STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Exhibitions
Image: Katharine L. DeLamater, Flight Risk XI, 2022, Linen pulp paint on linen rag.
Tacit Knowledge:
Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program
in partnership with Dieu Donné
January 23–March 7, 2025
Opening Reception: January 23, 2025, 6-8 PM
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm
Artists
Anna Henrick Karpatkin Benjamin
Katharine L. DeLamater
Candy Alexandra González
Jaz Graf
Lauren Krukowski
SR Lejeune
Anela Ming-Yue Oh
Curated by Eliana Blechman
Contemporary papermaking draws on generations of knowledge about fibers, waters, and motions of the body. There is ritual in the processes of preparing pulp, pulling sheets, and pressing and drying paper between or upon boards. The practice of papermaking is learned as much through an inherent, tacit understanding within the body as it is through overt instruction. Working with pulp is a tactile exercise – one through which artists imbue meaning and history into their materials and art.
Tacit Knowledge celebrates seven years of Dieu Donné’s West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, an immersive studio mentorship for emerging papermakers to expand and enrich their artistic practices at Dieu Donné’s papermaking studios in Brooklyn, NY. Artists and papermakers Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin, Katharine L. DeLamater, Candy Alexandra González, Jaz Graf, Lauren Krukowski, SR Lejeune, and Anela Ming-Yue Oh each spent six months in the Dieu Donné papermaking studios, fully immersing themselves in the art of papermaking, supporting artists and projects coming through the studio, and learning to hone their techniques and develop their own practices. Their fellowships culminated in dedicated professional studio days for each artist to each create new bodies of artwork in handmade paper. Their resulting artworks pull from personal, social, and historical experience, and explore ritual, identity, heritage, and environment, mining both inherited and privatized forms of knowledge.
For all press inquiries, please contact Emma Hill at ehill@dieudonne.org.
RESIDENCIEs + FELLOWSHIPS
2025 SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers
EFA Studios Program Artists-in-Residence
DaeQuan Alexander Collier
Hawu Lim
Stephen Lau
DW Zinsser
Since its inception in 2010, SHIFT Residency has been providing peer support, mentoring, studio spaces, and exhibition opportunities for over ninety artists who work in various arts organizations (as curators, educators, administrators, etc.), to advance their creative practices and to support the balance of their careers. SHIFT recognizes the contribution of arts workers to the art community, providing other individuals and the public with opportunities for growth and expansion. The SHIFT residency honors these artists’ commitment with a supportive, enriching, and collaborative environment.
SHIFT hosts a cohort of artists working in a range of media each year, from sound and installation to painting, performance, and social practice. In addition to its role as a support network, SHIFT promotes advocacy for arts workers and seeks to increase equity and representation within the field.
SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers 2025 is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
2025 Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project SIP) Fellowship
EFA RBPMW
Artists: Carly Mandel, June Canedode Souza, Anna Ting Moller, Zalika Azim, E Jane, Anne Wu, Elle Perez, and Serafina Ariel
This intensive fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. Fellows are artists seeking creative exploration through printmaking, regardless of expertise, to apply their creative knowledge and conceptual goals to the print medium. The fellows are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA RBPMW staff.
The Kahn | Mason SIP Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation and the Wolf Kahn Foundation.
Adji Fatou Amdy Dieye and Eleonora Luccarini
In Partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute
EFA Studios Program International Artists-in-Residence
EFA Studios is hosting the New York Prize winners for two five-month residencies. The New York Prize is a residency award for emerging Italian artists, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in New York.
Adji Dieye (Milan, 1991) is a visual artist living and working between Dakar, Milan, and Zurich. Photography is central to her work, serving both as a versatile medium and as a means to question representational “knowledge” and processes of othering across Western and non-Western societies. By exploring the role of culture in advertising, architecture, and national archives, she scrutinizes the forms of aesthetics of self-determination within neoliberal contexts.
Eleonora Luccarini (Bologna, 1993) lives and works in Bologna and New York. Her research is interdisciplinary, systemic and focused on the performative potential of language, mainly explored through fiction, meta-narrative strategies and the crafting of alter egos, often mediated by poetry writing.
THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS
