{"title": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature", "start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free (preregistration required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design", "nature/plants"], "description": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature is a guided American Sign Language tour exploring the patterns, shapes, and colors of tropical plants. Artist and designer Trevor Baldwin leads participants in recognizing specific patterns among the plants in Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Conservatory, drawing parallels with the fashions of Iris van Herpen. An outdoor seasonal highlights tour follows, expanding the observation of patterns and building an interactive nature vocabulary. The program is designed for the d/Deaf community, and some portions are without voice interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-artist-talk-patterns-and-shapes-in-nature-79181/", "official_url": "https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/asl_artist_talk_patterns_and_shapes_in_nature", "image": "https://noky.io/images/772f00265c74bdb75ae17cf595537bdf2ecabaf1b3d33b3e7518f261b859346a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Plant Ecologies and Migration", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Residency Unlimited", "address": "360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/plants", "society/migration"], "description": "Plant Ecologies and Migration is a panel discussion hosted at Residency Unlimited as part of Identity Card, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, 2026. Curated by Anna Khimasia, it brings together artists Bahar Behbahani, Rachelle Dang, and Sujin Lim. The panel explores how immigrant and diasporic artists use plants and gardens as a framework and vocabulary for thinking through migration, from transplantation and adaptation to rooting and preservation. It also considers how botanical categories such as \"native\" and \"invasive\" mirror systems that regulate the movement of people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/plant-ecologies-and-migration-55316/", "official_url": "https://residencyunlimited.org/programs/plant-ecologies-and-migration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc96eee51c501ecdfa7c6b53fbcb7e30f4599841474af05f12cc255b0ab5b64-600.webp"}, {"title": "Drawing for Absolute Beginners: Botanicals", "start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:30:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "$50 ($45 for members)", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "nature/plants"], "description": "A beginner art class called Drawing for Absolute Beginners: Botanicals, offered by Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Taught by instructor Nan Carey, it starts with observation as the first step in drawing, helping students understand the structure of a flower or plant. Participants learn to draw a floral specimen using a step-by-step method that incorporates perspective and detail. Students provide their own supplies, for which a materials list is given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drawing-for-absolute-beginners-botanicals-79180/", "official_url": "https://www.bbg.org/classes/drawing_for_absolute_beginners_botanicals", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d787cd19e41a758d3353bddb2955343a751eeb51d2a7ab643ff963b46485b9b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Koichi Takada and Daniella Ohad: Design, Nature, and the Future", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "$25 general, $20 members", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/sustainability", "art/architecture"], "description": "A talk at the Museum of Arts and Design exploring design, sustainability, and architectural culture through a conversation between architect Koichi Takada and design historian Daniella Ohad. The dialogue draws on Takada's second monograph, Koichi Takada: Naturalizing Architecture, which presents his nature-led architecture as a regenerative model for the future. Copies of the book will be sold at The Store at MAD, with a signing by Takada after the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/koichi-takada-and-daniella-ohad-design-nature-and-the-future-54036/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/koichi-takada-and-daniella-ohad-design-nature-and-future", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99206882eb5bf5ce0c9c6814b33f4114ebeb6cf5704d620263e4f4bbaaf8aa54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Whitney Signs: Roy Lichtenstein and Screenprinting Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "An in-person ASL tour of the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New followed by a screenprinting workshop, with a wine and cheese reception afterward. The tour is led by Deaf educator Gina Marciona, and the workshop is run with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a co-operative printmaking workspace open to artists of every skill level. The program is Deaf-priority; advance registration is required and it is not open to ASL students. Participants meet in the Hearst Artspace on Floor 3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/whitney-signs-roy-lichtenstein-and-screenprinting-workshop-75753/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/whitney-signs-lichtenstein", "image": ""}, {"title": "Teen ArtsLab: Design in Motion", "start": "2026-11-06T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "Free for high school students (ages 13–18) with a valid school ID", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/printmaking/screen-printing"], "description": "Teen ArtsLab: Design in Motion is a hands-on workshop at the Museum of Arts and Design where teens experiment with low-tech screen printing to make their own custom tote bags and T-shirts. It is led by 2023 Artist in Residence Jacquelyn Strycker and is inspired by the movement, patterns, and design featured in the exhibition Nike: Form Follows Motion. Using hand-cut stencils, tape, and screen fillers, participants explore layering, repetition, and pattern to develop original designs. No prior screen-printing experience is necessary, and registration is required in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/teen-artslab-design-in-motion-54034/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/teen-artslab-design-motion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8acb94ee82e4c9ac013936063a7a90c28c2e877ee569b0d378e418180c79102-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "nature"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, on view as the first chapter of a multi-year initiative, showing process materials from a new commission alongside related works from the Museum's permanent collection. It centers on artist Saya Woolfalk's WoodsWoman, a mythic botanist-healer who inhabits her 'Empathic Universe,' an imagined utopian future in which humans and nature exist in harmony. Woolfalk applied this lens to the Museum's holding of nearly 2,000 objects, selecting works by artists such as Huma Bhabha, Robert Blackburn, Abigail DeVille, and Martin Wong that explore the cosmos, human-nature relationships, speculative worlds, and collective storytelling. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with Eileen Jeng Lynch, also works as a laboratory, with programming that invites audiences into Woolfalk's creative process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saya-woolfalk-the-woodswoman-method-51514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71be0b1d8b81334cfebdbdd189b8fae5495167971002e32f2c8e8f51c576e304-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Van Cortlandt Nature Group Walk", "start": "2026-11-11T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T15:30:00-05:00", "place": "Van Cortlandt Park Alliance", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["nature"], "description": "Van Cortlandt Nature Group Walk is a slow nature walk through Van Cortlandt Park led by naturalist Debbi Dolan, who introduces participants to the park's local flora and fauna. The Van Cortlandt Park Alliance runs the walk, which explores how nature is active in the fall, with bird migrations, changing leaves, and animals preparing to hibernate. Walkers can 'leaf peek' at oaks, hickories, sugar maples and tulip trees changing color and look for new bird arrivals such as the white throated sparrow and the dark eyed juncos feeding on seeds, nuts and berries. This walk meets in the parking lot of the Riverdale Stables and follows the trails of the park's Northwest Woods.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/van-cortlandt-nature-group-walk-67435/", "official_url": "https://vancortlandt.org/event/van-cortlandt-nature-group-walk-12/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8db7cec04a443cb56058bc4f588626346e9f2e5c7ccdc1dc97dfecf065968f6f-1200.webp"}]}