The West Harlem Art Fund

02/05/2025

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/joe-overstreet-menil-collection-survey-review-1234731647/ =ce43c5cc2e5b3e8ef5b721c0edf9e99c10cead665da24a848a6d240c4aeba6a3&recipient_salt=37c83ae17938039b1ae37db21138a45aa84481258d92f9d596e0f56d39d178ab&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=artnews_today&utm_content=584233_02-04-2025&utm_term=8017277

Very happy about this survey. He was a good artist.

Joe Overstreet's Menil Collection is the year first must-see show of 2025.

02/03/2025

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/31/trump-disbands-presidential-committee-on-the-arts-and-the-National Endowment for the Humanities

Very disheartening.

The US president dissolved the committee in an executive order reversing Joe Biden’s own executive order reviving it

01/29/2025

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01/25/2025

Today is Florence Mills birthday. She would have been 129 years old. We are getting close to naming the plaza after her. Send your letters to Manhattan Borough Commissioner Tricia Shimamura. Mail them to us and we will deliver them to her. Our email is [email protected]

01/16/2025

We will share the Zoom link for the January 29th training soon.

01/16/2025

https://westharlem.art/2025/01/15/harlem-sculpture-gardens-returns-in-2025/ We are so glad to make our announcement for Harlem Sculpture Gardens 2025.

West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association are pleased to announce the second rendition of Harlem Sculpture Gardens (HSG), a large-scale outdoor exhibition, curated to foster joy a…

01/16/2025

Last night we started our training for artists. We focused on concrete footings and bases for public art. Great turn out. Five women artists attended and six artists of color also attended. Our next training on land art will be available via Zoom.

01/16/2025

West Harlem Art Fund has started for fabrication process for the installation Place of the Rushes with artist & architect Peter Miller. Very exciting.

01/03/2025

Land art or earth art could be apart of an artist's practice. Offering a connection to nature and sharing important perspective. Here is one work that was first conceived in 1968.

  Six piles of gravel reflected in twelve mirrors that make a corner on the floor, to be specific. It’s magical because Smithson has managed to create the illusion of space, within which he cr…

12/10/2024

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Interesting opportunity.

Diriyah Art Futures Announces First-Ever Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency for Established Artists and Scholars

10/27/2024

https://vimeo.com/227304429
Learning about rain gardens

This is "Building Green Infrastructure" by NYC DDC on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/26/2024

Our site visit in the LES. Looking at gardens for possible installations.

10/21/2024

https://hyperallergic.com/959176/how-do-we-haitian-rejin-leys-vladimir-cybil-charlier/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Haitian%20Artists%20Respond%20to%20Trump&utm_campaign=D102124 Haitians artists respond to ugly allegations.

Despite the venom Trump and Vance direct toward our community, Haitians are not the impoverished, alien invaders they want us to be.

10/14/2024

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Excellent op-ed on the origins of the Women's Movement in America and the role of Black Women!!

Remember to vote this November 5th.

10/13/2024

There are no parks or playground in Harlem named after a Black woman. I wanted to renames St. Nicholas Park after the late Florence Mills but was told that would be impossible. So, I recommended the plaza at 135th Street to be called the Florence Mills Plaza. Got letters of support and a CB resolution. I was then told that wouldn't it be better to acknowledge a group of Black women for the plaza which would water it down. So, I have some ideas. Have multiple spots in the park.

These are the suggestions in addition to a Florence Mills Plaza -- what do you think?

Dorothy Maynor's Meadow (Garden for the founder of Harlem School of the Arts
Regina's Corner (Named after Black librarian Regina Anderson)
Augusta Savage Ridge (Named after Black Sculptor Augusta Savage)

10/10/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/t-magazine/protest-cakes-baking.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241010&instance_id=136503&nl=the-morning®i_id=71873030&segment_id=180072&user_id=61d24879c13802d5bf03bf80cd097904 Great article on bakers and protest history.

A new generation of bakers are reviving an old tradition.

10/09/2024

You can sign up to this important symposium about Harlem.