WORTHLESSSTUDIOS provides space, materials, technical assistance, and resources for artists of all backgrounds to realize their creative visions. We are committed to supporting artists' fabrication needs in NYC and producing engaging public art and exhibitions.
Worthless Studios aims to democratize access to resources and studio space within the competitive art market by offering their upcoming Brooklyn facility to early-career sculptors who otherwise wouldn’t have access. Their mission is exactly what the industry needs after this past year of economic turmoil.
FREE FILM : USA:
On the road for 112 days, the FREE FILM team traveled in a converted mobile darkroom Airstream trailer to 18 cities across the country to distribute and process rolls of 35mm black and white film for free to anyone interested in participating in the project. Given a due date and the prompt “red, white and blue,” participating photographers had the opportunity to shoot their rolls as an expression of what that means to them–the words, the phrase, the place, the dream, the reality. In progress August 5 - December 15, 2019.
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PLYWOOD PROTECTION PROJECT:
A mission-driven initiative to collect the wood and redistribute to artists, extending and repurposing the life of this material. WORTHLESSSTUDIOS collected over 200 boards of plywood and initiated an open call for artists, with the intention of selecting five local makers to participate in a unifying public art project across all five boroughs of New York. Be Heard by Behrang Behin (center) and Ann Ha, installed in Thomas Paine Park in 2021. Photo: Ike Edeani for The New York Times.
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Artist in Residence - Open Studios 1:
WORTHLESSSTUDIOS’ first round of Artists in Residence display their work at an open studio. Photo: Beatrice Flynn.
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FREE FILM : USA:
On the road for 112 days, the FREE FILM team traveled in a converted mobile darkroom Airstream trailer to 18 cities across the country to distribute and process rolls of 35mm black and white film for free to anyone interested in participating in the project. Given a due date and the prompt “red, white and blue,” participating photographers had the opportunity to shoot their rolls as an expression of what that means to them–the words, the phrase, the place, the dream, the reality. In progress August 5 - December 15, 2019.
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WORTHLESSSTUDIOS boasts 10,000 square feet of unique event space that can accommodate a wide variety of events from high-production installations, movie screenings and photoshoots to dinners, parties and small concerts.
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