KIDS COMIC CON: FUTURE FLASH
2023-12-16 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, United States
The Children’s Art Carnival Presents KIDS COMIC CON: FUTURE FLASH

Join us for Kids Comic Con 2023, Future Flash extravaganza it’s going to be a cavalcade of eye-opening hands on Sci-fi comics making, storytelling and hero hailing fun Saturday. ONE DAY ONLY!
DATE: Saturday, December 16, 2023
TIME: 10:00 – 6:00 pm
LOCATION: 62 Hamilton Terrace New York, NY 11429 | Off West 144th St. & Convent Ave.

SAVE YOUR SPOT: Register online $5 suggested donation or pay-what-you-can

10:00 am Opening – Welcome to a world of comics, science, and superheroes!

11:00 am Intro Artists and Schedule

11:00 am Drawing workshop (Javier Cruz)

12:00 pm Sci-Tech Demo. (PowerPoint.)

12:30pm Sci-Tech Heroes: Science in Comics (Alex Simmons)

1:00 pm Flash Gordon to Star Trek and Beyond: The Future of Science & Tech.

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Drawing Comics Workshop

1:30 pm Women In Science, fiction, and facts

2:00 pm Animation Demonstration Main Floor

3:15 pm Afrofuturism Presentation (Character Design w Tim Fielder)

5:00 pm Comics Workshop (N. Steven Harris)

6:00 pm End

The Children’s Art Carnival Presents Kids Comic Con: Future Flash is an exciting event happening on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at the Children’s Art Carnival. Get ready for a day filled with fun, creativity, and all things comics!
Join us for a day of thrilling activities and interactive workshops designed especially for kids who love comics. Whether you’re a fan of superheroes, graphic novels, or just enjoy drawing your own characters, this event has something for everyone!
**Future Flash** is all about exploring the limitless possibilities of the future through the world of comics. Immerse yourself in a world of imagination as you meet talented artists, attend engaging panel discussions, and participate in hands-on workshops.
Discover the latest trends in the comic industry, learn valuable tips and tricks from professional artists, and even get the chance to showcase your own artwork. From creating your own superhero to designing futuristic landscapes, there’s no limit to what you can create at **Kids Comic Con: Future Flash**.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect with fellow comic enthusiasts, unleash your creativity, and be inspired by the world of comics. Get ready for a day filled with excitement and adventure at the CAC Presents Kids Comic Con: Future Flash!

2023 Guests includes:
• Alex Simmons (playwright, educator, comics writer – Archie, Tarzan, Black Jack)
• Tim Fielder (creator-animator of Matty’s Rocket)
• N. Steven Harris (artist – Voltran, DC’s Aztec, Ajala)
• Paul Castiglia (writer – Archie, Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Juan Espinosa (noted comics creator and publisher – Bearded Man Comics,
Adventures of a System Admin, Mythology Story)
• Greg Anderson Elysée (writer, educator, filmmaker – Is’nana The Were Spider)
• Joe Endres (writer-artist-creator: Space Scamps, Colossians)
• Javier Cruz-Winnick (writer-cartoonist – A Reason to Smile!, Whatup Dog)

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SAVE YOUR SPOT TODAY: Register online $5 suggested donation or pay-what-you-can

HOMECOMING Exhibition
2023-11-11 17:00 - 2024-01-05 19:00
Celebrating the legacy of Betty Blayton and Resurgence of the Children’s Art Carnival
Featuring the work of CAC Alumni Staff, Teaching Artists, our Artist-In-Residence and our partners at EFA/Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
Including:
Milagros Batista | Wilhelmina Cooper| Hamilton Heights Darkroom Artists | Michele Godwin
Martha Mae Jones | Essye Klempner | Tomo Mori | Dionis Ortiz | José Ortiz | Nancy Paredes
Mei Tei Sing Smith | Alexandra Unthank | Michael Kelly Williams

Exhibition Dates: November 11th – January 5th

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 2023. Time: 5:00 – 7:00pm

Regular Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at info@childrensartcarnival.org
HOMECOMING is made possible with funding from West Harlem Development Corporation, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.

HOMECOMING Opening and CAC Artist Open Studios
2023-11-11 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrating the legacy of Betty Blayton and Resurgence of the Children’s Art Carnival
Please join us for the Opening Reception of HOMECOMING at The Children’s Art Carnival. Featuring the work of CAC Alumni Staff, Teaching Artists, our Artist-In-Residence and our partners at EFA/Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Join us earlier in the day on Saturday (and Sunday) when will be hosting Open Studios for our Artist -in-Residence.
Including:
Milagros Batista | Wilhelmina Cooper| Hamilton Heights Darkroom Artists | Michele Godwin
Martha Mae Jones | Essye Klempner | Tomo Mori | Dionis Ortiz | José Ortiz | Nancy Paredes
Mei Tei Sing Smith | Alexandra Unthank | Michael Kelly Williams

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 2023. Time: 5:00 – 7:00pm
CAC Artist Open Studios: Saturday November 11 & 12, 2023. Time: 1:00 – 6:00pm

Regular Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at info@childrensartcarnival.org
HOMECOMING is made possible with funding from West Harlem Development Corporation, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.

CAC Trick-or-Treat & Art Making Workshop
2023-10-31 18:00 - 20:00
Come in our gallery space for snacks and art workshop. 6-8pm.

Concrete Realities: Games + Process ARTIST TALK
2023-10-22 13:00 - 15:00
Exhibition Dates: September 23 to October 31, 2023

Sunday, October 22 | 1:00 – 3:00pm
Facilitated by Artist, Dionis Ortiz & Curator, Eva Davis
Join us for an afternoon of the board game, Go! As part of the exhibition, Concrete Realities, we invite you to join in a game and a conversation about the traditions and games that we share.

Dionis Ortiz

Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.
He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).
Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.
In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.
This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.
He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College.
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at info@childrensartcarnival.org

Concrete Realities
2023-09-23 17:00 - 19:00
Solo exhibition by Dionis Ortiz

Exhibition Dates: September 23 to October 31, 2023
Opening Reception: September 23, 2023. Time: 5:00 – 7:00pm

Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at info@childrensartcarnival.org

Dionis Ortiz

Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.
He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).
Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.
In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.
This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.
He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College.

ARTIST TALK with WILHELMINA G. COOPER and EVA MAYHA
2023-07-15 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for an engaging and insightful artist talk featuring the remarkable Wilhelmina Grant Cooper and esteemed curator Eva Mayha! Discover the inspiration behind Wilhelmina’s captivating artworks and gain valuable insights into Eva’s curatorial process. Don’t miss this opportunity on
Saturday, July 15th, from 3-5 pm at The Children’s Art Carnival. Limited seats are available, so RSVP in advance to secure your spot!
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FORAYS INTO FANTASY, Meet The Artist: MICHELINE HESS Kids Workshop
2023-07-08 13:00 - 15:00
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Please join us on Saturday, July 8th at 1:00pm to Meet Award – winning Illustrator and Visual Afrofuturist, Micheline Hess during our Kids Workshop (Ages 6-12) based on her past solo exhibition, FORAYS INTO FANTASY that took place at The Children’s Art Carnival Gallery.
Bring your young people for a fun filled afternoon of Storytelling and Character Design with Micheline Hess.
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FORAYS INTO FANTASY explored fantastical worlds that are melanin-rich, and vibrant with strong protagonists, laying out the welcome mat for Black people who love fantasy adventure. It was a way of telling kids that YES, you exist in these worlds too, and not just as side characters, henchmen, or comedy relief. You exist in the center. You are the main-characters. You are the heroes who can save and create your own worlds.
Meet The Artist: Kids Workshop (Ages 6-10) Saturday July 8th, 1:00 – 3:00PM
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FORAYS INTO FANTASY was made possible with funding from West Harlem Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.

KITCHEN & CURB Meet The Artist & Community Workshop
2023-06-24 13:00 - 15:00
Please join us on Saturday, June 24th from 1:00 – 3:00PM for a Meet the Artist & Community Workshop as part of the KITCHEN & CURB Exhibition at The Children’s Art Carnival Gallery. Come meet artist Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper and create a 3D figure using found objects and other materials including fibers, trimmings, yarn, leather, feathers, beads, etc.
Open to all ages
Workshop: Saturday, June 24th, 1-3pm
Venue: The Children’s Art Carnival
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The Children’s Art Carnival presents KITCHEN & CURB a mixed-media, assemblage art exhibition consisting of works created from discarded, outdated, and castoff objects. The artist Wilhelmina O. Cooper transforms musical instruments, wood, metal, plastic, kitchen utensils, and other found objects, preserving them as art — an alternative to adding them to the landfill.
Exhibition Dates: June 3rd – July 15th
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at childrens.art.carnival@gmail.com

KITCHEN & CURB is made possible with funding from West Harlem Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.
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EMERGENCY 2023
2023-06-11 14:00 - 16:00
West Harlem Arts Presents:
EMERGENCY 2023
Exhibition Opening Reception: Sunday, June 11th
The Children’s Art Carnival (62 Hamilton Terrace)

Please join us for the Opening Reception of West Harlem Arts EMERGENCY 2023 Exhibition at The Children’s Art Carnival Sunday, June 11th at 2:00pm.
The West Harlem Arts Collaborative 2023 Exhibition brought together a cohort of 6 artists to collaborate with 7 local community organizations in the creation of a banner design that explores the theme of EMERGENCY. Which is derived from all of the never ending series of emergent global crises we find ourselves in at this time. From Covid to Civil Unrest, Mass Shootings, and Women’s rights violations.Artists and their organizational partners worked together to speak to these “emergencies” and offer a visual response.
Featured Artists and Organization Partners:

Elan Cadiz + Fungible Foods
Dionis Ortix + While We Are Still Here
Marco Saaverdra + La Morada Restaurant and Mutual Aid Kitchen + Sisters Uptown Bookstore
Uniqua Simmons + Sistahs About Sup’hum Serious
Candace Leslie + PATHOS Creative
Luis Leon + Violence Intervention Program

Opening Reception: Sunday, June 11th , 2-4pm
Outdoor Exhibition Dates: June 3rd – August 15th
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at childrens.art.carnival@gmail.com
ABOUT WEST HARLEM ARTS: :
West Harlem Arts is a collaborative effort between The Children’s Art Carnival and Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano as well as an online platform created to promote and support the collaborations between community arts organizations and celebrate the diversity of cultural programming available to the West Harlem community and its surrounding neighborhoods. West Harlem Arts recognizes that collaborations and partnerships are key to the cultivation and development of arts organizations and centers itself as a meeting place for all members of the community to come together and identify, develop and achieve common goals around serving the community.
westharlemarts.org

KITCHEN & CURB
2023-06-03 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-06-03 08:00 - 17:00
Please join us for the Opening Reception of KITCHEN & CURB at The Children’s Art Carnival on Saturday, June 3rd at 5:00pm. A Solo Exhibition of Harlem Artist, Wilhelmina O. Cooper.
The Children’s Art Carnival presents KITCHEN & CURB a mixed-media, assemblage art exhibition consisting of works created from discarded, outdated, and castoff objects. The artist Wilhelmina O. Cooper transforms musical instruments, wood, metal, plastic, kitchen utensils, and other found objects, preserving them as art — an alternative to adding them to the landfill.
Opening reception: Saturday, June 3rd, 5-7pm
Exhibition Dates: June 3rd – July 15th
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at childrens.art.carnival@gmail.com
KITCHEN & CURB is made possible with funding from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, West Harlem Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.

THE CHILDREN'S ART CARNIVAL & EN FOCO PRESENT: Utopian Voyage
2023-04-23 09:00 - 2023-05-29 00:30
The Children’s Art Carnival present our next community exhibition in partnership with EnFoco, Utopian Voyage, curated by Kay Hickman. Utopian Voyage features the works of Albany Andaluz, Asherdé Amoy Gil, and Cristina Bartley Dominguez.
The exhibition is on view October 27 – December 23, 2022, at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, by appointment only.
Utopian Voyage explores the notion of what it would look like if people of color created their ideal future realities? Afrofuturism lends us the ability to look past our current state and shape a new reality. It is a way of exploring the future and alternate realities, undefined by lasting effects of settler colonialism, through a black cultural lens and an artistic aesthetic. Shaping the world around the idea of agency, is a method of self liberation and healing. The exhibition Utopian Voyage explores three different realities. Each photographer brings their own unique vision to what this could look like.

WOMEN FOR CHILDREN - Print Portfolio Exhibition
2023-02-11 17:00 - 20:00
Please join us for the Opening Reception of Women for Children Exhibition at The Children’s Art Carnival on Saturday, February 11th at 5pm. A series of 26 prints & accompanying poetry created by the Art for Humanity Project at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa and donated in 2018 by Bruce Tilley, friend and neihgbor of CAC.
Exhibition Dates: Monday, January 30 2023 – Saturday March 10, 2023
Gallery hours: Saturday & Sunday 12 – 5:00pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th at 5pm
Dina Cormick “ How often do we bend down to help the children? ” Tile Cut 16.5 x 12/5 inches
Exhibition on view at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031, Weekday visits available by appointment only, email us at childrens.art.carnival@gmail.com
Women for Children’ Print Portfolio Fifty women artists and poets, mostly from South Africa collaborated on the theme of `Childrens Rights and Welfare’ with the intention of inspiring moral ownership and social responsibility towards the rights of the child within society. The art and poetry included in the portfolio are the result of these collaborations and as with all art and poetry represents the soul of our society and our deepest collective feelings to the present situation regarding our children.
Women for Children is made possible with funding from West Harlem Development Corporation, the Ruth Foundation for The Arts and donations from New York Film Academy and Hamilton Heights community members. The exhibition is presented by The Children’s Art Carnival.

Black Metropolis
2022-10-01 12:00 - 18:00
West Harlem Arts – a collaborative initiative of The Children’s Art Carnival and Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano – is pleased to present BLACK METROPOLIS, a 30-year retrospective of Glyph Award-winning illustrator and Visual Afrofuturist Tim Fielder, co-organized by DieselFunk Studios.
The multi-media exhibition features close to 100 published and unpublished drawings, animated clips, and digital stills from Fielder’s decades-long career – visually transcribing his cultural migration from Mississippi to New York City to working the obscure margins of alternative weekly editorial cartoons, designing black rock music flyers, staking his place in the field of Visual Afrofuturism, African religious modalities, and mainstream pop-culture.
Afrofuturist-themed artwork in the area of graphic novels and concept designs will range from Fielder’s work with The Village Voice and Marvel Comics to his projects Matty’s Rocket and the groundbreaking HarperCollins-Amistad graphic novel epic, ‘INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale’.
BLACK METROPOLIS will be on view February 1 – March 31, 2022 at The Children’s Art Carnival (62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031).
Visiting Hours: Tuesdays through Sundays (12 PM -7 PM)

Tim Fielder is an Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp entertainment, and action films. He holds other Afrofuturists such as Samuel R Delany, Octavia Butler, Pedro Bell, and Overton Lloyd as major influences. He is known for the graphic novel, INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale, published by HarperCollins Amistad in 2021. Additionally, he produced the Glyph Award winning ‘Matty’s Rocket’.

Memory+Healing+Sustainability
2022-07-16 12:00 - 18:00
Join participating artists from our MEMORY + HEALING + SUSTAINABILITY exhibition and special guests from the “Sustainable Fashion” community along with local community members for Arts in West Harlem: Our Sustainable Future. An afternoon of art making and information sharing about the future and role of arts and culture in shaping perspectives on sustainable living practices. Moderated by participating artist, Isabel Varela, the event will highlight the work of participating artists and facilitate artist and community engagement and will feature a special installation by Isabel; representatives of the NYC Fairtrade Coalition will make presentations on art and sustainability.
Confirmed presenters Include:

Luz Barbosa of Stella Luchi

Amber Harnoken of High Goose Vintage

Ayling Zulema Dominguez

Yasuyo Tanaka
