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February 25, 2025
Galerie Magazine

The Alpha Workshops and Nancy Lorenz Light Up Powerhouse Arts

Emma Hollister Colby, Richard Zimmer, Edward Farrell, Jose Navarro, Nelson Segarra, Kenji Troelstrup, Charles Bryant, Mario Diaz, Erik Savage, and Nelson Rodriguez at the Alpha Workshops’s 30th anniversary celebration at Powerhouse Arts.

On February 13, a coterie of bold-faced names within New York City’s art and design spheres descended on Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Alpha Workshops. The star-studded evening raised a glass to the organization’s ongoing commitment to providing decorative arts education and employment to adults with visible and invisible disabilities. The nonprofit was founded by Kenneth Wampler in 1995—the height of the AIDS crisis—to benefit the HIV-positive community.

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