Join us at Alice Austen House for complimentary refreshments and family memberships as we kick off NYC's The People’s Money! New Yorkers ages 11+ can help decide city budget priorities in their borough. Idea sessions across the city will turn into ballot proposals, with winning projects set for launch in July 2025. Spread the word using our digital toolkit and make your voice heard!

Join AAH educators for a 90-minute workshop at the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! Dive into mid-century vernacular photos to craft fresh narratives and meanings. Bring your own photos or select from ours. Each participant will leave with a mini zine featuring their creations. Don’t miss this creative opportunity!

Set sail with your creative side! Join us for a ferry ride to Staten Island, capture stunning Polaroid shots, and explore the St. George neighborhood. Stick around for a fun zine-making workshop after the walk—bring your own camera or rent one from the Alice Austen House!

Organized by Staten Island’s first LGBTQ+ Latinx group, L’unicorns, Fiesta Pride is an event dedicated to honoring the rich diversity and history of the LGBTQ+ community. Enjoy amazing performances, music and community partnership from 1-5pm on the Alice Austen House waterfront lawn.

If you want to learn how to self-interpret your aura, join the Spring session of our new seasonal workshop Subtle Bodies: Self-Reflection Through Aura Photography from 12pm-1:30pm.

The Family Pride Picnic will take place at the Alice Austen House on Staten Island, and will be a day of fun-filled activities for K-5 students and families of New York City Public Schools!

*This event is open to NYCPS K-5 students and their parents and caregivers only*

Bring your chairs, picnic blankets and ice for your pugs!

The AAH and Pug Dog Club of NY present and educational fundraiser for all types with food, activities and the infamous pug costume contest.

children and under are free!

Learn to use a flatbed scanner to create unique high resolution digital collages of 2D and 3D objects. Scanners are a useful tool when working with found photographs and ephemera. In this workshop, guests are encouraged to experiment with provided materials and welcome to bring small printed photographs from their own archive as well. Participants will receive digital files of their scanned work. Physical prints of work also available for small materials fee.

WHAT IS AN AURA PHOTOGRAPH?

Developed by Guy Coggins in the 1970’s, an aura photograph is created by attaching an instant film camera to two electrode hand plates containing physiological sensors. Through the meridian points in a person’s hands, these plates sense the vibrational frequency they radiate. That frequency is then matched to a corresponding color through an algorithm in the camera. The image produced is a double exposure of the subject and the colored electricity of their body.

In honor of Alice’s birthday on St. Patrick’s Day, our March walk will take place in Moravian Cemetery where Alice is buried.

The walk will meander through Staten Island’s oldest cemetery with a stop to visit the Austen family plot. Led by AAH educator Kristen Bartley, we will also discuss and challenge the commonly held beliefs in photo circles that photographing in cemeteries is cliché or a “no no” and look at contemporary artists making interesting work within them.

Join the Alice Austen House and Ann Shelton for the opening of Shelton’s worm, root, wort… & bane exhibition of photographs and sculptural work. Light refreshments will be provided, no registration necessary.

Shelton’s artist book and exhibition catalogue co-published by the Alice Austen House and Rim Books will be available for signing and purchase.

Join us before the walk at 11am at the museum for coffee and community time, where Jeanne will share how we can apply this meditative walking practice to our photo making. The walk will depart from the museum at noon.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Alice Austen House with singles and couples Aura portraits, make your own valentine, a Victorian Puzzle Purse Workshop and more!

For our first walk of the New Year, we will be revisiting Brady’s Pond, a hidden pond we explored during the height of summer to observe how the landscape has changed over multiple seasons. Walk leader, AAH Education & Visitor Services Manager, Kristen Bartley will talk about revisiting a place over time and how that can develop into a long term photo project.

JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL VINTAGE CAMERA DAY WITH A FULL PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES CONNECTING US WITH THE DYNAMIC HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Join us on the opening day of the exhibition, ‘Heap-O-Livin’ November 4th from 1 – 4 PM where we will be joined by the curator of the Lora Webb Nichols archive, Nicole Jean Hill, and Heap-O-Livin’ resident Nancy Anderson for light refreshments.

Explore NYC's Parks & Gardens: Join James Prochnik for a journey into iconic photography by artists like Alice Austen and Diane Arbus. After the talk, let's hit The Alice Austen House and Museum grounds, capturing our unique visions of urban paradise. Get inspired, get clicking!

The ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE will be hosting a booksale/book swap event with books and artist zines.

- Antique books for sale

- Scrapbooking

- Book binding

National Coming Out Day celebrates the act of coming out as LGBTQIA+ to family and friends as a form of activism. The date—National Coming Out Day is officially observed on October 11—commemorates the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

The Alice Austen House, nationally designated site of LGBTQ+ history, will host a virtual reading celebrating the legacy of Audre Lorde’s teaching. Former students of Lorde’s Hunter College program will read their poetry and share memories of their time in Lorde’s literature program.

📸 Step back in time with photographer and educator James Prochnik in a lively walking tour through NYC's iconic parks and gardens. Discover the captivating history that drew visionaries like Alice Austen to these green landscapes, as you explore the very spots that ignited their creativity. With engaging anecdotes, you'll uncover how past photographers shaped the city's narrative one snapshot at a time.

Learn about the benefits of eating wild plants on a short foraging walk throughout the Alice Austen House Meadow. Then, craft wildflower crowns with Aly Stoffo of Glam Gardener NYC.

This is a great workshop for people that love the outdoors, local history, and want to connect with nature by using primitive skills like gardening, foraging, plant identification and natural crafting.

Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history, and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry.

Step back in time with photographer and educator James Prochnik in a lively walking tour through NYC's iconic parks and gardens. Discover the captivating history that drew visionaries like Alice Austen to these green landscapes, as you explore the very spots that ignited their creativity. With engaging anecdotes, you'll uncover how past photographers shaped the city's narrative one snapshot at a time.

Join us for a guided birding walk on the Alice Austen House grounds led by the NYC Queer Birders Group followed by an LGBTQ+ focused tour of the museum and gardens.

August's Photowalk will be a saunter through quaint neighborhood streets, ending at a tucked away pond. Did you know Staten Island is the borough with the most ponds? It is also the borough with the last remaining freshwater pond suitable for swimming, Brady’s Pond. While most of the pond is private, we will be exploring the northeast corner of the pond, Brady’s Pond Park.

Hip to Hip Theater Co. returns to the Alice Austen House for a free performance of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Double trouble is double the fun! Two pairs of long-lost twins end up in the same small town. Delight in the confusion as mistaken identities and goofy hijinks mount until chaos reigns. Spoiler alert: this one has a happy ending.

Learn about the benefits of eating wild plants on a short foraging walk throughout the Alice Austen House Meadow. Then, craft natural plant-infused bug repellent with Aly Stoffo of Glam Gardener NYC.

Meet us at LGBTQ+ historical monument Alice Austen House for a Let’s Go Birding Together (LGBT) outing this Pride! Right on Staten Island’s eastern coast, Alice Austen Park provides a beautiful view of The Narrows, where may also find different species of waterbirds.