Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2022: STORY is scheduled for September 23-25, 2022, for its seventeenth annual public visual and performance art festival featuring 40+ local, national, and international artists’ projects from the Disabled, Incarcerated, Elder, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Allied communities taking place along 14th Street in Manhattan, NY – from Avenue C to the Hudson River. “What’s Your Story” is a selection of some of the artists telling their story. Hosted by the curator, Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn.

Featuring Nick Daniels, Jana Greiner, Juan Hernadez with Mai Tran, Vivek Sebastian, Heather Sincavage, and Yu-Ching Wang.

Photo credit: Yu-Ching Wang, Breathing in New York, March 2020

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

This event is free and open to all!

Safety protocol

In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:

If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

AiOP is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, founded by NYC artist Ed Woodham and led by Executive Director Furusho von Puttkammer, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. Using 14th Street as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space.

Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy at a young age. The muscle-wasting disease has left her as a wheelchair user. She uses living with a disability to inform her work and educate society about differences.