Residency Unlimited

Program Type: Workshop

RU Workshop: Textus—An Exploration on Texts and Textiles

Saturday July 5, 2025 | 3:30 – 5:00 pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Ferry information | Video directions Free Workshop Limited to 15 participants. RSVP required. Textus – An Exploration on Texts and Textiles departs from the shared etymology of “text” and “textile,” both rooted in the […]

RU Workshop: Exploring Self-Portraiture through Collage

Sunday July 20, 2025 | 2:00 – 3:30pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Ferry information | Video directions Free Workshop Limited to 15 participants. RSVP required. In this workshop led by Nia Imani Winslow (2024 NYCBAR/RU alum), participants will explore self-representation via the collage medium by creating a self-portrait using […]

RU Workshop: Mapping (ME)aning

Saturday July 26, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:30pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Ferry information | Video directions Free Workshop Limited to 15 participants. RSVP required. Led by Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman (2022 RU alum) this workshop delves into the interconnected stories of individuals to community, and their contexts within our […]

RU Workshop: Exquisite Corpse

Saturday June 28, 2025 | 12:00 – 2:00pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Ferry information | Video directions Free Workshop – Kids and Family Friendly For this workshop, 2025 RU alum Dana Nechmad will expand upon the collective artist book project “Bodies in Transit” that she created earlier this year. […]

A Cameraless Workshop by Paola Fernanda

Sunday June 22, 2025 | 1:00 – 4:00pm *Please meet in front of the RU House on Governors Island at 1:00pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Ferry information | Video directions Free Workshop REGISTRATION CLOSED   Paola Fernanda (2023 RU alum) is returning to New York in June at the occasion […]

Issues on Socially Engaged Art | 3 Workshops by Pablo Helguera

  Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) Issues in Socially Engaged Art: Hospitality Monday, September 23, 6-8:30pm (cancelled) Issues in Socially Engaged Art: Forms of participation and collaboration Monday, October 14,  6-8:30pm (Register here) Issues in Socially Engaged Art: working with history Monday, November 11, 6-8:30pm (Register […]

Filmmaking Workshop for recent immigrants to the US

June 23, 2024 | 10am – 3pm Location: Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street, Brooklyn NY 11231 On Sunday June 23, 2024, Residency Unlimited hosted a workshop in which recent West African immigrants to the US created short films about their experience so far in New York. The Clemente hosted a similar workshop on June 22 […]

VoM Workshop: Weeds, Wildflowers and Wanderers

Sunday May 26, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:30pm Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map) Details on how to get to Governors Island here Join us for this first workshop organized by VoM Artists in Residence with Weeds, Wildflowers and Wanderers: Botanical Medicines Walking With Us. Together with VoM artist-in-residence Tanika I. Williams, […]

Cognitive Justice and the Crisis of Epistemology SFSIA 2023—in collaboration with The Brooklyn Rail and Residency Unlimited

August 7 – 11, 2023 Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map)   Faculty include Antonia Alampi with Suumil Móokt’aan, Armen Avanessian, Clémentine Deliss, Jeremy Dennis, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Nora N. Khan, Syd Krochmalny, Sanford Kwinter, Erin Manning, Warren Neidich (founder/director), Reza Negarestani, Barry Schwabsky (co-director), Javier Téllez, and […]