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This week only, we’re heavily discounting our #PWPress publications to make way for new projects. Find artist-created books for $5, $10, & $15—sales raised from the PW Store are reinvested into funding new, ambitious projects by emerging and underrepresented artists and writers.

Gift Guide

From November 28 through December 14, take 20% off products in the Gift Guide with code: ULTRAFESTIVE. 

Ragas 

Pioneer Works's galleries and garden will be closed this Sunday, October 19 for Ragas Live Festival 2025. Learn more 

June closing

Please note, Pioneer Works will be closed for daily admissions until July 7th. We 

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Celebrate 10 years of Pioneer Works by shopping the PW Press Archive Sale! Through October 31, take 10% off Pioneer Works Press items with code 

Flash Flood Closures

Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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 for the entire month of April and receive an automatic 20% off books, records, apparel, and more. Members save 35%—learn more about membership 

Our galleries and garden are closed to the public today for a United Sounds NYC Festival 2024. Learn more about the festival 

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Pioneer Works will be closed on Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November for a private event. 

Aura Closure 5/27

Please note:

 will close early at 5pm on Saturday, May 27. Learn more and plan your visit 

CEO Announcement

Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

85% of our programming is free or accessibly-priced and we rely on our community of supporters to make that possible. Give now to ensure that we can continue nurturing artists and audiences through 2025.


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Early Closure

Aura Closure 6/3

 will close early at 5pm on Saturday, June 3. Learn more and plan your visit 

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We're pleased to announce the first major renovation of Pioneer Works! To accommodate the first phase of our construction, we're temporarily relocating to 133 Imlay Street opening in Spring 2022.

Early Closure 5/10/23

Due to programming, Pioneer Works will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 10. We will be open from Thursday through Sunday for the remainder of the week. Learn more and plan your visit 

Our galleries and garden are currently closed for installation. We will reopen on 

Friday, September 12, 2025, from 7–9 PM

Raúl de Nieves, Tega Brain, and Sam Lavigne

Strike! Digital Sabotage with Grayson Earle

Environmental Music and Personal World Building with Matt Evans

Exploring Intuitive Sound Notations with Martha Skou

Memory Scripting through Image with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

[Sold Out] Net Making with Mimi Bai

Stained Glass Class with Jonny Campolo

Nerikomi with ann/drew gayle

Fabric Making with Anya Kielar

Electroacoustic Strategies with HxH

Activated Archives with Umber Majeed

Monument Media with Umber Majeed

Exoplanet Inspired Cyanotypes with Betsy Kenyon

Writing the Ephemeral with Jordan Kisner

August 24

Vocal Health for Touring Artists with Amirtha Kidambi

Constructing Portraits with Rachel Stern  

Live Coding Music with Maxwell Neely-Cohen

Rewilding with Natalie Elliot

Drafting an Access Statement with Finnegan Shannon

[Sold Out] Pit Fire and Raku Ceramics with Nicholas Oh

Amplified: The Art of Rock and Roll

Canceled: Building the Virtual Landscape with Woody Sullender

At Pioneer Works

Online via Zoom

Street Photography with Noah E. Morrison

 Outdoor Painting with Black Painters Academy

Introduction to Modular Synthesis with Hiro Kone and Synth Library NYC

Canceled: Normalizing Crime with Hackett

Session 1

Session 2

[Sold Out] Mapping the Archive with Erin Johnson

[Sold Out] Zine Making with Kyung Eun You 

Canceled: Mold Making with Nicholas Oh

Building the Virtual Landscape with Woody Sullender

Playwriting for the Digital Space with Kara Güt

Circle Weaving with Vandana Jain

Green Screen Basics with Caroline Garcia 

Vocal Improvisation and Deep Listening with Luisa Muhr

Green Screen Collaging with Caroline Garcia

Future of Work: Anti-Surveilance Toolkits with Carrie Wang 

[Sold Out] Playwriting for the Digital Space Intensive with Kara Güt

[Sold Out] Accessible Spatial Sound with Ciarra Black

September 26

Pit Fire and Raku Ceramics with Nicholas Oh

Photo Walk with Rachel Stern and Free Film NYC

[Sold Out] Examining Hysteria through 3D Scanning and Performance with Sophie Kahn

Worldbuilding with Maggie Hazen & The Incarcerated Young Artists of the Columbia Collective

Canceled: Sonic Encounters of the Third Kind with Lisa Schonberg and Allie Wist in support by New York Mycological Society 

Risograph Band Posters with Secret Riso Club

Ideas in Animation: 2024-2025

Sound Healing with Samer Ghadry

Merging Analog and AI with Vanessa Rosa

Introduction to Motion Capture and Augmented Reality with LaJuné McMillian

Speculative Design & Black Speech with Silas Munro & Lauren Williams

Cyanotypes with Rachel Stern 


Good Shepherd Services Miccio Cornerstone Community Center

Ideas in Animation: Summer 2024

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Mixed Level Wheel Throwing with Nicholas Oh 

Canceled: Completing the Circuit with Umber Majeed and Viditya Voleti

Making Your Own Chatbot with Carrie Sijia Wang

Who lives in 14b? A totally arbitrary study into the current state of neighborliness in New York City with Mohammad Mehrabani of Saint Abdullah 

 [Sold Out] Navigating the Artist Visa Process

Self Defense with Guro Kristen Cabildo and Caroline Garcia

Good Questions with Janani Balasubramanian

Worlding with the Molecular with Mary Maggic

Silicone Poetics with Jenson Leonard

DIY Lenticulars with Umber Majeed

Environmental Music and Personal Myth Making with Matt Evans

Speculative Fictions with Erin Johnson

Constructing Portraits with Rachel Stern 

Canceled: DIY Powerbanks with Hackett

Circuit Art with Brian Oakes

Ideas in Animation: Fall 2025

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Art of Memory

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Remembering in the Digital Age

The Good Death Roundtable: Spiritualism in Practice

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The Good Death Roundtable: Spiritualism, the Science of Crime and Early Forensics

The Good Death Roundtable: Investigating Spiritualism— 
Scientific Quests to Colonize Hysterical Women and Psychic Mediums

The Good Death Roundtable: Investigating Spiritualism—Scientific Quests to Colonize Hysterical Women and Psychic Mediums

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The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom Roundtable: A Disinherited—Making a Way out of No Way

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Cookies, Cakes, and Cockroaches!

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The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom Roundtable: Ballroom—A Mobilizing Trifecta

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The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom Roundtable: Ballroom as a Performative Philosophy

Ecologies of Transition Roundtable: Hydrological Ties that Bind—Gowanus and Red Hook

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Costume Making with Jaimie Warren

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Digital Animism

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Weird Compasses

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Experimental Sound Art

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Between Composition

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Torshi Pickling and Methodologies

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Embodied Emotional Resilience

Chthonic Computing: 
Code for Your Roots

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Chthonic Computing: Code for Your Roots

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Strike! Speculative Tools for Workplace Protest

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Meditation for Creative Expression

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while(x): How to Write a Code Poem

The Great Indoors: 
An Online Soundscapes Workshop

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The Great Indoors: An Online Soundscapes Workshop

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How to Trap a Demon

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TV EYE

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Ear to Ear: Collective Transmission

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(Socially Distant) Wheel Throwing

Upcoming Classes

Stained Glass Class with Jonny Campolo

In Progress

Ideas in Animation: Fall 2025

Past Classes

Stained Glass Class with Jonny Campolo

Amplified: The Art of Rock and Roll

Ideas in Animation: 2024-2025

Ideas in Animation: Summer 2024

[Sold Out] Mapping the Archive with Erin Johnson

[Sold Out] Playwriting for the Digital Space Intensive with Kara Güt

[Sold Out] Examining Hysteria through 3D Scanning and Performance with Sophie Kahn

[Sold Out] Net Making with Mimi Bai