EFA OPEN STUDIOS 2025
Schedule
Friday, October 17
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Professional Preview (by RSVP)
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Night Registration encouraged
Saturday, October 18
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA organized by SAWCC
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Open Studios
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
Location
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
Free and open to the public.
EFA OPEN STUDIOS! We welcome the public to explore 80 artist studios, along with a host of arts programming and exhibitions, all located in the EFA building in Midtown Manhattan. This event offers a rare opportunity to witness the creative process up close and engage with a vibrant community of professional artists. Our internationally recognized members, each with established studio practices and career honors, will open their doors to showcase their most recent works. Additionally, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will be open for special events and tours, providing firsthand experiences of the transformative power of art.
Image: Yu-Wen Wu, Scholar's Rock I, 2024
Participating Studios
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (Floor 2)
Study Center | Archive | Printshop
Member Artists (Floors 3-10)
Samira Abbassy | Fanny Allié | Keren Anavy | Shimon Attie | Allen T. Ball | Laura Anderson Barbata | Keren Benbenisty | Wafaa Bilal | Rhona Bitner | m Burgess | Mattia Casalegno | Cecile Chong | Elizabeth Colomba | Vicky Colombet | Annette Cords | Armando Cortés | Michael Eade | Nazli Efe | Sally Egbert | Camille Eskell | Sean Fader |Cui Fei | Jason File | Billy Gérard Frank| Guido Garaycochea | Del Geist | Cadence Giersbach | Mahmoud Hamadani | Liselot van der Heijden | Pablo Helguera | Amy Hill | Janet Loren Hill | Kate Hopkins | Cecil Howell | Adam Hurwitz | Akira Ikezoe | Noormah Jamal | Edgar Jerins | Melissa Joseph | Kosuke Kawahara | Tamiko Kawata | Calvin Kim | Justin Kim | Yongjae Kim | Lise Kjaer | Greg Kwiatek | Sarah Leahy | Hayoon Jay Lee | Patricia Leighton | Dana Levy| Pablo Garcia Lopez | Negin Mahzoun | Michael Mandiberg | Watson Mere | Cheryl Molnar | Carlos Motta | Vidal Mouet | Jan Mun | Nazanin Noroozi | Whitney Oldenburg | Regina Parra | Bundith Phunsombatlert | Thomas Pihl | Armita Raafat | Maria D. Rapicavoli | Heather Renée Russ | Yali Romagoza | Javier Romero | Alex Schweder | Finnegan Shannon | Susan Silas | Karina Skvirsky | Howard Smith | Suzanne Song | Xin Song | Jia Sung | Carlos Vega | Marjorie Welish | Yu-Wen Wu | Ayoung Yu
International Residency Artists (Floor 8)
Elfreda Dali | Radoslav Maglov
Explore
Regina Parra and a guest at her studio during EFA Open Studios 2024. Photo by Lucas Hoeffel.
Master printer Jazmine Catasus printing with EFA member artist Melissa Joseph.
Programming
Saturday, October 18, 12–1 PM
Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA
EFA Gallery | 3rd Floor
Join us for an engaging artist panel featuring Samira Abbassy, Noormah Jamal and Melissa Joseph, three visionary artists whose work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through diverse mediums and perspectives.
The conversation will be moderated by Shilpi Chandra, whose thoughtful facilitation will guide a deep dive into the artists’ creative processes, influences, and the personal and political themes that shape their work.
Sponsored by The South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective (SAWCC) in collaboration with EFA.
The South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective (SAWCC) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian womxn artists and creative professionals by providing a physical and virtual space to profile their creative and intellectual work across disciplines.
Saturday, October 18, 2–3 PM
Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | 2nd Floor
Join artist Devin N. Morris in discussion with RBPMW Artistic Director/Master Printer Jazmine Catasús for an in-depth look at his stencil monotype collage technique. Devin's work will be featured at NADA Miami as part of the Workshop’s presentation this fall.
Devin N. Morris (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD; lives and works in New York) collapses memory and space to envision delicate new realms of existence. Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video the artist considers the statement ‘use what you have to make what you need.’ Recent exhibitions include: And Ever an Edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY(2023); Portrait of an Unlikely Space curated by Mickalene Thomas & Keely Orgeman, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven (2023); Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Museum, Nashville, (2023) and Copy Machine Manifestos: Artist Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2023).
