Category: news
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Hatuey Ramos-Fermín to Work in Partnership with THE POINT CDC & NOCD-NY
Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, THE POINT CDC, and NOCD-NY announced today that they received an Artist Employment Program (AEP) grant from Creatives Rebuild New York
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Streets for Culture
Join us for a roundtable discussion on shaping future streets for culture with Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, Jennifer Nitzky, Elena Ketelsen González, and Streets Ahead Culture Working Group members.
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Exploring the Field: Equity and Arts Programmimng
Hatuey Ramos-FermÍn and Valeria Miranda, experienced leaders in community programming, offered insights into their professional journeys in the arts sector, and the path that led them to leadership roles in the field. This session centers their experiences as people of color navigating the field. They discussed what it means to create programming curated around the…
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LP Documents
Tune in to hear about collaborative public art projects in New York City creatively addressing issues like im/migration, neighborhood identity, gender justice, and more.
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Streets Ahead Working Groups
In the Fall of 2021, Urban Design Forum’s Streets Ahead convened interdisciplinary Working Groups made up of our Forum Fellows to advance a set of visionary proposals and tools for a more vibrant, equitable streetscape.
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Power After the Pandemic: Rebuilding our Post-Covid Cities
“While I’m organizing at the legislative level and pushing my colleagues, I’m also funneling information that’s helpful to the ground for the work that [organizers are] doing, and we’re coordinating, and they’re pushing on the outside while I’m pushing on the inside. [I’m] really seeing that develop as part of a larger movement and being…
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Claiming Public Space
Space is not neutral. Public space is not equally accessible, but can depend upon race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, economic status, age, and other markers of identity.
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Making Art, Building Community, & Creating Change through Abundance (exhibition)
In the context of the Hindsight 2020 conference, I curated an exhibition celebrating 5 years of the Kelly Street Collaborative. From 2014-2019, The Laundromat Project collaborated with Workforce Housing Group, Kelly Street Garden, Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, among other community based organizations, to transform a two-bedroom apartment and surrounding public spaces on Kelly Street…
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Workshop: Practicing Abundance: A Model for Creative Community Building
Led this workshop as part of the Artplace Summit. What can a mindset of abundance, rather than scarcity, do for communities? We’ll explore the Laundromat Project’s engagement with the Kelly Street neighborhood in the South Bronx, showing how Laundromat weaves abundance into its organizing model—and what it means to practice abundance as a way to…
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Making Art, Building Community, And Creating Change Through Abundance
Workshop led for the Artworld Conference Defining Value(s) in the art world Arts and culture institutions wield influence, impacting and transforming social issues in our communities. For an institution to be authentic (honoring mission, values, and communities of accountability), a practice of self-reflection and adaptation is required to ensure inner structures and processes align with…
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The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives (edited by Allison Guess & Prithi Kanakamedala) is a book of ten commissioned essays by archivists, activists, artists, and historians that reflects the creative and intellectual energy of the City Amplified working group. The essays explore the meaning of community-centered oral history archives and the ethics of…
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In, Of, and Crossing Essex
By Fall of 2018, Essex Market will prepare for its relocation as part of the Essex Crossing development. At this time of transition, In, Of and Crossing Essex will present three artist projects by Sonia Louise Davis, Dillon de Give, and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín.
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Parade of Perseverance
El Museo prepares for 41st Annual Three Kings Day Parade Story by Gregg McQueen Parade of PerseveranceDesfile de la perseverancia Four decades later, the three kings (and queens) still reign. The East Harlem streets will once again be taken over by real camels, giant hand-made puppets and live music, when El Museo del Barrio celebrates its annual Three Kings…
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INTERVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT
Through a decade, The Laundromat Project worked for the residents of New York’s historic minority neighborhoods to get their voices heard. The tools for it? Art and design.
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Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial
Jessica Vaughn, Glory, 2014, Digital Photograph, 30 x40 in Courtesy of the artist July 9 to September 20, 2015 Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists engaged in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program (classes of 2014 and 2015). AIM provides professional development…
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Boogie on the Boulevard
After two years of hard work from a diverse range of Bronx community members, I’m happy to report that Boogie on the Boulevard (formerly known as Car Free Sundays) is coming back to the Grand Concourse! Please join us and help spread the word about these great events!
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Latinos on the line
Latinos on the 6 Train Line: A Tour of BX Latino Environmentalists and More! First published on Bronx River Sankofa by Morgan Powell Let’s enjoy a few of the hundreds of places overfull with environmental, cultural, and advocacy history (1970s to the present) worth savoring along the Pelham Bay/ no. 6 train line in the Bronx,…
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A NECESSARY SHIFT
EFA November 15 – December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6-8pm A Necessary SHIFT is an exhibition and series of events that celebrates and highlights EFA’s Residency for Arts-Workers as Artists, now entering its fourth year. With the launch of this exhibition, we launch the official name for the residency: SHIFT residency, and highlight the activities…
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RESIDENT SPOTLIGHT 2013: HATUEY RAMOS-FERMIN
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin is a participant in EFA’s 2013 Residency for Arts Workers as Artists. In addition to his art practice, Hatuey is the Media Lab Manager-Coordinator for the Teen Council Program at the Bronx Museum and the Programs Manager at The Bronx River Art Center.
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Ancestry and Spirit: Site Specific Performance in the Hunts Point Homes Residency
By Taja Lindley | June 2013 On a rainy day in May I’m making my way to the Bronx Academy for Arts and Dance (BAAD!). The walk from the 6 train station at Longwood Avenue is a long one, or rather it feels that way because I’m walking into a place that’s tucked away, out…
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Core 77 Design Award Educational Initiative winner
The Project Funky Fresh that I was the leading Teaching Artist is part of this award Core 77 Design Award Educational Initiative EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES PROFESSIONAL WINNER DESIGNER / TEAM NAME The Center for Urban Pedagogy PROJECT Urban Investigations CLIENT The Center for Urban Pedagogy
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Bronx Museum Teen Council at New Leaning Times
Learn more about Teen Council here. To see more, sign up at New Learning Times and see the article here.
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Arin Rungjang on Cooking up “Golden Teardrop” for the Thai Pavilion in Venice
by Max Crosbie-Jones for Blouin ARTINFO BANGKOK — Conceptual artist Arin Rungjang was recently confirmed as one of two artists due to helm the Thai Pavilion at this summer’s Venice Biennale (the other being Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch). Surprisingly, it appears that his contribution will be quite un-Rungjang like in some respects — free of the audience activities or site-specific responses for which…
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WADE IN THE WATER AT BRONX RIVER ART CENTER
http://www.bronxnet.org/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv_html5/player.swf Hautey Ramos from Bronx River Art Center is back to discuss the Waterfront event happening at Bronx River Art Center.