democracy in practice: a model assembly

Part festival, part symposium, part community ritual, this free day-long gathering brings together artists, environmentalists, scientists, farmers, storytellers, performers, and neighbors to explore what animals might teach us about living through an age of profound change.

Explore the rich possibilities of alternative photographic printing using organic materials such as green tea, coffee, and wine.

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.

Strengthen the connection between observation and gesture in live model figure drawing, through this session led and guided by an instructor.

Crafternoons are a series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages. Each month, we’ll roll up our sleeves and dive into fun, hands-on animal creations inspired by our first major public exhibition, The Ark.

Discover ways to combine collage, oftenfree-form and intuitive, with comic making, often plotted and organized, innew, surprising ways that inform one another.

Discover conceptual and physical forms ofunfolding, spinning, and expanding through zine and book-making, working withauto-ethnographic journaling, photography, or drawing.

A two day workshop exploring wheel throwing, altering, and surface design.

Using watercolor to create an observationalillustration of a live model, experiment with shapes, structures, lines andcolors in brush work.

This class will provide tools to printmakers–or any artists with some print experience– in preparing digital files forprint previews and color separations, primarily working in Adobe Photoshop.

PHA Patrons are invited to an intimate reception and private viewing of PHA’s first major public exhibition, The Ark, featuring a curatorial introduction by PHA President and exhibition co-curator, Eric Shiner.

In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ first major public exhibition, The Ark, come by the Old Stone House to create pocket-sized animal sculptures inspired by the critters found at J.J. Byrne Playground, Old Stone House, and Washington Park! With support from Powerhouse Arts staff, participants are invited to sculpt, craft, and experiment as they bring caterpillars, ladybugs, and other tiny creatures to life.

Inspired by jazz music, this workshop exploreshow fragmentation, reassembly, and reconstruction can generate abstractcompositions from the personal archive.

Discover different techniques within the Youba resist-dyeing art of adirẹ, traditionally using indigo dye and cassava paste or melted wax.

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.

A sweeping group exhibition composed entirely of animal sculptures, curated by artist Eric Fischl with PHA President Eric Shiner.

A BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) juried group exhibition of artworks that explore themes of loss, transition, liberation, freedom and deliverance.