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Join the Climate Museum for a panel discussion examining Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013-present). In this site-specific, iterative series of participatory artworks, the artist invites community members to join her as she stands in ocean water for a full tidal cycle of 12-13 hours, as water engulfs her body and then recedes. The discussion will explore sea level rise, our relationships with water, climate justice, and advocacy in NYC. Featuring Sarah Cameron Sunde, artist; Sonali McDermid, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU; Idea Reid, … [Read more...] about WITH THE SEA: CLIMATE ART, SCIENCE, AND HUMAN CONNECTIONS TO SEA LEVEL RISE

Any Day Through July 31st yarn bomb the New York Virtual Volcano Observatory! Bring your fiber art creations and add them to the back porch of the Virtual Volcano Observatory house, 410A Colonels Row. All are welcome, you don’t need to ask our permission to collaborate with us. Tie them onto existing pieces/the railing and engage with Earth science through a world of fibers!  … [Read more...] about A VOLCANIC YARN BOMB!

  At , 4:00pm onJuly 24th, 2022, 410A Colonels Row, Governors Island, artists Tessa Grundon and Gene Kiegel will speak about the overlaps and geological connections in their joint show, 'Emergent Strata', which closes on July 31. All are invited and welcome! Bring a picnic blanket or sit on the grass. Picture a cross-section of earth, layered with the unconformities and fractures of geologic time. In Emergent Strata, Tessa Grundon and Gene Kiegel uncover these layers, their vestiges and sediments, in landscapes: along the contour lines of a riverbank, through the intricate … [Read more...] about Artist talk: Tessa Grundon and Gene Kiegel

On Sunday July 24, 2022 5:00pm at 410A Colonels Row, Governors Island, Musicians and composers Erica Mancini and Jack Helfrich will present a 30-minute musical performance inspired by volcanoes! All are invited and welcome! Bring a picnic blanket or sit on the grass.. … [Read more...] about Sleeping Giants

The scents of the WetLab, including those of sacred fungi and healing tinctures concocted from disappearing landscapes, emanated from the soft glow of the building's front door, beckoning visitors to explore the gallery for the last time. The front porch of the WetLab on Governors Island was teeming with life on October 30th as visitors gathered to bid farwell to the WetLab’s Fall 2021 exhibition, Contretemps. Gallatin students, teachers, and alumni, NYU community members, Governors Island artists, as well as art enthusiasts on a guided tour of Governors Island art attractions, traversed … [Read more...] about Closing Contretemps.

A soft amber light broke through the looming storm clouds as visitors settled into their seats under the shade of a large tree adjacent to the WetLab’s porch. Visitors made their way via ferry to Governors Island on October 30th to listen to Contretemps. artists Jemila MacEwan and Hanae Utamura discuss the relationships integral to their artistic processes, and how they use art as a means to facilitate deeper and more mindful connections across species and geological forms. The discussion was moderated by Eugenia Kisin, co-director of the WetLab and NYU Gallatin faculty.  Both Utamura … [Read more...] about Against Time: WetLab Contretemps. Artists Discuss the Interwoven Strands of Life Integral to their Work