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Our mission is to promote the healing power of the arts.

Through arts therapy advocacy, multidisciplinary education, and fostering sustaining mentorships, we aim to cultivate a lifelong love of self-expression and awareness in our youth and community.

06/09/2026

What a wonderful show!

Entitled HOMAGE, this was the senior art exhibition for , curated by a group of their peers through ELM’s curation class.

Congratulations to the exhibiting artists who showed beautiful and thoughtful work, and to the talented and hard working curation students who put it all together.

Thank you to for mentoring another successful year of this class.

Also thank you to for providing resources for the show, and to all who came out to support these talented students!

Here are some pics from opening reception. ✨

06/02/2026

We’ve had another beautiful spring session of classes at ELM, and we’re excited to celebrate with our Spring Sessions Student Exhibition!

Join us as our students share the incredible work they’ve created this season and celebrate their creativity with family, friends, and the community.

The exhibition will feature:
• Stop Motion and Claymation projects projected for viewing • Screen printed artwork on display, plus a screen printing demo you can try yourself • A listening station featuring original tracks by our DJ students • A special sale of Open Studio works • An opportunity to meet our teaching mentors and explore our classroom spaces

📅 Saturday, June 13th 🕓 4–6 PM 📍 ELM Foundation, 191 N. 14th St.

This is a great opportunity for prospective students and families to learn more about our free after school programs, and for friends and family to support our young artists. Showing these artists their work matters is at the core of what we do. We are so proud of them!

We hope to see you there! ✨

05/20/2026

Join us at The Boiler for HOMAGE: A Tribute to Self
Edward R. Murrow's Senior Art Exhibition

Curated and produced by students in collaboration with ELM Foundation’s Curation Class, led by Bobbi Salvör Menuez

Opening reception: Friday, May 29th, 4-7pm.

Homage explores the connections between self, culture, and memory through a series of deeply personal works. Drawing from themes of culture, belonging, alienation, and adolescence, the artists reflect on the experiences and relationships that shaped their identities over time.

This exhibition space is arranged as a series of intimate domestic environments, and viewers are invited to move through fragments of both personal and shared experiences. The familiar interiors shown here are filled with traces of everyday life, from clothing and cultural foods to illustrated photographs, portraits, and personal objects. Combined, these spaces reveal moments of vulnerability, tradition, and memory that often remain unacknowledged by the outside world.
 The show will run from May 29th - June 5th
FREE and open to the public.

The Boiler at ELM Foundation
191 N. 14th St., Brooklyn, NY 11249

05/18/2026

A successful opening night for and their Senior Exhibition, BETWEEN BODIES. Thank you to everyone who came out to support, celebrate, and enjoy the evening!

Congratulations to the student curators who put together such a beautiful show. Your hard work paid off. :)

And congratulations to the exhibiting artists for sharing your incredible work with us.

A special thank you to for mentoring another year of ELM’s curation class, and to Tentative for providing the musical vibes throughout the evening.

BETWEEN BODIES is on view 5/15–5/23, have a look at the reception recap and then come see the show for yourself!

05/11/2026

Zine made for BETWEEN BODIES: LaGuardia High’s Senior Art Exhibition.

Come get one this Friday at the opening reception!

Also stay to see TENTATIVE play!

Opening Reception: Friday, May 15th, 5-8pm

Show run: May 15th - May 23rd
Gallery Hours: 1-6pm (closed Monday)

The Boiler at ELM Foundation
191 N. 14th St.
Brooklyn, NY

Free and open to the public
RSVP via link in bio

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Zine Artist: Sylvie Bald

What lies between bodies,
Pacific & Atlantic,
In limerence and apathy,
Space - a word,
Human - a form,
Cannot be sewn or welded to another.

There is something alive between bodies,
Just as much as within them.

05/04/2026

Join us for BETWEEN BODIES, LaGuardia High School’s Senior Art Exhibition, curated by students in collaboration with ELM Foundation’s Curation Class.

This show offers a space to explore what exists in the space between us. What separates bodies, in a physical or emotional sense? What dictates said separation or attachment? What causes us to come together, and is there always something between us, no matter how hard we try?

In a variety of media, these artists have explored these questions and themes of disharmony and harmony, limerence and apathy, or chaos and congruency.

Opening reception: Friday, May 15th, 5-8pm.
�The show will run from May 15th - May 23rd.

The Boiler at ELM Foundation
191 N. 14th St., Brooklyn, NY 11249

RSVP via link in bio, and spread the word!

04/27/2026

A little look at Open Studio! 👀

This is a more flexible practicum class for advanced students, where they work on independent studies in their chosen medium with a mentor’s guidance.

Right now we have a mixture of screen printing and stop motion projects happening with some very talented students. :)

04/24/2026

Field Trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art!  This week the curation class stepped out of the classroom and headed into the city for some inspiration from the pros.

Walking through the Whitney’s exhibitions, students explored how artists present their work, how themes are developed across a show, and what makes a gallery really click.

Nothing like seeing it in person to spark ideas for their upcoming shows!

Both shows will take place in ELM's gallery space, The Boiler, guided by ✨

LaGuardia High School Student Show: May 16th- May 23rd

Edward Murrow High School Student Show: May 29th- June 6th

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191 N. 14th Street
Brooklyn, NY
11249

Website

http://www.elmfoundation.art/

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