About
Offerings is a performance series at the Church of St Mary the Virgin on West 46th Street in New York City.
Offerings gathers multiple artists to share work alongside one another, providing an open space for people to gather, witness, and support one another.
Offerings asks: what do you need right now? What kinds of alongsideness are you looking for? Who do you want to be near? How do you want to use this space and time?
Offerings approaches performance as an experimental form of assembly, working with guest curators and artists to create conditions for informal presentations and processual showings.
offering (n.)
Middle English offring, from late Old English offrung "the presenting of something; a thing so presented," verbal noun from offrian "to show, exhibit; to bring an oblation.” Of presentations to a person, from mid-15c.; to the public (entertainment, a publication, items for sale, etc.), from 1834.
Curatorial Cooperative
Ro Miller / Ethan Philbrick / Leonor Mendes / Alessandra Gómez
Ethan Philbrick (he/him) is a cellist, performance artist, and writer. He holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University and has taught performance theory and practice at Pratt Institute, Muhlenberg College, New York University, Wesleyan College, Yale University, and The New School. In addition to being part of the curatorial collective at Offerings, he is also currently performance curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. He is part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS and has presented solo and collaborative performances at The Kitchen, NYU Skirball, Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Grey Art Museum. His musical performances have been called “overwhelmingly beautiful” and “extremely strange” in The Nation and his writing has been characterized as “rich and fascinating” in e-flux.
Alessandra Gómez is an independent curator based in New York. Her research focuses on the intersections of performance, visual art, and popular culture. Over the past decade, she has developed artistic programs for new organizations and facilitated more than seventy-five commissions across disciplines, including visual arts, dance, theater, performance art, and music. She is recognized for her expertise in leading and commissioning complex, large-scale artistic projects. She was previously part of the founding curatorial team at The Shed and served as Curator for the revival of Luna Luna, the world’s first art amusement park created in 1987. She has been a guest curator for Nike, Queens Museum, Columbia University’s Wallach Gallery, Center for Performance Research, Knockdown Center, and more. She currently serves as a consultant curator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Gómez holds an MA from Columbia University’s Modern & Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial studies program.
Leonor Mendes is a performance artist from Portugal, based in Lisbon and New York. She holds a masters in Performance Studies from New York University (2023) and completed Forum Dança's Advanced Creation Program in Performing Arts 5 in Lisbon (2021). As a performer she has worked with artists such as João Fiadeiro, Joan Jonas, Claudia Castellucci and Henrique Furtado Vieira. Her creations and research projects on dance and improvisation have been presented in Portugal, Brazil and the US. She was the Programs Associate at Movement Research, New York (2024) and part of the curatorial collective of Offerings. She is a Fulbright scholar (2022) and recipient of the Performance Studies Award from the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University (2023).
Ro Miller is a multi-media scent artist, writer, and organizer. They hold a master's in Performance Studies from New York University and are the assistant director of Olfactory Art Keller, a small commercial art gallery in Downtown Manhattan that focuses on multisensory art and performances incorporating fragrance. In addition to being a part of the curatorial collective at Offerings, they have helped organize olfactory performances and exhibitions throughout New York City. Their writing has been published in Aromatica Poetica and Viscose Journal.
Offerings Series is supported by the Times Square Alliance
Offerings is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Offerings must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.