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Congratulations to Four RU Alums in Venice This Season!

Open House

Open House Weekends at the RU House on Governors Island

  • Exhibition
  • Date : August 15, 2026
  • September 13, 2026
  •   11:00 am
Miatta Kawinzi, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (Alice Walker), 2026. Detail. Copper wire hand-wrapped in cotton yarn. Photo by Colin Conces, courtesy of Bemis Center.

RU Workshop: Branching Connectivity – Pliable Sculptures Inspired by Plant Friends

  • Workshop
  • Date : September 5, 2026
  •   2:00 pm
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RU Workshop: Postcards From Botanical Explorers. Drawing and Storytelling

  • Workshop
  • Date : September 12, 2026
  •   2:00 pm
Katya Grokhovsky Monotype gel workshop

RU Workshop: Printing the Environment: Gel Plate Monoprinting with Recycled and Natural Elements

  • Workshop
  • Date : September 13, 2026
  •   2:00 pm
Mari Claudia García; "Untitled", from the series "The Weight of Erasure"; steel sculpture; 2026.

POSTPONED — RU Exhibition: “Matter in Resistance” by Mari Claudia García

PAST PROGRAMS

RU Program Summary 2026

RU Program Summary 2026

Hidden Places V, 40x60 inches, 2022, close up

RU Workshop: Routes & Roots

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RU Workshop: Mini Pocket Quilts

Darned Fingertips, Japanese gardening gloves and wool, Celia Pym, 2016

RU Workshop: Politics and Poetics of Repair

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RU Workshop: Handbuilding with Nature: a Clay Workshop

Plate Boundary, Boundary Port (2025). Part of a long-term Korea–Southeast Asia printmaking collaboration, supported by the Busan Culture Foundation.

How Can Curating Turn Encounters Across Borders into Lasting Relationships?

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RU Workshop: SYMBOLIST COLLAGE WORKSHOP

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Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

Sean Wang and Carol Priego

RU Exhibition: Island boundaries

Exhibition visuals designed by Krsto Gligorjadis

RU Exhibition: Home, Wound, Growing

Sage, Gabriele Grones, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x12in

RU Workshop: Drawing from life – The Nature of Governors Island

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2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Report

Photo of a section of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona

RU Workshop: Reflecting on Migration Through the Visual Arts: What We Leave Behind

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Belonging and Becoming w/ Libuše Jarcovjáková, Allen Frame, Petra Janda, Miatta Kawinzi, Krsto Gligorjadis

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Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

Exhibition visuals designed by Milena Ivić

RU Exhibition: Living Room Portfolio: Enchanted House

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RU Workshop: Dialog by Design Workshop #8—Sculpture (cont.)

Rory Torstensson, "Family Tree", colored pencil on paper, 2024, 11" x 14".

RU Workshop: Foraged Color—Making a Palette from Governors Island

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RU Workshop: NOTICING TERRESTRIAL NARRATIVES (Imprinting & Frottage Workshop)

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Welcome Gathering 2026

Eddie Adams/ Eddie Adams Photographic Archives, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

RU Talk: The Artist as Biographer: Ru Marshall and David Dixon discuss American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda

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Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

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RU Workshop: Exquisite Landscape Mural Workshop

Shony Rivnay, Untitled Configuration, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 39.5 x 43.5 in. Photo by Elad Sarig

Open Studio and Book Preview: Shony Rivnay in Conversation with Jessica Holmes and Naomi Lev

FABELO HUNG, “Shadows in the Screen”, 2026, video and robotic performance with raw pork meat, Arduino Uno, servo motors, PLA, and electronic components. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of FABELOHUNG Studio.

RU Exhibition: “Shadows in the Screen” by FABELO HUNG

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