Artists Studio
Raven Chacon
October 7 – October 8, 2026
Veterans Room
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and visual artist, creating musical experiences that explore relationships among sound, space, and people. Born within the Navajo Nation, he has developed a practice that connects Diné (Navajo) worldviews and relationship models with Western classical, avant-garde, and art music traditions. A MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music making him the first Native American to receive this honor, his score-based creations encourage collaboration among performers and audiences and incorporate both found sounds, such as rifles, foghorns, whistles, and coins with natural elements. His unique artistry is showcased when he comes to the Veterans Room to create a new work that that cuts across boundaries of visual art and performance in his ongoing illumination of landscapes, their inhabitants, and histories.
“Chacon offers a sonic recalibration to the effects of colonization, a super corrective counterpoint to our contemporary soundscape.”
Brooklyn Rail
Dates & Tickets
Ticket Information
$45 (plus fees)
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Support
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Also in the Series
Curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, this series showcases a diverse mix of some of today’s most creative voices who have a distinct relationship to sound with a uniquely visual aesthetic. All of these artists and musicians defy categorization and blur the boundaries of performance, allowing them to freely explore their artistic sensibilities and exciting new directions in their creative practice. Realized in the Veterans Room—a monument to the American Aesthetic Movement designed by Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Associated Artists—these interventions expressly mirror the innovative spirit of the exceptional young artists present at the room’s inception.
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Artists Studio
Jason Moran
In celebration of 10 years of performances and installations by imaginative innovators that blend artistic forms, the series curator assembles an ensemble of special guests and past series performers for an evening of performance and reflection in the very space where these daring new works came to life.
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Artists Studio
Joy Guidry
This multifaceted artist creates a ruminative performance in the spirit of a Southern church revival and based on her ambient album Five Prayers, reimagining it into movements based on different themes of Black American spirituality and artistic expression, ranging from jazz and minimalism to opera, ballet, blues, and gospel.
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Artists Studio
Jamire Williams
This multidisciplinary artist creates an immersive and experimental solo percussion performance that pushes the boundaries of rhythm, texture, and memory through a dynamic interplay of acoustic instruments, vintage samplers, and analog tape machines.
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Artists Studio
IONE
This noted sound artist returns to the Veterans Room to lead a deep listening exercise—Listening with Dreams—with artistic collaborators to explore the difference between the involuntary and voluntary nature of hearing and the selective nature of listening through movement and interactive sonic meditations.