WORKING KNOWLEDGE Shared Imaginings, New Futures
EXHIBITION EXTENDED: Through August 17, 2025! Opened April 11, 2025.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Zainab Aliyu + American Artist and the School For Poetic Computation; Black Quantum Futurism; Stephanie Dinkins; Melanie Hoff; Mary Mattingly; Ari Melenciano; Azikiwe Mohammed; Kite & Alisha B Wormsley; Lynne Yun
Curated by Vera Petukhova, Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures is a Visions2030 Project in collaboration with The Bronx Museum.
Top Image: Ari Melenciano, Cosmeage Film Still, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation Images
Photos by Argenis Apolinario.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Knowledge is an exchange that happens everywhere, growing and evolving constantly with everyday experiences. Through stories, movement, food, music, and collaborations with The Bronx Museum community, Working Knowledge presents work by artists who value and examine this active process.
Acknowledging the strengths and limitations of institutional education, the featured artists and collectives create alternative, self-organized models of learning that emphasize inclusivity and participation.
Inspired by Social Sculpture’s key concept that sees creativity as a force for social change, the exhibition invites you to engage, explore, and contribute your knowledge and experiences through interactive elements.
Artist projects include an AI chatbot, an evolving collaborative dictionary, a dance-based game platform to write poetry, generative software for sharing dreams, and a plant system to explore foraging in The Bronx.
Learn more about the Working Knowledge exhibition from this great report on CUNY TV>>
Exhibition Catalogue
To accompany the Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures exhibition, The Bronx Museum published a fully illustrated catalogue. The catalogue features essays by the exhibition’s Curator, Vera Petukhova, and Carey Lovelace, the founder of Visions2030, as well as a conversation between exhibiting artists Melanie Hoff and Lynne Yun. The catalogue is available to purchase from The Bronx Museum’s on-site Gift Shop.
Free Events for All Ages
Accompanying the interactive exhibition, Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures—on view from April 11 to August 17, 2025—are multiple opportunities to experience the artworks in new ways through free events for all ages at The Bronx Museum!
Family Time: Art-Making Inspired by Working Knowledge
Saturday, July 26
1:00 – 3:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Drop In
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Image: Free family-friendly art-making activities at The Bronx Museum. Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2024.
Family Time: With Artist Ari Melenciano
Saturday, June 14
1:00 – 3:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Drop In
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Image: Portrait of Ari Melanciano, Courtesy of the artist
First Friday: Exhibition Tour + Salsa Dancing & Live Music
Friday, June 6
6:00 – 9:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
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Image: Salsa dancing at The Bronx Museum, photo by Argenis Apolinario.
Shared Imaginings at the Museum
Saturday, May 17
1:00 – 5:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Optional RSVP
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Image: Bronx Museum visitors engage in an activity at the Shared Imaginings event, photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2025.
Shared Imaginings: Sound Bath with Artist Ari Melenciano
Saturday, May 17, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
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Image: Ari Melanciano performing a sound bath at The Bronx Museum. Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2025.
Shared Imaginings: Social Sculpture Panel Discussion
Saturday, May 17, 2025
2:00 – 3:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
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Image: Panelists Bayete Ross Smith, Matthew Lopez Jensen, and Carey Lovelace at The Bronx Museum. Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2025.
Shared Imaginings: Working Knowledge Tour
Saturday, May 17
3:00 – 4:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
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Image: Curator Vera Petukhova leads an exhibition tour at The Bronx Museum. Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2025.
Shared Imaginings: Catalogue Launch Party
Saturday, May 17, 2025
4:00 – 5:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Optional RSVP
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Image: 'Working Knowledge' catalogue.
Family Time: Art-Making Inspired by Working Knowledge
Saturday, May 10
1:00 – 3:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Drop In
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Image by Argenis Apolinario
First Friday: Working Knowledge After Dark
Friday, May 2
6:00 – 8:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Optional RSVP
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Image: Ari Melenciano, Comseage film still, 2025, Courtesy of the artist
Family Day: Art-Making Inspired by Working Knowledge
Saturday, April 26
1:00 – 4:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Optional RSVP
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Image by Argenis Apolinario
Working Knowledge Opening
Friday, April 11
6:00 – 8:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Optional RSVP
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Image: Ari Melenciano, Comseage film still, 2025, Courtesy of the artist
