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.

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!

Last weekend’s FIGMENT Boston event was a tremendous success!  Thank you so much to all of the dedicated and talented artists and volunteers who made it happen.  Photos are being posted online as we speak, and you can view some of the ones on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=figmentboston2010&m=text.
We’re gearing up for this weekend’s FIGMENT NYC event, this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on Governors Island.  
For all info, including directions, please visit:  http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/
To preview the artwork, performances, and activities, and see a map, please visit:  http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010-event-projects-artists/
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Have a look at our wonderful new FIGMENT video, directed by Justin Lange and produced by Ashley Martinez!

Please join us to preview FIGMENT art for our 2nd annual Groundbreaking Fundraiser, April 28th at the Gershwin Hotel.  For more information & tickets:  http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking