What is the Fish Market Project?
The Fish Market Project (named after the original sign from the old store, which is still hanging) was a closed-down storefront that was rehabbed to an artist space/community center located in North Central Troy. Participating artists will activate the space to engage with the community, create new work, and host specialty events throughout the duration of the project.
The project’s primary goal is to create a space where artists and community can gather, and where the Arts Center can learn about our community’s needs, visions and hopes for their future. We hope to understand how the arts and the Arts Center can play a role in serving these needs and, in turn, respond with long term programming solutions. The future of the project is in the hands of the community, and we are excited to shape it—together.
What’s Happening at The Fish Market Now?
We are proud to introduce a new community-focused project called N. Central Troy Creates, taking place at the Fish Market!
N. Central Troy Creates is a year-long community activation and placemaking project developed by the Arts Center as a larger initiative to engage with the North Central Troy Community. This is an artist-led project by artist experienced in community engagement and creative development.
N. Central Troy Creates will hold weekly drop-in art-making sessions, workshops, and events throughout the year to connect with the community and foster creative thinking and expression. The project will conclude its workshops in the summer of 2023.
Where is The Fish Market Community Engagement Project located?
It is located at the newly renovated fish market building at 2952 6th Ave Troy, NY.
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The Artists of The Fish Market
D. Colin | January 22nd, 2022 – Current
Originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut, D. Colin is a poet, actor, and visual artist living in Troy, NY.
D. Colin is a Haitian American multidisciplinary artist with an educational background in English & Africana Studies. She is a self-published author, a dynamic performer, a self-taught painter & maker of pretty things that make bold statements. As a multidisciplinary artist, she aims to inspire, empower and educate through poetry, art and performance. In 2019, D. Colin was honored as Resourceful Woman of the Year in the Arts by YWCA-GCR and one of The Collaborative’s Creatives Under 40. She is also a Cave Canem, VONA and New York State Writers Institute fellow with degrees in English and Africana Studies. Her mantra is Be inspired. Then inspire.
Past Artist
Meg Jala | July 15th, 2021 – February 2023
Meg Jala is a multidisciplinary intuitive artist & storyteller who believes that art has the capacity to open the eyes and hearts of us all. She is known for using strong imagery, staging, movement and immersive storytelling that breaks down the fourth wall and opens communication lines for exploration. Meg has developed gallery performance-based experiential art through the lens of multimedia and has performed in a variety of productions, ranging from theatre to film. Meg premiered her show BODY: An Experiential Art Installation (as Meg Affonso) at the Albany Center Gallery in August 2020. Meg has studied various forms of dance throughout her life and has choreographed, produced & directed plays, films and events. Meg has written two screenplays and a stage play and continues to be open to art in all of its forms. Meg’s mission is to tell stories that matter, and to help others by introducing them to art as a multifaceted healing modality.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
The Fish Market Project would not be possible without the generous contributions from the NEA, McCarthy Charities, William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation, M&T Foundation, Massry Charitable Foundation, KeyBank, Goldman Sachs Foundation, James J. Houlihan Associates, Curtis Lumber Company, Inc., building owner & ACCR board member Brian McCandless, and The Arts Center community.
