A 3-YEAR TRIENNIAL

We have adapted our 2020 Triennial into a three year exhibition! Despite the pandemic, we produced virtual projects and exhibitions, and are excited to continue this summer. Tending the Edge, a continuation of Walking the Edge (2020), kicks off our 2021 triennial summer with an incredible group of artists making work through the lens of the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan that invites NYC mayoral candidates and New Yorkers alike to see themselves as island inhabitants and flex their power to affect change.

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2021 Tending The Edge

This spring, as the city considers who will become our next mayor and we come face to face with our own future, NYC Department of City Planning (DCP), Culture Push (CP), and Works on Water (WoW), have come together, with the support of the Mayor's Office for Cultural Affairs to consider how we will collectively tend to the edges of our vulnerable coastal archipelago.

2021 WoWHaus Residency on Governors Island

We are once again welcoming a cohort of artists to our residency on Governors Island. Here artists are developing their work that responds to the contemporary state of the water and water’s edge.

2020 WoW Video Show

2020 WoW TV

2020 Walking the Edge

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Water Connectors

2021 Triennial Exhibition - October 31th (going with the rain date)

This installment of Works on Water’s three year triennial turns to concepts of long-term care for our urban waterfront ecology and reconsideration of water time-scales. WoWhaus Resident artists’ and Tending the Edge artists’ projects call attention to marginalized ecological community members, and to water’s cycles of time and being.

2020-2022 Triennial