'The Seventh AIM Biennial' Open House Art-Making with Exhibiting Artists
THE SEVENTH AIM BIENNIAL OPEN HOUSE:
ART-MAKING WITH EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Saturday, April 18 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM
At The Bronx Museum (On the 2nd Floor)
For Artists • FREE! • Optional RSVP
These art-making activities are part of The Seventh AIM Biennial Open House, featuring a variety of activities and ways to engage with artists currently exhibiting work in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection.
Image: AIM artists Leekyung Kang and kiarita leading a screen-printing workshop at the 2026 AIM Convening. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
MEMORY BOX-MAKING
With AIM Artist kiarita
1:00 – 3:00 PM • On the 2nd Floor
For All Ages • Optional RSVP
Drop-Ins Welcome!
The artist describes this program as follows: How can we extend the life of a memory, hold it in our hands? In this workshop, exhibiting artist kiarita will guide participants in adorning a wooden box in a way that describes a special memory. Boxes will be provided, along with an assortment of found materials and art tools. We will consider how objects in relationships create and change meaning, how we affect each other, and how we can make moments last longer.
ART YOU CAN WEAR:
A HANDS-ON SCREENPRINTING WORKSHOP
With AIM Artists Skip Brea, Hedwig Brouckaert, Ricki Dwyer, Leekyung Kang, Juyon Lee, lauren mcavoy, Piero Penizzotto, Motohiro Takeda, & V Yeh
1:00 – 3:00 PM • On the 2nd Floor
For All Ages • Optional RSVP
Drop-Ins Welcome!
The artists describe this program as follows: Join us for an immersive, all-ages workshop celebrating creativity, community, and culture through wearable art. Inspired by the imagery and themes of our current exhibition, this hands-on screen printing experience invites the local Bronx community and friends from beyond to come together, create, and connect.”
Participants will have the opportunity to design their own custom T-shirt or tote bag using a selection of visuals drawn from the exhibition’s theme. This program is rooted in our commitment to engaging with The Bronx and extending that dialogue outward through art making. Whether you’re a first-time creator or a seasoned artist, you’ll be guided through the screen printing process and encouraged to make something unique.
Featured artists from the exhibition will be present, offering insight into their creative journeys and discussing the theme of the show in an open, welcoming setting. This event is designed to spark conversation and celebrate art you can wear.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Skip Brea
"Skip Brea's works examine the sadistic entanglements that make up our visual culture, language, and world history. By using a combination of digital illustration and painting tools, he weaves, stitches, and meshes together paintings of our past that precede copyright laws with pieces of contemporary information to create a new unified image..."
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Hedwig Brouckaert
As an artist, advertising, and mass media imagery have been a primary material in Hedwig Brouckaert's drawings, sculpture, and installation projects. Out of what was commercial, ubiquitous photo-based material, she creates highly tactile abstract works..."
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Ricki Dwyer
"Ricki Dwyer's practice investigates the poetics of self-construction. From the lens of a transgender experience, their work speaks to untangling a personal inner truth from the collective voices of community and culture. Much of my work plays with the power dynamics of an exterior gaze as it shapes or attempts to define one’s identity."
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Leekyung Kang
"Inspired by Buddhist cosmology’s cyclical nature, Leekyung Kang (she/her) delves into spatial understandings and recursive patterns where worlds intertwine and circulate endlessly..."
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kiarita
"kiarita (they/them) employs found furniture to eternalize intimate moments of their chosen family’s rest and respite..."
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Juyon Lee
"In an attempt to materialize such ungraspable things as time and the human relationship to time, Juyon Lee's work explores the idea of transience and ephemerality through physical materials."
lauren mcavoy
"lauren mcavoy is an artist/sculptor coming from New Orleans, Louisiana. They are a collaborator and queer labor organizer with a background in welding/fabrication, blacksmithing, and foundry. Focused on collective connection, they are passionate about non-hierarchical mutual aid, anti-colonial land access/stewardship, and embodied healing practices."
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Piero Penizzotto
"Piero Penizzotto’s (he/him) artistic expression takes shape through life-sized painted papier-mâché sculptures that reflect his Peruvian-American heritage..."
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Motohiro Takeda
"Motohiro Takeda's work slows down the speed of contemporary life to a human, tangible scale to re-establish our interconnectedness with the cosmos, our immediate environment, and the time that transcends human existence. He works with raw materials from the natural and industrial worlds and combine and collaborate with these remnants in his studio."
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