Abrons Arts Center

Abrons Arts Center Building a community where artists, learners, and audiences explore creative possibilities. The arts program of Henry Street Settlement

The Abrons supports the creation and presentation of innovative, multi-disciplinary work; cultivates artists in all stages of their practice through educational programs, commissions, and residencies; and serves as an intersection of cultural engagement for local, national, and international audiences and arts-workers.

🎨See it before it’s gone!This is the last weekend to see “Present! How We Show Up,” a showcase of artwork by students fr...
05/27/2026

🎨See it before it’s gone!

This is the last weekend to see “Present! How We Show Up,” a showcase of artwork by students from Manhattan’s District 1. Featuring painting, sculpture, and performance that explores the theme of how we show up and stay present in the world today, this exhibition highlights the creativity of young artists from public schools in the Lower East Side and East Village.

The self-portrait pictured was created by a PS 134 student whose assignment was to create a self-portrait that was inspired by NYC based artists like Basquiat, Haring, and Ringgold using similar materials and line work.

🗓️Closing May 31!
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street
đź”—Details at the link in bio!

🪩Catch Abrons’s “Arts in Motion” this weekend! This showcase features performances by learners who will shine on our his...
05/26/2026

🪩Catch Abrons’s “Arts in Motion” this weekend!

This showcase features performances by learners who will shine on our historic Playhouse Theater stage with performances that feature what they have learned throughout the year. Classes include: Acting 1, Acting 2, Hip Hop 1a+ 1b, Hip Hop 2a + 2b, Breaking 1a + 1b, Breaking 2a + 1b, Breaking Crew, Ballet 1, and Salsa.

Those in attendance will have the opportunity to enter our our Arts in Motion raffle to support the Center Education program at Abrons. The winner of this raffle will receive a voucher for one free private lesson in any artistic medium. We currently offer private lessons for dance, voice, musical instruments (piano, drums, guitar, saxophone, flute), visual arts, and acting.

🗓️May 30, 11am and 4pm
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street
đź”—Details at the link in bio!

📸Andrew Federman

05/22/2026

What does it mean to be a Van Lier Fellow at Abrons?

Hear from our 2024-26 cohort: kiarita, Megan Mi-Ai Lee, and Cyle Warner.

While each fellow’s practice is different in form and approach, the three are united by a shared curiosity around memory and family histories. Artworks inspired by Caribbean breeze blocks, found objects, and a Las Vegas karaoke bar invite us into sites of personal meaning.

Alongside work by the Fellows, the exhibition includes artworks curated by the Fellows from Abrons Visual Artist AIRspace Residency alumni Baseera Khan (2016–17), Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (2019–20), and Park McArthur (2013–14), who serve as Fellowship mentors.

Stay tuned right here to learn more about each artist, plus mark your calendars! The exhibition opens June 12.

🗓June 12–August 2
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio

📻Join us TONIGHT for our Kinstillatory Fire alongside an improvisational radio making experience with Wave Farm’s Bianca...
05/21/2026

📻Join us TONIGHT for our Kinstillatory Fire alongside an improvisational radio making experience with Wave Farm’s Bianca Felix Biberaj and Meredith Kooi. Participants are encouraged to bring sound recordings that respond to any or all of the following prompts:
 
-The sounds outside your window
-A place in your neighborhood that you spend time in
-A voice that brings you joy
-Your nearest body of water / water source
-Cooking or eating sounds from a recent meal
-And if you’ve got one, bring a battery-powered radio receiver!
 
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is a series of fires hosted, held, and lightly curated by artists Emily Johnson and Kai Recollet. This monthly outdoor gathering at the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Plaza centers anti-colonial, Indigenous, feminist, and gender-expansive care ethics and practices.
 
đź—“May 21, 6-8pm
đź’§Rain or shine
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio
 
📸Lucy Bohnsack

🔊Opening next month: “magic ephemera” A culminating exhibition marking the conclusion of three artists’s two-year reside...
05/15/2026

🔊Opening next month: “magic ephemera”

A culminating exhibition marking the conclusion of three artists’s two-year residencies at Abrons Arts Center.

Your 2024–26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Visual Art Fellows are Cyle Warner, kiarita, and Megan Mi-Ai Lee. While each fellow’s practice is different in form and approach, the three are united by a shared curiosity around memory and family histories. Artworks inspired by Caribbean breeze blocks, found objects, and a Las Vegas karaoke bar invite us into sites of personal meaning.

Alongside work by the Fellows, the exhibition includes artworks curated by the Fellows from Abrons Visual Artist AIRspace Residency alumni Baseera Khan (2016–17), Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (2019–20), and Park McArthur (2013–14), who serve as Fellowship mentors.

Curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, Director of Abrons Arts Center.
Exhibition design by Anzia Anderson.

🗓June 12–August 2
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio

📸Whitney Browne

🏫On view now at Abrons:“Present! How We Show Up” showcases artwork by K–12 students from Manhattan’s District 1. Featuri...
05/13/2026

🏫On view now at Abrons:

“Present! How We Show Up” showcases artwork by K–12 students from Manhattan’s District 1. Featuring painting, sculpture, and performance that explores the theme of how we show up and stay present in the world today, this exhibition highlights the creativity of young artists from public schools in the Lower East Side and East Village.

🗓️April 21–May 31, 2026
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street
đź”—Details at the link in bio!

📸Andrew Federman

🖼️This weekend: A panel on affordable art collecting This panel brings together perspectives across the art ecosystem—ap...
05/12/2026

🖼️This weekend: A panel on affordable art collecting

This panel brings together perspectives across the art ecosystem—appraisal, collecting, fair infrastructure, publishing, and artistic practice—to examine how visual art is valued and accessed in these shifting conditions. Inspired by the recent release of a limited-edition print of “Sun Chimes Through the Summer Song” by Emily Manwaring, produced by Du-Good Press in support of Abrons Arts Center, this conversation will explore the role print editions can play for art supporters interested in affordable collecting, the realities shaping the art market, and how ideas of value and ownership can be reconsidered.

đź—“May 16, 4pm
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Free RSVP at the link in bio

📣ANNOUNCING: “magic ephemera”2024–26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Visual Art Fellows Cyle Warner, kiarita, and Mega...
05/08/2026

📣ANNOUNCING: “magic ephemera”

2024–26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Visual Art Fellows Cyle Warner, kiarita, and Megan Mi-Ai Lee present a culminating exhibition marking the conclusion of their two-year residency at Abrons Arts Center.

While each fellow’s practice is different in form and approach, the three are united by a shared curiosity around memory and family histories. Artworks inspired by Caribbean breeze blocks, found objects, and a Las Vegas karaoke bar invite us into sites of personal meaning.

Alongside work by the Fellows, the exhibition includes artworks curated by the Fellows from Abrons Visual Artist AIRspace Residency alumni Baseera Khan (2016–17), Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (2019–20), and Park McArthur (2013–14), who serve as Fellowship mentors.

Curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, Director of Abrons Arts Center.
Exhibition design by Anzia Anderson.

🗓June 12–August 2
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio

🎤It’s time to show up and get loud for this semester’s performing artists!The “AMPLIFY: Music Showcase” celebrates the c...
05/06/2026

🎤It’s time to show up and get loud for this semester’s performing artists!

The “AMPLIFY: Music Showcase” celebrates the creative growth of Abrons Arts Center’s music education learners. The program features performances by musicians enrolled in private lessons with Arts Center faculty Ado Coker, Tanguy Stevenart, Cleave Guyton Jr., Charles Jones, Charlie Kilgore, Luna Uehara, Alexis Babini, Michael Inge, and Miki Sasamoto, as well as performances by the Voices of Henry Street choir, the Rock Band, and our Digital Music Production classes.

đź—“May 9, 11am and 4pm
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio

📸Andrew Federman

❓Who are we and how do we respond to our immediate environment? That’s the question we posed to our visual arts learners...
05/05/2026

❓Who are we and how do we respond to our immediate environment? That’s the question we posed to our visual arts learners this year.

“Lore: The Stories That Bring Us Here” features artwork from Henry Street Settlement’s PATHS classes at the Community Consultation Center and Abrons Arts Center’s Education programs: Origins: Visual Arts, Draw Paint Build, 3D Art Making and Sculpture, Teen Mixed Media Art, Street Photography, and Ceramics. Our learners’ artworks reflect the experiences that have shaped who they are, both as artists and members of their community. They work as storytellers, finding inspiration in nature, the streets of the Lower East Side, and artists like Faith Ringgold. Through their art, they share what has influenced their lives and the stories that brought them here.

The exhibition is open NOW and we hope you come see it in person!

🗓May 2–May 31
đź“ŤAbrons Arts Center
đź”—Details at the link in bio

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