STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Image: Yu-Wen Wu, Scholar's Rock I, 2024
Open Studios 2025
Friday, October 17
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Professional Preview (by RSVP)
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Night Registration encouraged
Saturday, October 18
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA organized by SAWCC
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Open Studios
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
EFA OPEN STUDIOS! We welcome the public to explore 80 artist studios, along with a host of arts programming and exhibitions, all located in the EFA building in Midtown Manhattan. This event offers a rare opportunity to witness the creative process up close and engage with a vibrant community of professional artists. Our internationally recognized members, each with established studio practices and career honors, will open their doors to showcase their most recent works. Additionally, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will be open for special events and tours, providing firsthand experiences of the transformative power of art.
Saturday, October 18, 12–1 PM
Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA
EFA Gallery | 3rd Floor
Join us for an engaging artist panel featuring Samira Abbassy, Noormah Jamal and Melissa Joseph, three visionary artists whose work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through diverse mediums and perspectives.
The conversation will be moderated by Shilpi Chandra, whose thoughtful facilitation will guide a deep dive into the artists’ creative processes, influences, and the personal and political themes that shape their work.
Sponsored by The South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective (SAWCC) in collaboration with EFA.
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Saturday, October 18, 2-3 PM
Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | 2nd Floor
Join artist Devin N. Morris in discussion with RBPMW Artistic Director/Master Printer Jazmine Catasús for an in-depth look at his stencil monotype collage technique. Devin's work will be featured at NADA Miami as part of the Workshop’s presentation this fall.
Devin N. Morris (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD; lives and works in New York) collapses memory and space to envision delicate new realms of existence. Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video the artist considers the statement ‘use what you have to make what you need.’ Recent exhibitions include: And Ever an Edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY(2023); Portrait of an Unlikely Space curated by Mickalene Thomas & Keely Orgeman, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven (2023); Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Museum, Nashville, (2023) and Copy Machine Manifestos: Artist Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2023).
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Image by Argenis Apolinario
Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
September 9 – November 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 6-8PM
The James Gallery
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Curated by Shameekia Shantel Johnson in collaboration with Essye Klempner, Program Director and Jazmine Catasús, Artistic Director of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Haig Aivazian, Xenobia Bailey, Chakaia Booker, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Camille Billops, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Renee Cox, Lizania Cruz, Devraj Dakoji, Raque Ford, Michele Godwin, Maren Hassinger, Baseera Khan, Tsedaye Makonnen, Glendalys Medina, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Dindga McCannon, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, Stephanie Santana, Krishna Reddy, Shellyne Rodriguez, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kenny Rivero, Elliott Jamal Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Charles White, and Michael Kelly Williams
Funding for this exhibition has been generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Dedalus Foundation, Hauser & Wirth Institute and Speedball Art Products. These partners have supported the development of the exhibition, public programming, and the broader efforts to preserve and share the Workshop’s artistic and cultural legacy.
EVENTS
Screening & Launch: Blackburn Oral History Project
Tuesday, October 7, 6 PM
The Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway #2, NYC 10012
Print Demonstration | Viscosity-Stencil Monotype Demonstration with Michael Kelly Williams
Saturday, October 11, 12PM
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
323 W 39th Street, NYC 10018
Creative Collectives Panel Discussion
Sunday, October 12, 3PM
Kenkeleba House, 214 East 2nd Street, New York, NY 10009
with robin holder, former Assistant Director of The Printmaking Workshop, Dionis Ortiz, Children’s Art Carnival, Stephanie Santana, Black Women of Print, Dindga McCannon, Weusi and Where We At: Black Women Artists, and Ademola Olugebefola, Weusi
RBPMW Annual Members’ Show
September 20 – November 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20th, 3-6PM
Blackburn Study Center
323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor
Alaiyo Bradshaw, Amy Tenenouser, Barbara Westermann, Chemin Hsiao, Chihiro ITO, Carlos Pisco, Deborah Seidman, Denise Kasof, Dabora Choi, Darwin Erazo, Diane Drescher, Douglas Collins, Elina Press, Emily Barnett, Essye Marie, Eileen O'Kane Kornreich, Freddie L. Rankin II, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Geuryung Lee, Justin Sanz, James Horner, Jeannie Rhyu, Jessie Fan, Judy Liu, Laura Dolp, Lori Solondz, Luanda Lozano, Maggie Barrett, Maggie Block, Michele Godwin, Maho Kino, Marta Nowicka, Michele Godwin, Mimi Biyao Bai, Moses Ros, Morgan Menzyk, Molly Crabapple, Patrick Rowe, Pedro Felipe Vintimilla, Pauline Kinahan Kane, Priyanka Kumar, Rachel Kim, Rosario Moore Arteaga, Sal Sidner, Sakura Abdel-Rahman, Samantha Nochimson, Sigrid Sperzel, Beth Sutherland, Sheila Dubey, Nancy Paredes, Simon Herrera, tsetsilia tsypina, Victoria Salzman, Patricia Wynne and more.
Image: Heather Renée Russ, Emergent, 2023
Living Systems
October 2 – December 3, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 2, 6-8 PM
EFA Gallery
323 West 39th St, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm
Armando Cortés
Sean Fader
Cadence Giersbach
Lise Kjaer
Pablo Garcia Lopez
Vidal Mouet
Jan Mun
Heather Renée Russ
Yu-Wen Wu
Curated by Deric Carner
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts presents a group show featuring nine new members of the acclaimed EFA Studio Program. Living Systems highlights the innovative and thoughtful approaches of this cohort of artists whose work spans photography, sculpture, installation, and film. Members are invited to join EFA for two years and represent the highest calibre artists selected by an independent jury panel. This year, we are pleased to add five new studios to our Midtown location and launch our renovated 3rd-floor gallery space.
RESIDENCIEs + FELLOWSHIPS
Elfreda Dali
Supported by 1952 Africa
EFA Studios International Artist-in-Residence
October 2–December 30, 2025
Elfreda Dali is a multidisciplinary artist of Nigerian heritage whose practice explores figurative textile art, cultural storytelling, and environmental consciousness. Grounded in diasporic identity and the use of repurposed materials, her work is rooted in cultural migration mapping, personal evolution, and the language of cloth as a medium for memory, language, and art.
Radoslav Maglov
Supported by The American Foundation for Bulgaria
EFA Studios Artist-in-Residence
October 2 – December 30, 2025
Radoslav Maglov is a Bulgarian artist, researcher, and theorist living and working in Sofia. Maglov employs a rich array of media, spanning the domains of video, installations, sculptures, and paintings. His artistic endeavours centre on the concept of corporeality, particularly as these interpretations emerge in his work as both consequences and catalysts of political and social phenomena.
THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS
