A year ago, on November 15, 2025, the Studio Museum in Harlem opened its first building designed for it from the ground up, at 144 West 125th Street. On Sunday, November 15, 2026, the museum is marking the anniversary with a free, all-day Studio Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a zine workshop, a crossword trivia game on the museum's front steps, a curator talk on Black placemaking and a photo booth.

The anniversary Sunday, hour by hour

At 11:30 a.m., artist and author Christopher Myers presents Night Ride, a wordless picture book about a group of kids biking through a warm city night from Harlem through Central Park to Chinatown and over the Brooklyn Bridge.

From noon to 4 p.m., two drop-in workshops run at once. In the Education Workshops, visitors build symmetrical sculptures inspired by Glenn Ligon's 2007 work Give Us a Poem and add a line to a community tapestry made for the anniversary. In the Teen Studio, visitors make their own zines with drawings, photos and writing.

A family tour of Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz starts at 1 p.m. Fifteen-minute gallery talks start at 12:30 p.m. on Geometries, at 2 p.m. on A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026, and at 4 p.m. on Tone.

From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., curatorial assistant Simon Ghebreyesus and assistant curator Adria Gunter lead a participatory look at architecture and Black placemaking through the permanent collection. From 4 to 5:30 p.m., Black Crossword founder Juliana Pache hosts puzzle rounds on the Stoop, the museum's public steps, with free packets of crosswords, word searches and trivia about Black art and culture, and prizes for each round. A photo booth runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Cloudy Donut Co. is handing out a free sweet treat on the Stoop while supplies last.

Admission is free, but the museum requires a ticket, reserved on its website.

Before that: a film night on Oct. 30

On Friday, October 30, from 6 to 8 p.m., the museum screens films by artist and filmmaker Allison Janae Hamilton, followed by a conversation with scholar Imani Perry. Hamilton's work draws on folklore, ecology and Black life in the rural South; she was born in Kentucky, raised in Florida, and her mother's family farm is in western Tennessee. Perry, a professor at Harvard and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America. The evening takes place on the Stoop, with ASL interpretation, and requires an RSVP.

Every Sunday, and two more dates

Studio Sundays, free days of programs for all ages, run every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., including November 1 and 8. On Tuesday, November 17, the museum hosts a Stoop Talk with novelist Colson Whitehead in conversation with Thelma Golden, listed for members. On Saturday, November 7, the museum's Lil' Studio art program for young children goes to the Harlem Library at 11 a.m.

Getting there

The Studio Museum is at 144 West 125th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Lenox Avenues. The 2 and 3 trains stop at 125th Street on Lenox Avenue, and the A, B, C and D stop at 125th Street on St. Nicholas Avenue. Tickets for the anniversary Sunday and RSVPs for the October 30 film night are on the museum's events page.

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