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What is Session?

Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.

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Opens April 2, 2026

A sonata to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the American empire

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice

November 22, 2025–January 10, 2026

Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick and Disabled listening and music

October 2–November 9, 2025

Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

Kendra J. Ross, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Monique Murray

This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.