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Congratulations to Four RU Alums in Venice This Season!

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RU Exhibition: Domestic [Dis]Enchantments

  • Exhibition
  • Date : October 17, 2026
  • October 25, 2026
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Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

Ruth Jeyaveeran, Acts of Self Healing (detail), Silk, wool, yarn, Dimensions variable, 2026

Threads and Traces

  • Exhibition
  • Date : October 24, 2026
  • November 21, 2026
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RU Workshop: Impressions: One Island, Many Views

  • Workshop
  • Date : October 24, 2026
  •   2:00 pm
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RU Workshop: Direct Animation on 16mm Film. A workshop by Paola Guzmán Figueroa

  • Workshop
  • Date : November 3, 2026
  •   2:00 pm
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Plant Ecologies and Migration

  • Talk
  • Date : November 5, 2026
  •   6:00 pm
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RU Workshop: Monoprint Creative Workshop

  • Workshop
  • Date : November 11, 2026
  •   1:00 pm
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RU Workshop: Surrealist Drawing

  • Workshop
  • Date : December 17, 2026
  •   1:00 pm

PAST PROGRAMS

RU Program Summary 2026

RU Program Summary 2026

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Borrowed Skin

Mari Claudia García; "Untitled", from the series "The Weight of Erasure"; steel sculpture; 2026.

RU Exhibition: “Matter in Resistance” by Mari Claudia García

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RU Workshop: Ink on paper, art as a meditative, exploratory practice

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RU Workshop: a rite of soft returning

Eva Aeppli in front of two Bronze heads © Susanne Gyger, Lucerne

“Eva Aeppli – Cheers for life, cheers for death” by Nicole Pallecchi

Research display with materials from the Donata Pizzi Collection, American Academy in Rome, 2026. Photo by Claudia Gori. Courtesy of the American Academy in Rome.

What Good Are Roots If You Can’t Take Them with You

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RU Exhibition: Something’s Glitching in the House

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Out of Sight: Social & Architectural Camouflage with Anna Černíková, Norbert Kuki, Salma Jamal Moushum and Lukáš Šmejkal

Katya Grokhovsky Monotype gel workshop

RU Workshop: Printing the Environment: Gel Plate Monoprinting with Recycled and Natural Elements

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RU Workshop: Postcards From Botanical Explorers. Drawing and Storytelling

Miatta Kawinzi, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (Alice Walker), 2026. Detail. Copper wire hand-wrapped in cotton yarn. Photo by Colin Conces, courtesy of Bemis Center.

RU Workshop: Branching Connectivity – Pliable Sculptures Inspired by Plant Friends

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RU Workshop: Routes & Roots

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Open House Weekends at the RU House on Governors Island

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RU Workshop: Mini Pocket Quilts

Darned Fingertips, Japanese gardening gloves and wool, Celia Pym, 2016

RU Workshop: Politics and Poetics of Repair

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RU Workshop: Handbuilding with Nature: a Clay Workshop

Plate Boundary, Boundary Port (2025). Part of a long-term Korea–Southeast Asia printmaking collaboration, supported by the Busan Culture Foundation.

How Can Curating Turn Encounters Across Borders into Lasting Relationships?

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RU Workshop: SYMBOLIST COLLAGE WORKSHOP

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Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

Sean Wang and Carol Priego

RU Exhibition: Island boundaries

Exhibition visuals designed by Krsto Gligorjadis

RU Exhibition: Home, Wound, Growing

Sage, Gabriele Grones, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x12in

RU Workshop: Drawing from life – The Nature of Governors Island

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2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Report

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RU Workshop: Reflecting on Migration Through the Visual Arts: What We Leave Behind

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