Homeroom
- Ongoing
Homeroom is a new program at MoMA PS1 that was initiated to amplify and celebrate artists who work with our collaborators and partnership initiatives, who are the authors of each activation in this space. Recalling the histories of the building as the first school in Long Island City and then a site for creative experimentation since PS1’s founding in 1976, Homeroom offers opportunities to connect with others, to learn and unlearn, and to imagine ways of being that prioritize care and reciprocity.
Sponsors
Homeroom activations are supported by funding from the Mellon Foundation.
Facilitated in collaboration with local community leader and founder of Malikah, Rana Abdelhamid, this installation brings together ten women from Little Egypt and the North African community in Astoria, Queens to weave together stories of migration and belonging, as told through personal narratives, archives, objects, and photographs.
The Lower Eastside Girls Club & jackie sumell: Freedom to Grow
The culmination of over two years of collaboration between jackie sumell, the Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC), and MoMA PS1, this multipart project investigates connections between ecology and prison abolition.
Queensbridge Photo Collective: Still like Air I Rise
Using photography, archival research, memorabilia, and oral histories, the Queensbridge Photo Collective explores the evolving history of Long Island City and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Courtyard Coalition is a process-focused program that highlights MoMA PS1’s Courtyard as a cultural and spatial asset for critical questions at the intersection of cultural institutions, civic space, and urban life.
Slow Factory: The Revolution is a School
Slow Factory transformed Homeroom into a site of collective learning and co-creation at the intersection of climate justice, social equity, and regenerative design.
Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded
Nuevayorkinos partnered with key members of the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, Make the Road, New York Communities for Change, and the Street Vendor Project to transform Homeroom into a site of celebration in honor of immigrant culture and labor in New York, particularly in Queens.
Located in Long Island City, The Fortune Society activated Homeroom with art, poetry, and writing created by artists and mentors in their Creative Arts program, one of many resources offered by the organization to support successful reentry from and alternatives to incarceration.
Black Trans Liberation: Memoriam and Deliverance
Black Trans Liberation and founder Qween Jean transformed Homeroom into a sacred space for affirmations and offerings centering Black, trans, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming people.
Visual AIDS / What Would an HIV Doula Do?
Homeroom premiered a new zine, Harm Reduction is Not a Metaphor in collaboration with both organizations, and highlighted conversations on 21st century harm reduction practices.