Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

Date:
November 13, 2025–January 13, 2026

Sick (Music) Center is an experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick Listening and Music—living, passed, and speculated.The project seeks, with a growing cohort of Sick Musicians, alternatives to the formal and systemic structures which guide our ideas about what music can be, where music can show up in our lives, and for whom music is accessible. How do we seek Sick musical forms? Structures that embrace our states of being, of desire?

About the artist

Anna RG

Artist

a black and white photo, by francie seidl chodosh, of anna roberts-gevalt. Anna, a white person with light hair with bangs and shoulder length hair, sits leaning against the wall. She stares directly at the camera, in a button up shirt, holding a cane in their hand. In the mirror, the photographer is partially glimpsed, blurry, behind a large camera.

Anna RG (she/they) makes work in composition, ancestral songs, sculpture, and community organizing. They've performed at Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, Big Ears Festival, NPR Tiny Desk, Hirshhorn Museum; played with Lonnie Holley, Paul Wiancko (Kronos), Jim White (Dirty Three), Ellen Fullman, Glen Hansard; and her longtime duo (on Smithsonian Folkways) was heralded “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do”(The New Yorker). She recently completed her MFA in sculpture at Bard College, and was a MacDowell fellow. They are a founding member of Artists In Resistance, a disabled-led collective committed to supporting covid-safer events in the city, through an air filter library, masks, education, and resources.