The Vilcek Foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, New Yorkers who decades before had immigrated to the US from Czechoslovakia. The Foundation and its public gallery aim to heighten awareness of the enormous contributions of immigrants to US society.

Exhibits

The Vilcek Foundation will exhibit a premiere installation by Trinidadian-born artist Nicole Awai – “Almost Undone.” In this exhibition, Ms. Awai will utilize earlier drawings as the anchors from which their own three-dimensional foils—the pieces in the exhibit—emerge, suspend, even escape their wall-bound origins.

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