Site-specific Art Exhibition If You Build It, presented by art organization No Longer Empty in partnership with Broadway Housing Communities, in new Sugar Hill building-combining affordable housing, art, and education-designed by architect David Adjaye.
- 22 artists (internationally acclaimed, emerging and local) celebrate Sugar Hill from the Harlem Renaissance to current creative communities, as well as issues of relevance to the neighborhood and cities worldwide. Ideas of home, building community, migration and aspirations, racial profiling, salons featuring jazz, rap, beat and spoken word, and more.
- Exclusive opportunity for public to visit the Sugar Hill building before residents move in.
FEATURED ARTISTS: Mequitta Ahuja/ Raúl Ayala / Aziz + Cucher / Radcliffe Bailey / Sonia Louise Davis / Élan / Iliana Emilia Garcia / Scherezade Garcia / Brendan Jamison & Mark Revels / Carlos Mare / Omo Misha / Shani Peters / Kameelah Janan Rasheed / Freddy Rodríguez / Moses RosSuárez / Bayeté Ross Smith / Dread Scott / Hank Willis Thomas / William Villalongo / Nari Ward
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS EXHIBITING:
Art in FLUX / ArtsConnection / Broadway Housing Communities / Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA / Harlem Arts Alliance /Institute for Public Architecture / Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Sugar Hill Culture Club / The New School Collaboratory.
To See the full event schedule: www.nolongerempty.org
Food Trucks brought by Taste Harlem Food and Cultural Tours
Music provided by Jazz Foundation of America
Exhibition hours: Thursday-Friday 3-7PM & Saturday - Sunday 1-6PM