“Kinetic Kin” Garden Exhibition Opening Reception During Trans Art Fest

Join us for the opening festivities for our outdoor garden exhibition, part of Trans Art Fest!

Join us for the opening festivities of Neptune in June’s outdoor garden exhibition as part of Trans Art Fest! In conjunction with openings nearby at Textile Arts Center & Puffin Foundation Brooklyn. Featuring live music, snacks, performance art, and resident chickens!

Opening Reception: April 18 (2-5 pm)
Rain date April 19 (2-5 pm)
RSVP for the earliest email notification in the case that the event is switched to our rain date. All info and updates regarding related events at https://www.neptuneinjune.com/events/transartfest-2026

On View April 18 – May 30, 2026
Warren St Marks Community Garden
623 Warren Street, between b/w 4th & 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Open hours depend on volunteer availability. The garden strives to keep its gates open Sat-Sun, 9a-6p, and is often open at other times during the week, especially afternoons and early evenings in good weather.

Kinetic Kin features work by 17 trans artists spanning ceramics, metalwork, fiber, assemblage, resin sculpture, installation, and panel painting. The exhibition follows in the long history of gardens serving as queer sanctuaries, as rendezvous points and action organizing hubs, and as an evolving source of coded language—claimed and reclaimed. The queer garden stands as a utopia of tended, though unbridled, growth and commingling.

Intimate and large-scale sculptures, campy imagery, and playful installations find a beatific home amongst the fruit trees, blossoms, and chickens at WSM garden. Including work by Earth Ængel, Hannah Apuzzo, Goldfinch Bolton, Sofia Klimkowski Arango, Cynthia Chang, Lily Erb, Hex Geissinger, Morgan King, Ren Liu, Sky Maggiore, Brezaja Monet, Crater Powers, SK Reed, Liv Sciford, Faye Thompson, Bea Willemsen, and DW Zinsser.

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TRANS ART FEST is a festival dedicated to supporting, connecting, and celebrating trans artists. The event works to:

• Celebrate trans art and artists in galleries, art spaces, and streets
• Connect trans artists to NYC audiences, patrons, gallerists, and to each other
• Provide event space, promotion, and opportunities for trans artists
• Infuse NYC with more trans art & culture
• Connect trans artists of all kinds to each other to strengthen the web of community both within and beyond the art world

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Neptune in June (formerly Ice Cream Social art space) is a nomadic curatorial & community project originally based in Port Chester, NY. It offers exhibitions and interdisciplinary events across the U.S., and provides educational programs to schools throughout Westchester. It is also a co-founder and organizer of the Port Chester Arts Festival. Neptune in June connects artists across geographic and professional silos who are making ambitious, personally meaningful work that typically falls outside commercial art market interests.