The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition, Transformative Impact, on May 28, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Longwood Art Gallery, now located at BCA Headquarters (2700 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461). Curated by BCA’s Gallery Director Lucia Warck-Meister, Transformative Impact is a group exhibition featuring four contemporary Bronx artists, Maya Ciarrocchi, Ghislaine Sabiti, dan keith williams, and Natalie C. Wood, who engage with their communities through socially and environmentally conscious art making.
Transformative Impact is part of the 2025 Longwood Art Gallery season titled The World We Want To Live In, which examines art’s role in social and political movements—not only raising awareness but catalyzing public discourse and bringing new audiences into activism. The act of imagining alternate ways of being is the beginning of creating the many worlds we want to live in.
The artists in Transformative Impact work across a wide range of mediums, including glassblowing, painting, video, performance, and terrarium-based work, to confront urgent issues, such as environmental migration, gender equality, and systemic injustice, transforming creative practice into a catalyst for awareness, dialogue, and meaningful change.
Ghislaine Sabiti weaves glass, print, and found wooden boards into a meditation on motherhood, the evolving spirit of womanhood, and the poetry of hair. Sabiti asks: Can one mother nurse through presence, through soul, through love alone? What shape does nurturing take when it transcends biology?
In dan keith williams’ works, the construct of the Black male self-undertakes a quiet excavation—tracing what is often overlooked, misread, or confined by inherited meaning. Beneath the surface of social division, the artist reveals a deeper truth—that we are bound by more than what separates us.
Maya Ciarrocchi’s LoopCurrent meditates on humanity’s impact on the Earth and the irreversible transformation of our shared future, reflecting on dramatic environmental shifts and the ways our bodies—and our perceptions—might adapt.
The resilience and adaptability of nature are at the core of Natalie C. Wood’s hybrid creatures composed of flora, fauna, and decorative elements. Her pieces explore how nature persists and adapts, even as human-made environments fall into decline.
Transformative Impact not only examines the role of art in shaping public discourse but also underscores its potential to inspire collective action toward a more just and inclusive world.
About Bronx Council On The Arts
Founded by visionary community leaders in 1962, the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is dedicated to advancing cultural equity in Bronx. From creative placemaking and arts advocacy to the provision of services for artists and arts organizations, as well as programming for children and seniors, BCA was the first organization in Bronx to focus equally on supporting local artists, serving the community, and catalyzing relationships between the two.
Since its founding, BCA has focused on the work of underrepresented groups, especially artists of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. We provide direct services to over 1,000 artists and 250 community-based arts groups each year, and thanks to our granting programs, we are able to touch the lives of over thousands of audience members.
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Bronx Council On The Arts
2700 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Tel.: 718-931-9500
E–mail: contact@bronxarts.org
