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06/11/2026

Don’t miss 2026 Grantee Ogemdi Ude ()’s MAJOR at the Prospect Park Boathouse on Juneteenth (Friday, June 19) at 6pm.

Via —“MAJOR is a dance theater project exploring the physicality, history, sociopolitics, and interiority of majorette dance, a form that originated in the American South within Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 1960s. In MAJOR, six Black femmes embrace majorette form - a fundamental relic of Black girlhood - to pursue the intimate journey of returning to bodies they thought lost.”

MAJOR premiered at in January of this year. This celebratory Juneteenth performance will be co-presented by Danspace Project’s Platform 2026: Secret Gardens and Prospect Park Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative. This outdoor iteration kicks off MAJOR‘s summer tour of outdoor performances.

🎟️: Free with RSVP

📸: Fabian Hammerl

06/09/2026

Don’t miss Sweat Variant ()’s upcoming performance “INTERVENTIONS: my tongue is a blade” on June 19 and June 20 at 6PM at Colonels Row, Governors Island. Sweat Variant is the collaborative project of FCA Board Member and 2014 Grantee Okwui Okpokwasili and director, composer and designer Peter Born.

Via Governor’s Island– “my tongue is a blade is a three-hour movement performance-practice rooted in relation, memory, and reflection. Four performers commit to remembering one another, holding one another, bearing one another, and sustaining the world that contains them. A rich visual and sonic landscape invites the audience to witness this shared practice and to resonate within it.

Each durational performance is three hours long, and we encourage audiences to come and go throughout the piece.”

Created by: Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
Performed by: Okwui Okpokwasili, Bria Bacon, Kris Lee and AJ Wilmore
Production design: Peter Born
Dramaturg: Katherine Profeta

🎟️: $25

📸: Photo by Ava Pellor

06/02/2026

See 2023 Grantee Jasmine Hearn’s “Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross” next week, June 11-13 at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts Theater.

Jasmine Hearn’s "Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross" encompasses a series of performances, a shared embodied practice, an evolving installation of archival materials, an expanding digital archive, and a body of original sound, text, and recipes — all celebrating the stories, dances, and gestures passed on through intergenerational lineages.

Jasmine Hearn maps a dance of lessons with performance collaborators; Nora Alami, Maria Bauman, Melanie George, Dominica Greene, Jenna Hearn, Jennifer Newsom, Pamela Pietro, Angie Pittman, Kendra Portier, jhon r. stronks, Wayne Smith, Myssi Robinson, Charmaine Warren, and Tara Aisha Willis with additional sonic collaboration by Jo Stewart and Ashley Teamer.

🎟️: Tickets start at $30 with Pay-What-You-Wish options available

📸 Jasmine Hearn, "Memory Fleet: Time & Trinity" at Danspace Project, New York, NY, 2026. Photo by Tony Turner Photography.

05/29/2026

Don’t miss Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn ()’s Emergency Grant-supported performance “REDACTED” today, Friday, May 29 at 3:30pm sharp.

Location: 6th Ave (Between 48th & 49th St), Manhattan.

Via —“REDACTED is a durational public performance within the DOGEWALKER series confronting systemic oppression, governmental corruption, class division, and the silencing of marginalized communities. Seated bound and silent beneath an American flag, Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn becomes both witness and archive while a massive textile spills into public space around her. Through image transfers, testimonies, names, and historical references tied to war, racial violence, disability erasure, and exploitation, the work exposes systems that protect wealth and power while ordinary people struggle to survive. REDACTED asks viewers to confront the uncomfortable reality that democracy may not be collapsing accidentally, but functioning exactly as those in power intended.”

📸: Performance still of “DOGWALKER,” 2025. Photo courtesy the artist.

05/22/2026

See Di Lobontiu ()'s Emergency Grant supported play "If You’re a Man at Night…You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning" at The Tank () in New York City this Friday (5/22) and Saturday (5/23) at 7pm.

From the artist: "Disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan L*chte is dying of loneliness, trying to milk attention from his robot wife Deirdre, a Cyclops Michael Ph*lps, and terrifyingly/gorgeously…YOU! Can someone help this man??"

Learn more at the link in@go_di9's bio.

05/21/2026

See Sarah Halpern’s () and Tim Geraghty's () Emergency Grant–supported film “monument” (2026), screening at Anthology Film Archives () in New York City, May 21–28.

Q&A schedule includes:
Fri 5/22 — moderated by Andrew Lampert, joined by C. Spencer Yeh
Sat 5/23 — moderated by Jed Rapfogel
Sun 5/24 — moderated by Ramón Rivera-Moret

Please note: the film is presented in two parts. To see the full work, both screenings are required.

Part 1 (Chapters 1–3) and Part 2 (Chapters 4–6) screen on alternating dates throughout the run (May 21–28), including multiple evening and weekend showtimes.

Learn more at the link in ' bio.

05/15/2026

“I prefer to let the art-making process lead me to a place that I didn’t know before.”
- Jasper Johns

Happy 96th birthday to Jasper Johns, FCA's co-founder! In honor of his birthday, we suggest you let your process lead you somewhere new today.

📸 Slide 1: Jasper Johns working on “Cicada” in the Gemini G.E.L. () courtyard, 1981 © Sidney B. Felsen.

05/12/2026

Don’t miss 2020 Grantee Jonathan González’s “magic hour–golden time” at the Whitney Museum on May 15, 16, and 17. Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, “magic hour–golden time” is co-presented and supported by Frieze. See below for performance times and more information:

Friday, May 15 , 6–9 pm
Saturday, May 16
Sunday May 17, 4–7 pm

Via the Whitney—“‘magic hour–golden time’ is a durational performance presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, in which five performers activate the museum’s terraces as both stage and vantage point. The work draws on the Japanese aesthetic concept of shakkei—‘borrowed scenery’—and the German Romantic compositional device of Rückenfigur, in which a figure is seen from behind, gazing into a landscape. Together, these frameworks shape a choreography of looking and being looked at, situating the body within relations of scale, perception, and environment.

‘magic hour–golden time’ unfolds over a three-hour duration, during which the performers relocate at the top of each hour to activate a different outdoor terrace of the Whitney. The first and second hours may be experienced from multiple viewing points including inside the museum, on the terraces, or from the southernmost part of the High Line and from Gansevoort Street (partial view). The final hour will take place on the west side of the 6th floor terrace, inaccessible to Museum audiences. Viewing for the final hour does not require Museum admission, and is possible from Hudson River Park at Pier 53 adjacent to 'Day’s End' (2021) by David Hammons.”

Performed by AJ Wilmore, India Lena González, Ananda Naima González, Marguerite Hemmings (2022 Grantee), and Kingsley Ibeneche
Costumes by Liz Prince
Produced by Greta Hartenstein

📸 Jonathan González, The Whitney Museum of American Art ‘magic hour–golden time C. [Heights]’, 2026. 11 x 8.5. Chromogenic Print.

05/09/2026

2024 Grantee Nile Harris () and Dyer Rhoads () are performing “End of Days” today, May 9th from 4 - 4:30pm in the Whitney Museum’s 5th floor gallery. Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, the artists will expand on Nile’s sculpture featured in the gallery, “Dark Brown Birkin Bag,” through the uncrating of a second work of art on the exhibition floor.

“End of Days” was commissioned by the as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial. The show is on view through August 23. Please visit the link in ' bio for the dates/times of his upcoming performances organized in conjunction with the biennial.

🎟️ Performances are free with Museum admission and don't require reservations. Capacity for free performances is limited.

📸 Nile Harris and Malcolm-x Betts, “Temporary Boyfriend” at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2025. Performed by Nile Harris and Malcolm-x Betts; Sound Design by Geng PTP; Scenic and Lighting Design by Dyer Rhoads; Costumes by Malcolm-x Betts; Production Coordinator: Ariana Swei; Presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Ping Chong and Co. and Under The Radar Festival. Production Photographs by Maria Baranova and Stephen Olweck.

05/08/2026

2024 FCA Robert Rauschenberg Awardee Guadalupe Maravilla ()’s latest works, “ICE Age Disease Throwers,” will be featured at the 61st Venice Biennale, "In Minor Keys," curated by Koyo Kouoh. The exhibition will be on view from May 9 to November 22.

Via —"Initiated in 2019, Disease Throwers is a sculptural series that unfolds through diverse forms—headdresses, shrines, and healing instruments. Maravilla’s artistic practice proposes care as a form of political work, particularly towards the healing of intergenerational trauma as well as trauma caused by migration. He frequently activates his artistic objects through performances and sound baths, a meditative experience where participants are “bathed” in sound frequencies meant to encourage therapeutic and restorative processes. To Maravilla, trauma and disease are interwoven, so his healing workshops, are often organized for undocumented immigrants, cancer survivors and their families.

Responding to the United States’s shifting political climate, Maravilla’s ICE Age Disease Throwers aims to offer an antidote to society’s pervasive phobias surrounding migration. Inspired by the Acapulco chairs he found comfort in as a child growing up in El Salvador, this hand-woven and richly ornamented work incorporates animistic objects including feather dusters, metal evergreen trees, children’s tiger slippers, and a trumpet in the shape of a serpent’s head. Standing over seven feet tall, this sculpture serves as a vibrant testament to perseverance and humanity amidst uncertainty and fear."

📷: Guadalupe Maravilla, “ICE Age Disease Thrower #4,” 2025, steel gong, cotton, glue mixture, plastic, and objects collected from a ritual of retracing the artist’s original migration route, 100 x 80 x 60 ins.

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