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October 13, 2026: announcing this year's Open Studios / Open Fields; upcoming artist talk; and Fine Arts community goings-on
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2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions, March 30 - May 8, 2026, Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photos by Dylan Bosch.

OCTOBER 13, 2026

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CAMPUS EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

RSVP TODAY: Upcoming artist talk with Mev Luna

VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Mev Luna

Tuesday, October 27, 6-7:30pm

Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard


Free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required to attend.

REGISTER HERE

Eventbrite closes at Noon EDT on October 27, 2026.

SAVE THE DATE: Open Studios / Open Fields

Open Studios / Open Fields

A one-day, free, public event designed to strengthen connections between artists and non-profit organizations that support them.

Saturday, November 7, 2026, 12-6pm

Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Organized in collaboration and with support from MoMA's Public Engagement Department


Open Studios invites visitors to explore the studios of our MFA students, engage with works in progress, and view a pop-up exhibition in the program’s gallery spaces.


Open Fields: An Artist Resource Fair offers artists from across New York City and beyond direct access to residencies, grant-making foundations, maker spaces, advocacy groups, and alternative exhibition venues.


Participating organizations include: Arts Gowanus, COPE NYC, Dieu Donné, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, The Fortune Society, Franklin Furnace, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Wassaic Project.


Open Fields programming includes a panel discussion organized by MoMA's Public Engagement Department, featuring artists Cynthia Alberto, Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Kamau Amu Patton, and Zoë Pulley, moderated by Leonardo Bravo, Director of Public Engagement, Department of Learning and Engagement at MoMA.


LEARN MORE ABOUT OPEN STUDIOS / OPEN FIELDS AND REGISTER TODAY

Registration closes at 5pm ET on Friday, November 6, 2026.

FACULTY, ALUMNI, & STUDENT EXHIBITIONS

MFA alum Shaun Haugen duo exhibition Deep in State at 368 in Tribeca


Faculty Naomi Safran-Hon presented at the Armory Show 2026 by SLAG&RX


BFA alum and trustee Derrick Adams at Baltimore Book Festival with activation "Reading is Freedom" and panel discussion "Stories Begin Here: A conversation with Derrick Adams, D. Watkins and Lawrence Burney"


Faculty Grayson Cox presented at SPLIT LEVEL Art Fair


MFA alumni Allen Ball, Nazli Efe, Kosuke Kawahara, Yongjai Kim, Cheryl Molnar, Nazanin Noroozi, and Vidal Mouet and faculty Carlos Motta participants in EFA Open Studios this past weekend


Art Arena, co-founded by BFA alum and trustee Mickalene Thomas, published inaugural edition of Art Arena x CULTURED


MFA alum Weiyuan Wang presented at Spectrum Chicago Art Fair 2026 by A Space Gallery


MFA alum Yen Yen Chou, BFA alum Alyssa Fanning, and faculty Michael Gac Levin included in Candyland Americana by Show&Tell at PS122

Faculty Mario Naves and MFA alum Laura Dodson included in group exhibition Nocturne at Gallery 1448 in Baltimore, MD


Faculty Alex Strada exhibiting in ART/WORK: The Practice and Politics of CETA and the Arts, 1974-1981 at The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center


MFA alum and Studio/Gallery Supervisor Taylor Bielecki and BFA alum Patti Jordan included in group exhibition ANTHROPOCENE at Lichtundfire


MFA alum Yaw Owusu collaboration with Vlisco to reimagine past designs


MFA alum Agnes Questionmark to be included in Sixth New Museum Triennial: The Outside Expands, opening February 2027


Upcoming installation by faculty Jean Shin to open at Albany International Airport in December


MFA alum Yaw Owusu presented at 1-54 London by Gallery 1957

 


MFA alum Jimi Kabela and BFA alum Alise Loebelsohn presented at Chicago Art Fair by Nancy Hoffman Gallery and Camp Z, respectively


MFA alum Xiangjie Rebecca Wu to be presented at ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2026 by Latitude Gallery


AWARDS, EVENTS, & PRESS

MFA alum Rebecca Morgan exhibition Traversing the Apocalypse at Asya Geisberg Gallery reviewed in Art Spiel by Studio/Gallery Supervisor and MFA alum Taylor Bielecki


"SPRING/BREAK highlights: Hide and Seek" review by MFA alum and Studio/Gallery Supervisor Taylor Bielecki in Art Spiel

 


Faculty Alex Strada interviewed for WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart "A Family's Saga Through Genetic Dementia; Public Artist in Residence"

Faculty featured in Hyperallergic "Jean Shin Creates Her Own Anti-War Camouflage"


Exhibition curated by faculty Karen Bachmann covered in The Art Newspaper "Art made with human hair from ‘the Louvre of hairwork’ comes to Brooklyn"


MFA '27 candidate Gijin Park interviewed for Bold Journey


MFA alum Salman Toor included in 2026 TIME100 Art list

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, & OPPORTUNITIES

Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship


Smack Mellon 2027-28 Artist Studio Program application open through December 1, 2026


Internships at the Studio Museum in Harlem across multiple departments


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