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A Harlem-based non-profit providing visual arts education to youth and families and professional development opportunities to emerging and professional artists.

09/29/2026

🔔 RESCHEDULED! 🔔

🎨 A-MUSE-ME: Funny Faces
with Master Teaching Artist Aleathia Brown

📅 Saturday, September 26 | 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 The Children’s Art Carnival
62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031

Come make art, have fun, and get inspired! 🎭

Join Master Teaching Artist Aleathia Brown for “A-Muse-Me: Funny Faces,” an engaging adult art workshop exploring the history and creative possibilities of caricature art.

Inspired by traditions of exaggerated faces and expressive forms in African art and masquerade, participants will use diluted acrylic paint to create colorful caricatures featuring bold features, elongated necks, and plenty of imagination.

✨ No professional experience required! Artists and new creatives alike are welcome.

Your ticket includes:
🎨 All art materials
🎶 A musical journey playlist by DJ Masai
🥤 Light refreshments
🖼️ Your original artwork to take home

🎟️ Tickets: $48.50

👉 REGISTER NOW — space is limited!

Come make art, connect with community, and discover how artistic traditions from the past can inspire creative expression today.

💛 Want to help make art accessible?
Community members can sponsor one or more tickets for participants who may otherwise be unable to attend.

Learn more: Aleathia Brown | Master Teaching Artist
📲 Instagram: Aleathia Brown

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09/29/2026

📚✨ ME WE: Accordion Book Making Workshop ✨📚

Sunday, October 4 | 1:00–3:00 PM
📍 The Children’s Art Carnival
62 Hamilton Terrace, Harlem, NY 10031

Celebrate creativity, freedom, and expression through art!

Join master artist and art educator Élan Cadiz for a fun, hands-on family workshop inspired by Muhammad Ali’s famous two-word poem, “Me We,” shared during his 1975 Harvard commencement speech.

As part of Fall of Freedom, participants will use creative prompts and fine art materials to design and create their own one-of-a-kind accordion art books, exploring the power of artistic expression, individuality, and community.

🎨 All ages and experience levels are welcome!

Admission:
$5 per child (under 18)
$10 per adult

Children must be accompanied by an adult. No drop-offs permitted.

🔗 TO REGISTER SEE LINK IN BIO

Space is limited, so register early to secure your spot!

Join us at the historic Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem for an afternoon of creativity, connection, and collaborative art-making.

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09/21/2026

As we close Still Here: Harlem Eternal, we’re reflecting not only on the exhibition, but on the questions that shaped it:

What does it mean to maintain community and connectedness? What does it mean to be a steward of a community? How do we honor and protect the culture that generations of Harlem residents have created?

Throughout the exhibition, we considered Harlem not simply as a place, but as something continually shaped by its people—the families, artists, neighbors, businesses, institutions, and everyday relationships that have built and sustained its culture.

That culture is part of what has made Harlem such an attractive and inviting place. Still Here: Harlem Eternal asked us to recognize the people who created that culture, to value what has been passed down, and to consider our responsibility for carrying it forward.

These questions continued through our artist talk and community conversation with filmmaker Monica Freeman Monica, Sade Boyewa El Sade Boyewa El © , Kathryn Kathryn كاثرين 🍉 and members of our community, and through the different ways people gathered throughout the exhibition—from making and exchanging ideas during our Zine Workshop to coming together through music at the Defend Harlem DJ Set with DJ Sadgyal sada and DJ Lozano.

Thank you to Defend Harlem Defend Harlem for collaborating with us, and to all of the artists, participants, neighbors, friends, and visitors who spent time with the exhibition and contributed to these conversations.

The exhibition may be closing, but the work of sustaining community continues.

Still Here: Harlem Eternal.

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09/11/2026

This weekend, join us Wallach Art Gallery for a pair of presentations that consider the pedagogical underpinnings of the Children’s Art Carnival from its inception at MoMA in 1942 to its re-imagining in 1969 as the Harlem Children’s Arts Carnival. The program will also explore the role of community organizations like the Children’s Art Carnival in relation to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s and New York City public education.

Sunday, September 13, 1-2 pm

Radical Arts Education: Youth Development and the Children’s Art Carnival

Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room,
Lenfest Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor
New York City

To register for this program please use this link in bio.

Dr. kecia hayes has been a champion of antiracist k-12 leadership and praxis across a variety of organizational settings in New York City for more than two decades. Most recently, she led two community-focused organizations at Columbia University including the Double Discovery Center where she transformed the organization’s approach to college access and support for low-income and first-generation community youth; and the Raising Educational Achievement Coalition in Harlem where she was the founding Director and chief architect of Teachers College’s university-assisted, community school initiative. She is currently Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University’s Baker School of Education.

Sara Torres-Vega holds a PhD in Fine Arts and is an artist, educator, and researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her work explores the potential of art as a tool for social transformation through archival projects and collaborative practices developed with institutions such as Tate in London, MoMA in New York, and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. She currently serves as Director of MAAAL (Museum of Art and Open-Air Learning) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists, on view at the Wallach Art Gallery through September 13.

09/11/2026

Hello everyone! If you’re free September 19th and love the intersection of art and activism please join us for a wonderful panel as Defend Harlem prepare to close the wonderful three-month run of “Still Here: Harlem Eternal” at the The Children’s Art Carnival, we are excited to connect with you a final time! If you still haven’t seen the exhibit, stop by the Carnival next weekend. You don’t want to miss it! 🫶🏽

09/08/2026

Join us for a pair of presentations that consider the pedagogical underpinnings of the Children’s Art Carnival from its inception at MoMA in 1942 to its re-imagining in 1969 as the Harlem Children’s Arts Carnival. The program will also explore the role of community organizations like the Children’s Art Carnival in relation to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s and New York City public education.

Sunday, September 13, 1-2 pm
Radical Arts Education:
Youth Development and the Children's Art Carnival
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room,
Lenfest Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor
New York City

To register for this program please use this link: https://wallach.columbia.edu/events/radical-arts-education-youth-development-and-childrens-art-carnival

Dr. kecia hayes has been a champion of antiracist k-12 leadership and praxis across a variety of organizational settings in New York City for more than two decades. Most recently, she led two community-focused organizations at Columbia University including the Double Discovery Center where she transformed the organization's approach to college access and support for low-income and first-generation community youth; and the Raising Educational Achievement Coalition in Harlem where she was the founding Director and chief architect of Teachers College's university-assisted, community school initiative. She is currently Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University’s Baker School of Education.

Sara Torres-Vega holds a PhD in Fine Arts and is an artist, educator, and researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her work explores the potential of art as a tool for social transformation through archival projects and collaborative practices developed with institutions such as Tate in London, MoMA in New York, and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. She currently serves as Director of MAAAL (Museum of Art and Open-Air Learning) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists, on view at the Wallach Art Gallery through September 13.

08/28/2026

The Davis Center Poster Design Contest

Calling NYC artists! The Central Park Conservancy is seeking poster designs celebrating the joy of ice skating at the Gottesman Rink and the spirit of the Harlem community. The grand prize is $5,000, and the winning design will be featured across public spaces and Conservancy materials.
Artists must be 18+ and live in New York. Enter by September 20.
To learn more about the contest and how to apply, go to the Linktree in our bio

07/30/2026

9 more days to apply!
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
- French novelist Victor Hugo
Are you an artist who uses music to inspire their work?
Music is widely recognized as a transcendent language with the capacity to unite, heal, and transform individuals and society. CAC will be accepting submissions for our Fall 2026 exhibition focused on the Art of Music.

Exhibition Dates: Oct 16 to Nov 15, 2026

Installation/Delivery: Sept 21 – Oct 2, 2026

Submission Open: July 4, 2026
Submission Deadline: August 8, 2026 (Link via Linktree or website: www.ChildrensArtCarnival.org)

06/29/2026

Harlem Zine Lab: Xerox Transfer Workshop.
Part of ‘Still Here: Harlem Eternal’ and CAC PRESS & PULL

🗓️Date: Saturday, July 11th.
🕐Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
📍Location: The Ground Floor, The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031
For: Adults, Teens, and Children Ages 12 and Up
Max Participants: 8
(Registration via website)

Join artist Dionis Ortiz for a hands-on workshop exploring Xerox transfer techniques as a tool for storytelling, memory, and image-making.

Participants will learn how to transfer photocopied images onto paper and experiment with layering text, photographs, and found imagery to create original zine pages inspired by Harlem’s history, culture, and personal narratives. No prior experience is required, and all materials will be provided.

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10031

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https://childrensartcarnival.org/

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