November Town Hall: Visual Art
6:30 – 8:30PM
For our last Town Hall of 2025, A4 brings together visual artists and curators for an evening of community building and resource sharing.
Featured presenters include Umber Majeed, a multi-disciplinary visual artist and educator whose work engages familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. We’ll also hear from Sarah Cho, assistant curator at Queens Museum, about her approach to working with artists. Both speakers recently overlapped at the Queens Museum, where Umber Majeed’s solo show “J😊YTECH” is on view.
Additionally, the evening will feature a line-up of brief pitches from the community. After the presentations, we’ll host a potluck meal, so please bring something to share; homemade or store bought items are welcome. A4 will provide drinks.
For those who would like to continue mingling after the event, we recommend Phebe’s, across the street from the venue.
This event is FREE and open to the public. We suggest a $5 donation to go towards keeping A4’s programs free. RSVP is required to attend and/or pitch, but you do not have to pitch to attend.
For pitching guidelines and other information about A4 Town Halls, please visit our FAQ. If you have additional questions, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org.
Accessibility: Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral.
If you need any accommodations including CART Transcription, ASL interpretation, large print, or others, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before the event.
About Umber Majeed
Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist and media educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.
Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. Majeed’s solo exhibitions include; “In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present”, Rubber Factory, New York (2018) and “Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Facts about the Earth)”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (2021), “Made in Trans-Pakistan”, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022), and “JYTECH”, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2025-6).
She is a recipient of numerous fellowships including the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017), Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018), the Digital Earth Fellowship, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19), Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020), QM-Jerome Fellowship (2024), and ISCP Pollock Krasner Fellowship (2025). Majeed is currently a Y12 NEW INC member- Extended Realities Track. www.umbermajeed.com
About Sarah Cho
Sarah H. Cho (she/her) is assistant curator at the Queens Museum where she collaborates with creatives and community partners. At QM, she has curated “Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding”; “Cameron A. Granger: 9999”; “A Billion Dollar Dream: The 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair on its 60th Anniversary”; and “Abang-guard: Makibaka”, and contributed to “Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon”. Prior to the QM, she was the curatorial assistant of American art and decorative arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art where she co-curated “Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears” and contributed to “Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit”; “By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists”; “Free Form: 20th Century Studio Craft”; “Katharina Grosse: Is It You?”; “Guarding the Art”; and the American Modernism collection reinstallation. At BMA she supported the research and presentation of over 160 acquisitions for the permanent collection. Additionally, she has taught at Parsons – The New School and curated their 2024 MFA Thesis exhibition. www.sarahhelencho.com
Hosted at Magnum Foundation
Magnum Foundation expands creativity and diversity in visual storytelling, activating new audiences and ideas through the innovative use of images. Through grants, mentorship, and creative collaborations, we partner with socially engaged imagemakers exploring new models for storytelling. Since our founding in 2007 by members of the Magnum Photos cooperative, we have made more than 600 direct grants to visual storytellers from over 80 countries. To find out about upcoming exhibitions and events, learn about grant opportunities, or join our community of support, please visit magnumfoundation.org.
About A4’s Town Hall
Town Hall is A4’s bi-monthly community gathering event that features presentations, pitches, and power networking over a potluck meal. We welcome artists of all disciplines, as well as arts organizations, to share upcoming projects, find collaborators, or discover new opportunities in a lively space.