Early Patron Access 8PM,

VIP Access 9PM

The TAC Night Closing Cocktail Reception is an opportunity to connect & mix with art professionals, artists/creatives & fellow explorers. We will host special performances by Muffinhead, Loren Nosan, and Edisa Weeks, as well as Fred Astaire Dance Studio.

You bring yourself, and TAC Night will bring the wine! 

RSVP here by purchasing a VIP or Patron pass.

This is the second session of our drawing series. This time we feature artist Luisa Cantara, which will share and teach you all her drawing techniques.

“Electric Awakening” is a treatise of the body’s revolt. Our memories and identities are written across our flesh so we return to the body to wipe the slate clean and start over; forge new systems and new relationships with one another. The excerpt piece “Awakening” is a choreographed piece which depicts how human beings shift the shape of community yet never challenging the formation of community which results in an inevitable power structure that oppress every one of us” https://www.livingtheatre.org/

Photographers Allan Markman and Christopher Sheils will talk to you about their works on view.

Meet adventurer Melissa Goodwin and hear the stories of her different hike journeys while learning key skills for a voyage in nature including navigation skills.

New Yorkers are surrounded by water and yet many of us have limited interactions with the actual waterways that surround us. In Imaginary Waterscapes No.1, Sto Len explores the sonic properties of water and electricity—both real and imaginary—through touch, sound, ritual, and movement. Referencing John Cage’s Imaginary Landscapes series, Len will use new and old technologies such as Bluetooth, solar panels, and digital wireless transmitters with radio, contact mics, and hydrophones to create a live sonic exploration.

B.M. will personally walk you through the hat-making process, referencing color ad detail options as well as a wide selection of materials. At the workshop/demo we will focus a bit on the history of hats, the craft and the perform an interactive demo highlighting a few of the many processes required to build and create a quality piece.

Reserve your spot today.

A group ensemble from the Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center will execute a traditional Taiko performance. Taiko (太鼓) are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. Taiko have a mythological origin in Japanese folklore, but historical records suggest that taiko were introduced to Japan through Korean and Chinese cultural influence as early as the 6th century CE. The Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center will perform traditional taiko.

Discover the studios of artists Regina Silvers, Erin Ko, Edward Love, Michael Jenkins, Andrew Tomasulo and Aly Stosz.

Discover the studios of artists Cati Bestard, Sujung Chang, Pablo Diaz, Madhini Nirmal, Phoebe Osborne, Manny Padernos.

This Meet & Greet with the artist is an opportunity to ask any questions you’d like about her work and creative process.

Session 1: 6:30-7:15PM

Session 2: 7:30-8:15PM

Fred Astaire Dance Studio Downtown New York is a Ballroom and Latin

dance studio that has been open for a year. The studio is owned by

Artur, Svitlana, Misha and Tanya who are in love with dance and the way it enriches everyones lives in so many ways. They are happy to share their knowledge with the world and make everyone fall in love with dance.

Natalia Nakazawa will be addressing a long history of migration within the context of Double Knot, which focuses on old and antique pieces from Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Morocco, promoting a better understanding of their rich weaving traditions in the context of their history, art, and culture. She is looking to it as an opportunity to discuss both personal histories while in the presence of original textiles - culminating in an interactive workshop where participants will use fabric remnants to construct personal flags.

Dive in an interactive experience and discover a site specific installation by DiMoDA and FELT Zine including a projection mapped fabric created by Melissa Clarke.

ON CANAL hosts DiMoDA’s third collection of curated works. New Talismans explores the experience and embodiment of computer witchcraft in the post-internet age. MND//BDY examine existence from the basis of the simultaneity of the physical being and the digital being. FELT Zine will be showcasing a site specific mixed-reality installation, including fabric, projection, and an immersive fashion themed VR experience. Interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator, Melissa Clarke will be presenting and collaborating with FELT Zine to bring the VR project to life.

@ New Inc

325 Canal St.

Experience the Photo Booth of the Future : Step into Beheld’s 3D photo booth and be teleported into the digital world. You can share your digital avatar with friends and family or you can be 3D printed in full-color.

@ 312 Canal St.

Early Patron Access 8PM,

VIP Access 9PM

The inaugural TAC Night Closing Cocktail Reception is an opportunity to connect & mix with art professionals, artists/creatives & fellow explorers. We will host a special performance by Angel Kaba and Yahaya Kamate.

Experience the performance art of Francois Sarhan, one of the artists exhibited in Asterisms at Hercules Art Studio. Each performance is 10-15 minutes.

Stop by Hal Bromm Gallery on TAC Night where the gallery’s founder, Hal Bromm, will be imparting valuable advice on how to start and build an art collection. Both new and seasoned collectors are welcome!

Asterisms is a collaborative exhibition by the artists of Sprechgesang Institute. A continuation of their experimental lecture series, the show is an active research site for hybridizations of categorical knowledge; a visual essay mapping out unexpected connections; a break from normalized interpretations of experience.

Join Z Behl, a visual artist, filmmaker and long-time CSS teaching artist for a drawing workshop at Church Street School. Z’s work in sculpture, performance and installation has received awards from NYFA, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has exhibited at ArtBA, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and CAC New Orleans.

Danny Kirkhum will perform on a Sing for Hope Piano, a work ornamented by Julia Cocuzza entitled Heat from Palms of My Hands. This performance is presented in partnership with Friends of Duane Park and The Church Street School for Music and Art.

Fragmentina’s Motherland tells the story of Fragmentina, an otherworldly and bewildered being, who wakes up on an unknown shore and must piece together her identity and the events that have led to her displacement.

Artist, Creative Director, Producer and Choreographer Angél Kaba will be conducting an exclusive Afro Dance Workshop for TAC Night on June 21! RSVP now to book your spot (spaces are limited)

Jung Sun Kang will perform on a Sing for Hope piano, a work ornamented by Rachel Sousa entitled Duet. This performance is presented in partnership with Friends for Duane Park and The Church Street School for Music and Art.

Be sure to stop by arthousenyc at 6:30PM to listen to an artist talk hosted by artist, podcaster and comedian Sharon Spell.

Co-curators Kim Power and Melanie Vote have invited thirty-one artists working in the mediums of paint, photography, thread and mixed media to stand as a representation of the synthesis of environment and materiality through their own individual creative expressions.

A minimalist dance that utilizes Jenga blocks as an interactive object. Through the dance the artist seeks to convey her experience as a foreign artist who relocated to New York City. She wants to address how she was confronted with setbacks while pursuing her artistic dreams, and how she was bombarded with feelings of loss, failure, loneliness and alienation.

Audience of One is a short piece of interactive conversation and dance devised for pedestrians. It allows pedestrians to pause en route, reflect upon stillness and movement, and feel their own presence in the midst of motion. Audience of One embraces the heightened space of performance as an arena for self-discovery and unfiltered human connection.

Stop by Page(NYC) from 6:00-8:00PM to meet and walkthrough the exhibition with the artists, Anna Rosen and David Roesing.

Keep it sharp, keep it safe! Book your spot for BestMade’s knife sharpening station to learn skills needed to hone your best knife edge, pick up new blade tips, get your knife sharpened on the spot. Sign up for this workshop to maintain your edge!