Powerhouse Arts is a Brooklyn-based center for art fabrication, education, and creative production
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Explore our calendar of exhibitions, classes & workshops, talks, and more.
Oct 1
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Dec 20
Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado
An immersive virtual reality exhibition developed by ACCIONA Cultura in exclusive collaboration with Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, Masterpieces invites visitors into a multi-sensory reimagining of one of the world’s greatest museums, including fantastical, in-depth explorations of its most celebrated, and rarely traveled, masterpieces.
Oct 7
From Oil Paints to Virtual Reality: Innovation is the Medium
Inspired by Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado and featuring artists and arts workers Jazia Hammoudi, Ruby J. Thelot, and Wendi Yan, with moderator Rubén Polendo, this conversation will consider how emerging tools and innovative approaches in arts organizations can deepen, rather than replace, our relationship with art.
Oct 18
Printing the Personal: Panel Conversation with PHA’s 2025–2026 Artist Subsidy Recipients
As part of our Open House New York and Gowanus Open Studios programming, the 2025–2026 Artist Subsidy recipients Emerita Baik and Rose Malenfant come together with Powerhouse Arts fabricators DW Zinnser and Lisa D. Archigian to share more about their creative practices and experiences working with PHA’s Printshop and the MGC Community Print Studio.
Oct 18
The Incredible Scope of Site-Specific Installations: Panel Conversation with PHA’s 2025–2026 Artist Subsidy Recipients
As part of our Open House New York and Gowanus Open Studios programming, the 2026 Artist Subsidy recipients Bahar Behbahani and Coral Saucedo Lomeli join Powerhouse Arts fabricators Brenna Board and Biata Roytburd to discuss the possibilities and challenges of making site-specific work at scale.
Nov 5
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Dec 6
Powerhouse Arts 2026 Staff Art Show
Presented in dialogue with Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, the Staff Art Show will showcase a range of artistic practices while exploring the broader ecosystem of influence within the arts. Each participating artist will identify an artwork from art history that has shaped their practice, revealing networks of inspiration that connect artists across generations and offering a glimpse into the creative lives of the people who make Powerhouse Arts run.
Nov 14
Crafternoons: Crafting a Miniature Museum
Inspired by the immersive virtual reality exhibition Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado, we’ll paint and sculpt small-scale artworks to fill our museum diorama. Part of our series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages.
Dec 11
MIXTAPE: Delighted
DJ and community builder April Hunt brings her Mixtape series to Powerhouse Arts for Delighted, an evening of music, conversation, performance, and spectacle. Along with a DJ set by Hunt, the evening features Wardell Milan, Teedra Moses, and DJ Saint James Joy.
Fabrication
Our fabrication services help artists realize their visions. We work collaboratively with artists on projects at all stages and across materials, as well as offering project management and fabrication services for Public Art.
The Alpha Workshops
Our newest fabrication shop produces handmade wallpapers and handwoven/hand-dyed textiles. Additionally, the shop offers decorative arts training to vulnerable community members who live with a visible or invisible disability and wish to experience the skill-building and mental health benefits of artistic practice in the classroom and studio.
Ceramics
Public Art
The Alpha Workshops
Featured Projects
Explore artworks or other projects our teams produced in collaboration with artists in our fabrication shops.
The Art of the Game
Various
Eternal Flame for Scott Burton
Oscar Tuazon
Gilded Lily works (I–XIVVI)
Emma Safir
Damask Rose: A Gathering
Bahar Behbahani
Agua Viva
Coral Saucedo Lomeli
Riis Beach: In Reverberation
Heather Renée Russ
Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print
William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani
Making Love
Various
Delivery Dancer Codex
Ayoung Kim
Untamed, on a solitary mountain
Freya Powell
The House That Freedoms Built
La Vaughn Belle
Elevar La Cultura NYC
Victor "Marka27" Quiñoez
Ailuropoda melanoleuca: Evolutionary Cul-de-sac
Deborah Simon
A More Perfect Circle
Sari Carel
Art Students League 150th Anniversary Benefit Portfolio
James Little
Membership Studios
Community Ceramics Studio
Membership includes access to the studio’s robust facilities and resources for experienced ceramics artists, along with a staff dedicated to providing guidance and support in navigating the studio and equipment. We support communal knowledge-sharing while providing a safe environment where artists can focus on their craft and accomplish long-term projects.
MGC Community Print Studio
Our building’s newest membership-based studio supports the learning and practice of fine art printmaking. This affordable, inclusive, professional studio space welcomes a community of printmakers at all stages of artistic development. Fabrication services in a range of print processes are also available, as well as classes, fellowships, artist talks, outreach to public school students, and exhibitions.
support
Donations to Powerhouse Arts empower creative expression through our operations and support artists, professionals, and educators. Through your generosity, we are able to provide our collaborative community with a breadth of resources that enable them to fabricate work and evolve their creative practice.
