Community & Education

  • Through a series of partnerships with organizations in New York City, Kasmin’s community and education programs provide events, workshops, and fellowships to a diverse range of local audiences. Encouraging engagement with our exhibitions and fostering access to academic resources, activity space, and artmaking materials, these free, public offerings aim to contribute to an enrichment of our industry’s—and city’s—ecosystem. We welcome solicitations from organizations looking to expand their reach by partnering with art galleries. For more information, contact info@kasmingallery.com.
  • Children's Museum of the Arts
    CMA x Kasmin Kids at the exhibition vanessa german: Sad Rapper, 2022

    Children's Museum of the Arts

    Kasmin Kids was launched in 2022 in partnership with the Children's Museum of the Arts (CMA). A program of family-focused events at the gallery runs year-round and includes educational walkthroughs of exhibitions as well as art making workshops that draw on themes from the exhibitions to encourage exploratory and experimental creative processes.

    In 2023, CMA and Kasmin hosted a public forum titled SUMMER SCHOOL: Where Does Arts Education Happen? The event invited arts educators and voices from across the city's arts organizations for an open discussion around new models for creative education in New York.

    Kasmin shares Children's Museum of the Arts' mission to unite children and artists in the creation of ambitious works of art, and to bring these to their communities and the wider public. Born out of an artist's SoHo studio in 1988, Children's Museum of the Arts has built a living collection of over 2,000 works by children from over fifty countries dating back nearly a century, while connecting young New Yorkers to art and artists.

  • Artistic Noise
    Members of the Artistic Noise team at the Kasmin benefit auction, 2023.

    Artistic Noise

    Kasmin established an ongoing partnership with Harlem-based nonprofit Artistic Noise in 2022. Led by Executive Director Calder Zwicky, the organization creates art making and entrepreneurial experiences for young people whose lives have been impacted by the juvenile court system. Kasmin’s Executive Director Eric Gleason sits on the organization’s board.

    In April 2023, Kasmin launched an online auction in collaboration with Artsy in support of Artistic Noise. Work by over thirty participating artists was installed in the gallery space at 509 West 27th Street, raising over $100,000 for future programming.

    Since 2001, Artistic Noise has created arts programming in collaboration with thousands of young people who have been impacted by the juvenile court system, probationary system, shelter system, foster care system, and more. Their programming creates transformative spaces where court-involved and system-involved young people can be seen, heard, and supported on their pathways to adulthood. Working within a number of different settings, from detention facilities to diversionary and preventative programs, their workshops create opportunities to explore identities, experiences, and complex socio-political issues in a safe and structured, creative environment. Consisting of artists, educators, activists, art therapists, and a community of gifted young people, Artistic Noise holds at its core the belief that art can be a powerful tool to create real-world change and fight back against a variety of societal inequities.

  • UNHCR
    Diana Al-Hadid, Ait, 2019, bronze, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, 16 × 21 1/2 × 16 in, 40.6 × 54.6 × 40.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

    UNHCR

    In 2021, Kasmin partnered with the United Nations to host the USA for UNHCR Art and Resilience Benefit Auction featuring work by over 50 participating artists including Diana Al-Hadid, Yinka Shonibare, John Akomfrah, Naama Tsabar, Sheree Hovsepian, Isaac Julien, Tala Madani, and Huma Bhabha, among others.

    USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, serves vulnerable people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict and persecution. USA for UNHCR helps refugees survive, provides hope for recovery and prepares them for independence in a new and permanent home. The auction was part of a collaboration with the organization's Humanitarian Coalition, a group of next generation philanthropists and business leaders who are working to further USA for UNHCR’s mission by helping raise funds and awareness. 

     

  • Gallery Climate Coalition

    Gallery Climate Coalition

    In 2022, Kasmin joined The Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), a charity founded by a voluntary group of gallerists and professionals working in the commercial arts sector as an attempt to develop a meaningful and industry-specific response to the growing climate crisis. GCC members:

    Commit to a carbon estimate using the GCC online calculator. Carry out more detailed carbon audits to monitor sources of emissions that need reducing, and track ongoing progress. 

    • Commit to implement changes in operations to reduce carbon footprints by 50% over the next ten years.

    • Reduce waste.

    • Compensate emissions by donating to companies committed to systemic change.

    • Recognise and work towards mitigating embedded climate injustice.