Meet the Artists: Monica Duncan, Jennifer Tobias and SuRan Song

Join us for Meet the Artists programming with Monica Duncan, Jennifer Tobias and SuRan Song and William M. Weis III, organized as part of the 2025 Sunroom Project Space season. This afternoon program will include conversations with the artists, hands-on workshops, and movement. 

12PM  
On the Glyndor Terrace Garden, SuRan Song and William William M. Weis III will activate their sculpture You’re Soaking in It! with a workshop exploring civic trust, Justice Sotomayor’s recognition of the right to sleep in public, and the Orphic philosophy of Parmenides. Inspired by their sculpture and the restored Glyndor Garden Terrace fountain, visitors are invited to create hand-sized diptychs from post-consumer packaging, inscribed with a tribute to civic trust, dreams, Parmenides, Justice Sotomayor, Glyndor Terrace Garden, or the fountain’s sounds. 

1:15 PM  
Join artist Jennifer Tobias for a conversation about her Sun Porch installation Fish Tank and a Bird Feeder Workshop, based on the corrugated cardboard used in her installation. Employing this material as an analog to steel body armor and the bony armor of prehistoric fish, participants will create simple bird house feeders out of cardboard—a kind of armor for birds. Materials include corrugated cardboard, sticks, and garden twine gathered at Wave Hill, along with nut butter and bird seed. This workshop is open to all ages and ranges of abilities. 

2:30 PM  
Join artist Monica Duncan in her Sunroom exhibition Breathing as a stone for Plant Contouring Workshop: Embodying Plants through Movement. Visitors will spend time observing the flora of Wave Hill through contour line drawings and using these drawings as maps for movement. Participants will be asked to share their scores, embody plant forms, and create collective plant choreographies in the garden. 

Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists, the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests at Wave Hill. As part of the Sunroom Project Space, this program is designed collaboratively with the artists and takes various forms. Meet the Artist offers visitors, the artist's community, and others an opportunity to gain insight into the artist's creative process and the themes present in their work

Registration encouraged but not required, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251.

Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant. The Glyndor Terrace Garden is accessible via a bluestone path that begins south of the Glyndor House entrance and continues along its western perimeter towards an ADA-compliant ramp located at the Glyndor Terrace Garden’s north entrance.