Ankhlave Arts Alliance

In keeping with our mission to facilitate exchange of ideas between and within communities, we seek to present programming beyond the traditional white-walled gallery space, and in alternative public spaces for the greater community to appreciate. People under the BIPOC umbrella don't always see themselves in the art establishment as it was founded within the framework and ideological perspectives of European majority nations. For this reason, many BIPOC have felt left out of art spaces, despite anthropologists touting art as a cultural universal. AnkhLave continues to present within and beyond this tradition to increase visibility of art from BIPOC in whatever avenues necessary to change and broaden the landscape of the contemporary art world. We also continue to present art to the community beyond the the traditional gallery space.

We currently have 2 annual programs that we are facilitating. The AnkhLave Garden Project is a fellowship for 6 artists per year. Fellows receive a small stipend for materials and create archival work in a community garden space as an alternative studio experience. They also present artist talks, demonstrations and sometimes exhibition tours of their work in the space to an audience. They create their work in the summer, their work stays on site throughout the year, and they have a group show in the garden's gallery space in the winter using articles from their installations.

We are also initiating our Ankhlave International Studio Diaries featuring vlog and documentary footage of artists studio visits abroad, highlighting Indigenous communities. More details on that can be found at www.ankhlave.org

We have the means in terms o the technology to provide much of the programming content (on video, the editing software, etc)

We also have the time and ability to apply for grants.

We have facilitated many different kinds of events including 3 annual juried art shows, 4 AnkhLave Magazines, 4 NYFW shows, 1 Award Ceremony, 12 monthly open mic shows, art demonstrations at the Nuyorican Cafe in the East Village, NYC, and countless pop up shows.

We distilled our programming to focus on alternative space, with the Annual AnkhLave Garden project. Due to COVID-19, our live demonstrations and talks were in jeopardy due to quarantine restrictions preventing the possibility for an audience. The Queens Botanical Gardens had closed to the public until further notice, and we needed to figure out a way to present the work to the largest audience possible in these uncertain times. We worked out an agreement with the Queens Botanical Gardens to allow the artists to come install on site and be interviewed about their work for a documentary that we are producing. Individual extended interview vlogs will be posted on the Queens Botanical Gardens website and the Ankhlave website, as well as social media, and a short documentary film will be submitted for film festivals once completed. We had to figure out a way to make it work, and thankfully had the budget to purchase supplies for the videography in addition to hiring an Emmy-nominated video editor to help us out.

We are also excited to continue taking our content to the digital landscape where anyone in the world can access it, as we initiate our AnkhLave International Studio Diaries series 2021