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  • Artist-in-Residence Open Call

    Deadline: Monday June 3rd, 11:59pm

    We are currently looking for cultural producers of all kinds to join the Flux community for 3, 6, 9 or 12 month residencies starting in the Winter of 2019 and Spring of 2020.

    Free
  • Talk Back

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    Flux Factory's first Major Exhibition of 2019
    May 9th - June 2nd

    TALK BACK centers the lives of disabled artists and organizers, seeking to make room for every body and illuminate non-binary futures.

  • Alt-Text As Poetry Workshop

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    Saturday, May 11, 3-5pm

    How can we instead approach alt-text thoughtfully and creatively? In this workshop, we will reframe alt-text as a type of poetry and practice writing it together.

  • RESILIENCE JOURNAL WORKSHOP

    Saturday, May 18
    4pm - 6:00pm

    The Resilience Journal is an analog tracking tool dedicated to visualizing the overlooked, soft data in our lives.

  • Character Strengths: TALK BACK Workshop

    Thursday, May 23
    6:30 - 8:30 pm

    Join the artists of YAI for the one-night-only event: Character Strengths! A pop-up exhibition featuring artworks that flex vigor and nerve.

  • People For An Accessible Mars: TALK BACK Workshop

    Saturday, May 25th, 3pm-5pm

    Through a series of workshops, surveys, and focus groups; we intend to advise NASA and all mars exploration initiatives on how to build an accessible future.

  • Talk Back Convening – Opening Reception

    TALK BACK Convening
    Friday, May 31, 7 - 10pm

    This series of Artists Talks center disabled artists using play, parties and joy, bringing connection and community to the front of their practice.

  • Convening for Disabled Artists, Organizers and Organizations

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    Friday, May 31st, 7pm - 10pm
    Saturday, June 1st, 12-6pm + 8pm-11pm
    Sunday, June 2nd, 12pm-5pm + 7pm-9pm

    Convene with disabled artists, organizers, activists and allies.

  • Dreaming Disability Social Justice

    TALK BACK Convening
    Saturday, June 1st, 12 - 6pm

    This series of Artists Talks center disabled artists exploring gender, identity and these intersecting expressions of bodies.

  • Talk Back Closing Party

    Saturday, June 1st, 8pm-11pm

    Celebrate the closing of TALK BACK
    with a party featuring:
    DJ WHO GIRL (Kevin Gotkin) and a performance by YO-YO LIN!

  • Disability Nightlife Dance Party

    TALK BACK Convening
    Saturday, June 1st, 8-11pm

    Celebrate the closing of TALK BACK with a party featuring DJ WHO GIRL (Kevin Gotkin) and a performance by YO-YO LIN!

  • Crip Care Work

    TALK BACK Convening
    Sunday, June 2nd, 12 - 9:30pm

    This series of panels, presentations and performances center disabled artist and organizers from around the world.

  • Together

    June 7th - 9th
    Together's CEO is Cayla Lockwood

    Together helps your small business or art collective save time by holding meetings while you sleep.

  • 25th Anniversary Banquet

    Friday, June 14th
    doors at 6pm Dinner served promptly at 7pm

    Please join us on Friday June 14th for a five-course meal of delectable artist-designed dishes

  • Wicket Leeks

    June 22nd - July 13th
    Flux Thursday: July 11th

    Using the lenses of food and sports, artists investigate the unsavory histories of colonialism.

  • Specially Processed American Me: SPAM, War, and Cuisine Workshop

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    Saturday June 29th, 1 - 3pm

    Over a communal meal, artist and playwright Jaime Sunwoo will discuss the history of SPAM, the canned meat, in the Asia-Pacific and its connection to war, class, imperialism, and nostalgia.

  • Eco-communities in Dialogue: NY responds to Europe

    June 30th, 5pm - 7pm

    Jan Blažek will speak on European Eco-communities followed by a panel discussion with representatives from local communes Cotyledon, Ganas, and Arc 38

  • Artists & Creatives Money Skills

    Tuesday July 9th, 7p - 9pm

    This two-hour class (with handouts + practical exercises + Q&A!) is created to give you a basic, crucial grounding in the financial aspects of being “in business” as a creative, artist, and cultural worker.

    $20 – $40
  • Flux Thursday: Wicket Leeks Potluck & Artist Salon

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    July 11
    7:30 pm Potluck
    8:30 - 9:30 pm Salon Style Presentations in the Flux Factory Gallery
    Join us for Flux Factory's longest running public events, Flux Thursday. Please bring food or drink to share

  • OPEN CALL: Must They Also Be Gods

    Major Exhibition Open Call: Must They Also Be Gods
    Deadline: August 12th, 11:59pm

    Must They Also Be Gods looks to highlight the power of black community and movement.

  • Jargon: Solo Exhibition by Catalina J. Alvarez

    August 9th - 11th
    Friday to Sunday 1-6pm
    Salon (with coffee) 1-4pm Saturday August 10th

    Filmmaker Catalina exhibits her word drawings.

  • OPEN CALL: RUB

    Deadline: Friday, September 27th, 11:59pm EST

    Calling for: Drawings, Collages, Paintings, Photography, Poems, Quotes, Lists, Printed materials, Stories, Performances and Video, Sounds, New Media and more

  • Diving Into The Surface: Solo Exhibition by Marta Masternak

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    August 23th - 26th
    Gallery Hours: 1pm - 6pm
    Opening Reception: August 23th - 7pm

    On the edge where the outside ends and the interior begins.

  • Rebuilding Work: Open Studio and Artist Talk with Hunter Creel

    Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

    September 8th
    Open Studios, noon - 8pm // Artist Talk, 6pm

    Please Join Hunter Creel for an artist talk and discussion about his current project, Gate to the Multi-Verse.

  • At the Twelfth Hour: Confessions of a Hongkonger by Tse Fei

    September 12th, 7pm - 10pm // September 13th - 15th, 10am - 6pm

    "at the eleventh hour" describes something happening in the final moment; the title of Fei Tsu's solo exhibition At the Twelfth Hour means it is too late.

  • Party Dress Party by Dew Igworia

    Friday, September 20th
    Open Studios, 2 - 7pm // Party Dress Party 9pm - 12am

    Dew Igworia creates a series of party dresses that honor cherished garments that were lost. Join the party and wear a party dress!

  • Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varona: Works in Thread

    September 27th to October 6th, Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm
    Opening Reception: September 27th, 7 - 10pm

    An exhibition of works by Amir Badawi and Lulu Varona, two Artists who use embroidery thread to arrive at radically different ends.

  • Flux Thursday: A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness

    Flux Thursday, October 11
    7 - 10pm

    Join us for a very special screening of A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, presented by Filmmaker, Nova Scott-James.

    Free
  • Must They Also Be Gods: Flux Factory Major Exhibition

    October 11 – November 3
    Open Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm

    A Major Exhibition featuring works by over 15 emerging and mid-career Black artists, each with an insistent focus on beauty and spirituality.

  • Flux Takeover of Socrates Sculpture Park

    Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY, United States

    Saturday, October 19th, noon - 4pm
    At SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

    Flux Factory, takes over the Park for an adventurous afternoon of performance, engagement, and installation

    Free
  • Flux Thursday: San Francisco Supper

    Flux Thursday: San Francisco Supper
    November 14, 7pm – 1am

    Join us this Flux Thursday for San Francisco Supper. Doors to the Golden City open at 7pm with an esoteric dinner experience at 8pm.

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