AIM Convening 2026: Artist Professional Development & Community-Building
Organized & Facilitated by the 2025 AIM Fellows
Saturday, February 7 • 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
At The Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse)
For Artists • FREE! • Optional RSVP*
You are welcome to attend all of the activities or drop in for one particular part of the event. We recommend staying for as much of the afternoon as possible to get the most out of this program.
Event Schedule
1PM—Event Check-In Begins, Pick up Artist Career-Advice Zines!
1 – 2PM—“Objects of Importance” Clay Workshop + Tea, Coffee, & Snack Time
1 – 3PM—Virtual Art Share (Submit Your Work To Be Included)
1 – 3PM—Artist Career Advising Sessions (Register by Feb 1)
2 – 3PM—Tote Bag Screenprinting Workshop
3 – 4:30PM— Artist Talk: “Paths & Practices: AIM Alumni in Conversation”
5 – 6PM—Reception Catered By La Morada
More Details
As part of The Bronx Museum’s prestigious AIM Fellowship —an annual career accelerator program for the most promising artists based in NYC—the AIM Convening is a day of professional development and community-building activities open to all artists who would like to participate.
Specifically, the Convening is designed to impart vital advice to artists that can help them succeed in a competitive and difficult-to-navigate industry. It also seeks to create space and opportunity for NYC artists to connect with one-another and build community. More details below.
Artist Career Advice Zines
The 2025 AIM Fellows created three zines with artist career advice:
1. Should I Apply? A guide for evaluating if a residency is right for you
2. Where Artists Look: A compiled list of where to find residencies, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities
3. Soft Skills for Hard Deadlines: Exercises and advice to improve your applications
Attendees of the 2026 AIM Convening are welcome to take free print copies of the zines home. You can also view PDF's of the zines online.
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"Objects of Importance" Clay Workshop + Coffee, Tea, & Snack Time
In this clay workshop, participants will learn basic hand-building techniques, including coil building and pinch pots, to create personal objects of importance. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own rituals and the role of objects in enhancing or furthering those practices as inspiration. Whether or not you take part in the workshop, you are welcome to enjoy complimentary tea, coffee, and snacks.
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Virtual Art Share
The Bronx Museum’s 2025 AIM Fellow Cohort invites artists to submit one of their artworks to our virtual art share for the 2026 AIM Convening. These artworks will be projected in a looping slideshow during the event.
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Artist Career Advising*
*Please RSVP by February 1 to reserve your spot. Waitlisted artists will be contacted upon availability. REGISTER NOW>>
2025 AIM Fellows Noga Cohen, Sangmin Lee, Piero Penizzotto, and V Yeh, invite you to ask them for advice about pursuing a career as an artist. We recommend having some questions prepared: topics like social media presence, life after art school, artist website construction, artist statements, artwork documentation, grant applications, etc. are all welcome.
We will have internet connected devices available to view artwork images. If you want to share images not hosted on the internet, please bring a flash drive, submit a PDF, or print images of your work.
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Tote Bag Screen Printing Workshop
This participatory workshop explores how museums can become spaces of connection through relational, care-centered practices. Participants will reflect on experiences of belonging and exclusion, and engage in collaborative exercises that examine how space, language, and facilitation shape public engagement. Emphasizing listening and co-creation, the session offers adaptable approaches for fostering meaningful connection across museum contexts.
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Artist Talk—"Paths & Practices: AIM Alumni in Conversation"
This panel brings together notable AIM Fellowship alumni from different decades of the program and at different stages in their careers for an open conversation about navigating the art world. Coordinated and moderated by 2025 AIM Fellows, the discussion centers on lived experience and reflection, inviting each artist to share their own perspective.
Conceived as a way to give back to the AIM alumni community, the panel offers a supportive space for dialogue, exchange, and shared learning across generations of artists.
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THE 2025 AIM © COHORT
This Convening is collectively organized by The Bronx Museum’s 2025 AIM Fellows: Katie Chin, Noga Cohen, Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Rocío Delaloye, Nazli Efe, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, Leekyung Kang, kiarita, Sangmin Lee, Massiel Mafes, Piero Penizzotto, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, Cyle Warner, and V Yeh
Katie Chin
"By reflecting on the instability of inherited economic systems and their influence on collective and individual agency, Katie Chin’s work considers how social structures shift over time, specifically within the conditions of capitalism..."
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Noga Cohen
"Noga Cohen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the ways the human body and natural ecosystems bear the imprints of trauma..."
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Jill Cohen-Nuñez
"Jill Cohen-Nuñez (they/them) creates tumored ancestral and futurist spiritual sites and objects..."
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Rocío Delaloye
"Rocío Delaloye (she/her) explores how technology reshapes identity, connection, and presence in a rapidly evolving digital world..."
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Nazli Efe
"Being half Turkish, a country surrounded by Water on three sides, and half Cypriot; an island in the Mediterranean Sea, Nazli Efe (she/her) grew up constantly interacting with Water..."
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Erick Alejandro Hernandez
"Taking root in highly temporal narrative settings like the death of a loved one, the length of a subway commute, the confines of a waiting room, or the impact of a car crash, Erick Alejandro Hernandez’s (he/him) practice explores how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories..."
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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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Sangmin Lee
"Sangmin Lee (he/they) reimagines personal and historical narratives through memories’ paradoxical potential to become object..."
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Massiel Mafes
"Massiel Mafes (she/her) delves into her heritage and identity to explore allegory and narrative. She meticulously constructs fabric installations predominantly made of sewn pieces of her family’s second-hand clothes, which serves as a metaphor for her connection to her Cuban roots..."
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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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Jennifer Teresa Villanueva
"Jennifer Teresa Villanueva (she/her) is an artist, writer, and daughter of Mexican immigrant factory workers whose work bridges the personal and political realities of immigrant life in the United States..."
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