Peer-led training and immersive residencies are designed to support imaginative, artist-driven approaches to social activism and community engagement. More than twenty annual classes are created in concert with partner institutions across the country including Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan; Cucalorus Film Foundation in Wilmington, North Carolina; Eureka! Press in Kingston, NY; Community Forge in Pittsburgh; and a new site in Oregon. Past examples of Making Thinking programming include an in-depth look at the correlation between hip-hop and urban planning and a history of Drag and the avant-garde. Recent residencies have focused on the use of emergent technologies to deepen interpersonal relationships and a book project that positioned art making as an act of survival among four Black, working class artists. A new residency in Oregon will bring together artists interested in land rights and utopias in the Pacific Northwest.
Peer-led training and immersive residencies
IMMERSION 6.0 Residency program VR exhibition.
IMMERSION 6.0 Residency documentation.
Queer Art of Improv workshop with Alex Schmidt & Lily Marotta. Photo by Eli Schmidt.
“Self Scripting Through the Moving Image” workshop with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo. Photo by Daqi Fang.
Strategies for Liberation Artists, 2025. Photo by Sam Leibert.
Whoreticulture featuring chef Kate Ray. Photo by Isaiah Mancha.
1994
On May 13, 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened its doors to the public. The museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials, and is the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and the largest in North America.