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BLACK PORTRAITURE[S]: LOS ANGELES
THE BLACK BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment examines the historic and imagined dimensions of Black-built environments across the African diaspora. Bringing together artists and scholars working across photography, architecture, urban planning, and visual culture, the convening explores how Black communities have designed, reconstructed, and remembered space through art, ritual, migration, and political struggle.

Dr. Ashley Adams and Ariana Faye Allensworth will present: “From Allensworth to Nicodemus: On Black Towns, Return, and Reparative Visiting.”

Co-Hosted by New York University, Getty, and UCLA.

Sep 28-30, 2026

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A CELEBRATION OF CREATIVE TIME AND PIONEER WORKS FELLOWS
PIONEER WORKS

The Rockefeller Foundation launched the Artist Impact Initative with Creative Time and Pioneer Works in 2023. Over two years, the grant has supported a diverse range of NYC-based artists to advance ambitious projects that response to and address the needs of New York City’s people and communities. This is a gathering to raise a glass and toast their accomplishments.

March 13 | 6:30-8:30pm

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2026-2028 CORE GRANT RECIPIENT
RUTH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project receives a $150,000, three-year grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts as part of their Core Grants program. This program provides unresticted support to a range of organizations across the country, and is open to organizations nominated through the foundation’s “Artist Choice” award, which AEMP received in 2024.

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Past

PRESS PLAY 2025
PIONEER WORKS
The Anti-Evicton Mapping Project will be exhibiting at Press Play 2025, Pioneer Works’ weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops.

Showcasing over 130 artists, musicians, poets, writers, and exhibitors who defy categorization, Press Play invites you to discover new ways of reading, listening, creating, and complaining about culture.

Dec 13 & 14 | 12-7pm

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A COLLECTIVE READING WITH THE ANTI-EVICTION MAPPING PROJECT
COMPANY GALLERY
This collective reading hosted by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project invites poets, writers, organizers, and guests to reflect on the current conditions and contradictions of queer space-making and cultural production. Together, we will consider how geographies of belonging and displacement shape not just where we gather, but how we hold space in ways that resist co-optation, artwashing, and performative solidarity.

Organized by Ariana Faye Allensworth and Sarah O’Neal on the occasion of Gush Gallery: Cum to Our Opening at Company Gallery.

Oct 22 | 6–8pm

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WORKING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
PIONEER WORKS
A fellowship for Pioneer Works Alumni Residents that supports the development and completion of new, socially-engaged work.

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AS LAND REMEMBERS
DENNISTON HILL AT MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, CURATED BY ARIANA FAYE ALLENSWORTH
An exhibition about Denniston Hill, the artist residency founded by artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer and architectural historian Lawrence Chua.

Featuring alumni and collaborators of Denniston Hill’s residency program including American Artist, Deborah Anzinger, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Nancy Brooks Brody, Carolina Caycedo, william córdova, Annalee Davis, Nikita Gale, julie ezelle patton, Marcela Torres, Las Nietas de Nonó, and Lorna Williams.

July 11–August 22

Opening Reception:
July 11 | 6–8pm

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CORE GRANT RECIPIENT
RUTH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project was awarded a 2024 Core Grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts, which provides general operating support to 90 arts and cultural organizations nationwide. AEMP previously received an Artist Choice Award from the foundation.

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PRESS PLAY 2024
PIONEER WORKS

A weekend-long celebration of small presses, records, books, ephemera, and experimental publishing. Come find the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project among a vibrant gathering of artists, collectives, and culture-makers.

Dec 7 - 8, 2024 | 12–7pm

ARCHIVAL WORK AS COUNTERSURVEILLANCE
EYEBEAM EXCHANGE SERIES

Conversation with artist Sam Rabiyah and members of the anonymous womxn’s collective, Begoo, on the politics of visibility, refusal, and the role of archival practice in challenging dominant narratives and state power.

May 22, 2024 | 7:30pm

EAST VILLAGE ZINE FAIR
PRINTED MATTER / ST MARKS AND 8-BALL COMMUNITY

A celebration of NYC’s zine-makers, independent publishers, and the East Village’s history of DIY culture past and present. Featuring zines from Staying Power and other print projects.

September 15, 2024 | 11am - 7pm
St Marks Pl, between 1st and 2nd Avenues

2023 CURATORIAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL

One of four curators selected for ICI’s 2023 Curatorial Research Fellowship, made possible by the Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor. The fellowship supports research, travel, and network-building for BIPOC and Indigenous curators.

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DEMO FUTURE MEMORY PLASH EVERYTHING PARTY
CENTER FOR ART, RESEARCH, AND ALLIANCES (CARA)

Feel the pulse of the next generation of creative projects and enterprises at a new festival created by NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design, and technology.

Open to the public, DEMO2023 will take place over three days at the New Museum and feature talks, showcases, and performances, with additional hosted events and programs at partner locations across lower Manhattan.

Inpsired by tattoo pop-ups, zine fairs, and participatory experiences at social gatherings, the DEMO2023 Flash Everything Party showcases the work of artists, designers, and technologists in the NEW INC Future Memory cohort.

June 21, 2023 | 6-9pm
225 West 13th Street NYC

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NEW YORK NOW: HOME
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Featuring photography and storytelling that reflect on housing, belonging, and the meaning of home in New York City.

March 10 - August 27, 2023

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Ariana FayeAllensworth

Cultural worker mobilizing people, memory, and design toward collective liberation.

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