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

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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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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. 

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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 

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

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen is the author of the novel 

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen is the author of the novel Echo of the Boom and Editor-at-Large for The Believer. His essays and non-fiction have been featured in places like The New Republic, Oxford American, and BOMB Magazine. His experiments with literature and technology have been acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine and Electric Literature. He lives in New York City.

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 and “an elegant, sensitive thinker” by 

, Aynsley Vandenbroucke is obsessed with the movement of ideas, the choreography of language and experiences. Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, and The Chocolate Factory have presented her work. Her writing has been published by 

. She teaches in the dance program at Princeton University where she’s developed interdisciplinary courses with titles like: Body and Language; Uncertainty; Power, Structure, and the Human Body; and Stillness. She co-founded Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill Mountains and was co-curator there until 2014.

Called “gifted” by The New Yorker and “an elegant, sensitive thinker” by The New York Times, Aynsley Vandenbroucke is obsessed with the movement of ideas, the choreography of language and experiences. Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, and The Chocolate Factory have presented her work.  Her writing has been published by PAJ- A Journal of Performance and Art, Seneca Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches in the dance program at Princeton University where she’s developed interdisciplinary courses with titles like: Body and Language; Uncertainty; Power, Structure, and the Human Body; and Stillness. She co-founded Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill Mountains and was co-curator there until 2014.

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Jordan Kisner is an essayist and cultural critic, and the author of the forthcoming, 

, which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March 2020. Her work has appeared in 

, and others. Kisner is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She is the former director of The Bellwether, teaches creative writing at Columbia University, and serves as a mentor-editor for the Op-Ed Project.

Jordan Kisner is an essayist and cultural critic, and the author of the forthcoming, Thin Places, which will be published by Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux in March 2020. Her work has appeared in n+1, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California Sunday, The Best American Essays 2016, and others. Kisner is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She is the former director of The Bellwether, teaches creative writing at Columbia University, and serves as a mentor-editor for the Op-Ed Project.

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 is a multimedia artist, working across installation, image, live and immersive performance, emerging media, poetry, and prose. Janani's practice aims to bring insights from contemporary science into useable, playful, divine, and mythic places in everyday life.

Janani is an artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History; 2021-2022 Pew Foundation grantee through the Academy of Natural Sciences; 2021-2022 Collider fellow at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; 2021 NYFA Fellow in Fiction; and member of the Guild of Future Architects.

Additionally, Janani's work has been presented and/or commissioned by over 160 venues across North America and Europe including the Public Theater, Red Bull Arts, High Line, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have been an innovator-in-residence at Colorado College; artist-in-residence at Brooklyn College; artist-in-residence at the University of Colorado; Hemispheric Institute Fellow at NYU; Sundance Institute Fellow; Pioneer Works Narrative Arts Fellow; visiting artist at Stanford University Institute for Diversity in the Arts; Jerome Hill Artist Fellow; and Van Lier Fellow at the Public Theater. They have received additional development support from MAP Fund; Stanford University Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub; Tow Foundation; and National Endowment for the Arts.

Laia is a multimedia artist, working across installation, image, live and immersive performance, emerging media, poetry, and prose. Laia’s practice aims to bring insights from contemporary science into useable, playful, divine, and mythic places in everyday life.








Laia is an artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History; 2021-2022 Pew Foundation grantee through the Academy of Natural Sciences; 2021-2022 Collider fellow at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; 2021 NYFA Fellow in Fiction; and member of the Guild of Future Architects.








Additionally, Laia’s work has been presented and/or commissioned by over 160 venues across North America and Europe including the Public Theater, Red Bull Arts, High Line, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have been an innovator-in-residence at Colorado College; artist-in-residence at Brooklyn College; artist-in-residence at the University of Colorado; Hemispheric Institute Fellow at NYU; Sundance Institute Fellow; Pioneer Works Narrative Arts Fellow; visiting artist at Stanford University Institute for Diversity in the Arts; Jerome Hill Artist Fellow; and Van Lier Fellow at the Public Theater. They have received additional development support from MAP Fund; Stanford University Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub; Tow Foundation; and National Endowment for the Arts.

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Janani Balasubramanian

Janani Balasubramanian is a writer, new media (AR/VR) artist, and immersive theater maker whose work has been presented at more than 160 stages across North America and Europe. In their practice, Balasubramanian collaborates deeply with astrophysicists to shift how we understand inner and outer space. Balasubramanian is a 2018-2020 Van Lier fellow at the Public Theater; a 2019-2020 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow; artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History; and co-founder of the <a href="http://abundantspacecollab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Abundant Space Collaborative</a> with astronomer Dr. Natalie Gosnell.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work often focuses on place, race, and how human difference is thought about and acted on in the world. He is the author of 

Island People: The Caribbean and the World

, and co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of 

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

. Jelly-Schapiro teaches at NYU and is a regular contributor to 

The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, The Nation, 

, among many other publications. At Governors Island, he will be working on his next book, an exploration of place-names in the city.

Jelly-Schapiro will be an alumni resident on 

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work often focuses on place, race, and how human difference is thought about and acted on in the world. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World, and co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Jelly-Schapiro teaches at NYU and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, The Nation, and Artforum, among many other publications. At Governors Island, he will be working on his next book, an exploration of place-names in the city.
Jelly-Schapiro will be an alumni resident on <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/series/pioneer-works-at-governors-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Governors Island</a> in Summer 2019.

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BFAMFAPhD is a collective that employs visual and performing art, policy reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The collective’s work brings people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts.

While in residence, the collective will be working on 

, a multi-platform pedagogical project that offers practices of contemplation, collaboration, and circulation in the visual arts. 

 is a contribution to BFAMFAPhD made by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard. Susan Jahoda is a Professor in Studio Arts at the University of Amherst, MA and Caroline Woolard is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Hartford, CT.

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While in residence, the collective will be working on Making and Being, a multi-platform pedagogical project that offers practices of contemplation, collaboration, and circulation in the visual arts. Making and Being is a contribution to BFAMFAPhD made by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard. Susan Jahoda is a Professor in Studio Arts at the University of Amherst, MA and Caroline Woolard is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Hartford, CT.

Narrative Arts Residency

Alumni Narrative Arts Residency Residents

Janani Balasubramanian

Jordan Kisner

Aynsley Vandenbroucke

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Maxwell Neely-Cohen

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