Thursday, March 27, 5-8pm: Edel Rodriguez | Reading and talk at Baruch

Visit Baruch College's Newman Library for an evening of readings  and conversation with Spring '25 writer-in-residence Edel Rodriguez, author of the graphic memoir Worm, and this year’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, CUNY. The evening will be hosted by the Harman Program and "Latinx Visions", a podcast that explores Latinx culture and media. The podcast's hosts, Profs. Rojo Robles, Rebecca Salois, and guest Prof. Jennifer Carrocio Maldonado, will be interviewing Rodriguez. 

Rodriguez's graphic memoir, Worm, is at once a personal exploration about his artistic journey and a tale of immigration from Cuba to the United States on the Mariel Boatlift. It was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Kirkus Reviews, and was awarded the American Library Association's Pura Belpre Honor. He is also the author of four children's books, most recently The Mango Tree/La Mata de Mango,an enchanting illustrated story on the immigrant experience. Rodriguez's political illustrations, characterized by an unflinching boldness, have appeared regularly in The New York Times and The New Yorker.

5:00pm -Buffet Reception with Food and Drink; 6-7:15pm - Reading and Conversation, with Signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public

Baruch College, Newman Library, Room 750, 151 E. 25th St., New York, NY Info

Thursday, March 27-Sunday, March 30: IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair at the Armory

The IFPDA Print Fair will gather more than 70 exhibitors at the Park Avenue Armory in New York to celebrate over 500 years of prints and printmaking. 

Organized annually by the IFPDA, the Fair brings together an international roster of blue chip galleries, private dealers, and publishers to offer critical attention on a wide range of artists, from key art historical figures to new voices in contemporary art. Exhibitors this year include Berggruen Gallery, Black Women of Print, Carolina Nitsch, David Zwirner, Harlan & Weaver, Hauser & Wirth, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Pace Prints, The Paris Review, and Peter Blum Gallery. 

In addition to this year’s booths, the IFPDA will host a range of programming, including artist talks and expert-led presentations on printmaking. Info

Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67^th Street, New York, NY Info 

Thursday, March 27-Sunday, March 30: The inaugural Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair 

The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair will welcome approximately 40 galleries and print publishers to occupy booths in the 22,517 square-foot column-free Grand Hall, with the opportunity for an additional 30 book arts purveyors, individual artists, and academic printmaking departments to exhibit on tables in the adjacent Loft space. 

The fair seeks to expand opportunities for print producers and sellers of all types, growing an already-vibrant ecosystem of fine art print production and publishing with new, accessible opportunities to cultivate collectors and grow their market. The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair will reduce barriers to entry for a wide range of printmakers by implementing criteria which allows for a wider scope of exhibitors, including individual artists and academic print departments, to show among the galleries and institutional exhibitors at the fair.

The new BFAPF is demo-driven, with workshops running for the entire weekend. On Saturday, enjoy a private tour of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair with master printer Phil Sanders who will introduce you to a selection of print fair exhibitors. Along the way he’ll talk to you about the printmaking ecosystem, why collecting is easy and fun, offer a bit of technical information, and take a deep dive into specific prints. Tours are free with entry, but each is limited to 20 participants and spots are first-come, first served. Meet in the Grand Hall near the main lounge. 

Powerhouse Arts, 322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY Tickets

Thursday, March 27, 6pm-8pm: Anne Delaney | Looking and Seeing at Bowery
Delaney's recent paintings and drawings of landscapes and scenes with family members explore themes of connection — between figures, their surroundings, and the viewer. All the while, they embrace the inherent mystery of the medium itself. The artist’s work invites us to see the world coming into being in unique visions balancing representation and abstraction, observation and interpretation. Through an eager pursuit of the seen, trees become vertical bands of color evoking sequences of time, and rocks shift to anchor entire landscapes.

Delaney says, “In my work process, I start with small pencil studies from observation or memory, then move on to larger charcoal drawings. Once a sense of direction begins to form, I start painting. As color is introduced, a new set of challenges and decisions emerge. The painting may be in a state of flux for some time. In this group of paintings, forms and figures moved and changed in color, in scale, and in placement. Rocks shape-shift. Birds appeared. Trees created a pattern of bands of color, arrayed like a sequence of time. Figures settle into relationship with each other and their surroundings. As a painting's resolution nears, my intention is that it not be just a translation of an observation (seen or felt), but that it tells its own story with many possible endings.”

Bowery Gallery, 547 West 27th St, Suite 508, New York, NY Info

March 29-30, 10am-6pm: AIDS Quilt Making Workshops at SVA

In conjunction with “TO LOVE–TO DIE; TO FIGHT. TO LIVE. Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS,” an exhibition honoring all forms of art-based activism amid the AIDS crisis, 40 years after the idea for the iconic AIDS Quilt was conceived, SVA presents a weekend of quilt-making workshops honoring artists, designers, and other members of the creative community lost to the AIDS epidemic. 

SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY Info

Last chance, closing March 29: Cat’s Cradle at Tempest

In our childhood we have all doubtless enjoyed the fascination of the game of Cat’s Cradle, and experienced a sense of being hopelessly baffled, when, after completing the series of familiar movements, we were at the end of our knowledge and all our attempts to go on further ended in a complete tangle of the string. –Caroline Furness Jayne, String Figures and How to Make Them, A Study of Cat’s Cradle in Many Lands, first published in 1906.

This exhibition featuring weavings and textile works by Katherine Earle @kekearle, Clare Hu @Clare_Hu and Leila Seyedzadeh @Leila.Seyedzadeh is a proposal for how to dovetail in air, interlace and merge. From the press release: We are as ever, talking about Palestine, displacement, the housing crisis, the violent targeting of hardworking immigrants, and the indignities of the latest DEI purge, which seems hell-bent on scrubbing any mention of our different identitiesl Then how to move forward? How can sewing, mending, weaving and handmade objects be physical and psychological resistance to dehumanization?

Cat’s Cradle is a device for pattern creation; becoming through meeting, fitting and inscribing upon each other. It can be memorized and passed on. It’s a scrappy way to make a nest out of fragments or ruins. Preview the artwork here.

TEMPEST Gallery, 1642 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood, Queens, NY Info