EFA OPEN STUDIOS 2026
Schedule
Friday, October 9
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Professional Preview (by RSVP)
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Night Registration encouraged
Saturday, October 10
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
Programming
Pathways
Open Studios 2026 introduces a series of thematic pathways that transform the building into a network of interconnected exhibitions. Each pathway brings together artists across disciplines, studios, and floors through shared ideas, materials, processes, and points of inquiry. Visitors may follow these routes digitally, through printed guides, or by scanning QR codes throughout the building, creating opportunities for deeper engagement with individual artists and broader connections across the program. Every participating artist is featured within at least one pathway, allowing audiences to experience Open Studios as both a self-guided exploration and a cohesive exhibition unfolding across the building.
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).
