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SUMMARY:Art\, Jazz\, and Reflections: The Children’s Art Carnival
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArt\, Jazz\, and Reflections: The Children’s Art Carnival\nDate: Saturday\, July 11\, 2026 \n\nTime: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nLocation: The Lantern\, 8th floor\, Lenfest Center for the Arts\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY 10027\n\n\nJoin exhibition curator Souleo to discover the role of music in the Children’s Art Carnival studio spaces and hear exhibition artists share their memories of the Children’s Art Carnival past and present. This event features recollections by artists Élan Cadiz\, Dindga McCannon\, and Ademola Olugebefola and a special live performance by Vanisha Gould. \nLet us know you will be attending by registering for the program using this link: \nhttps://events.leapevents.com/event/art-jazz-and-reflections-on-cac \nÉlan Cadiz is an interdisciplinary North American Visual Artist that deconstructs and balances her intersectionality through her projects. Her art and practice are grounded in the documentation of her personal narrative through the use of historical and domestic imagery. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the  School of Visual Arts where she was awarded the SVA Merit Scholarship\, Paul Rhodes Memorial Award\, and the Martha Trevor Award. Cadiz has been awarded commissions by the Studio Museum in Harlem\, El Museo de Barrio\, Art in Flux Harlem\, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum\, Weeksville Heritage Center and more. \nDindga McCannon grew up in Harlem and began her career studying with Harlem Renaissance artists including Jacob Lawrence andCharles Alston\, as well as Richard Mayhew and Al Loving at the Art Students League of New York and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She went on to become a pillar of the influential African-American Weusi Artist Collective\, and was subsequently co-founder (with Faith Ringgold) of Where We At\, a groundbreaking women’s collective affiliated with the Black Arts Movement. \nAdemola Olugebefola is an educator\, activist\, and visual artist whose work encompasses woodcuts\, lithographs\, etchings\, serigraphs\, oils\, ink\, charcoal and pencil drawing\, free-standing sculptures\, murals and other forms. During the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s\, he was politically active and became one of the founders of the Weusi Artist Collective. \nVanisha Gould is a jazz vocalist\, composer\, and bandleader based in New York City. A graduate of Berklee College of Music\, Vanisha has built an international reputation for her soulful voice\, nuanced songwriting\, and dynamic stage presence. She has performed around the globe\, with appearances in Russia\, Sweden\, and at the renowned Copenhagen Jazz Festival. In New York\, Vanisha has graced the stages of Smalls Jazz Club\, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola\, Minton’s Playhouse\, The Django\, the Jazz Gallery\, and more. \nThis 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 June 26 through September 13\, 2026. \nChildren’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists  \nFor the fourth iteration of its Uptown Triennial series\, Wallach Art Gallery presents Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists\, an exhibition examining how a community art center emphasized creative freedom\, experimentation\, and communal bonds through the work of its affiliated artists. The curriculum would vary\, morph\, and evolve over the more-than-five-decades since its founding\, grounded in the belief that working artists can be creative\, art can build confidence and a strong sense of identity\, and that community can bind people together through pedagogy and care. Often working between figuration and abstraction\, the featured Carnival artists employ a wide spectrum of artistic practices such as painting\, printmaking\, and photography; legacy techniques such as quiltmaking and ceramics; as well as the incorporation of found objects\, assemblage\, and wearable art.
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LOCATION:Wallach Gallery Columbia University\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Community Day "Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists"
DESCRIPTION:Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists  \nFor the fourth iteration of its Uptown Triennial series\, Wallach Art Gallery presents Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists\, an exhibition examining how a community art center emphasized creative freedom\, experimentation\, and communal bonds through the work of its affiliated artists. The curriculum would vary\, morph\, and evolve over the more-than-five-decades since its founding\, grounded in the belief that working artists can be creative\, art can build confidence and a strong sense of identity\, and that community can bind people together through pedagogy and care. Often working between figuration and abstraction\, the featured Carnival artists employ a wide spectrum of artistic practices such as painting\, printmaking\, and photography; legacy techniques such as quiltmaking and ceramics; as well as the incorporation of found objects\, assemblage\, and wearable art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nCommunity Day: Saturday\, June 27\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWallach Kids: A Closer Look with Tomo Mori\nDate: June 27\, 2026\nTime: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM\nLocation: 1st Floor Lobby\, Lenfest Center for the Arts\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY 10027 \n\n\n\nJoin us for a fun and creative session with Tomo Mori\, who will guide you in making beautiful ropes and twines from fabric scraps. Bring your imagination—everyone is invited to create their own unique fiber art masterpiece! All materials are provided\, so just bring your enthusiasm. \n \nWallach Talks: Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists\n\n\nDate: June 27\, 2026\nTime: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nLocation: 6th floor the Wallach Gallery\, Lenfest Center for the Arts\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY 10027\n\n\nJoin us for the newest edition of Wallach Talks\, where we present a range of creative voices in response to Wallach exhibitions. Today’s speakers will share reflections of their experiences past and present with the Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem.  \nA Harlem resident for more than fifty years\, Michael A. Cummings is a leading figure in contemporary quiltmaking\, known for his vivid fabric collage compositions that celebrate the African American experience through historical\, cultural\, philosophical and mythical realms. His work appears in major public and private collections\, including the Renwick Gallery\, Smithsonian Institution; Studio Museum in Harlem; International Quilt Museum\, the Brooklyn Museum; Barack Obama Presidential Library; Museum of Art and Design\, City College of New York\, and MTA Subway Art. He is the recipient of the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts\, National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship. \nTomo Mori is a Harlem-based painter and fiber artist. Currently a resident artist at the Children’s Art Carnival\, her work has been shown at The Golden Thread 2025\, Scope Miami\, FiveMyles\, and the Newark Museum. In 2018 one of Mori’s public art commissions was permanently installed at the MTA Manhattanville Bus Depot on W 133rd Street. \nSouleo is a curator\, writer\, impresario\, consultant\, and muse who documents and amplifies the stories of emerging and underrepresented artists and creative figures. Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists is his most recent exhibition. Previous curatorial projects include Beau McCall: Buttons On! (2024-present)\, Fuller Craft Museum\, Brockton\, MA\, and national tour; Dianne Smith: Two Turntables & a Microphone\, (2023) at Bronx Museum of the Arts\, New York\, and Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem\, (2021)\, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, New York\, NY amongst others. He is the co-curator with Barbara Paris Gifford of the upcoming exhibition Harlem by Hand at the Museum of Arts and Design\, opening October 9\, 2027. \nMichael Unthank currently serves as co-chair of the  Board of Directors for the Children’s Art Carnival. He has built a career in support of community based artistic expression and development. Through his work as an arts funding executive\, as an organizational director\, and as an independent consultant\, he has provided leadership in the arts to spark special initiatives and partnerships for cultural development with public and private funders\, artists and local and regional arts organizations.
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LOCATION:Wallach Gallery Columbia University\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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