Event details
Saturday, June 7, 2025
3–6 pm

Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street
New York, New York

Free. RSVP recommended; registration opens soon.

The 2024–25 Pedagogies of Site Fellowship brought together emerging artists and educators, selected through an open call, to explore how site—understood in its material, historical, and social dimensions—can serve as a collaborator in creative and pedagogical practice. Through research sessions, site visits, and conversations with guest artists, the cohort engaged in collective inquiry grounded in Dia’s constellation of sites, using infrastructure as a lens to examine impermanence, maintenance, and the often unseen histories embedded in place. Rooted in Dia Art Foundation’s commitment to long-term engagement and learning, the fellowship centers process, reflection, and shared exploration.

The culminating exhibition and public program at Dia Chelsea present new works developed over the course of the fellowship, including installations, texts, performances, and research-based projects shaped through sustained engagement with site. These works offer a range of intimate, speculative, and expansive responses to questions that guided our inquiry: What are our perceived notions of what a site is or is not, and what surrounds a site—materially, historically, or socially—that is not always acknowledged?

The 2024–25 cohort includes Nia Bethel-Brescia, Ciera Browne, Amanda Chen, Ethan Luk, Sebastian Maseri, Cole Palatini, Malia Seva, and Karla Zurita. Artist and educator Jonathan González served as the fellowship’s mentor, bringing their choreographic and research-driven, transdisciplinary approach to support the development of each fellow’s work and the cohort’s evolving conversation.

About the fellowship program
Pedagogies of Site is a yearlong fellowship program organized by Dia Art Foundation’s Learning and Engagement department. The program invites artists, educators, and cultural practitioners to consider how place—across its geological, historical, and social dimensions—can inform and shape creative learning. Through collective inquiry, mentorship, and site-responsive practice, fellows investigate new ways of engaging with Dia’s sites and the communities around them.