This summer, FAD Market returns to The Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY. Join us for five incredible Maker Markets featuring a rotating lineup of over 50 of the city’s best emerging designers each week. Browse unique handcrafted jewelry, art, apparel, bath and body care, tableware and home furnishings.
A figure drawing workshop with live model for artists and amateurs alike. You should bring a drawing board, paper, charcoal and/or other art supplies.
Treiber Farms will be offering a mix of fresh winter produce, preserved goods, sauces, spices, honey, handmade crafts and so much more. All of it grown, prepared and made by them.
A celebration of Pride and Presence, featuring guest artist Julian Fleisher, guest speaker Edafe Okporo (Executive Director of RDJ Refugee Center and advocate for human rights of LGBTQ, immigrants, and minorities) + special guest artists and poets to help us mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall.
My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia is based on twenty chapters that cross over within the frame of two hours. Musicians, dancers and designers interact, but not directly—a parallel to incidents of sound, text and action, a metaphor for endless continuous circles of life, fluxuating between utopia and war. While observing, the audience perceives the results of war—tipping utopia.
Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks is a new book that will include instructions (aka prompts) from more than 35 artists' walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of EC Founder Todd Shalom, who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks.
We May Never Dance Again® is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on stage and via social media.
Conceptual artist Anne Mourier strongly believes that “Taking Care” is important and maypossibly be the only way to mend our broken society: “Taking Care” of our planet, “Taking Care” of things instead of replacing them, “Taking Care” of each other…
An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outside, incited by a poem published in The Holding Pen, the house literary journal. This, our narrator’s final Editor’s Letter, is his confession. An official accounting of events, as they happened.
Odalisque is a new performance by Peter Clough in which he reimagines the classical reclining nude as a gender non-conforming queer bondage submissive. Sculpture, projection, text, live performance, and music come together in an immersive environment that complicates power relations between Sub and Dom, viewer and performer, subject and object.
TheaterMatters, the unique live-theater-review series curated and moderated by Hunter College Theater Professor Jonathan Kalb, continues at The Invisible Dog!
The 2019 Look + Listen Festival closes with No Instruments Required, music generated by the human body featuring tap-dance interpretations of minimalist classics and vocal explorations of Depression-era America.
Cycle is a performance presented by artists 2Fik and Anne Mourier. They will portray 28 minutes in the life of a woman, seeking the feeling of one human organism instead of two.
In celebration of the Open Studios and Season Ten, The Invisible Dog presents Friend of a Friend: A Group Show Curated by the Creatives of the Invisible Dog, featuring the work of 25 artists, each selected by the 25 artists of the Invisible Dog Art Center.
Artist Anne Mourier designed the Glasshouse in 2013 for her solo show Cleaning It Up. As a temporary structure, the Glasshouse was destined to be ephemeral and to be demolished. We invited Mourier back to do a last show after the demolition…
For our Spring edition of TueNight Live we're spilling SECRETS–some of our deepest, darkest, nearest and dearest. You won't want to miss this one–our crew of fabulous grown-ass women tells all.
The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City for 1-3 months. We are pleased to announce that the fourth resident artist will be MARLO & ISAURE (Tunisia) from April 29 – May 23.
For one week, Thomas Ferrand will explore Brooklyn in search of edible wild plants. He will take notes and photos, keep a journal, and suggest different menus with the help of Lucien Zayan, all chiefly cooked from the daily harvests in parcs, abandoned areas, or asphalt cracks.
Lady Susan, a young widow, flees London and arrives at the country home of her obliging brother-in-law and his suspicious wife. Soon to come–uninvited–are an eligible suitor, her willful daughter, her chatty confidante, and a dimwitted bachelor. Lady Susan schemes, but all does not go according to plan as she and her daughter become rivals for the same man.
The Rumpus and Books Are Magic are proud to present an evening of poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month! With readings from Andrés Cerpa, Hafizah Geter, Donika Kelly, Rachel McKibbens, Nicole Sealey, and Emily Skaja. Emceed by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
NEEDED: 40 PEOPLE TO TAKE TO THE STREETS AND HAVE A CATCH AROUND AN ENTIRE BROOKLYN CITY BLOCK AT NOON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26!
TheaterMatters, the unique live-theater-review series curated and moderated by Hunter College Theater Professor Jonathan Kalb, continues at The Invisible Dog!
Houston-based artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin present two new pieces, the fifth in their ongoing series of interdisciplinary installations that connect little known LGBTQI2 histories from each state to contemporary queer experiences (50 States: Arkansas) and a five channel video installation featuring drag performers from Eastern Oklahoma (Political Gestures).
Through a sculptural garden installation, local artist, Iviva Olenick is "greening" the exterior of the Invisible Dog, celebrating contributions of native and nonnative plants (and peoples) to the (bio)diversity of Brooklyn through Plant(n)ation: Brooklyn As Farm. The project will debut on March 9, 2019, with new blooms appearing throughout the spring, summer and fall, and public harvests in late summer–fall.
The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City for 1-3 months. We are pleased to announce that the third resident artist will be Nathanaëlle Herbelin (France) from March 1–31.
A series of dinners centered on that unavoidable work of American drama, that unstoppable generator of American Mythology, A Streetcar Named Desire. As we ponder the significance of the white-ribbed-tank top, Lucien Chef Ambition will serve dinner, actors will read scenes, and David Levine and Shonni Enelow will lead a discussion.
Conceptual artist Anne Mourier strongly believes that Taking Care is important and may possibly be the only way to mend our broken society: Taking Care of our planet, Taking Care of things instead of replacing them, Taking Care of each other…
Performance artist ALOK hosts a series of interventions to challenge the dominance of romantic love, collapse the myth of the stranger, and exercise alternative intimacies.
We are delighted to announce and host the Wassaic Project’s 2019 Winter Benefit.
(W/HOLE) is an evening-length film created by queer/feminist porn collective AORTA films in collaboration with performance company the A.O. Movement Collective.
Dan Safer, a downtown maverick and the Artistic Director of Witness Relocation returns to the stage as a performer in his own work in Surveys the Prairie of Your Room, a duet co-created and performed with leading WR company member Ae Andreas.
Faces of Downtown Scene is a portrait project dedicated to New York’s experimental performance community.
TheaterMatters, the unique live-theater-review series curated and moderated by Hunter College Theater Professor Jonathan Kalb, moves to The Invisible Dog!
Join Magnum photographer Diana Markosian for a three-day workshop on developing personal storytelling projects with a focus on intimacy, emotion and memory.
