by Jeroslyn JoVonn
November 7, 2025
The ceremony will happen Saturday, Nov. 15.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is continuous its legacy of celebrating artwork throughout the African diaspora with the disclosing of a constructing.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, the museum will host a Group Day celebration to welcome guests into its new dwelling, in keeping with a press launch. Designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson as government architect, the seven-story, 82,000-square-foot constructing marks the primary purpose-built dwelling within the Studio Museum’s 57-year historical past, made potential by way of a holistic marketing campaign that has raised over $300 million.
“With deep gratitude to our visionary founders, who dared to create the Studio Museum amid the ferment of 1968, and to all of the Trustees, workers, marketing campaign supporters, artists, curators, educators, architects, neighborhood members, and companions within the Metropolis of New York who’ve made the Studio Museum into what it’s right now, we welcome Harlem and all of the world into the house we have now dreamed of getting,” stated Thelma Golden, Ford Basis Director and the museum’s chief curator. “Our mission as champions of artists of African descent and their practices is as pressing right now because it ever was and is made all of the extra potential due to our exceptional new constructing.”
As a part of its Nov. 15 unveiling, the Studio Museum will provide free admission, inviting the general public to discover its inaugural exhibitions, take part in art-making workshops, and luxuriate in performances, video games, giveaways, and DJ units all through the day.
The celebration continues the following day with the premiere of Studio Sundays—a weekly day of free, family-friendly programming that includes artwork workshops, guided excursions, gallery talks, and storytime classes.
The museum’s inaugural exhibitions will embrace a serious showcase of Tom Lloyd, the pioneering artist featured within the Studio Museum’s first-ever exhibition in 1968; From Now: A Assortment in Context, a rotating show of works from the museum’s 9,000-piece everlasting assortment of artists of African descent spanning the 1800s to right now; From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence, that includes new works on paper by over 100 program alumni in an intergenerational dialogue; and To Be a Place, an archival exhibition highlighting pictures and ephemera from almost six many years of the museum’s historical past, tracing its evolution by way of eras of cultural and political change.
Based by a collective of artists and activists in 1968, the Studio Museum closed its one hundred and twenty fifth Road location in 2018 to start development on its first purpose-built dwelling. The museum initially opened on Fifth Avenue earlier than relocating within the Nineteen Eighties to one hundred and twenty fifth Road and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, occupying the previous New York Financial institution of Financial savings constructing.
The brand new state-of-the-art facility options expansive galleries, a spacious foyer, versatile program areas, and a devoted Training Workshop—designed to deepen neighborhood engagement and improve the museum’s service to artists, guests, and Harlem alike. The brand new house additionally expands exhibition areas and doubles the scale of the artist-in-residence program, whereas growing indoor and out of doors public areas by 60%.
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