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  • No Longer Presents: If You Build It

    Editor June 25th
    Happened Thu June 26th, 3pm

    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

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