powerhouse arts community day
May 31 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Photo by Gina Curovic
Join us for a day of discovery and creative expression!
The second-annual Powerhouse Arts Community Day is almost here! A celebration of creativity, collaboration, and the inspiring community that makes Powerhouse Arts what it is. Explore our building, meet artists and fabricators, and take part in hands-on activities for all ages.
This family-friendly, all-ages event takes place across three floors in our purpose-built art-making facility. The event runs 11am–5pm (doors close at 4:30pm).
Featuring:
- Anne Cubberly’s Giant Puppets
- Arts Gowanus
- Boxcutter Collective
- Brooklyn Film Camera
- Craftsman Ave
- Drag Story Hour NYC
- Fiera
- Firework Photo Booth Co.
- Groundswell
- Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet
- KHORIKOS
- Las Mariquitas
- Materials for the Arts
- MGC Community Print Studio
- PrintSpace
- Peace MFG
- PHA Ceramics
- PHA Print
- PHA Public Art
- Redhawk Native American Arts Council
- Stained Glass Studio
- Street Lab
- TATTER
- The Alpha Workshops
- Workspace11
Plus:
- PHA 2025 Staff Art Show : The PHA 2025 Staff Art Show celebrates the expansive creative practices of PHA’s staff—fabricators, administrators, security staff, and interns—whose work, materials, methods, and personal visions stretch well beyond the walls of PHA. The show presents a dynamic range of mediums: painting, drawing, metal work, sound, video, sculpture, and more.
- Tiffany Baker’s The Dear Neighbor Project: This multi-site public mural installation turns the voices of Gowanus residents into public art and illustrates their experiences with flooding in the neighborhood; the Powerhouse Arts site-specific installation simulates what it is like to live in an active flood zone.
- Unveiling Celebration for Mucky’s Return: The Gowanus community will gather for the unveiling of Mucky’s Return, a new public sculpture by artist and filmmaker Jeff Gipe that honors the legacy of a dolphin that swam into the polluted waters of the Gowanus Canal in 2013.
- Method, Brooklyn Ceramic Arts Tour (BCAT) exhibition: As part of BCAT—a weekend-long celebration of all things clay—PHA Community Ceramics Studio members & staff present Method, an exhibition examining the history of objects and the people who create them, looking at how ways of making are handed down, changed, and reinvented over time.
Music by:
- Woof
- Nelly G
- Max Glazer
- Madkick
- Sticky Dojah
- Black Bean
