Past Events
Steam Works
Tomas Vu
March 2022
(Steam Works is a series of youth workshops lead by exhibiting artist in The Boiler)
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The ELM Foundation hosted a screen printing workshop with Tomas Vu, Emma Hammond-Thomas, and Garrett Ball. The artists demonstrated how to screenprint on t-shirts using an image of the Spherochromatic dome, similar to the installation on view in The Boiler gallery.
Steam Works, Fernando Ruiz Lorenzo & COCO144
March 2022
(Steam Works is a series of youth workshops lead by exhibiting artist in The Boiler)
The ELM Foundation hosted a workshop led by artist and educator Fernando Ruiz Lorenzo with special guest COCO144. Students learned about the history and fundamentals of aerosol art and graffiti letter making while creating their own handstyle and name ending with a youth gallery show of their work.
IN THE BOILER
COCO144 Closing
March 2022
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The community at ELM Foundation celebrated the close of COCO144's "wRit-ua-l" with a evening of performance, poetry, DJ sets and dancing! Thank you to the performers and guests alike who made the night a truly special celebration!
IN THE BOILER
COCO144
March - April 2022
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The Boiler Gallery at ELM Foundation opens its exhibition of COCO144's recent work. "wRit+ua+l" opened March 26 and ran through April 16. The opening and closing receptions featured music and interactive performance, and a wonderful, celebration of New York City's unique, historic art forms.
IN THE BOILER
Nathan West 8 BALL
January 2022
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The Boiler Gallery at ELM Foundation opens to exhibit Nathan West's "8 Ball," a show of photographic work portraying pool halls and their athletic connoisseurs. The gallery itself was transformed into a dive bar for this event; our visitors were invited to play pool until last call!
COCO144 Leads Our First Public Art Program
October 2021
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ELM Foundation kicked off our first Public Art Program this fall! Local youth, mentored by the pioneer street writer "COCO144," have designed & painted a spectacular public mural on ELM Foundation's south facing wall. A big thank you goes to Colossal Media for donating our paint!
Fundraiser
September - October 2021
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ELM Foundation hosted a silent auction fundraiser in our ELM Gallery. Visitors bid on donated works from local artists and the profits went towards for ELM's operational budget. ELM extends a big thank you to our community for their continued support of our programs and mission.
ELM Interns visit the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
July 2021
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ELM Foundation's group of summer student interns visited the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University for a tour of the facilities and a hands-on cyanotype workshop.
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Recent Columbia alumnus Emma Fujiko Hammond-Thomas led this workshop.
IN THE BOILER
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
June 2021
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ELM Foundation welcomed musicians from the National Jazz Museum in Harlem for an evening performance in the Boiler gallery @ ELM Foundation.
The event coinsides with "BOUND," an installation in the Boiler gallery at ELM Foundation by our current artist Emma Fujiko Hammond-Thomas.
IN THE BOILER
BOUND -Emma Fujiko Hammond-Thomas. Opening
June 2021
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ELM foundation welcomed the community for an opening of "BOUND," an installation in the Boiler gallery at ELM Foundation by our current artist Emma Fujiko Hammond-Thomas.
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We hosted a VIP viewing and dinner. The exhibit is open to the public during gallery hours.
Community Day: Firefly workshop
March 2021
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Our current guest artist, Baris Gokturk, invited the community to join him as he produced large scale paintings at the Boiler @ ELM Foundation.
Working with the themes of community and "Moving Through the Pandemic," guests were invited to gather at the Boiler & paint the fireflies in his new work.
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IN THE BOILER
Guest Artist Baris Gokturk arrives
January 2021
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IPK Mural Project
October 2020
IN THE BOILER
James Hyde Guest Artist
July thru December 2020
Intro to guest artist program
Art in a Box
July 2020
Art in a Box
Raffle
May 2020
COVID19! :(
March 2020
New Space - Construction
February 2020
Kids Art in Columbia open studio
November 2019
DC with iStand
May 2019
Opening show with Columbia
May 2019
Launch date
February 20, 2019.
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