What Black Is This, You Say?

A Public Artwork by Amanda Williams

Public Painting Sessions: Saturday, May 1st, 8th, 15th

Virtual Launch Event: Tuesday, June 1st

What Black Is This, You Say? is a public artwork created by artist and architect Amanda Williams for Storefront’s facade. This year-long project explores blackness and identity through the lens of color theory. It translates to the physical realm a body of work initiated by the artist on Instagram. The public artwork will be accompanied by a program of visual, written, and live content at whatblackisthisyousay.org beginning June 1st, 2021.

Learn more here.

RSVP to launch events here.

A Long Evening with Christian Nyampeta

April 8th–May 8th, 2021

Wed-Sat, 12-5 pm

Closing Performance:

May 8th, 6-8 pm

97 Kenmare Street, NY

This extended meta-concert at Storefront spatializes artist Christian Nyampeta’s recent album, An Evening with Christian Nyampeta. It stretches that brief period of time that sits between day and night, between public and private, between outside and inside, between what the world is and what it could be. Offering a time zone of respite from the exhaustion, loss, grief, and conflict of our current era, it instead imagines a moment of belonging, joy, generosity, and creation in the face of an ever challenging world. In the process, Nyampeta asks a crucial question that provokes a more hopeful future: how do we rest together?

Learn more here.

Re-Source Closing Event

Tuesday, March 30th

6:00-7:30 pm ET

Zoom (RSVP for link)

As we close Re-Source, a combined exhibition and benefit that re-opened Storefront’s gallery space in November seven months after the start of the pandemic, we invite participating architects and designers, members of the Benefit Committee, members of Storefront to gather together and join us in conversation about resources in this unique moment.

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RSVP here.