Artists and Lovers Party
Cost
$35
Where
Carreau Club
Industry City Building 6
68 34th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
When
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
6–9 PM
Who
Come celebrate with us at our fourth annual Artists and Lovers Party, honoring Derrick Adams, Ashley Mohr Mitchell, and Natasha Roberts Kay! This year we'll be at Carreau Club, which is owned by Dana Bunker, a former Wassaic Project artist-in-residence, exhibition artist, and our first Residency Director! Tickets are $35, and include an open bar, heavy snacks (less than dinner, more than an appetizer), DJed music, commemorative pins, and every cool Wassaic Project person you know. 200 tickets available: get em while you can.
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Honoring
Ashley Mohr Mitchell splits her time between New York City and Millbrook, NY. With leadership roles in finance and operations at the Whitney Museum and Dia Art Foundation, she understands how to build and scale arts institutions to support transformative artistic work. Ashley joins the Wassaic Project for its commitment to challenging exhibitions, education and community engagement. She holds a B.A. from Georgetown and an MBA from NYU Stern.
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Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams' work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. In addition to his critically acclaimed art practice, Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded to in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
Adams has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2022); The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021); Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (2020); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018). The artist has mounted public installations commissioned through Monument Lab on the National Mall, Washington D.C. (2023), Art on the Mart at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago (2023), Art at Amtrak at NYC Penn Station, New York (2023); MTA Arts & Design at the Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, Brooklyn (2020–ongoing); and RxART at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2019–ongoing). His work has been featured in notable group exhibitions including Giants: Art from the Dean Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (2024); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Packaged Black: Derrick Adams & Barbara Earl Thomas, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2022); Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University Museum (2021–2022); and Performa, New York (2015, 2013, 2005). His art resides in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, among many others.
Natasha Roberts Kay (Publicist at Public Art Fund · Founder of The KNOW) is a seasoned curator, publicist, and art advisor with extensive experience in cultural communications, cultivating landmark exhibitions, and strategic partnerships. She currently serves as the Publicist at Public Art Fund and works independently as a curator and consultant as the Founder of The KNOW, where she advises clients on collecting, artist business development, and curatorial projects. Natasha has facilitated notable collaborations between artists, galleries, brands, and cultural institutions, and she has also held leadership roles in auction partnerships and special projects, with a focus on creating impactful cultural initiatives. An alumna of the American University (B.A. Sociology), Natasha holds graduate and professional certificates in curatorial practice, contemporary art, and perfumery, and is an active member of several arts organizations.
Event Details
Artists and Lovers Party
Cost
$35
Where
Carreau Club
Industry City Building 6
68 34th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
When
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
6–9 PM
Who
Come celebrate with us at our fourth annual Artists and Lovers Party, honoring Derrick Adams, Ashley Mohr Mitchell, and Natasha Roberts Kay! This year we'll be at Carreau Club, which is owned by Dana Bunker, a former Wassaic Project artist-in-residence, exhibition artist, and our first Residency Director! Tickets are $35, and include an open bar, heavy snacks (less than dinner, more than an appetizer), DJed music, commemorative pins, and every cool Wassaic Project person you know. 200 tickets available: get em while you can.
Honoring
Ashley Mohr Mitchell splits her time between New York City and Millbrook, NY. With leadership roles in finance and operations at the Whitney Museum and Dia Art Foundation, she understands how to build and scale arts institutions to support transformative artistic work. Ashley joins the Wassaic Project for its commitment to challenging exhibitions, education and community engagement. She holds a B.A. from Georgetown and an MBA from NYU Stern.
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams' work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. In addition to his critically acclaimed art practice, Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded to in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
Adams has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2022); The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021); Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (2020); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018). The artist has mounted public installations commissioned through Monument Lab on the National Mall, Washington D.C. (2023), Art on the Mart at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago (2023), Art at Amtrak at NYC Penn Station, New York (2023); MTA Arts & Design at the Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, Brooklyn (2020–ongoing); and RxART at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2019–ongoing). His work has been featured in notable group exhibitions including Giants: Art from the Dean Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (2024); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Packaged Black: Derrick Adams & Barbara Earl Thomas, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2022); Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University Museum (2021–2022); and Performa, New York (2015, 2013, 2005). His art resides in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, among many others.
Natasha Roberts Kay (Publicist at Public Art Fund · Founder of The KNOW) is a seasoned curator, publicist, and art advisor with extensive experience in cultural communications, cultivating landmark exhibitions, and strategic partnerships. She currently serves as the Publicist at Public Art Fund and works independently as a curator and consultant as the Founder of The KNOW, where she advises clients on collecting, artist business development, and curatorial projects. Natasha has facilitated notable collaborations between artists, galleries, brands, and cultural institutions, and she has also held leadership roles in auction partnerships and special projects, with a focus on creating impactful cultural initiatives. An alumna of the American University (B.A. Sociology), Natasha holds graduate and professional certificates in curatorial practice, contemporary art, and perfumery, and is an active member of several arts organizations.
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