Session
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.
Zain Alam's Meter & Light: Night
FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls Dancing Through Prison Walls
AYDO: Offering of Dreams
AYDO: Offering of Dreams
Rowan Renee: A Common Thread
Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
Explore/Archive
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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
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.