Join us on Saturday + Sunday, April 13 and 14, from 1 to 6PM each day, for the second Open Studios with the 2023-24 Studio Artists and the 100+ artists and arts organizations participating in DUMBO Open Studios!
Smack Mellon’s exhibitions by Mo Kong and Sunny Leerasanthanah will also be on view throughout Open Studios weekend.
Please note that masks are strongly encouraged in the lower level, where the artists’ studios are located.
Participating Smack Mellon artists include (from top left):
Gara Lonning
Itzel Basualdo
Kyoung eun Kang
Madjeen Isaac
mujero
Yuchen Chang
Javier María, Media Systems Manager
Image Credit: 2023-24 Studio Artists in their Smack Mellon studio. Images courtesy of Smack Mellon. Photos by Etienne Frossard.
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 2023-2024 cohort moved into their studios on September 1, 2023 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 panel for the 2023-24 program consisted of Eriola Pira, Curator & Director of Programs at Vera List Center; Prerana Reddy, Artist Community Fellow at Recess; and Gee Wesley, Curatorial Assistant, Dept of Media and Performance at MoMA. Preliminary panelists were former Smack Mellon Studio or Exhibition artists: Leah Beeferman, Jesus Benavente, Moko Fukuyama, Domenica Garcia, Bang Geul Han, Sara Jimenez, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, and Anne Wu.
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, 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.
