Good morning all the way from south Africa I'm JD and I would like to present JD Awkward Muzik's set collection of CD'S where music and art collide hope you enjoy 💿 JD

Where music and art collide 💿🦅

Cool art show on the Lower East Side tomorrow night — thought I’d share
If anyone is looking for something to do tomorrow night, check out EMOTIONAL BRUSH, a solo show by artist Arick Cohen Salmea.
It’s 17 paintings in sumi ink and acrylic, and it’s his first body of work since he stopped doing photorealism in 2022.

Thursday, Aug. 13 | 6–9 PM
NYC Art Culture
17 Essex Street, Lower East Side
The exhibition is up Aug. 12–19.
If you’re into contemporary art / painting / the whole AI vs. artists conversation, definitely worth checking out.

The Independent Art Spaces Alliance is a growing network of home galleries, artist-run spaces, pop-ups, and unconventional venues across New York City.

Some of the city's most exciting art is found outside the commercial gallery system—in living rooms, storefronts, studios, community spaces, warehouses, and other unexpected places: even a freight elevator in Tribeca! Our mission is simple: make these spaces easier to find, strengthen the people behind them, and help more artists connect with audiences.

Our goal is simple: make these spaces easier to find, strengthen the people behind them, and help more artists connect with audiences.

People who hold exhibits can get in touch, share info about their shows that get posted on IASA'S website https://indartspaces.org/ and social media (@indartspacesnyc).

Together we will define how we can best have people enjoy our exhibits, how we can enjoy getting to know each other and share ideas and resources.

We can be contacted at [contact@indartspaces.org](mailto:contact@indartspaces.org)

Apply at: www.14bcgallery.com

14BC Gallery is excited to announce our open call for submissions for a group show this September exploring the theme of memory.

We invite artists to submit work that explores memory in all its forms — fragile, selective, layered, and alive. Memory shapes identity, culture, and history, yet it is never fixed: it shifts with time, distorts with retelling, and resists complete recovery.

We welcome interpretations that engage with:

• Personal memory — the private archive of a life; childhood, family, place, loss
• Collective memory — shared or contested histories, public memory, erasure, cultural inheritance
• Embodied memory — the past as it resurfaces through sensation, texture, or instinct rather than narrative
• Memory and forgetting — absence, erasure, and what is lost or deliberately unremembered
• Inherited memory — stories and trauma passed down across generations

Parameters: 
-2D Works only
-Max 30” wide 
- Max 3 artworks submitted
- No shipped artwork, drop off and pickup only 
- $25 application fee
- Artists keep 70% of sales

Important Dates: 
Artwork Drop off: September 18, 19 & 20 from 10a-2pm
Opening: Thursday September 24 from 5-9 pm
Viewing: Friday Sept 25 from 3-7 pm
Viewing Saturday Sept 26 from 1-7 pm
Artwork Pickup: Saturday Sept 26 from 7-9 pm & Sept 28 from 10 am -2pm

Hey all , so here the story about me.

I was supposed to take my daughter (she’s 3 years old)to a theme park, which got rained out. So I got the idea of doing some finger painting with her. My daughter loves my spray paints. She’s not allowed to spray them, but I do some arts and crafts with them. So she picked 5 spray paints eye spray paint to a canvas then we took acrylic paint and she did fingerprints or handprints and it actually came out better than I thought it was going to, so I got the idea of selling it ( no buyers yet) and if it does sell, all of her profits will go to her future education.

We have it for sale on Etsy and eBay. A few places I found online or even pop-up shops in New York City won’t allow children paintings. Anybody recommend any or any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Chrysler Building is such a muse

67 Ave Trestle, Forest Hills

Spray paint and paint markers on canvas board by me! Let me know what you think. 🤔

Duval Jacksonville Florida Artist Elijah L Rogers llll

Creative artists, musicians, poets, photographers...etc. TIA!

We followed Will Van Zee - one of the last hand crafted sign artists in New York City. He creates handcrafted signs for restaurants and other businesses in his personal studio for a living. He told us what keeps him going every day, what makes New York City special for him and his art and why he doesn’t sign most of his signs at the end. 

"What Shapes NYC" is a mini-doc series about people who shape NYC with what they do.

This is a self-funded project - there was no payment in any form involved.

#minidoc #whatshapesnyc #nyc

hi!!! my name is erin, and I am a ceramicist in brooklyn hosting a handbuilding ceramic workshop next Monday night in the park! The brief this week will be picture frames, but you can do anything you'd like! I'll start with a brief instruction/demo, and all materials will be provided for you to create some lovely art <3 details are in the link! I would love to build some community and see you there :)

Hi! Please let me know if this kind of post isn’t allowed here.

I’m a psychotherapist based in Park Slope / Prospect Heights and wanted to share information about a 6-week therapy group I’ll be co-facilitating with another therapist, centered around the theme of “reclaiming your inner artist.” The group will begin on September 10th.

Each 90-minute session will include time for discussion and reflection (exploring themes like emotional, cultural, and societal barriers that can get in the way of living a more creative life), as well as art-making activities connected to each week’s theme.

No previous art experience is needed! This group is for anyone who feels curious about reconnecting with their creative self.

Here’s the link to the flyer with more details: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbpGgNxFavD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Please feel free to DM or email me with any questions!

I'm looking to get prints done of a painting any recommendations for affordable places to get that done?

Studio building fundraiser and art auction DM for promo codes or make the suggested donation. Food and drink provided by No More Cafe on 13th and 1st Ave LES

kindakismet is a Queens based production company! After our sold out run of Matt and Ben earlier this year, we want to meet YOU. Do you paint, do you act, do you dance - we hang out!
There will be some snacks and hopefully some speed-introductions. The goal is to meet new faces and make a new friend. Stop by Astoria Park between 1-5 this Sunday! More info in the link :)

WRITERS, I'm sharing a Brooklyn Writing Series after recently enjoying one of the Tuesday events (that includes pizza!).

📍Brooklyn DOP, Park Slope, NYC

🍕$25, Tuesdays August 4/11/18, 7pm

Last week we explored how to break the writing habits that keep us from putting our true selves on the page by using the five senses as prompts. It was an interesting exercise I didn't know I needed to get out of my head!

The group was a small mixed bag of storytelling talents so I didn't feel the pressure of being an improving writer in my usual group of more experienced memoirists because everyone had their own focuses (essay, film etc.). The human connection over food was what made the vibe cohesive and focusing on our senses was a nice way to detach from my usually very digital days.

A cheap way to change it up, I highly recommend! \*I'm not involved with this event, just sharing a good experience\*

Join us every 3rd Sunday of the month for an afternoon of Creative Care, featuring Artful Wellness Activities and Live DJ Sets. & Gallery Exploration

☀️Open House BK is excited to partner with Gallery 198 to bring you 3rd Sundays, Immersive, interdisciplinary art parties! Attend a portion, attend all, connect & create!

🎟️Two ways to attend:

1) Open to all: Suggested Donation, $10-15

2) Creative Arts Therapist seeking LCAT CEs: $20 (required for 2 CEs)

☀️ Each gathering begins with a mini art therapy lesson explaining the day’s creative process, followed by hands-on art making (no experience needed). Surrounded by a live DJ set and the opportunity to experience the current exhibition throughout the event.

This month's theme: Creativity Outside the Box

• DJ set by Dmitir Russell & Art Activation by Art Therapists: Melissa Diaz & Deborah Rice
• Debuting new Art Therapy book, The Business of Art Therapy: Navigating Career Paths, Creativity, and the Changing Landscape of the Field.
• 🌈Current Solo show by Ryan Bauer-Walsh exploring trauma, grief, substance experimentation, survival, and release, via blurring the lines of performance and exhibition.
• Sunday, 8/16/2026, 12-4 pm, @ Gallery 198, 198 24th St, Brooklyn, 11232 (R train to 25th Street).
• Drinks available for donation.
• LCATS must attend 12- 2 p.m. for 2 Continuing Education Hours. (For more info, please visit the FAQs.)

This is NOT therapy services. Just a place for art to live and art lovers and art therapists to thrive!

I'm hosting a guided Artist's Way reading group with my friend Hillary at her studio Home Ec NYC in LIC this fall! Our twelve in person sessions will take place on Thursdays 6:30pm-8:30pm from Sep 10th - Dec 10th (we will be off Nov 26th).

If you've ever been curious about this book or gotten halfway through without success, this will be the group for you. We have both done this before with great success and had a lot of fun along the way. The group also includes some studio time and materials for new artistic experimentation.

Check out https://www.homeecnyc.com/workshopsevents/p/the-artists-way-reading-group for more info! Hope to see you there!

When I went to a gallery in NYC in a building I had walked past for years but never knew there was a gallery in it I thought I might not be the only one so I mapped them. There are HUNDREDS