Trust for Governors Island’s vision for a potential climate change research hub
Credit: WXY architecture + urbandesign / bloomimages|Image Courtesy: "The City"
The Arts Center Residency at Governors Island (2026)
Curator Statement
Dr. Darla Migan's independent curatorial practice takes up an interdisciplinary approach to creating aesthetic experiences, wherein to philosophize also means learning from artists. In her critical practice informed by the study of Black cultural formations and her training in academic philosophy, she is guided by an ongoing concern with the racialized conditions that construct the in/visibility of art and art worlds. As a participant in the LMCC Residency on Governor’s Island, Dr. Migan will study ‘climate change' through the lens of her current research on Black disinheritance to curate an exhibition on flourishing. If ecological sustainability has long been a necessity for pre-revolutionary diasporic Africans in New York City, in the American South, and across waves of the Great Migration how are folk food ways already teaching us how to live in alignment with the earth?
