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MAPSpace is an artist-run gallery featuring contemporary works by emerging and established artists. MAPSpace also offers workshops, lectures, performances by and for artists.

Crit Lab 2026 Fellow: Heather Marie Scholl Heather Marie Scholl We’re thrilled to introduce Heather Marie Scholl,an arti...
10/08/2026

Crit Lab 2026 Fellow: Heather Marie Scholl Heather Marie Scholl

We’re thrilled to introduce Heather Marie Scholl,an artist whose practice brings embroidery, craft, sculpture, and poetry into intimate conversations around violence, memory, and healing.

Drawing from research into whiteness, racial and gender-based violence, as well as personal and family histories, Scholl’s work looks closely at the ways systemic violence enters our most intimate spaces. Through the visual languages of religious iconography, fairy tales, and folk art, she creates work that moves between memory, ritual, vulnerability, and repair.

Her practice asks us to sit with the complicated spaces where we can experience harm while also being implicated in systems of violence—and to consider what accountability, healing, and safety might look like.

We’re so happy to have Heather as part of the **2026 Crit Lab Fellowship**. 🖤

ArtAndHealing

Crit Lab 2026 Fellow: Sharon Bjyrd Bohemian Black Art & Merch We’re excited to introduce Sharon Bjyrd, a visual artist a...
10/07/2026

Crit Lab 2026 Fellow: Sharon Bjyrd Bohemian Black Art & Merch

We’re excited to introduce Sharon Bjyrd, a visual artist and curator whose practice centers the beauty, dignity, and humanization of Black life.

Working across painting, mixed media, installation, and curatorial practice, Bjyrd explores identity, belonging, rest, resilience, and collective healing. Her vibrant, emotionally rich works draw from personal experience, ancestral memory, and contemporary Black life, creating spaces that affirm, celebrate, and make visible.
For Bjyrd, art is both a visual love letter and a form of activism—an ongoing practice of honoring stories, challenging narratives, and creating space for Black joy, complexity, and humanity.

We’re so happy to have Sharon as part of the 2026 Crit Lab Fellowship. 🖤

ContemporaryArt

09/22/2026

So glad to have gotten to Governor’s Island finally to see Crit Lab Fellow Colleen Coleman’s amazing installation- Periwinkle, Mourning Doves, and Pound Cake; In Search of our Mothers Gardens. (Favorite title ever). A beautiful and moving project - Colleen is rocking it! She is also included in the exhibition at PS122 Gallery- join us for a closing Sunday Sept 27, 5-7pm!

And of course discovered more Crit Lab artists and friends along the way!

Crit Lab artist Priscilla Stadler’s fabulous divination project finding mussels in NYC waterways. An ongoing project using mussels as inspiration and remediation in the fight against pollution in our waters, with heart and humor!

Crit Lab Fellow Christina Massey -hard at work always with her sculptures created from repurposed b**r cans- a project also growing off the wall and into a community space.

I also ran into Gerardo Morantes- an artist who Christopher Kaczmarek curated into Art in Odd Places 2024 CARE- we had a lovely conversation and walkabout- and I got to see his work as well.

Thru a window saw Roya Amish’s installation- always thoughtful tender and beautiful work.

Much more to see and tell- I hadn’t been out to Gov’s island in a long time. Such a fun inspiring day full of great conversations with artists. My favorite thing. Wonderful things are happening there. ❤️

Colleen Coleman
Priscilla Stadler
Christina Massey | NYC Artist
Gerardo Morantes
Governors Island

A little behind the scenes of Dot, Line, Thread, Wave✨installation days, small details, and the joy of watching it all ...
09/04/2026

A little behind the scenes of Dot, Line, Thread, Wave✨

installation days, small details, and the joy of watching it all come together.

Featuring the work of Colleen Coleman, Katherine Jackson, Chris Kaczmarek, Patricia Miranda, and Jo Yarrington.

Join us for one or all of the events!

🗓️ Sept 5

📍 PS122 Gallery

2–4pm: Come in and out for Colleen Coleman’s durational drawing

4–6pm: Artist Reception

see you tomorrow!!

Find a little video at the end ✨✨✨

Join Crit Lab artist Colleen Coleman in celebrating the unsung leaders of climate resilience: Grandmothers! Unlike other...
08/22/2026

Join Crit Lab artist Colleen Coleman in celebrating the unsung leaders of climate resilience: Grandmothers! Unlike other species, humans uniquely sustain post-menopausal women, whose wisdom and labor survives generations. SILVERS honors this matriarchal legacy by centering the voices of women over fifty who are leading environmental justice movements, stewarding land, and redefining sustainability through lived experience.

08/19/2026

Critique is an Encounter

Only a few spots left!💃🏽🕺
The Crit Lab Fall Lab Applications are Open
 
Join us-
 
The Crit Lab is an Alternate Critical Community for Working Artists
We come together for sustained contact, empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialigue, in an act of hope over destruction.
 
We’re a quiet engine of powerful art.🔥🔥🔥

I am continually amazed by the incredible artists in the Lab- their dedication to the studio and pushing their work forward, their generosity with their cohorts and this community. They keep me grounded and hopeful. So excited to meet the new critters and reconnect with returning artists.
 
There is much to celebrate and to fight for. Join an artist community of ethics, rigor, and hope, to discover and share work that speaks to the humanity of a fraught world.
 
Art is essential to the future.🌷🌺🌷
 
Find out more and apply visit
www.thecritlab.com
Link in bio
 
To chat with Patricia about the possiblities and programs
email [email protected] or call 914.318.7178






Too many artists to tag- If you see yourself in the photos let me know.🌺

The Crit Lab is designed for artists who are committed to building a sustained practice, who value rigorous critique, th...
08/03/2026

The Crit Lab is designed for artists who are committed to building a sustained practice, who value rigorous critique, thoughtful dialogue, and the exchange of ideas.

Artists who believe that making work is stronger when it’s supported by community, accountability, and consistent feedback.

Artists who are looking not only for critique, but for opportunities to grow beyond the studio.

As a member of The Crit Lab, you’ll join a community that extends beyond weekly sessions through our private Mighty Networks platform, where conversations, resources, and connections continue throughout the year. You’ll also gain access to artist talks, residency opportunities, our Crit Lab Exhibition, and a growing network of artists, curators, and collaborators.

If you’re looking for a space to deepen your practice while becoming part of an engaged artistic community, we’d love to welcome you.

Fall Lab is nearly full, and only a few spots remain. Apply through the link in our bio✨

Image credits: Kathryn Geismar- Crit Lab Artist Co-Writing Lab.

Critical.Ethical.Art.  These three words are the guiding principle for The Crit Lab. This includes structure, organizati...
07/22/2026

Critical.Ethical.Art.
 
These three words are the guiding principle for The Crit Lab. This includes structure, organization, and pedagogy. And most importantly, community.
 
Critical
A strong pedagogical structure can help us be accountable, to see one another, and our world, clearly and respectfully, as distinct beings within a shared humanity, while applying a compassionate critical lens to the work. 
 
Ethical
Ethics translates into care - generosity and reciprocity with one another, rigorous thoughtfulness, brave safe spaces in resilient community. Art makes a space of empathy. 
 
Art
The Crit Lab is artist first, always. This reflects my belief in the immense power of art to embody one human story in a world of stories, rooted in a particular time, place, and history. Art holds the knowable and unknowable in a moment of intimate encounter, the beauty and horror and joy and grief, sung through material objects made by a human hand.

There are real and intractable issues in our world. None of us can address them all, or even many. Neither can we ignore our position in the fracas.
 
There are also incalculable joys and beauty. 
 
Art can help us not hide inside our safety, be blinded by false optimism, or mired in hopeless nihilism. The craft of making can keep the touch of humanity visible, resilient, and defiantly connected, grounded for whatever this future may bring. 
 
In the Lab and in all of my work with artists, as well as in my own practice, these are my core values. I am an artist among artists. Together we push our vision, and the language around it, inside ecosystems where the work can thrive. 
-patricia

The Crit Lab is an Alternate Critical Community for Working Artists
We come together for sustained contact, empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialigue, in an act of hope over destruction. 
 
There is much to celebrate and to fight for.
Join us.
Applications and Info
The Crit Lab
www.thecritlab.com





Introducing Thursday AM Main Lab artists and ✨This season, we’re bringing together a group of artists whose practices...
06/01/2026

Introducing Thursday AM Main Lab artists and ✨

This season, we’re bringing together a group of artists whose practices are rooted in observation, imagination, and a deep curiosity about the world around us. Through painting, collage, drawing, photography, and mixed media, their work explores landscapes both real and imagined, the patterns and systems found in nature, and the ways memory, language, and materiality shape our understanding of place.

From evocative terrains that blur the line between recollection and invention to layered abstractions inspired by biological forms, growth, and coded systems of communication, these artists invite us to consider how meaning emerges through process, connection, and close attention.

We’re excited to see the conversations, insights, and unexpected intersections that will unfold as this cohort spends the semester learning from one another, sharing work, and building community through dialogue.

At The Crit Lab, Labs are thoughtfully curated to foster meaningful engagement, dialogue, and connection. Participants a...
06/01/2026

At The Crit Lab, Labs are thoughtfully curated to foster meaningful engagement, dialogue, and connection.

Participants are placed in groups that share conceptual affinities, thematic intersections, and productive differences, creating a dynamic environment for critical exchange.

Through sustained peer dialogue, artists deepen their ideas, expand their perspectives, and build lasting relationships. The result is not only stronger work, but greater confidence, resilience, and community.

Applications for Fall Labs are now open.

Image credit : Joyner, Bue Floating Wall, 2025, Mixed Media on Paper, 30x22 in.

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