Julie Coulon / Elizabeth Krief & Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program
April 1 - May 15
We are pleased to announce that photographer and artist Julie Coulon will be in residency April 1 to May 15, 2024 as a part of The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog. A four years project that offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City for 1-3 months, without any obligation of a final production and objective, aside from engaging with our city of fantasy, change, excess, power, possibility, hustle, and grandeur.
Julie Coulon resides and works in Paris, cultivating her photographic and filmic skills at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Grounded in an approach that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, her images and performances seamlessly navigate between staged scenarios and documentary authenticity.
Human Petting Zoo / Brian Andrew Whiteley
Thursday, May 9
7:00 - 10:00 pm
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Brian Andrew Whiteley with a one day installation of Human Petting Zoo.
One Night Only: Immerse yourself in a unique atmosphere where you can pet, play, and connect with live humans in furry outfits. The immersive art installation features performers in cosplay suits, video and projection art, paintings, a functional furry fountain, hay bails, live music and electronic sets by Brian Wenner with select instrumentalists
*After Party Dance Party & Kegger on-site 21+
Yarn & Yack / Fiber and Knitting Workshop
Sunday, May 12
2:30 - 4:30pm
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to the second session of Yarn & Yack, a fiber and knitting workshop led by Ana Watterson.
Inviting all knitters, crocheters, and anyone interested in expanding their fiber knowledge! Bring your hooks, needles, and yarn for an afternoon of crafting, contemplation, and community.
Throughout history, craft has served a myriad of purposes: from acts of resistance and self-sufficiency to outlets for communal bonding and socialization, personal and cultural expressions, and more. The goal of this workshop is to reflect and incorporate these rituals of fiber work from around the world, which has accompanied human experience for hundreds of years, only now in the context of the present
All skill levels welcome!
FAD Market NYCxDesign
Saturday, May 18 + Sunday, May 19
11:00am - 6:00pm
Come celebrate the best of New York’s emerging design scene with FAD Market’s NYCxDESIGN pop-up. They’ll be taking up residence at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, with over 50 cutting-edge designers and makers pushing the boundaries of home furnishing, tableware, apparel, jewelry, and more. Browse their specially curated selection of goods and meet the best new designers from the city and beyond!
This year marks the twelfth anniversary of the NYCxDESIGN festival — New York City's official celebration of design. To learn more about the amazing NYCxDESIGN events happening across New York City and online, check out their website here.
The Other Olympians / Michael Waters
Monday, June 3
7:00 - 8:00pm
The Invisible Dog and Books are Magic are thrilled to welcome Michael Waters with his book The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports in conversation with Hugh Ryan.
The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture wars.
In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equality became instead, through a confluence of bureaucracy, war, and sheer happenstance, the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming athletes.