Upcoming Visual Arts Events at JCAL
Jamaica Center for, we're pleased to present our Visual Arts events here at JCAL. This Friday, we're opening a new exhibition, curated by William Bentley, entitled "Press Fast Forward". Join us for the free opening reception on April 24, at 6pm!
Also, check out our other Visual Arts events below.
Press Fast Forward
Exhibition Opening Reception
April 24, 6pm
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Meet the artists and view spectacular artwork on display! Curated by William Bentley, Press Fast Forward explores the artists' imagination and recollection of their past alongside their vision of the future in an age of technological acceleration. Through framed, two-dimensional works, the exhibit reflects on how technology moves at lightning speed, shifting from analog to digital, from dream to reality, inviting artist to consider its profound impact on communication, creativity and culture.
Juneteenth at JCAL Presents:
Under a Plaintain Tree
Exhibition Opening Reception
June 19 6pm
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Join us for the Juneteenth opening of the Under a Plaintain Tree exhibit, curated by Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa!
Beneath the broad, sheltering leaves of the plantain tree—a diasporic archive rooted across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Black Atlantic—liberation is neither singular nor complete. It is iterative, fugitive, and unfinished. Juneteenth marks not a moment of arrival, but a delayed recognition: freedom announced after its supposed decree, conditions that remain beyond emancipation.
In this space, the works of Ronald “EFE” Ramirez, Jeffrey Merris, Zion Estrada, Laurena Finéus, and Luis Gutierrez gather as notes—partial, resonant, and ongoing. Under the plantain tree, we to sit with the incompleteness of emancipation—to understand freedom as something lived in the shadow of its delay, and still, insisted upon.
Juneteenth at JCAL Presents:
A Screening of The Inkwell
June 19, 7 pm
153-10 Jamaica Avenue
Join us for a celebration of black joy with a free screening of the underrated film, The Inkwell! The film will be followed by an interactive Q&A. The Inkwell is a romantic comedy, coming-of-age film starring Larenz Tate, Jada Pinkett Smith, Morris Chestnut, Glynn Turman, and much more!
About the film: A shy, troubled young man is sent to an iconic black enclave in Martha's Vineyard, where he finds himself in the middle of his political-arguing, party-loving family and his love torn between two girls.