Jessica Bal
As we close out 2024, join us for our end-of-year event celebrating our global community of visual storytellers. The evening will also mark the opening of "A Tapestry of Aliveness," a new exhibition of work from our NYC Fellowship. With work about migration, sanctuary, chosen family, and belonging, the artists in this exhibition center tenderness and care in their approaches to imagemaking, and honor the places we find home.
The event will feature:
A collaborative mural performance by artists featured in the exhibition
Food, drink, and music
Books for browsing and sale
This event is hosted at the Magnum Foundation. We are grateful to our neighbors at Creative Time for also sharing CTHQ, their gathering space for art and politics, with us for the evening.
Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
About the exhibition: Since 2011, Magnum Foundation’s New York City Fellowship has provided a launchpad for early-career photographers living and working in New York City. Recognizing the challenges of making a living as a working photographer, this fellowship serves a unique dual purpose: supporting the development of the fellows’ photographic projects, while also providing them with paid work experience in Magnum Foundation’s office.
Thirteen years and 32 fellows later, this diverse group of photographers has gone on to produce vibrant visual storytelling in and outside of New York City, while also playing crucial roles as teachers, organizers, and connectors in their communities.
In a new exhibition at the Magnum Foundation, entitled “A Tapestry of Aliveness,” a group of fellows come together in an exercise of collaborative co-curation, weaving their individual images together into a tapestry of New York City that expresses the ongoing acts of living, collectivism, and agency of communities that are often pushed to its margins. With work about migration, sanctuary, chosen family, and belonging, they center tenderness and care in their approaches to imagemaking, and honor the places we find home.
Featuring work by: Jessica Bal, Miranda Barnes, Mengwen Cao, Ally Caple, Rahima Gambo, Yolanda Hoskey, Sara Hylton, Alexis Lambrou, Destiny Mata, groana melendez, Tif Ng, Johan Orellana, Pete Pin, Ruth Prieto Arenas, Collin Riggins, Mateo Ruiz González, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Sean Sirota, and Laila Annmarie Stevens. Read more about the exhibit here.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. Masks are currently appreciated, but not required.
Magnum Foundation events are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation and our Circle of Friends. Magnum Foundation's New York City Fellowship is made possible with the support of the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation and the Select Equity Group Foundation.
