SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
The Collaborative Production program spans five media— wood, metal, ceramic, textile, and print—and offers the ability to work across disciplines. Powerhouse Arts fabricators collaborate with artists to realize ambitious projects across a variety of scales, including production runs, editions, and
large-scale projects.
During a residency in The Kitchen’s building at 512 West 19th Street, Autumn Knight created a new project to be viewed by online audiences. This project merged the artist’s practice of improvisation with new text, choreography, and sculpture that responds to the architecture of the space.
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In 2020, K8 Hardy reached out to Powerhouse Arts to collaborate on the fabrication of March, a large-scale, 10 x 6 foot upholstered maxi pad with colorful stains. March is composed of silver infused dimpled bamboo fabric — currently being marketed as a face mask filtration layer.
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Artist Bruce M. Sherman commissioned Powerhouse Arts to fabricate a series of ceramic sculptures for a new body of work entitled Infinite Columns. The works reference Brancusi’s Infinite Columns and assert a connection between the earth and the celestial realm in their prominent verticality.
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Powerhouse Arts’ Project Management team was hired to install Kenseth Armstead’s Boulevard of African Monarchs, at the corner of 116th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in the heart of Harlem described by the artist as “a hub of African excellence in America.”
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Artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers were commissioned by the Ford Foundation Gallery to create I Am Queen Mary for the exhibition, Radical Love, which ran from June to August, 2019.
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Sarah Crowner was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans to create a series of six individual tapestry panels for the exhibition, Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, which aimed to challenge patriarchal narratives of European modernism.
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Bryony Roberts Studio commissioned Powerhouse Arts to fabricate Soft Civic, a site-specific work that aims to enhance the public gathering space in Columbus, Indiana.
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Artist Leah Raintree approached Powerhouse Arts in 2020 to formulate a glaze and fire works for Clearing, a series of ceramic drawings using found materials from Raintree’s childhood home on a small farm in rural Virginia.
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In 2019 artist Alex Dodge collaborated with the Powerhouse Arts Printshop on his print edition The Only Stars Are In Your Eyes. The print is a seven-color screenprint on Bristol that utilizes an ultraviolet light-cured ink. The UV-cured ink is printed in such a way that it creates a raised surface, such as you might encounter with braille.
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The Powerhouse Arts Project Management team assembled and installed the first model of Agnes Denes’ Probability Pyramid—Study for Crystal Pyramid from 1976. The sculpture was commissioned by The Shed for the artist’s retrospective exhibition Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates curated by Emma Enderby, which was on view from October 2019 through March 2020.
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