Join us on Saturday, December 7, from 1 to 6PM, for the first Open Studios with the 2024-25 Studio Artists! While you’re in the neighborhood, shop artists’ studios DUMBO-wide during the 2024 edition of Shop the Studios! Organized by Art in DUMBO in partnership with the DUMBO BID x Brooklyn Flea Holiday Market.
Please note that masks are encouraged in the lower level where the artists’ studios are located.
During Shop the Studios, support Smack Mellon with the purchase of a signed, limited edition artist’s print! Works are available by artists including Madjeen Isaac, Yuchen Chang, Tariku Shiferaw, Cecile Chong, and others.
Woomin Kim
Juan José Cielo
Sasha Fishman
Amina Ross
Christian Amaya Garcia
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano
Javier María, Media Systems Manager
Smack Mellon’s exhibitions will also be on view, with an opening reception scheduled for Saturday, December 7, 6-8PM.
ARTIST STUDIO PROGRAM
The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis of affordable studio space for artists living and working in New York City. The program provides six visual artists with a free private studio space accessible 24/7, a fellowship, and access to shared common areas: a media lab with editing suites and a shop for wood fabrication. The 2024-2025 cohort moved into their studios on September 5, 2024 and they will be in residence for an eleven-month period.
Each year, Smack Mellon convenes a panel of art professionals to select the artists from over 300 applicants. The 2024-2025 Studio Artist Panelists were: Stamatina Gregory, Chief Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art; Gabriela López Dena, Associate Curator of Public Practice at Public Art Fund; and Serubiri Moses, Independent Writer and Curator. Preliminary panelists were former Smack Mellon Studio or Exhibition artists: Emily Clayton, Itziar Barrio, Tariku Shiferaw, Maya Jefferies, Rebecca Shapass, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Ezra Wube, and Jessica Segall.
A call for applications is open through December 1, 2024 for the 2025-26 Artist Studio program.
Image Credit: 2023-24 Studio Artist Madjeen Isaac in their Smack Mellon studio. Image courtesy of Smack Mellon. Photo: Etienne Frossard
The Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, Jerome Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., Select Equity Group Foundation, and Smack Mellon’s Members.
Smack Mellon programs are also made possible with generous support from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Wolf Kahn Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, and an Anonymous Donor.
In-kind donations are provided by Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education and Sage and Coombe Architects.
Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas family and Two Trees Management.