Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 12–8 PM
Location: Pratt MFA Studios, 3rd floor, 1 Dock 72 Way, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Free with Eventbrite registration
Residency Unlimited (RU) is grateful to participate in Open Studios / Open Fields presented by Pratt Fine Arts MFA in collaboration and with support from MoMA’s Public Engagement Department. RU’s presentation at the event will highlight new works by local RU alumni artists LuLu Meng, Lin Qiqing, Asia Sztencel, Nia Imani Winslow and Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman.
Open Fields: An Artist Resource Fair is a dynamic cross-section of organizations — from residencies and grant-giving foundations to maker spaces, advocacy groups, and alternative exhibition venues — creating a platform for connection, visibility, and support for artists.
Public Programming Schedule:
– Residencies & Resources: Building Your Practice Through Supportive Structures (12:30–1:30 PM)
– Funding Your Practice: Grants, Alternatives, and Insider Advice (2:00–3:30 PM)
– Big Idea: How do artists sustain community-engaged practices? (4:00–5:00 PM)
Organized by MoMA’s Public Engagement Department
– Closing Reception (7:00–8:00 PM)
Click here to access Pratt Fine Arts MFA website for more information
About Residency Unlimited (RU)
RU supports the creative process of NYC, US based and international artists and curators at all stages of their career through its unique, customized residencies and public programs. Collaboration and partnerships lie at the heart of RU’s mission to leverage resources, enhance the resident experience, and support its growing global network of 850+ alumni.
Participating artist bios:
LuLu Meng works across media to explore the interplay between the individual and the collective in contemporary society. Employing everyday materials, digital components, clothing, drawings, and photographs, they create durational installations that invite interaction and reflection. Their concept-based practice delves into the quotidian to better understand the complexities of interpersonal relationships in the virtual and physical worlds.
Lin Qiqing (pronounced Chi-Ching) is a textile artist based in New York City. As a former award-winning journalist from China, she tells stories about human relationships, gender, immigration, and language through her distinctive figurative weaving, using hand-spun paper yarn and paper collage.
Asia Sztencel is a first-generation Polish immigrant, Brooklyn-based artist. Sztencel is inspired by the role of the artist in community, emphasizing sensitivity and a respectful approach. Through conceptual practice and traditional craft, her work offers a personal exploration within the larger narrative of the immigration experience. Highlighting landscape as a narrative, dissecting the feelings of exile, recall, and longing.
Nia Imani Winslow is a self-taught mixed media collage artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Nia illustrates the colorful essences of Black figures in each of her compositions. Using paper as her preferred material, Nia combines the complexities of different textures, cuttings and clippings to illuminate figures, moods and stories. Through her artistry, Nia fuses her passion for style and her chosen medium to create works that highlight separate, but sometimes similar Black existences.
Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC whose practice consists of painting, sculpture, writing and community building. She is currently a resident at Governors Island through RU focusing on installation. She also has an upcoming solo exhibition in Basel, Switzerland this August. This workshop speaks to the complexities of how the artist perceives the world around her as an international being, and methodology for approaching her art practice.
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