New York, NY | Guided Tour of the Sugar Hill Museum with Alaina Simone and Ellen Baxter

Please join us for a guided tour of Combinations and MVP: A Selection of Sculptures From Melvin Van Peebles Blue Room at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, co-curated by Alaina Simone, with a welcome address by Ellen Baxter, founder and executive director of Broadway Housing Communities.

Combinations is co-curated by Alaina Simone and Damien Davis and features a selection of works by Elia Alba, Nicole Awai, Alteronce Gumby, Forrest Kirk, Tyrone Mitchell, Sable Elyse Smith, Chris Watts, Ye Qin Zhu. Also on view is a solo presentation of Rachel Owens’ work “Hypogean Tip” and a selection of sculptures from Melvin Van Peebles’ “Blue Room.”

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• ArtTable Members – $10
• Member Guests – $15

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About the Speakers

Ellen Baxter is the Founder and the Executive Leader of Broadway Housing Communities. She has committed more than 30 years to advocacy and housing development to redress the inhumanity of inequality and homelessness in New York City and nationally. A pioneer of supportive housing, Ellen founded Broadway Housing Communities, then known as the Committee for the Heights-Inwood Homeless, in 1983. Under Ellen’s leadership, this nonprofit community-based organization has developed and manages seven buildings in Washington Heights and West Harlem; two early childhood centers; three community art galleries; and a new cultural institution, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. BHC’s model provides permanent, affordable housing that integrates the formerly homeless, those with special needs and the working poor, single adults, seniors, and families with children; urgently needed early childhood education and educational advocacy services; and remarkable access to the arts; to improve outcomes for children, families, and entire communities. 

Alaina Simone is an art consultant who has produced and curated over thirty exhibitions, artist talks and educational programming across the Caribbean, Europe and the U.S. with leading contemporary artists, including Sir Frank Bowling RA, Ed Clark, and Howardena Pindell. Simone’s practice is informed by her work as a gallerist and artist liaison for international artists, collections and institutions. Simone was the Director of the Merton D. Simpson Gallery from 2011-2015, the oldest African-American owned gallery in the United States. Established in 1954 by collector, artist, and musician Merton D. Simpson, the gallery was dedicated to Modern, Contemporary and Traditional Art of the African Diaspora. Simone’s devotion to community-based projects and arts education continues through her directorship with the Alaina Simone Incorporated and Alaina Simone Productions LLC. She is a founding board member of Verbier 3-D Foundation Sculpture Park and Residency in Switzerland. Simone lives and works in New York City.

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Image: Combinations exhibition entryway, photo by Timothy Lee.