Session
What is Session?
Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
Session artists are selected from a biennial open call. Application cycle closes Monday, February 23 11:59pm ET
Zain Alam's Meter & Light: Night
FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls Dancing Through Prison Walls
AYDO: Offering of Dreams
AYDO: Offering of Dreams
Rowan Renee: A Common Thread
Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
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Opens February 7, 2026
A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program
October 2–November 9, 2025
Portals: Traversing Black Continuums
Kendra J. Ross, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Monique Murray
This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.
June 28–August 9, 2025
FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls
Dancing Through Prison Walls
A project of activated, inter-disciplinary response to written dances, deeply imagined and authored from bunks within prisons.