We have extended the registration deadlines for our 2011 Sculpture garden and City of Dreams Pavilion to January 22, 2011! So all you artists out there who haven’t gotten round to registering and submitting your projects, now’s the time!
Read more about the Pavilion competition, or register right away.
Read more about the 2011 Sculpture Garden, or register now!

Submissions are now open for the season long projects of FIGMENT 2011 on Governors Island, NYC! The FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, the FIGMENT Minigolf Course and the City of dreams 2011 Pavilion will be free and open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays while the island is open from June 4 to October 9, 2011.
Go here to learn more!
The Call for Participation for the FIGMENT NYC 2011 event (tentative dates: June 10-12, 2011) will open soon! We’ll keep you posted.

Can FIGMENT bring a city together? FIGMENT Executive Producer David Koren recently stopped by Jackson, Mississippi to gauge local interest in expanding FIGMENT to Mississippi’s capital. Jackson is a smaller venue than New York or Boston, meaning FIGMENT could have an outsize impact here, even in its first year.
A group of roughly 40 attended Koren’s presentation and immediately embraced FIGMENT’s philosophy. FIGMENT’s ties to Burning Man and egalitarian spirit resonate in Jackson, where a costumed St. Patrick’s Day Parade draws some of the biggest crowds all year. Jackson has …

You thought FIGMENT NYC was big enough? 2010 was also the year FIGMENT Boston sprang to life. The Boston event was run by a dedicated team of entirely local volunteers, sharing resources and support from the experienced team in New York City. This is a huge step in an exciting new direction in the evolution of FIGMENT!
In its first year, FIGMENT Boston was co-located with the corporately sponsored Cambridge River Festival on Saturday, June 5, 2010. The two events operated jointly with the help of the Cambridge Arts Council and …

2010 was a big year for FIGMENT. Not only did nearly 25,000 people find their way to Governors Island NYC to be a part of FIGMENT NYC; over the summer an estimated 200,000 visitors to the island played our Minigolf Course and enjoyed our Sculpture Garden. To top all that, 2010 saw the first FIGMENT event outside of New York, in Boston. FIGMENT is definitely growing up.
On Friday June 11, FIGMENT began its three day takeover of Governors Island. Nearly 25,000 participants engaged with more than 400 art projects set …

It’s been a great summer for FIGMENT on Governors Island, with nearly 25,000 people coming out for the FIGMENT weekend in June, and perhaps as many as 200,000 visiting FIGMENT Terrace, playing minigolf and interacting with the sculpture garden over the summer… Now it’s time to put all our toys away… and begin dreaming up ways to make FIGMENT 2011 even bigger and better!

The Living Pavilion has had a great summer… but now it’s time to take it apart. We will begin disassembling the Living Pavilion on Saturday Oct. 2, and will continue on Sunday Oct. 3. Please come by, lend a hand in taking apart the pavilion, and take a few crates home with you!

In Friday’s Weekend section of The New York Times, Edward Rothstein wrote a fairly evenhanded story about Governors Island as “A Playground for the Arts.” As a follow-up, Ken Johnson contributed a dismissive and offensive post on the Times blog. In his critique, Johnson manages to miss the point entirely. The art on Governors Island isn’t for him. This is art for the rest of us.

Hello everyone! We hope you’re enjoying your post-FIGMENT summer! Even though FIGMENT 2011 is eleven months away, there are still a number of FIGMENT-related events going on! For starters, our summer-long installations on Governors Island—the FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, Minigolf Course, and the Living Pavilion—are open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday through October 3. So come out to the island and have another look, and please consider volunteering to help at the minigolf course!

Thanks to everyone who made FIGMENT such an amazing success… to all of our artists, team members, volunteers, and participants who came out in Boston and New York and made FIGMENT happen! We had nearly 25,000 participants in New York from June 11-13, interacting with 400 art projects, and approximately 10,000 participants in Boston interacting with nearly 100 art projects! Please help us balance our books for 2010 and plan for the future!