Noo Arts

Noo Arts 501c3 empowering artists and our community to build a more sustainable, diverse and joyful world

Dedicated to bringing artists from elsewhere to New York, the 501c3 organization NOoSPHERE Arts (est. 2011) is a mobile entity that produces and presents public arts programming across several venues around town. Our mission is to give power to artists and joy to everyone through the magic that ensues.

05/16/2026

Come join us TODAY for our House Opening and experience the space, meet our artists-in-residence and guest artists, explore the exhibition opening, and immerse yourself in the stories unfolding within.

16 May | 11 AM – 5 PM
Noo Arts House
404 A Colonels Row
Governors Island

Thank you to Arts for the warm welcome and beautiful gathering with all 2026 organizations-in-residence ✨
We’re grateful and excited to be part of this inspiring community and look forward to a season filled with art, exchange, and new encounters on Governors Island 🏝️

05/15/2026

Curious to discover what’s inside? ✨
Join us tomorrow for our House Opening and experience the space, meet our artists-in-residence and guest artists, explore the exhibition opening, and immerse yourself in the stories unfolding within.

16 May | 11 AM – 5 PM
Noo Arts House
404 A Colonels Row
Governors Island

Thank you to Arts for the warm welcome. We’re grateful and excited to be part of this inspiring community and look forward to a season filled with art, exchange, and new encounters on Governors Island 🏝️

05/14/2026

We Have a Summer Home on Governors Island:
You Are Invited to Our Housewarming Party!!!

Saturday, May 16, 11AM-5PM
Noo Arts House, 404A Colonels Row, Governors Island
We are thrilled to announce that Noo Arts is part of the 2026 Cohort of Organizations-in-Residence on Island: Through this program, the Governors Island Trust offers free indoor programming space to New York nonprofit arts organizations in the Island’s historic houses. We’ll fill ours with marvels from now through October; come join us for the housewarming this weekend!

On offer inside our historic home:
‘Welcome to the Island; Well Done, Everyone’
Site-specific, spatial audio artwork by Michael McLoughlin

‘Honey Fungus’
9-minute interactive VR experience led by a q***r mycelial guide by

‘Mushroom Music’ by Willow Gatewood
An immersive Mushroom Music installation which explores the hidden rhythms of fungi, creating a sensory environment where sound, space, and ecological imagination intersect.

‘After Black’ by +
Live video set with music, sound, and dance
After Black is a multi-part collaborative performance combining live-generated video, live music, and dance.

Presents: ‘PICK A CARD, ANY CARD, Round II’
A Tarot-Themed Traveling Show
Every third Saturday, the deck of artworks will be reshuffled, with new ‘cards’ drawn and reconfigured in the exhibition space.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FROM 11AM TO 5PM
AND BY APPOINTMENT: Contact our Chief Program Director on the Island, [email protected]

A mark in motion.Our new logo reflects what we believe: that art is a living system.It moves. It connects. It cross-poll...
03/03/2026

A mark in motion.

Our new logo reflects what we believe: that art is a living system.

It moves. It connects. It cross-pollinates.

It holds experimentation and invites curiosity. It gathers eclectic voices in search of meaning.

At Noo Arts, nothing stands alone. Artists, audiences, disciplines, and ideas exist in dialogue.

This logo is not a fixed symbol. It is an ecosystem.

Noo Arts.

03/03/2026

How do you pronounce our new name?

We asked around.

The results were… creative.

Some said “new.”
Some said “no.”
Some said “nooo?”
Someone confidently said something entirely different.

Here’s the official answer:

It’s Noo.

(It’s like Moo…but New)

Say it with us.

Noo Arts!!!!

✨A New Name for a New Era! ✨Today, we are stepping into a new era.NOoSPHERE Arts is evolving, and with that evolution co...
03/03/2026

✨A New Name for a New Era! ✨

Today, we are stepping into a new era.

NOoSPHERE Arts is evolving, and with that evolution comes a refreshed visual identity and a name that reflects who we are becoming: Noo Arts.

This is not a redefinition of our mission, but a refinement of it. Over time, our community has naturally called us “Noo.” The word feels open and immediate. It carries the spirit of experimentation and curiosity that lives at the core of our work.

Our new logo reflects movement and interconnection, honoring the dialogue between art, ecology, and community that defines us. We believe in cross-pollination, in art as a space where disciplines meet and ideas evolve.

NOoSPHERE Arts remains our foundation.
Noo Arts is its distilled expression.

The mission remains.
The community remains.
The intention deepens.

Thank you for being part of this unfolding.

:🌿 OPEN CALL | WE ARE NATURE 2026✨ Transformation Stories📍 Noo Arts @ Governors Island, NYC📅 May–October 2026Noo Arts in...
02/19/2026

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🌿 OPEN CALL | WE ARE NATURE 2026
✨ Transformation Stories
📍 Noo Arts @ Governors Island, NYC
📅 May–October 2026

Noo Arts invites NYC-based artists to apply for a rent-free studio residency as part of WE ARE NATURE: Transformation Stories — our annual multidisciplinary summer series exploring art at the intersection of ecology, urban space, and collective change.

For 2026, we expand from our Brooklyn rooftops to the historic grounds of Governors Island — activating studios, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and public gatherings across the season.

This residency is a working studio program supporting research, experimentation, and production — culminating in monthly open studios and public presentations.

🌱 PHASE 1 (May–July 2026)

Nature, Material Composites & Metamorphoses
Process-driven proposals exploring ecological systems, hybrid materials, and states of transition. We welcome experimentation and research-based inquiry.

🏛 PHASE 2 (August–October 2026)

Monuments, Nature & Transformation
In dialogue with Governors Island’s military past:
What is a monument today?
What do we choose to honor as power, memory, and ecology shift?

🗓 Public engagement every third Saturday:
May 16 • June 20 • July 17 • August 15 • September 19 • October 17

Expect open studios, performances, installations, talks & experimental formats.

✨ Who Should Apply

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid
Visual Arts
Performance
Sound
Installation
Social Practice

NYC-based artists ready to actively use their studio and engage with community.

Studios are private workspaces (no overnight stays; communal facilities nearby).

We seek artists who work mindfully across race, gender, class, and ecology — cultivating a collegial, self-directed, and collaborative spirit

Apply + details → [link in bio]

Address

520 Kingsland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
11222

Telephone

+17183898228

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