The Bronx Museum of the Arts has unveiled WORKING KNOWLEDGE: Shared Imaginings, New Futures, a major new exhibition opening in spring 2025. Curated by Vera Petukhova as part of the Visions2030 initiative, the show will spotlight eleven socially engaged artists and collectives. Through participatory artworks, the exhibition invites visitors to shape knowledge systems, foster dialogue, and advance grassroots solutions for community-building and cultural exchange.
The roster features a diverse lineup: Ari Melenciano, Azikiwe Mohammed, Black Quantum Futurism, Kite & Alisha B. Wormsley, Lynne Yun, Mary Mattingly, Melanie Hoff, Stephanie Dinkins, Zainab Aliyu + American Artist and the School for Poetic Computation. Project highlights include Lynne Yun’s collaborative Bronx-inspired typeface—created with Teen Council students—for exhibition branding, and Stephanie Dinkins’s AI-powered chatbot that evolves through visitor interactions.
Mary Mattingly has installed a living ecosystem of edible plants adapted to the borough’s changing climate, accompanied by a Bronx foraging guide. Azikiwe Mohammed’s installation honors urban food systems, drawing on the symbolic link between nourishment and cognition with an immersive fruit-stand aesthetic. Together, these projects offer fresh tools for creative problem-solving and empower audiences through accessible contemporary art.
Marking The Bronx Museum’s commitment to inclusion, WORKING KNOWLEDGE presents art as a catalyst for social learning and collective imagination, exploring new ways of engaging with knowledge in community settings.
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