THE SEVENTH AIM BIENNIAL CULMINATING OPEN HOUSE

Sat, Aug 29 • 1–5PM • For All Ages • Free • Optional RSVP, Drop-Ins Welcome

AIM artists exhibiting in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection leading a screen-printing workshop. Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

This Saturday, August 29th, you’re invited to the Museum for a Family Day and Culminating Open House for The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection! The critically acclaimed exhibition, which was extended through September 6th due to popular demand, features work by artists who completed the 2024 and 2025 cycles of The Bronx Museum’s prestigious AIM Fellowship program. For the Open House, exhibiting artists are leading a variety of fun activities—feel free to participate in all of them, or drop in for one in particular. Bronx Museum Educators will also be leading an art-making workshop for all ages. Learn more about what’s in store below…

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OPEN HOUSE ACTIVITIES:

MEMORY BOX-MAKING

1–3PM • On the 2nd Floor • For All Ages • Optional RSVP

AIM artist kiarita leading a memory box-making workshop, Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

In this workshop, 2025 AIM Fellow kiarita will guide participants in adorning a wooden box in a way that describes a special memory.

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SCREEN-PRINTING

1–3PM • On the 2nd Floor • For All Ages • Optional RSVP

AIM artist Motohiro Takeda leading a screen-printing workshop, Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

2024 AIM Fellow Motohiro Takeda will lead a screen-printing workshop featuring original designs by exhibiting artists on wearable items.

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FUGITIVITY IN ART DIALOGUE

1:30–3PM • In the Gallery • For Adults • Optional RSVP

Counterclockwise from top right: AIM artists

Ricki Dwyer, Skip Brea, Bryan Fernandez, & Erick Alejandro Hernandez. Photos by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

This dialogue with artists Skip Brea, Ricki Dwyer, Bryan Fernandez, and Erick Alejandro Hernandez will center around the concept of fugitivity and the way in which personal actions can subvert one’s subjecthood into an act of resistance.

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ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

1:30–3PM • In the Lobby • For Adults • Optional RSVP

Counterclockwise from top right: AIM artists Erick Alejandro Hernandez, Katie Chin, Cyle Warner, and art critic & author Lou Bury. Artist portraits by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

Art critic and author Lou Bury will moderate a conversation with artists Katie Chin, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, and Cyle Warner about a range of topics, including material as a vehicle for conceptual inquiry and the role of social histories in object-making.

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IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES WORKSHOP

2–5PM • On the 3rd Floor • Free • For Adults • RSVP Required

Artist Diana Guerra is offering a workshop for immigrants titled ‘Across Memory and Archive’ where she aims to “create an experimental space for participants to reflect on which parts of their histories serve as anchors of home.”

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Image: AIM artist Diana Guerra with her project on view in The Seventh AIM Biennial, Greetings from Rosita aus Peru Brooklyn (2025), Photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM

For over five decades, The Bronx Museum has been a vanguard of cultural diversity and accessibility in the contemporary art world. The Museum offers 100% free admission for everyone to all its exhibitions and programs, providing a vital creative outlet to the public. Through its curatorial practices, including a permanent collection, the Museum seeks to champion and promote artists who have been systemically and historically marginalized. The history and culture of The Bronx are a never-ending source of inspiration for the Museum, and its programs are designed to facilitate meaningful engagement with the people of the borough while also attracting visitors from all over New York City and the world. The Bronx Museum is a leader in the cultural sphere with its unwavering commitment to access, dedication to platforming underrepresented artists, and dynamic community-engaged programming.

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SUPPORT

The Bronx Museum’s operations are generously supported, in part, with public funds from the City of New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, New York City Council, Council Member Althea Stevens and the Bronx Delegation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, New York State Education Department, New York State Empire State Development, New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, New York State Senator Luis Sepulveda, and New York State Senator Jose M. Serrano. Additional support is provided by the Americans for the Arts, Booth Ferris Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, Cowles Charitable Trust, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, Francena Harrison Foundation, Jockey Hollow Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Hyde and Watson Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, New Yankee Stadium Community Benefit Fund, Pinkerton Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund: Culpeper Arts & Culture Program, Scherman Foundation, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Individuals and Bronx Museum Board of Trustees. Artist, Education, Community, and Public Programs are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, E.A. Michelson Philanthropy, the Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the Pollock Krasner foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefit Fund, Robert Lehman Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.