Image: Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts will take its community programming beyond its own building on August 12 with ‘Meet Me At The Park: Performances by AIM Artists Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow & Asia Stewart,’ a free public event in Joyce Kilmer Park. Scheduled from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, the program is presented as part of the museum’s ‘Meet Me At The Park’ series, which the institution says began in summer 2026 as a way of expanding into the surrounding neighborhood.
The museum describes Joyce Kilmer Park as being one block south of the Bronx Museum on Grand Concourse. The event is free and open to all ages, with drop-ins welcome and optional RSVP. In the case of inclement weather, the museum says the program will move indoors to the museum itself.
Titled ‘Black August: The Political Potential of Performance,’ the program centers on performances by Lyn-Kee-Chow and Stewart that draw on traditions of Black feminist performance art and social practice. The museum’s description links the evening to themes of Black liberation, joy, and resistance. Rather than a conventional stage presentation, the event is framed as an outdoor extension of the museum’s public-engagement work in the Bronx.
Both artists are part of The Seventh AIM Biennial: ‘Forms of Connection,’ the museum’s current AIM Fellows exhibition. The museum notes that Lyn-Kee-Chow and Stewart completed its AIM Fellowship in 2024 and are currently showing work in the North Wing gallery as part of the biennial. AIM, now in its 45th year according to the museum, is described as a career-accelerator program for emerging artists based in New York City.
The Bronx Museum’s event page identifies Lyn-Kee-Chow’s installation as comprising ‘Valor & Revolt’ (2024–25) and ‘Meet Me In the Sky Parlor’ (2023). It describes those works as exploring survival and resilience, particularly through the lives of enslaved people in Jamaica, and notes that the ceramic pieces were inspired by images of 17th-century African tools. The accompanying video, ‘Meet Me in the Sky Parlor,’ depicts Lyn-Kee-Chow as Mary Williamson, an 18th-century enslaved woman.
Asia Stewart’s installation, ‘the money is in the blades’ (2025), is presented on the museum page alongside materials including a U.S. cotton flag, white aluminum flagpole, white cast aluminum bracket, galvanized steel caddy, 50 blue Gillette disposable razors, Gillette shaving cream, and a digital video. The museum says the work clarifies a conflicted relationship to the United States through destructive action that exposes patriotism’s reliance on the military-industrial complex.
The museum’s event page places the performances within a broader summer lineup of public programs tied to the AIM Biennial. The Seventh AIM Biennial: ‘Forms of Connection’ opened January 23, 2026 and is extended through September 6, 2026.
