Art Where You Are: Creating Emerging Worlds at Abolitionist Place
Sep 26, 2026 1:00 PM
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3:00 pm
Location: Willoughby Street + Albee Square West (Brooklyn)
In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ upcoming exhibition, Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, participants are invited to create their own paper world inspired by the exhibition's immersive themes. With support from Powerhouse Arts staff, attendees will craft either a pop-up paper scene that recreates the feeling of moving through virtual space or that captures the sensation of stepping inside a painting. Through folding, layering, and storytelling, participants will experiment with paper engineering to bring imagined masterpieces to life.
Drop in anytime to make artwork for yourself, friends, or family. All ages are welcome and encouraged to create with us.
Art Where You Are is a seasonal outreach program that brings free, accessible art-making pop-ups directly into neighborhoods across Gowanus and Brooklyn. The program meets community members where they live and gather — in NYCHA housing developments, public parks, plazas, and local businesses — providing hands-on creative experiences for individuals of all ages and backgrounds.
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Crafternoons: Crafting a Miniature Museum
Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll paint and sculpt small-scale artworks to fill our museum diorama. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages.
Art Where You Are: Preserving Technique and Artistry with Stained Glass Studio
With support from Stained Glass Studio founders Bryane and Jenny Fleming, attendees will learn the fundamentals of stained glass techniques while creating their own glass artwork inspired by the masterpieces featured in Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado.
Crafternoons: Designing Puppets of Earthly Delights
Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll design puppets inspired by Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages.
Crafternoons: Building Tunnel Book Worlds
Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll bring 2D artworks to life as we transform them into pop-up tunnel books. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages.
PHA Artist Salon: Jean Shin
PHA Advocates members and above ($1,500+) are invited to an intimate salon-style reception with artist Jean Shin and PHA Printshop Director Luther Davis. Hosted in the PHA Printshop, the evening will feature an in-depth conversation about their creative process and collaboration on Tidal Reflections, the inaugural PHA Benefit Collector Edition.
Morning Dew: Cyanotypes with Mickey Aloisio
Explore the rich possibilities of alternative photographic printing using organic materials such as green tea, coffee, and wine.
Art Where You Are: NYCHA Gowanus Houses
In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ first major public exhibition, The Ark, we invite our neighbors to join us at the NYCHA Gowanus Houses picnic area along Hoyt St. to create animal puppets! Using repurposed materials and everyday objects, participants will explore how to design and animate expressive puppets through hands-on making and play.
Anchoring Sight: Figure Drawing with Kiara Ocasio
Strengthen the connection between observation and gesture in live model figure drawing, through this session led and guided by an instructor.
Unfolding: Zines and Artists’ Books with Juliana Maurer
Discover conceptual and physical forms ofunfolding, spinning, and expanding through zine and book-making, working withauto-ethnographic journaling, photography, or drawing.
The Ark pop-up at the PHA Store
Our onsite retail space currently features a pop-up of exhibition-related products and artworks made by staff and studio members, with the majority of proceeds going to the artists themselves. You’ll find everything from prints and sculptures to pillows and wallpaper.
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The Ark
A sweeping group exhibition composed entirely of animal sculptures, curated by artist Eric Fischl with PHA President Eric Shiner.
Unmoored / Unbound
A BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) juried group exhibition of artworks that explore themes of loss, transition, liberation, freedom and deliverance.