2025 MFA Open Studios / Open Fields

An Open Fields brochure next to an Open Studios brochure for 11/8/2025 Open Studios / Open Fields event hosted by Pratt Fine Arts. The Open Fields brochure has a medium to light gradient
Photo by Dahlia Dandashi
Lo Smith, wearing a green robe with fur collar, short hair, and a big smile, with two helpers at their feet assisting with arranging their dress. A visitor watches to the right of the photo frame.
Lo Smith, MFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’26, looking out of their studio with visitors, photo by Dylan Bosch
An artist explains their work to two visitors.
Representatives of Residency Unlimited, including RU intern and BFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’26 Tingyu Xu (left), speak with Wei Yuan Wang, MFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’26, photo by Dylan Bosch
Photo out the window of a Dock 72 MFA studio, overlooking the East River. A painting leans agains the window toward the left of the frame.
Photo by Dahlia Dandashi

Pratt Fine Arts MFA presents Open Studios / Open Fields, a day that celebrates both artistic practice and the resources that sustain it. Visitors are invited to explore MFA studios and a pop-up exhibition, while also engaging with nonprofit organizations offering residencies and grants, as well as advocacy groups. Together, these two events create a unique ecosystem: a chance to experience works-in-progress firsthand and to access the networks that help artists thrive.

MFA Open Studios

Engage directly with MFA artists and get an inside look at works in progress! MFA artists work across painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, installation, social practice, and interdisciplinary forms, guided by a diverse faculty of practicing artists, scholars, and curators.

A group of visitors in an MFA studio at Dock 72, speaking to the artist, who is wearing a mask. The wall behind them has different 2D works posted on them up to the ceiling.
Havi Peterson, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’27, in their studio speaking to visitors, photo by Dylan Bosch
Two visitors look at a large abstract painting in a brightly-lit gallery at Dock 72. Next to the large painting is a small black and grey work. In the foreground are cropped sculptures.
Photo by Dylan Bosch
A blurred figure wearing all black walks toward the left of the frame in front of artwork hanging on the walls. The works left to right are a small blue-colored panel, an all-white square work, and a colorful abstracted painting.
Julie Huh, MFA Fine Arts (Painting & Drawing) ’26, walks in front her artwork installed in the 2025 MFA Pop-Up Show, photo by Dylan Bosch
A group of visitors speaks with an MFA artist in their studio at Dock 72. In front of the group is a chain installed wall-to-wall.
Gijin Park, MFA Fine Arts (Integrated Practices) ’27, speaks to visitors, photo by Dylan Bosch

Open Fields: An Artist Resource Fair

A group of people in a gallery bay at Dock 72. The left table is covered in a black tablecloth and a large, colorful banner hangs on the wall behind it. The table to the right of it is covered in an orange tablecloth and an orange vertical banner stands next to it. The cropped table toward the right foreground is draped in a light purple tablecloth. All tables are at least partially obscured by standing visitors.
Visitors speak with representatives from (L-R) The Fortune Society, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Recess at Open Fields, Photo by Dahlia Dandashi

Open Fields brings together a dynamic cross-section of organizations—ranging from artist residencies and grant-giving foundations to maker spaces, advocacy groups, and alternative exhibition venues—creating a platform for connection, visibility, and support for artists.

Participating organizations: Artadia, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Dieu Donné, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fortune Society, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Laundromat Project, NARS Foundation, Project for Empty Space, Recess, Residency Unlimited, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Silver Art Projects, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Wassaic Project.

Public Programming

Closed double doors, entrance to the Dock 72 Fine Arts Performance Lab. On the left door is a light purple to medium purple poster with a program schedule for Open Fields. Through the other door, seated audience members can be seen.
Photo by Dahlia Dandashi
Shot from among the audience of an Open Fields panel, with backs of audience members' heads and partial view of the slide with the panel topic and speakers "Big Idea: how do artists sustain community-engaged practices?"
Photo by Dahlia Dandashi

Open Fields’ programming invites attendees to engage directly with experts in the field on how artists build and sustain their practices through studio work, community engagement, resource networks, and alternative models of support.

  • Residencies & Resources: Building Your Practice Through Supportive Structures (12:30–1:30 PM)
    • Moderated by Jane South, Chair of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute
    • Shaun Leonardo, Co-Director, Socrates Sculpture Park
    • Alexandra Unthank, Director, EFA Studios
    • Jasmine Wahi, Founder and Co-Director, Project for Empty Space
  • Funding Your Practice: Grants, Alternatives, and Insider Advice (2:00–3:30 PM)
    • Moderated by Jennie Tang, Fine Arts Department Coordinator, Pratt Institute
    • Arantxa Araujo, Program Manager, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
    • Bora Kim, Program Director, Artadia
    • Ayesha Williams, Executive Director, The Laundromat Project
  • Big Idea: How do artists sustain community-engaged practices? (4:00–5:00 PM)
    Organized by MoMA’s Public Engagement Department
    • Moderated by Leonardo Bravo, Director of Public Engagement, MoMA
    • DonChristian Jones, artist, musician, director
    • Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, artist

Open Studios/Open Fields is organized in collaboration and with support from MoMA’s Public Engagement Department.

A group of people stand looking at an object toward the back of a studio. Front left wears a light t-shirt and white pants, the other two visitors wear dark clothing.
Montaysia Sims, MFA Fine Arts (Painting & Drawing) ’27, speaking to visitors in the studio, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
A woman wearing glasses, a scarf, and a blazer points to an artwork installed wall-to-wall across an MFA open studio. The walls are all covered in beige. The artwork is sculptural objects on a rod.
Pratt Institute Chair of Fine Arts Jane South points toward a work by Tanvi Shaha, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’26, in the studio, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
A young Black man wearing headphones, a hat, black t-shirt, and paint-covered paints, holds up two peace signs.
Qudir Ayodele, MFA Fine Arts (Painting & Drawing ’26), photo by Dylan Bosch
Hands and two pairs of legs can be seen seated across from each other, obscured by red drapes.
Nawon Kim, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’26, and a visitor inside an art installation by Kim, photo by Dylan Bosch
Visitors to Open Fields, where nonprofit arts and advocacy groups tabled to share resources and opportunities, photo by Dylan Bosch
Two people sit at a black tableclothed table with papers and pamphlets on it. The wall behind them has two vinyls that say
Representatives from Dieu Donné tabled for Open Fields, while Residency Unlimited speaks with a visitor behind them, photo by Dylan Bosch
A group of people are in front of a table where a representative of Wassaic Project is seated at a black tableclothed table in front of posters on the wall. To the left, behind the wall, a table covered with brochures and pamphlets is in front of a wall with posters. Directly to the left of the visitors is another Open Fields table.
Visitors speaking with a representative of Wassaic Project, who tabled at Open Fields, photo by Dylan Bosch
A group of visitors speak to a group of RU staff at a black tableclothed table covered in various papers and pamphlets. A row of artworks are installed on the wall behind them. More people talk in the background.
Visitors speak to representatives from Residency Unlimited while representatives from Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop share insights with visitors in the background, photo by Dylan Bosch
A black tableclothed table with myriad paper, pamphlets, and art are in front of a wall on which
The Fortune Society table at Open Fields, photo by Dylan Bosch
Photo at the entrance to the Dock 72 elevator bank. The left half of the photo is a pink wall with
Open Studios / Open Fields included a pop-up exhibition of MFA artworks in the Dock 72 galleries, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
Two visitors view the 2025 MFA Pop-Up Show. The painting to the far left is a colorful, abstracted work. To the right is an abstracted work on a clear sheet and a monitor playing a time-based work, with headphones.
A brightly lit gallery with sculptures on pedestals. On the back wall are two 2D works. In the back corner is an American flag leaning against the wall with a pile of soil at the base. On the right wall is a group of stacked works between two smaller drawings.
Installation of the 2025 MFA Pop-Up Show at Dock 72. A brightly lit gallery. On the back wall is a large, diamond-shaped artwork which looks quilted in white and blues. Next to this work are smaller abstract paintings. The door to the Performance lab is open, with a poster of the Open Fields panel schedule posted. On the right wall are a small blue painting, white artwork, and colorful abstracted painting. In the center of the room, on the floor, is a grid of aluminum plates.
A group of Pratt Fine Arts MFA students in the Dock 72 galleries
A brightly lit gallery with white and light-neutral artworks on the wall and sculptures on the floor and on pedestals.

Photos by Dylan Bosch unless otherwise noted.

Past Events

  1. Pratt Fine Arts MFA Open Studios/Open Fields: An Artist Resource Fair

    November 8, 2025 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Dock 72, 1 Dock 72 Way, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 11205

    Square image featuring a geometric grid split diagonally. Top left half is black and yellow with a logo reading
Promotional poster for Open Studios/Open Fields