koda.lab

501(c)(3) • social justice • residency • mid-career artists • exhibitions • education • events

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Join us for "Art and Comedy Event: Peace-Building with Laughter" produced and curated by Mina Cheon.

📆 9/6 at 3:30pm
📍 KODA
🎟️ https://t.co/XrYuYAutr8

Feat. MJ, Jonah Bowen, Naveed Mahbub, Eman Morgan, Peter S. Kim, Alex Kim, John Bent, Ryan Chazie, Yatin, and Adam Thomas.

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KODA and Ethan Cohen Gallery present the AFROFUTURISM panel discussion with artists Renée Cox, Nanette Carter, Algernon Miller, and Tyrone Mitchel. Moderated by writer Seph Rodney. 7/6 at 6pm at Ethan Cohen Gallery (251 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011).

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👑 KODA debuts Renée Cox’s Soul Culture Statue (2025), the artist's first public art commission. The sculpture, inspired by West African funerary sculptures, Pre-Columbian imagery from Peru, and Dogū figures from Japan, is on view at KODA on @Gov_Island till 11/2. #Afrofuturism

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🎉 KODA is 5! 🎉 Curiosity, collaboration, and sparkling conversations. Join us to celebrate art & social justice.

📅 Sunday, April 20
🍸 Cocktails at 6–8 PM
📍 Ornithology Jazz Club on 6 Suydam St, Brooklyn

🎟 Tickets are on sale now—get yours early:
https://t.co/GlHDxp9zng

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📣 Thrilled to announce "KODA Arts Administration Fellowship" organized with artist Cynthia Tobar for undergraduate students. 🎓 The Fellowship will take place June 6-August 8 with final presentations at MoMA.

👉🏾 Apply: https://t.co/MQsGA9UMDk
📆 Deadline: April 27 at 11:59pm ET

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📣 OPEN CALL IS LIVE! Join us at KODA House on Governors Island. Studio space, a $1,000 honorarium, an optional residency exhibition, and more. ➡️ Apply to KODA Peace-Building Fall 2025 Residency Open Call: https://t.co/4SqZu8Fhtn #ArtistResidency #OpenCall

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KODA is 5! 🎉 & we are celebrating by publishing 5 exhibition catalogs with 5 artists: Farideh Sakhaeifar, Rowan Renee, Mildred Beltré, Alex Mari, and Renée Cox. Head over to Kickstarter to contribute to our $5,000 goal today! https://t.co/Zc22fnmoXE

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🧐 What do artists need? On Oct 11, KODA will revisit this question at Teachers College, Columbia University. Seminars with Christina Daniels, Sari Carel, Rowan Renee, and Brittni Collins. 🎟 KODA 5th Professional Development for Artists Symposium RSVP: https://t.co/P1kVksc2r8

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🍃 Celebrating #ClimateWeek we are excited to unveil an intimate iteration of 'Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle,' 2024, at KODA House kitchen @Gov_Island, originally an outdoors installation. ♻️

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🚶🏻‍♀️'Melanie Crean: Thresholds' Artist Walkthrough + Game will take place Sep 21 at KODA House on @Gov_Island. 🚪 Artist walkthrough will be followed by a preview of 'Games To Be Played in Doorways' (2024, part of the Dante Project, in progress).

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📣 Exhibition 'Melanie Crean: Thresholds' on view Sep 6-29, 2024 at KODA House @Gov_Island. 👩🏻‍🏫 Crean's site-specific creative practice focuses on power structures created through media, culture, and technology and how these structures can be contested and re-patterned. 📝

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🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 KODA x Stilt City Retreat 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 New partnership between KODA and multidisciplinary artist Rowan Renee, the founder of the experimental art retreat—Stilt City, in a Rockaway bungalow designed by @JGArchitects Architects. 🏡 Join “Jackhammer Party” on Sept 7! 🔨

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📣 Pleased to announce Nicoletta de la Brown @VidaMagicaLove is KODA Fall 2024 Artists in Residence from the Mental Health #OpenCall. 🙌🏾 Nicoletta is an interdisciplinary artist and curandero chamána (shamanic practitioner). 🏡 Visit Nicoletta's studio at KODA House @Gov_Island.

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📣 Pleased to announce Melanie Crean is KODA Fall 2024 Artists in Residence from the Mental Health #OpenCall. 🙌🏾 Melanie is an artist and educator whose creative practice focuses on power structures. 🏡 Visit Melanie's studio at KODA House @Gov_Island.

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👩🏽‍🌾 Today! "Workshop for Kids: Where Do Materials Come from, and Where Do They Go? Hands on Clay with Clay Space." 🌱 Organized in the spirit of sustainability and "Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle" exhibition on view through June 30. 🪴

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📣 Announced! Renée Cox is one of the two KODA Spring 2024 Artists in Residence. 🙌🏾 One of the most influential living Black photographers working today, Renée's works inspire generations 🏡 At KODA, Renée will create work & experiment with new materials and techniques.

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📈 Daily grind, visualized. Sari Carel's public art commission 'A More Perfect Circle' examines our daily routines with single-use coffee cups. 💡 Based on a survey with Nicholas Hoynes, a PhD student in Environmental Sociology at NYU. 🪴 https://t.co/mbtNeXaRXO ☕️

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🗑 Join us May 30 for "The Secret Life of Trash," a panel discussion at Greenpoint Library with Sari Carel, Laura Mott, and Nicholas Hoynes on how awareness about the relationship between production, consumerism & waste translate to action. RSVP: https://t.co/MmxjMvU2ke ♻️

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☀️ Celebrating opening of 'Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle' in perfect Earth Day weather was a joy. See events! 🔛 On May 4, exercise your senses and experience urban and natural sounds on the 'Listening Walk: Tonalities and Time Scales with Daniel Neumann and Sari Carel.'

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📣 Tomorrow! 'Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle' is a public art meditation on throw-away culture and the circular economy. Opening Reception on Saturday, April 20 at 2-5pm at Lentol Garden. Curated by Jennifer McGregor. #AMorePerfectCircle 🌿