Mar
26
5:00 PM17:00

Panel with Transart Institute

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Organized by Transart advisor and artist Jean Marie Casbarian and mediated by Transart advisor and artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo. This panel of Transart alumni from across the globe will explore the issues surrounding racial and cultural biases, and the systemic obstacles to equanimity that they continue to face. Please join us in a conversation that integrates somatic exercises and embodied practices that seek to support the open heart in which honest dialogues, compassion, and empathy can coexist.

To RSVP click HERE / To learn more about Transart Institute click HERE

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Mar
18
9:30 AM09:30

Tête-à-Tête/ Shanghai-The Bronx, New York / A live Conversation Between José Drummond and Nicolás

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To RSVP and receive Zoom link to join this event click HERE / or email HERE

Thursday, March 18, 9:30-11 AM (EDT) / Organized by Zìzhì and Babel

Language: English with Chinese live translation

Tête-à-Tête is an open studio event where an artist or a curator is invited to present an art work or a group of works in the studio of artist José Drummond or online via zoom.

Zìzhì means homemade in Chinese and is an alternative not for profit project focusing on organizing activities and events in order to make artworks more tangible to the public.

BABEL’s mission is to generate research and learning opportunities in the fields of contemporary art, architecture and environment. BABEL is conceived as a museum without walls and aims to work between cultures and across disciplines.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively, through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited and performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Casita Maria, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, Estévez Raful Espejo was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.  

Photo: Melanie DewBerry

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Nov
15
to Jun 15

The Salon Welcomes Isa Yehya to Our Team

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Born and raised in New York City, Isabel Yehya is a third-year Critical and Visual Studies student at Pratt Institute. Within the Critical and Visual Studies program, she has developed both a theoretical and creative foundation centered around philosophy, psychoanalysis, art and film history, critical theory, and postcolonial feminist theory. Working towards completing a minor in Cinema Studies, she hopes to focus her senior thesis on feminist horror aesthetics in film, music, video games, and art. Her long term goal in both the academic and art world is to work with traditional art and film institutions in reimagining their permanent collections and transitioning from being a monument of an obsolete history of art -- linear and dominated by European male “geniuses” -- into a more inclusive and diverse space. Isabel now works as an intern with Nicolás and The Interior Beauty Salon, as well as the Franklin Furnace Event Archives of Variable Media Art.

Photo: Courtesy of Isa Yehya

Isa Yehya: IG / Facebook

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