Art & Design Events, New York, Saturday, 18 August 2018

China Institute 40 Rector St open house: Adult Language & Studio Programs 11-1:30

Bureau of General Services—Queer Division / LGBT Community Center 208 W 13 East Coast launch party: We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology (Stacked Deck Press) 8-9:30 suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds

RATA Projects 131 Chrystie St closing reception: Skip/Salvage Fanny Allié, Vincent Dermody, Jason Douglas Griffin, Jack Henry, Tim Mitchell, August Krogan Roley, Alex Valls, Jess Willa Wheaton, curated by Audrée Anid and Rachel Tretter 6-9

SVA Gramercy 209 E 23 exhibition: Tales from the Crit #2 figurative artists from the BFA Illustration class of 2018: Anna Bida, Annabelle Doan, Sara Jackson, Annie Kim, Pierce Kinnally, Jia Lee, Haleigh Mun, Evan Pavley, Taylor Pelton, Chelsea Rust, Brooke Yakkey and Brianna Yovino, curated by Thomas Woodruff no reception

Gallery Korea 460 Park Ave 6th Fl Saturday Artist Talk Program: Found in Design: The Aesthetics of Typography and Language Wes L Cockx (CREAM) and Huimin Lee 2-4  light refreshments

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art 65 E 80 talk: Kathleen Yang Collecting as a Hobby 2

NYPL Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X. Blvd gallery tour: Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire 1-2 free

RIVAA 527 Main St Roosevelt Island reception: Island of Art:RIVAA Artists' Group Show 6-9 cancelled because of water damage

SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves St Long Island City participatory event: Clay Club projects by Alisa Baremboym, ektor garcia, Ficus Interfaith, Steffani Jemison, Sara Magenheimer, and Jesse Wine & Cassie Griffin; more than two thousand pounds of clay available for participation in artist-led projects or for free use; free, open to the public, for all ages, no reservation required 10-2

Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Road (Vernon Boulevard) Long Island City public conversation on the Akari Cloud installation featured in Akari: Sculpture by Other Means 3:30-4:30 free with museum admission

Flux Factory 39-31 29th St  Long Island City reception: Butter on the Jam Knife & Cherry's First Solo Ryan Clayton, Wallis Cheung 7-10

A/D/O 29 Norman Ave Greenpoint design workshop: Testing Our Waters with Barent Roth 3-7 $18 reservation Eventbrite

Living Gallery 1094 Broadway Bushwick event: Brixx Back NYC 6-8 $5

Smack Mellon 92 Plymouth St performance: Dynasty Handbag; cosing reception: Laugh Back Farah Al Qasimi, Natalie Baxter, Deborah Castillo, Kristina Davis, Dynasty Handbag, Jesse Harrod, INNER COURSE (Rya Kleinpeter and Tora López), Lady Parts Justice League’s Vagical Mystery Tour, Jen Liu, Rachel Mason, Jan Mun, Luis Mejico, Madhini Nirmal, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Andréa Stanislav, curated by Lindsey O’Connor 4

Colony 274 274 4th Ave Gowanus photography gallery event: Tara Dawn Wizard Moon 5-8

Interference Archive 314 7th St Gowanus Education Working Group workshop: An Agitprop Skillshare 2-5 free
Coney Island Beach W 10th to W 12th Streets event: 28th Annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest noon-4 free 

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art  338 Lighthouse Ave Staten Island benefit reception: Tibetan Twilight, Including the Unveiling of the Collection of Walter Meuly -- Artifacts and Objects from Nepal donated to the Museum by the Estate of Caroline Meuly and Jeremy Leavitt 6:30-9:30 $75

Boo-Hooray Summer Rental 649 Montauk Highway Montauk reception: Pat McCarthy Surfin Bird Odyssey 4-7

John Davis 362 1/2 Warren St Hudson reception: Herbert Reichert human; Christopher Cairns Recognition/Remembrance; Joel Longenecker Recent Work; John Lippert Paintings; Jiang Weixian Sculpture; Fran Shalom Getting Out of the Way 6-8

Chashama 58-60 Main St Matawan NJ reception: Stacey AS Pritchard Mantras for Involuntary Nomads 6-9