practicing artists.
The Council was founded in 2018 in collaboration with the Performance Project at University Settlement.
LES Young Artists of Color Fellowship
The Lower East Side Young Artists of Color Fellowship is a group of early career BIPOC LES artists and residents, aged 18-25. The Fellowship includes weekly meetings, guest artists, work shares and culminates in a curated exhibition by the fellows.
The LES Young Artists of Color Fellowship is a program of Downtown Art, FABnyc, and Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES).
Messages To Go
by Hatuey Ramos-Fermín
FABnyc emerges out of anti-displacement organizing done by low-income tenants of both residential and commercial properties. Building off of this legacy we strive to continue supporting and collaborating with small businesses in the Lower East Side.
FABnyc recently commissioned Hatuey Ramos-Fermín’s Messages to Go, an art project that produces, designs, and distributes a series of reusable shopping bags based on conversations and interviews with local small business owners and advocates.
