Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts

Name: Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts
Address: 323 W 39th Street, New York, NY, 10018, US
Telephone: +12125635855
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The three main programs at The Elizabeth Foundation for the arts are: EFA Studios, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and EFA Project Space.

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) public charity, incorporated in New York in 1992. EFA began as a small grant-giving organization. Beginning in 1993, the GIVA Program (Grants for Individuals in the Visual Arts) awarded grants to 107 exceptional artists over the course of nine years. In April 1994, the International Studio Program, a career-development residency, became a progra

m of EFA. In 2006 when the program could stand on its own, the now titled International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) became an independent organization, and by 2008 had completed the move from the EFA Center to its own space in Brooklyn where it continues to thrive. In May 1998, EFA purchased a twelve-story building on West 39th Street in Manhattan, now known as the EFA Center. Working with capital funding from a private foundation, the building was converted into individual work-studios, a gallery space, and space reserved for a workshop. With the development of the EFA Center, EFA shifted its focus away from grant giving to provide longer-term, practical support for individual artists and foster dialogue between artists, art communities and the public. In autumn 1998, the EFA Studio Program selected its first artist members. Today, more than 89 professional artists work in the subsidized individual studios of the EFA Center community. In late 2005, EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program opened, providing a crucial and affordable workspace, open to all artists who seek to learn and pursue their printmaking practice. The EFA Gallery hosted exhibitions from 2001–2008. It was re-launched as the EFA Project Space Program in September 2008 in order to function as more than just a gallery, providing a more collaborative approach and a broad scope of energetic projects and events that increase its reach to diverse New York communities. In 2017, EFA celebrated it's 25 year anniversary.

09/12/2024

EFA Project Space is excited to announce a Workshop & Participatory Performance Series, “Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering” by artist collective elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ! The series will run on select Tuesdays, September 17 - November 26, 2024 as Duo Sessions.

“Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering: Workshop & Participatory Performance Series” is a series of workshops, collaborative sound-making, and participatory performances by artist collective inspired by a community gathering gong ensemble found throughout Southeast Asia.

Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering is a platform for sharing, exchanging ideas, and collective conscious raising where elekhlekha invite guest artist collaborators .kana, , , and participants to collectively investigate and unfold Southeast Asia’s layers of political complexity through the continuity of oral and aural history and sound cultures’ lineage. We’ll dive into different roots and communities and learn their way of collaborative sound-making, ritual, history, and political complexity. We create our work out of the struggle of unlearning and relearning our history and looking to discover a common ground beyond the nation-state and define decolonized possibilities. Our public engagement is designed to be a learning experience, divided into three section sessions, each with one collaborator artist or collective with two parts, one workshop, and one participatory performance.

Click the link in bio to learn more about each session and sign up for the Duo Sessions!
RSVP required. Free and open to the public

08/06/2024

Last but not least, we’re excited to welcome Cecil Howell to the new member cohort! ✨

Howell is an artist and landscape architect based in New York. Her work includes drawings, installations, essays, and the built environment. Across these media, she studies how we form and are informed by landscape. She received her MLA from UC Berkeley and BA from Kenyon College.

Howell has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, New Hampshire; Oak Spring Garden, Virginia; 100 W Corsicana, Texas; Blue Mountain Center, New York; Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, among others. Her work is published in Orion Magazine, Burnaway Magazine, and Wonderground Journal.

Images:
1. Cecil Howell.
2. “A footnote so tiny it slides off the page”, pastel, flashe, earth.
3. “Afterwards”, pastel, flashe, earth.
4. “In both ways at once”, pastel, flashe.

04/11/2024

We are pleased to announce George Scheer as EFA new Executive Director!

Scheer brings over 20 years of creative leadership and arts management experience to the EFA. Co-Founder and Executive Director of Elsewhere, an experimental museum and artist residency in North Carolina, Scheer most recently served as Executive Director of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. He succeeds EFA’s Founding Director Jane Stephenson, who departs the organization following 32 years of service.

Scheer joins the team at a critical moment as we strengthen the foundation of our programming and operations, grows board leadership, and expands patron support. “I am thrilled to join an organization like EFA, which makes supporting and sustaining artists within a holistic arts ecology core to its mission,” said Scheer. “EFA exemplifies the essential role of an artist-centered institution in fostering the next generation of artistic and critical thought.”

Image: photo of George Scheer by Dave Katz.

03/06/2024

Our upcoming Spring exhibition 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙅𝙤𝙠𝙚 curated by Janet Loren Hill, will be on view from March 14 – April 25. Join us for the Opening on March 14, 6-8 pm!

The exhibition features works by Paul Belenky, Kevin Dudley, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Sean Fader, Amy Hill, Akira Ikezoe, Rudolf Lingens, Polina Tereshina, and Huidi Xiang.

A joke creates its own logic. Operating on timing and playing on our expectations, jokes disrupt our typically unquestioned assumptions, making them appropriately strange. In this way a joke can turn on power and dislodge obscured systems, or it can simply provide a whimsical counter to an otherwise hum-drum existence. In Running Joke, nine artists deploy humor, play with time, and craft recurring symbols in their work with a wry wit.

03/06/2024

We are looking forward to hosting our upcoming exhibition “Psycho-Tropics/Belonging Elsewhere” curated by Sofía Shaula Reeser-del Rio at EFA Project Space

This exhibition will be on view from March 15 - April 27, 2024. Join us for our Opening Reception on Friday, March 15, 6-8 PM.

The exhibition features works by artists Natalia Almonte, Yazmany Arboleda, Edward Cabral, Ojos Caribe, Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Patricia Encarnación, Nicole Mouriño, Christopher Paz-Rivera, and Estefania Velez Rodriguez.

Psycho-tropics: Belonging Elsewhere is a collective inquiry into transformation and resilience. The eight artists in this show engage in a profound exploration of cultural liminality, questioning the symbiosis between individuals and their environment. This introspective journey delves into the influences of de-colonial practices and nature, (re)constructing and challenging prevailing notions of American-ness. By inviting us to carve out spaces of refuge and construct alternative realities to our anxious-driven society, the exhibition becomes a celebration of collective hope in the face of progress—a poignant reminder of our shared humanity and the power of personal histories in decentralizing monolithic narratives. A communal table welcomes engagement and fosters contributions to a zine-like catalogue that aims to decentralize narratives embracing the unknown

01/31/2024

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is pleased to present new work from last year's, 2023 - Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellows: Sade Boyewa El, Chang Yuchen, Krystal DiFronzo, Bryan Fernandez, Fay Ku, Yelaine Rodriguez, Stephanie Santana, and Gabrielle Vazquez .

Kahn | Mason SIP Fellowship is an intensive studio fellowship from February - May designed to immerse artists in the world of printmaking. Fellows acquire new techniques and build upon existing skills. Artists, from all media, interested in making printmaking a regular part of their creative practice are invited to apply. Applications for 2025 will open in June!

01/24/2024

Join us tonight 6–8 PM, for the opening of “Seeing Is Realizing There Is Always More to See” ! 👀

We’ll celebrate the work of all the EFA-affiliated artists involved. From Lise Kjaer’s observant romanticism, to Amir Hariri’s constructivist interiority, to Tooraj Khamenehzadeh’s exploration of the landscapes of mystical pilgrimage, a range of stories remind us that the epic lies just beneath the surface of the everyday.

Sharon Kendrick curates work that reminds us that perceiving can lead to the realization that there is a hidden depth or abundance of things yet to be seen or understood.

Image: Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Untitled from the series “The Poetry of Bewilderment”, 2020.

01/18/2024

“The Ceremony Must be Found: Ritual as Artistic Practice” curated by Anna Cahn at EFA Project Space will be on view from January 18 - March 2, 2024.

Join us tonight for our Opening Reception from 6-8 PM!

The exhibition features works by artists manuel arturo abreu, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Dana Davenport, Caroline Garcia, Catalina Ouyang, Vivek Shraya, and Qualeasha Wood.

Image Credit: Catalina Ouyang, doubt I (the wreck and not the story of the wreck / at the floor of the flood / primordial lovers / groaning dreadfully / What have we done so wrong.), 2020, Hand-carved alabaster, hydrocal, pigment, resin, carved maple, epoxy clay, found fabric, oyster shells, woven leather, drag net, 36 x 16 x 11 inches. Courtesy of Lyles & King Gallery.

01/11/2024

Looking forward to EFA Project Space's upcoming exhibition “The Ceremony Must be Found: Ritual as Artistic Practice” curated by Anna Cahn. The exhibition will be on view from January 18 - March 2, 2024. Join us for our Opening Reception on January 18 from 6-8 PM.

This exhibition was selected as part of the EFA Project Space Open Call for exhibitions and projects with the 2024/25 theme, “Folklore.” The exhibition features works by artists manuel arturo abreu, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Dana Davenport, Caroline Garcia, Catalina Ouyang, Vivek Shraya, and Qualeasha Wood.

https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-ceremony-must-be-found

Slide 1: Caroline Garcia, Image still from Queen of the Carabao, 2018, 1-channel digital video, color, sound, 30:00 mins.
Slide 2: Vivek Shraya, Trisha, 2016, Photographs and text, dimensions variable.
Slide 3: Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Invocations: Oshún (Río Espíritu Santo, El Yunque, Puerto Rico), Ritual Performance/ Performance Photography, 2021/2023, Photography by Paola López.

01/10/2024

EFA Studios is pleased to announce “Seeing Is Realizing There Is Always More to See”, the first exhibition in 2024 opening on January 24, 6 – 8 PM at EFA's 3rd floor space! 📢

Curated by Sharon Kendrick, this exhibition presents EFA-affiliated artists whose work reminds us that the act of perceiving can lead to the realization that there is a hidden depth or abundance of things yet to be seen or understood. The artists here perceive and share things that may be hidden in plain sight, suppressed, or living deep in their imagination. From Lise Kjaer’s observant romanticism to Amir Hariri’s constructivist interiority to Tooraj Khamenehzadeh’s exploration of the landscapes of mystical pilgrimage a range of stories remind us that the epic lies just beneath the surface of the everyday.

https://www.studios-efanyc.org/exhibitions

01/04/2024

RBPMW OPEN CALL
Submission deadline: January 30th, 2024

The Miami International Fine Arts and EFA Robert Blackburn invite printmakers worldwide to apply to participate in their 2024 International Printmaking Juried Exhibition with the theme Myths and Legends of the World.

https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/mifaxprintshop
MIFA Gallery MIAMI x EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

11/28/2023

Celebrate Giving Tuesday with EFA! 👐🏼 Give back to the arts community by acquiring unique pieces in our Benefit Online Sale or make a direct impact by donating to EFA!

Your contribution nurtures a haven for artists, fostering the legacy of creativity and public engagement.

Explore the collection at https://www.efanyc.org/benefit-artworks. Sale ends on December 1!

Photo by Lucas Hoeffel.
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EFA Project Space @efaprojectspace is excited to announce a Workshop & Participatory Performance Series, “Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering” by artist collective elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ! The series will run on select Tuesdays, September 17 - November 26, 2024 as Duo Sessions. “Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering: Workshop & Participatory Performance Series” is a series of workshops, collaborative sound-making, and participatory performances by artist collective @elekhlekha inspired by a community gathering gong ensemble found throughout Southeast Asia. Gong(ฆ้อง) Gathering is a platform for sharing, exchanging ideas, and collective conscious raising where elekhlekha invite guest artist collaborators @mora.kana, @an_outskirt, @melialmaguer, and participants to collectively investigate and unfold Southeast Asia’s layers of political complexity through the continuity of oral and aural history and sound cultures’ lineage. We’ll dive into different roots and communities and learn their way of collaborative sound-making, ritual, history, and political complexity. We create our work out of the struggle of unlearning and relearning our history and looking to discover a common ground beyond the nation-state and define decolonized possibilities. Our public engagement is designed to be a learning experience, divided into three section sessions, each with one collaborator artist or collective with two parts, one workshop, and one participatory performance. Click the link in @efaprojectspace bio to learn more about each session and sign up for the Duo Sessions! RSVP required. Free and open to the public #gonggathering #efaprojectspace