Brooklyn Metal Works turns 15 this month, and its anniversary show traces 35 alumni careers back to one Prospect Heights studio. I'd see it before it ends. This week also brings two pottery wheels, a wool needle, and Jim Staley picking up his trombone at Roulette, the room he co-founded in 1978.
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"Here, There and Everywhere" gathers work by more than 35 alumni of the metalsmithing studio, including Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Eve Singer, and Cameron Natkin, all made during or after their time there. It's also part of Handwork, a nationwide craft initiative marking the country's 250th anniversary this year. I'd see it before it ends.
Through Aug 30 -
A small-group handbuilding pottery session in the East Williamsburg studio building, all supplies and instruction included. No experience is required.
Fri Aug 21 -
A 90-minute beginner-friendly wheel-throwing class in Bushwick, with a short meditation built into the start of the session. On my list too.
Sun Aug 23 -
JP Solis and New York Record Club run an 8-week series on arranging your own edits and mashups in Ableton Live, with two hours of lab time to test tracks on the club's own sound system.
Thu Aug 20, 7–11p -
Staley co-founded Roulette in 1978 and returns to trombone alongside two longtime collaborators, Mori on electronics and Parkins on harp and electronics, for a night of improvisation.
Thu Aug 20, 8p -
A chamber piece for vocalist Joan La Barbara and the quartet Yarn/Wire, built from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain and unspooling from written composition into guided improvisation. In Ridgewood.
Fri Aug 21, 7p -
A free DJ night with Escobar joined by Queen Adine and Strolls Royce.
Fri Aug 21, 9p–late -
A free commemoration marking 250 years since the actual battle, with live 18th-century music and a parade to Battle Hill for those who died there.
Sun Aug 23, 10a–1p -
New York premieres of two new pieces, Lament for the Dead and Terra Incognita. Welch is a bagpiper with three World Pipe Band Championship titles who also composes for chamber ensembles and has released music on John Zorn's Tzadik label.
Wed Aug 26, 8:30p
Two shows in one evening. Small Uses holds fourteen artworks inside a single wooden box, all made from the assignment "make art that was not art." OFF-TIMES Issue No. 2 turns a newspaper into an exhibition, one page at a time. There's a performance from Beckett Brueggemann too. Free with reservation.
Rachel Mica Weiss is a sculptor and installation artist based in Brooklyn, with a studio in Sunset Park since 2012. She works across mediums, from stone and cast forms to hand-strung thread screens like the one pictured, woven taut across a wood frame in a gradient from black to orange to lavender. I like that tension between materials that pull against each other rather than settling into agreement. She's represented by CARVALHO, the East Williamsburg gallery.
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Sam