Celebrate! Arts in the Garden: Wave Hill at 60

This weekend, celebrate the Arts at Wave Hill with site-responsive projects, including three new exhibitions, an outdoor dance performance that engages Wave Hill’s grounds, and a movement-based workshop for families.

In the Sunroom Project Space, an installation by Caroline Garciaexplores the Indigenous history of the area now known as Wave Hill, focusing on the unique tools and weapons used by the First Americans, and in the Sun Porch, Magdalena Dukiewicz creates a mixed-media, auditory experience that envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape where mushrooms thrive amidst a junkyard aesthetic. 

In Wave Hill House, Blanka Amezkua’s exhibition, Power Flower,, features paintings and mixed media work based on imagery from the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano (1552), the first scientific text of Aztec medicine and botany created in the Americas; the artist initiated this project during her time in Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace residency in 2022. 

At 3PM on both Saturday and Sunday, Heidi Latsky Dance performs ON DISPLAY on the Great Lawn and other locations across Wave Hill’s grounds. This durational work by the integrated dance company that includes both disabled and abled dancers aims to provoke a dialogue about body imagery and difference through innovative performance.

On Sunday at 1PM, families are invited to join a playful sensory and movement-based exploration in Kids on the Move! Groove, Move and Vibe.

Exhibitions are open 10AM to 4:30PM in Glyndor Gallery and Wave Hill House. Heidi Latsky Dance performances take place from 3PM to 4PM outdoors on the grounds (Rainsite: Wave Hill House).