Korea Art Forum

04/27/2026

03/04/2026

Korea Art Forum (KAF) invites you to the closing reception of the finale indoor exhibition of the 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program on Saturday, March 14th 2026, from 4 PM to 9 PM, at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS), at 127 Walker Street in Chinatown, NY.

The reception will feature the launch of the 2025 SDSS Catalog, walkthroughs of the exhibition from artists Ali Motamedi, Cecilia Lim, Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, and Moses Ros, and future plans for the 2026 SDSS iteration.

Guest curators Jennifer McGregor, the former Director of Arts and Senior Curator at Wave Hill, and Martin Lucas, arts educator and Emeritus Professor in the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College, co-curated the 2025 iteration.

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Immigrant Social Services strives to co-create an environment where underserved immigrants and children of immigrants in Chinatown/Lower East Side can thrive and shape their futures. Through our programs and services, we nurture and empower our community’s children, youth, young adults, families, and older adults to restore their agency, while working to transform systems and cultivate opportunities that enable them to flourish.

The Storefront for Ideas is a space for inquiry, curiosity, and creativity. It is a space to explore community issues that matter and to co-reimagine the possibilities for Chinatown, now and into the future.

03/04/2026

Where We Land is a large paper plane suspended over the park’s central pond garden, its surface covered with paintings and drawings made by NYC residents during participatory public art events organized by the Korea Art Forum (KAF). The work turns a familiar childhood object into a poetic symbol of migration, memory, and shared imagination.

02/15/2026

A beautiful winter, despite the extreme cold. Mural by Moses Ros and photo by Jennifer McGregor.

02/14/2026

Thank you to all who joined us for Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga‘s ‘Graffiti U.S. Immigration’ event as part of MIGRANTOPOLY, at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS).

02/13/2026

The Finale Indoor Exhibition for the 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program is on display at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS) at 127 Walker St.

Open hours are Thursday through Sunday, 1-6 PM.

Featured are works from Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana’s “U.S. Childhood Arrivals Mural Project”.

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SDSS is an ongoing series of outdoor participatory art events held at accessible community hubs in immigrant neighborhoods around New York City. SDSS offers residents and visitors the unique opportunity to engage directly with artists and work with them to develop projects that address issues of language, identity, migration, conflict, and cultural production – key issues that define the experience of New Yorkers. These works culminate in an indoor exhibition and public art installations across New York City.

Guest curators Jennifer McGregor, curator and arts planner, former Director of Arts at Wave Hill, and Martin Lucas, arts educator and Emeritus Professor in the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College, co-curate the 2025 iteration. They bring fresh perspectives to this dynamic and continuously evolving project.

Immigrant Social Services (ISS) strives to co-create an environment where underserved immigrants and children of immigrants in Chinatown/Lower East Side can thrive and shape their futures. Through our programs and services, we nurture and empower our community’s children, youth, young adults, families, and older adults to restore their agency, while working to transform systems and cultivate opportunities that enable them to flourish.

Storefront for Ideas is a space for inquiry, curiosity, and creativity. It is a space to explore community issues that matter and to co-reimagine the possibilities for Chinatown, now and into the future.

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02/04/2026

Thank you for joining us for Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana’s “Painting Immigrant Portraits: A Panel with Student Artists as part of the exhibit hosted at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS) in Chinatown, NY.

A panel of student-artists reflected on their experiences of exploring U.S. immigration issues through the hands-on, embodied process of painting and installing the mural, and through sustained presence in the community-meeting, listening to, and engaging local residents.

Thank you to .amanthaq & Madeline Mendoza for their participation as panelists & to for moderating the panel.

01/26/2026

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga‘s project MIGRANTOPOLY is on view until further notice at https://rmz.nyc.

MIGRANTOPOLY is a Monopoly-style board game that parallels the history of U.S. immigration law with the U.S. gross domestic product, demonstrating how the national economy has grown through migrant labor. Through the summer of 2025, the game was presented on the street to inform participants, gather interviews and workshop ideas for new immigration policies. Participants were also invited to share their migrant histories. An online virtual version of the game will be presented freely online. And just as in the physical street game play, users will be invited to record and submit their migrant histories. All audio recordings will also be available online. From the site, the board game itself will be freely available to download and print.

The work was commissioned as part of Korea Art Forum’s 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space program.

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01/09/2026

The Finale Indoor Exhibition for the 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program is still on display at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS) at 127 Walker St.

Open hours are Thursday through Sunday, 1-5 PM.

Featured are works from Ali Motamedi’s “Where We Land” and Cecilia Lim’s “Remember Y(our) Connection / Tandaan Ang Ating Ugnayan Project”.

01/08/2026

The Finale Indoor Exhibition for the 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program is still on display at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS) at 127 Walker St.

Open hours are Thursday through Sunday, 1-5 PM.

Featured are works from Ricardo Miranda Zuniga’s “Migrantopoly” and Moses Ros’ “Nature’s Echo II”.

12/23/2025

Cecilia Lim’s photo-based work titled Remember Your Connection: Mending & Repair, is open to public view from Wednesday, December 15, 2025, through Sunday, February 15, 2026, at Travers Park on 34th Avenue at 78th Street, Queens, NY.

“The Remember Y(our) Connection / Tandaan Ang Ating Ugnayan Project invites you to consider ideas that might be useful when you’re having an argument, disagreement, or other relationship challenge. What do you do to BE HERE NOW? How can you VALUE THE PERSON? What does it take for you to BE OPEN to any outcome? How can you hold MULTIPLE TRUTHS? What if MISTAKES ARE OK? How can you STAY CURIOUS? Quotes are from people I interviewed at NYC Summer Streets 2025 in Inwood, as part of Korea Art Forum’s Shared Dialogue, Shared Space program.”

The murals were commissioned as part of Korea Art Forum’s 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space program.

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