CINGS × Silver Art Projects
*This event is capped at 15 attendees. If you wish to bring a +1, please have them register separately and inform Giada of their name.
Event Overview
We’re excited to announce a summer field trip and guided studio tour to Silver Art Projects (silverart.org) led by Silver Art Executive Director Gregory Alan Thornbury and 2025 cohort artist Leah Ying Lin. Join us for intimate conversations about story telling, creative process, and building a practice at the intersection of art, culture, and community.
Silver Art Projects is a non-profit residency that offers 44,000 sq ft of free, year-long studio space and professional development on the 28th floor of 4 World Trade Center. Its mission is to accelerate and amplify emerging voices in the arts, keeping creative talent in the city and invigorating Lower Manhattan’s cultural landscape. Read more about Silver Art Projects in the New York Times.
About The Artist
Leah Ying Lin is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist crafting kinetic sculptural spectacles through metallic ceramics, 3D-printed metal, creative coding, and performance art. Her practice evokes living sculptures in motion, where cosmic mythologies, cutting-edge technology, and human longing converge.Visually situated between the futuristic and the ancestral grounded in the concepts and strategies of future archaeology, her work bridges supernatural mythologies, traditional craft, and East Asian aesthetics and techniques. Lin’s sculptures balance the rigidity of aluminum and metallic ceramics with the ethereal softness of amorphous shapes—expressing a feminine force both steely and sensuous. Weaving breathable kinetic mechanisms with projection mapping, sound, scent, and exotic plants she cultivates, Lin creates immersive realms that challenge and expand how sculpture engages the viewer.
Lin’s work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, and Kyoto such as Arsenal Contemporary Art NY, Sculpture Space NYC Gallery, Alisan Fine Arts, MAAM Museum in Rome, etc. Beyond the gallery, she has appeared in global high-fashion campaigns as the face for Balenciaga, Moncler and Coach, she has been featured in Vogue and V Magazine—bridging visual art, performance, and fashion through a singular, evolving lens.
Lin received her M.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design, further studied lighting design in Rome and ceramic sculpture in Kyoto. She is currently an artist-in residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects until May 2026.
Program
Time
Activity
2:45 PM
Security check & visitor badges in 4 WTC lobby (bring photo ID)
3:00 PM
Welcome + overview of Silver Art Projects mission & impact
3:10 PM
Guided studio tour with resident artists
4:10 PM
Networking, light refreshments, group photo
4:30 PM
Adjourn; optional happy hour at The Beekman or Frances Tavern
Registration Notes
This event is for CINGS members and their plus-ones only.
Because space is limited, please cancel promptly if your plans change so someone on the wait-list can attend.
Due to strict security measures at WTC, attendees must bring valid government issued IDs and complete sign in at the front design concierge.