The Children's Art Carnival

SouL. Sound. Color. with Aleathia Brown
2026-06-27 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, United States
June 27, 6-9 pm
Soul. Sound. Color.
Black Music Month falls in with Juneteenth a Celebration of the Global Contributions that Black creatives have gifted and changed the world with SouL is in the heart. The beats in music tap in. Sound is a frequency, a vibrational message transmitting energy, and Color is visually moving; it stirs up emotional wellness and provides healing.
In this blended session, we mount the instrument, or iconic performer, then move color and lines, creating visual music that Participants individually connect with. The playlist of soulful music further inspires each masterpiece that this Adult wellness session provides.
The wonder comes from using imagination and building stories
Light Refreshments
Playlist by DJ Masai
Guided Art Making by Aleathia Brown Master Teaching Artist
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Light Refreshments
Playlist by DJ Masai
Master Teaching Artist Guidance by Aleathia Brown of Aleathia’s Original Artworks

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‘SouL. Sound. Color.‘ workshop
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The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace,New York, NY, 10031

Aleathia Brown

Instagram: @aleathias_original_artworks
Contact: aleathiab.art@gmail.com

Don’t miss Aleathia’s Solo Exhibition at Aaron Davis Hall:

Opening Reception: Still Here: Harlem Eternal The Harlem Defender
2026-07-10 18:00 - 20:00
On View
Friday, July 10 – Sunday, September 20, 2026
Location
The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031
Opening Reception
Friday, July 10, 6–8 PM
Workshop
Saturday, July 11, 1–3 PM
Harlem Zine Lab: Xerox Transfer Workshop
Led by Dionis Ortiz
Co-Curated by Dionis Ortiz & The Defend Harlem Media Team

Still Here: Harlem Eternal is a multimedia exhibition honoring the people, histories, and cultural legacy of Harlem through photography, poetry, visual art, and film.
Organized by Defend Harlem, the exhibition responds to the ongoing effects of displacement, rising housing costs, and gentrification impacting longtime Harlem communities. Through storytelling and visual art, the exhibition highlights the voices of residents, organizers, and artists who continue to fight for the preservation of Harlem’s cultural identity and community life.
Defend Harlem is a community-based media and advocacy collective founded by The Interfaith Housing Commission for Housing Equality in partnership with Young Atlas. The collective uses visual storytelling, public programming, and grassroots organizing to advocate for housing justice in Uptown Manhattan.
Featured photographs were hand-printed by the Defend Harlem Media Team through a handmade image-transfer process using photocopies.

Exhibition Statement
Still Here: Harlem Eternal honors the enduring legacy of Harlem through the stories, memories, and creative voices of its residents, organizers, and cultural workers. The works featured in this exhibition pay tribute to the rich cultural contributions made by generations of Black and Latino working- and middle-class communities who have shaped Harlem for more than a century.
In the face of longtime residents being pushed out by rising housing costs, displacement, and ongoing gentrification, Defend Harlem organized this exhibition as both a celebration and a declaration: our communities are still fighting to protect Harlem, and we are still here. Even as the neighborhood continues to change, Defend Harlem believes Harlem’s cultural identity, collective memory, and community ties can still be preserved and carried forward by those who continue to live, work, organize, and create here.
Defend Harlem is a community-based media and advocacy collective dedicated to confronting displacement and housing injustice in Uptown Manhattan. Founded by The Interfaith Housing Commission for Housing Equality in partnership with Young Atlas, the collective organizes through visual art, storytelling, public programming, and grassroots community engagement to challenge gentrification and advocate for housing justice.
This multimedia exhibition is a collaborative project produced by the Defend Harlem media team alongside local artists, organizers, and contributors committed to art as a tool for social awareness and collective action. The photographs featured in this exhibition were hand-printed by the Defend Harlem Media Team through a handmade image-transfer process using photocopies. The exhibition includes portraiture, street photography, poetry, visual art, and short film works that reflect the lived experiences, resilience, and cultural memory of Harlem communities.

African Masks: The Hummingbird Project: Doing Art with Vickie Fremont
2026-07-11 13:00 - 15:00
Date: Saturday, July 11, 1-3 PM
2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month

Facilitator: Vickie Fremont

Explore mask-making from a new, creative perspective. Vickie Fremont will encourage participating family members to work together to craft stunning papier-mâché masks reflecting their own family stories and characters. The emerging masks are adorned with drawings, selected imagery, and scraps of vibrant African fabrics. Young people will take a colorful mask home after the session.

The Hummingbird Project: Doing Art with Vickie Fremont
Vickie Frémont is a multicultural artist, anthropologist, designer, and educator with over twenty years of experience in arts-based education, intercultural dialogue, and international cultural programming. Her work lies at the intersection of culture, art, sustainability, and social responsibility, using creative methodologies to foster critical thinking, collective engagement, and empowerment among diverse communities.

1:1 Summer Sketch Lab
2026-07-12 14:00 - 16:00
Date: Sunday, July 12th, 2-4 PM
2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month

Facilitator: Laura King

Think you can’t draw? Well, let’s change that now! In this lively mixed-age drawing studio, artists of all ages BLOSSOM as they receive personalized 1:1 coaching while working on drawing projects of their choice. Join us and learn foundational drawing skills. Improve your technique. Explore your creativity and develop a style that’s uniquely yours. Sketch Lab beginners gain confidence, experienced artists refine their practice, and everyone enjoys the inspiration that comes from creating in a mixed-ages group of children, teens, adults, and grandparents. You’ll leave each session with new skills, new friends, a drawing you’re proud of, and plenty of encouragement from your fellow artists.

Registration is required to participate: Link coming soon
12 participants max

About the facilitator:

A resident of West Harlem since 2015, Laura King has a BS degree in environmental science and an extensive background in artmaking and teaching. She loves New York’s urban culture and color, while she is equally passionate about finding and celebrating nature in the city. Laura is a volunteer gardener at the Hamilton Grange, a certified animal rescuer, and an artist who takes delight in illuminating the natural beauty that can be found EVERYWHERE in our urban jungle. Her drawings express her love for nature on many levels, and she aims wholeheartedly to spark that joy and appreciation in her students, too.

Contracts and Copyright for Artists (Zoom)
2026-07-22 14:00 - 18:00
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Zoom
(Registration Link – coming soon)
Speakers: Jo Backer Laird and Stephanie Bunting Glaser
This virtual legal workshop will provide artists with the basics of contract law, focusing specifically on contracts with galleries. It will also provide a primer on copyright and rights of publicity, and in particular discuss approaches to photography in public places.
Key Topics / Focus Areas:

Basics of contract law for artists
Gallery contracts
Copyright basics
Rights of publicity
Photography in public places

About the Speakers:

Jo Backer Laird concentrated her practice on all aspects of art law, working with artists, private collectors, museums, art organizations and tax exempt organizations, galleries, dealers and advisors and financial institutions. Ms. Laird has extensive knowledge and experience in the full range of transactions and litigation issues related to works of art and the art market, including auction and private sale agreements, consignments, financing arrangements using art as collateral, commissions of art, authenticity and title disputes, artists’ rights and intellectual property, and issues relating to World War II restitution and cultural property cases
Ms. Laird was named in The Top Art World Professionals by ARTnews multiple times and in Artnet Magazine‘s list of the Art World’s 10 Most Powerful Lawyers. She was also selected as one of the 2023 Top Women Leaders in Law by The New York Law Journal and New York Magazine. Chambers High Net Worth has recognized Ms. Laird as a Band 1 top-tier notable practitioner in the area of Art and Cultural Property Law, and most recently honored her as a Senior Statesperson in this category.
Ms. Laird received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, her M.P.A. from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her A.B. from Princeton University.

Stephanie Bunting Glaser is Counsel in Patterson Belknap’s Intellectual Property Transactions practice. Ms. Glaser advises arts and cultural organizations and other tax-exempt entities as well as for-profit companies and creators on a broad range of intellectual property matters, with an emphasis on advising on complex copyright issues. She counsels clients on all aspects of copyright law, including registration, duration, termination, ownership, copyrightability, licensing, infringement, fair use and enforcement.
Ms. Glaser also helps clients protect their brands and register and enforce their trademarks and advises clients on best practices and policies to maximize trade secret protection. She counsels clients on online privacy issues, including drafting privacy policies and privacy law compliance.
In addition to counseling, Ms. Glaser negotiates intellectual property licenses and related commercial and art law agreements for a broad range of clients including artists, artist-endowed foundations, private foundations, public charities, galleries, online and print publishers and global media and technology companies.
Her transactional practice also involves advising on creative deal structuring, contract negotiation and due diligence on the intellectual property aspects of larger corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, grants, loans, distribution agreements and strategic alliances.
Ms. Glaser received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Hamilton College.

1:1 Summer Sketch Lab
2026-07-26 14:00 - 16:00
Date: Sunday, July 26th, 2-4 PM
2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month

Facilitator: Laura King

Think you can’t draw? Well, let’s change that now! In this lively mixed-age drawing studio, artists of all ages BLOSSOM as they receive personalized 1:1 coaching while working on drawing projects of their choice. Join us and learn foundational drawing skills. Improve your technique. Explore your creativity and develop a style that’s uniquely yours. Sketch Lab beginners gain confidence, experienced artists refine their practice, and everyone enjoys the inspiration that comes from creating in a mixed-ages group of children, teens, adults, and grandparents. You’ll leave each session with new skills, new friends, a drawing you’re proud of, and plenty of encouragement from your fellow artists.

Registration is required to participate: Link coming soon
12 participants max

About the facilitator:

A resident of West Harlem since 2015, Laura King has a BS degree in environmental science and an extensive background in artmaking and teaching. She loves New York’s urban culture and color, while she is equally passionate about finding and celebrating nature in the city. Laura is a volunteer gardener at the Hamilton Grange, a certified animal rescuer, and an artist who takes delight in illuminating the natural beauty that can be found EVERYWHERE in our urban jungle. Her drawings express her love for nature on many levels, and she aims wholeheartedly to spark that joy and appreciation in her students, too.

1:1 Summer Sketch Lab
2026-08-09 14:00 - 16:00
Date: Sunday, August 9th, 2-4 PM
2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month

Facilitator: Laura King

Think you can’t draw? Well, let’s change that now! In this lively mixed-age drawing studio, artists of all ages BLOSSOM as they receive personalized 1:1 coaching while working on drawing projects of their choice. Join us and learn foundational drawing skills. Improve your technique. Explore your creativity and develop a style that’s uniquely yours. Sketch Lab beginners gain confidence, experienced artists refine their practice, and everyone enjoys the inspiration that comes from creating in a mixed-ages group of children, teens, adults, and grandparents. You’ll leave each session with new skills, new friends, a drawing you’re proud of, and plenty of encouragement from your fellow artists.

Registration is required to participate: Link coming soon
12 participants max

About the facilitator:

A resident of West Harlem since 2015, Laura King has a BS degree in environmental science and an extensive background in artmaking and teaching. She loves New York’s urban culture and color, while she is equally passionate about finding and celebrating nature in the city. Laura is a volunteer gardener at the Hamilton Grange, a certified animal rescuer, and an artist who takes delight in illuminating the natural beauty that can be found EVERYWHERE in our urban jungle. Her drawings express her love for nature on many levels, and she aims wholeheartedly to spark that joy and appreciation in her students, too.

1:1 Summer Sketch Lab
2026-08-23 14:00 - 16:00
Date: Sunday, August 23, 2-4 PM
2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month

Facilitator: Laura King

Think you can’t draw? Well, let’s change that now! In this lively mixed-age drawing studio, artists of all ages BLOSSOM as they receive personalized 1:1 coaching while working on drawing projects of their choice. Join us and learn foundational drawing skills. Improve your technique. Explore your creativity and develop a style that’s uniquely yours. Sketch Lab beginners gain confidence, experienced artists refine their practice, and everyone enjoys the inspiration that comes from creating in a mixed-ages group of children, teens, adults, and grandparents. You’ll leave each session with new skills, new friends, a drawing you’re proud of, and plenty of encouragement from your fellow artists.

Registration is required to participate: Link coming soon
12 participants max

About the facilitator:

A resident of West Harlem since 2015, Laura King has a BS degree in environmental science and an extensive background in artmaking and teaching. She loves New York’s urban culture and color, while she is equally passionate about finding and celebrating nature in the city. Laura is a volunteer gardener at the Hamilton Grange, a certified animal rescuer, and an artist who takes delight in illuminating the natural beauty that can be found EVERYWHERE in our urban jungle. Her drawings express her love for nature on many levels, and she aims wholeheartedly to spark that joy and appreciation in her students, too.
