Event - Build Your Own Pavilion Workshop
Build Your Own Pavilion Workshop
05.24.25, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Image: Umber Majeed, "Postcard", 2024. Mixed media on paper and interactive website. Courtesy the artist.
In collaboration with Family Day, join QM-Jerome Foundation Fellow Umber Majeed for a collage and writing workshop inspired by her exhibitionUmber Majeed: J😊Y TECH, as well as print and photographic materials from the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Participants will take on the role of an architect, historian, or tour guide to speculate on pavilions as tools of collective imagination. Whom do we design these pavilions for? Are pavilions really fixed in time?
“Build your own pavilion” worksheets and materials for collaging will be provided.
This intergenerational workshop is open to pavilion architects of all ages!
About the Artist & Supporters
Umber Majeed (b. New York, NY, 1989) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in New York, NY and BFA from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. Majeed has presented her work in solo exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022); 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virgina (2021); and the Rubber Factory, New York (2018). She has shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2024); the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2019); the Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan (2017), among others. Majeed is a recipient of the HWP Fellowship from Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017); the Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency from Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018); the Digital Earth Fellowship from Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-2019); and the Technology Residency from Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2020).
Umber Majeed: J😊Y TECH is made possible in part by lead support from the Jerome Foundation, the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center through the Technology Immersion Program, Looking Glass, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Additional support is provided by the Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.