Calabar Gallery

Calabar Gallery Calabar Gallery showcases contemporary African Artists and African Diaspora artists globally.

Curated by Atim Annette Oton, each artist selected has work that deals with the complexities of the African experience. Based in New York City, featured artworks are inspired and influenced by black African culture globally with a focus on dynamic ideas about art and society. Work will includes paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings, pastels, prints, photographs, mixed-media works and installations.

Next Saturday, March 15 from 12pm to 2pm ✔️✔️Join us atThe Yard in Columbus Circle, NYCART STUDIO OPEN HOUSE with Linda ...
03/06/2025

Next Saturday,
March 15
from 12pm to 2pm

✔️✔️Join us at
The Yard in Columbus Circle, NYC

ART STUDIO OPEN HOUSE with Linda Lee Celestina, Ghislaine Sabiti and Gregg Vance Emery
New York City Artists In Studios at The Yard

RSVP at Eventbrite to attend, Inquiries: [email protected]

New York City Artists in Studios at The Yard curated by Atim Annette Oton features 4 artists: Gregg Vance Emery, Linda Lee Celestina, Charlotte Hailstone and Ghislaine Sabati whose studios are based at The Yard in Columbus Circle.

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. Find us at www.calabargallery.com and find our events on Eventbrite.















Next Thursday, March 13 from 6pm to 8pm ✔️✔️Join us atThe Yard in Columbus Circle, NYCART TALK with Linda Lee Celestina ...
03/06/2025

Next Thursday, March 13 from 6pm to 8pm

✔️✔️Join us at
The Yard in Columbus Circle, NYC

ART TALK with Linda Lee Celestina and Gregg Vance Emery
New York City Artists In Studios at The Yard

RSVP at Eventbrite to attend, Inquiries: [email protected]

New York City Artists in Studios at The Yard curated by Atim Annette Oton features 4 artists: Gregg Vance Emery, Linda Lee Celestina, Charlotte Hailstone and Ghislaine Sabati whose studios are based at The Yard in Columbus Circle.

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. Find us at www.calabargallery.com and find our events on Eventbrite.















Come see Art in MIDTOWN, HARLEM AND LOWER EASTSIDE✔️✔️Stop by in Midtown on Monday - Friday: 930am -530pm to see: New Yo...
03/03/2025

Come see Art in MIDTOWN, HARLEM AND LOWER EASTSIDE

✔️✔️Stop by in Midtown on Monday - Friday: 930am -530pm to see:

New York City Artists In Studios at The Yard

RSVP at Eventbrite to attend, Inquiries: [email protected]

New York City Artists in Studios at The Yard curated by Atim Annette Oton features 4 artists: Gregg Vance Emery, Linda Lee Celestina, Charlotte Hailstone and Ghislaine Sabati whose studios are based at The Yard in Columbus Circle.

✔️✔️Head to Harlem on Wednesdays, Fridays, 2pm to 8pm and every Second Saturday 1pm to 6pm to see:

FALLOU WADJE: HARLEM WORLD BAAYFALL DREAMS at Calabar Gallery at Refettorio Harlem features works by Harlem based Senegalese Artist.

Register at Eventbrite to attend, Inquiries: [email protected]

✔️✔️Head to the Lower East Side on Friday to Sunday, 12 - 6pm to see:

WHY FLOWERS BLOOM: Glass Art, Textiles, Paint and Mixed Media features three Black Women Artists: GHISLAINE SABITI, SIKA FOYER + ROSY PETRI

Register at Eventbrite to attend. Inquiries: [email protected]

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. Find us at www.calabargallery.com and find our events on Eventbrite.















Huge Thank you to Nyoka Gumbs who presented her new book:The Day After the Unemployment Runs Out: A Survival Guide for T...
02/24/2025

Huge Thank you to Nyoka Gumbs who presented her new book:

The Day After the Unemployment Runs Out: A Survival Guide for Those Facing Financial Hardship

at

The Black Women's Council NYC/Northern NJ Chapter launch.

It is a timely read.
Must purchase.

Please head to Amazon to buy a copy today: https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Unemployment-Runs-Out/dp/183556254X

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Calabar Gallery congratulates and celebrates launch of the NYC/Northern Jersey Chapter of The Black Women's Council. th...
02/24/2025

Calabar Gallery congratulates and celebrates launch of the NYC/Northern Jersey Chapter of The Black Women's Council. this Sunday, 2/23/2025





Join us for the launch of The Black Women's Council: NYC-Northern NJ Chapter.Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3pm - 5pmRSVP at...
02/17/2025

Join us for the launch of The Black Women's Council: NYC-Northern NJ Chapter.

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3pm - 5pm

RSVP at Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-black-womens-council-new-york-city-northern-new-jersey-chapter-tickets-1232348089309

The Black Women's Council is a collective of black women across the nation and throughout the world to celebrate our shared experiences, exchange expertise, and provide mutual support through collaborative initiatives.

3:00pm: Launch and Introduction

The event features the work of two Black Women Authors.

3:30pm: New Self-Help Guide Empowers Readers to Overcome Financial Hardship. Author Nyoka Gumbs Launches, The Day After the Unemployment Runs Out:A Survival Guide for Those Facing Financial Hardship

4:00pm: Award-winning brewmaster, Celeste Beatty, the first Black woman to own a U.S. brewery for a Book Talk featuring her new cookbook, "Harlem Brew Soul." Learn about the fascinating history of beer and its cultural significance, while exploring the creative ways beer has been used in cooking and community traditions.

4:30pm: Networking and Closing

Calabar Gallery features WHY FLOWERS BLOOM: Glass Art, Textiles, Paint and Mixed Media features three Black Women Artists: GHISLAINE SABITI, SIKA FOYER + ROSY PETRI










Jaymes Jorsling, current Calabar Gallery art resident at coLab Arts is hard at work. He is working with The Lost Souls P...
01/31/2025

Jaymes Jorsling, current Calabar Gallery art resident at coLab Arts is hard at work.

He is working with The Lost Souls Public Memorial Project

Jaymes is in residency until May 5. Upcoming Open House, Studio visits and work are available, contact Calabar Gallery at [email protected]

DEADLINE:
FEBRUARY 28, 2025

CALL FOR BLACK ARTISTS
BASED IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY

FOR THE CALABAR GALLERY ART RESIDENCY AT COLAB ARTS

MAY 2025 TO NOVEMBER 2025

DEADLINE: February 28, 2025

Calabar Gallery Art Residency is a Social Justice Residency for emerging and mid-career Black Artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research based work and a competitive program designed by curator Atim Annette Oton to provide artists time and space to produce new work at coLAB Arts in New Brunswick on a particular topic and pedagogy on Black lives globally and socially engaging New Brunswick residents and community.

Apply: Send a PDF portfolio of work & a statement on social justice as it relates to your work or send us a google drive link with 10 images of work with details: title, year, medium, size and a short bio with a list of exhibitions, website, Facebook and Instagram to [email protected]

Our Art Advisors:

Jeanne Brasile, Artist and Former Director, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall Gallery

Midori Yoshimoto, Professor and Gallery Director, NJCU

Halima Taha, Curator, Art & Culture Strategist and author of Collecting African American Art Works

Elizabeth Keithline, Artist and Former Exhibitions Director, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM)

Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Director, Pigment International

Eto Otitigbe, Artist/MFA Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College's Sculpture Dept

Calabar Gallery represents underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. Visit calabargallery.com

coLAB Arts engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. Visit colab-arts.org |

Next upNew York City Artists In Studios at The Yard Opens January 306pm to 8pm January 30th, 2025 to April 25th, 2025 RS...
01/27/2025

Next up

New York City Artists In Studios at The Yard

Opens January 30
6pm to 8pm

January 30th, 2025
to April 25th, 2025

RSVP at Evebtbrite
Inquiries: [email protected]

New York City Artists in Studios at The Yard curated by Atim Annette Oton features 4 artists: Gregg Vance Emery, Linda Lee Celestina, Charlotte Hailstone and Ghislaine Sabati whose studios are based at The Yard in Columbus Circle. Their artwork defines stories and journeys of discovery, commitment and joy about the ideas, process of creating art from paintings, collages, mixed media to glass in the city they live and work.

Artists:

Gregg Vance Emery was born and raised in Bombay, NY. The works and the world of Gregg Emery are inherently imperfect: purposefully paradoxical marriages between simplicity and complexity, clarity and confusion.

Linda Lee Celestina is a Chinese-Korean abstract expressionist artist and economist, born in culturally vibrant Shanghai and currently based in New York. Known for her dynamic use of bold colors, rich textures, and mixed media, she creates evocative works that explore the depths of human emotion and experience.

Charlotte Hailstone is a New York-based color field painter and curator. Her practice extends from her career in Graphic Design, drawing on formal composition and color perception, merging the aesthetic rigor of design with the intuitive mark-making of painting. Her work explores polarity, perception, and the interplay of light through the lens of girlhood and evolving identity.

Ghislaine Sabiti is an interdisciplinary French American Congolese-born artist, a painter, costume designer, and flame worker.

Atim Annette Oton runs Calabar Gallery in New York and is Curator, The Yard at Columbus Circle. At The Yard, we collaborate directly with local curators and galleries to support talented artists in each city. Through our Art Program, we showcase rotating seasonal exhibitions at all our coworking spaces. 

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.

AVAILABLETwiga Malishoni, 2015 by Ronnie Ogwang, Acrylic on Canvas, 27.55 x 25.59 inches Ronnie Ogwang was born in 984 i...
01/25/2025

AVAILABLE

Twiga Malishoni, 2015 by Ronnie Ogwang, Acrylic on Canvas, 27.55 x 25.59 inches 

Ronnie Ogwang was born in 984 in Kampala, Uganda. He went to Makerere University where he graduated in Industrial Arts and Design. Although he majored in painting, graphic design and photography, he has been known for his paintings. His works and mainly in acrylic paint, he paints in very opulent colors and with a lot of texture. 

Head to bid at calabargallery.com/auctions

EAST ART AUCTION is a curated auction of the work of artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda. Led by New York based CALABAR GALLERY, this online on showcases about 20 artworks.

January 20th - January 26th, 2025

Bid at calabargallery.com/auctions

Register for the auction at calabargallery.com/my-account

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.






















Stronger Together, 2018 by Ronnie Ogwang, Acrylic on Canvas, 35.43 x 35.43 inchesAVAILABLERonnie Ogwang was born in 984 ...
01/22/2025

Stronger Together, 2018 by Ronnie Ogwang, Acrylic on Canvas, 35.43 x 35.43 inches
AVAILABLE

Ronnie Ogwang was born in 984 in Kampala, Uganda. He went to Makerere University where he graduated in Industrial Arts and Design. Although he majored in painting, graphic design and photography, he has been known for his paintings. His works and mainly in acrylic paint, he paints in very opulent colors and with a lot of texture. 

Head to bid at calabargallery.com/auctions

EAST ART AUCTION is a curated auction of the work of artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda. Led by New York based CALABAR GALLERY, this online on showcases about 20 artworks.

January 20th - January 26th, 2025

Bid at calabargallery.com/auctions

Register for the auction at calabargallery.com/my-account

CALABAR GALLERY represents and exhibits underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.






















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56 East 1st Street
New York, NY
10003

Opening Hours

Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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+16469645062

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