Image from Micro Museum® street level access art gallery. The gallery exhibited 1000s USA performing, visual and media artists from 2002-2014. It was (by day) a learning center for creative industries from 1986 - 2015. Now Micro Museum® is located on the 2nd floor at 123 Smith Street. We are open irregularily. Send us a message if you’d like to know about our future dates.

It is very rare that we are open to the walk-in public. Our exhibitions are open only for special occasions.

FUN MICRO MUSEUM® FACTS

1977   William and Kathleen Laziza meet in Austin Texas making public access TV

1978 Kathleen and William Laziza participated Interart Works CETA program

1979   The Laziza travel worldwide

1980 Laziza move to NYC

1983   The Lazizas have 1st child, Leonardo Laziza

1984 – 2004   Spontaneous Combustion became live events – later public access TV

1986   Micro Museum® occupies 123 Smith Street 2nd floor in Brooklyn

1986 - 1997 Neighborhood & Community Dev (including KIDS PRESS Magazine)

1989   The Lazizas have 2nd child Dylan Laziza

1989 – 2013   Orchestrated free art program w/ Brooklyn Heights Parks

1993   Formed Promote Art Works, Inc.

1996 Kathleen Laziza’s “Intersection of Dance, Technology and Performance Art” by MIT Press and ISAST

1996 – 2006   International Not Still Art Festival with video curator Carol Goss

1997 – 2001 Brooklyn Eco-Dev Focus (including Bklyn Cultural Circuit and Visitor's Center)

1999 Micro Museum® acquires 78 RPM record collection from Metropolitan Museum

2000 NY Times selected "The Videograph" as “ Art of the Future” (Jan 1, 2000)

2000   Expand 2,000 square feet for educational opportunities w/ 100s of educator

2000-2010 Orchestrated 1000s of grassroots art presentations on the 1st and 2nd floors

2001   The Lazizas create “THE CRYSTAL BOX” as First Cyber-Artists for Downtown Community Television

2001 Kathleen received certificate from Arts Leadership Institute Columbia University

2002 – 2005  “Odd Sunday” Visual Art Series (12 programs with individual artists)

2003 - 2008   “Fertile Ground” Art & Performance Series

2003 - 2008  "Open Walls " and "Instant Receptions" for grassroots artists

2004   Registered Trademark from US Patents and Trademark Office

2005  “SILVER” (5 programs by Lazizas including a street party w/ Cyro Baptista)

2006  “Circus Surreal” w/ co-curator Juliette Pellitier (2 programs w/ over 50 artists)

2007  “Spectrum: The Chakra Element” (8 programs w/ 70 artists)

2008 – 2010  BIG Ideas (11 programs with over 50 artists)

2010 – 2014  XXV – OMG!  (9 programs w/ the Lazizas and others)

2011    Micro Museum® is 25 years on Smith Street (w/ Muffinhead, Fredrix and others)

2013  The Lazizas add 18 videoart works to the Internet Video Archives

2013  “Spring Fever” on 5th Ave documented by Bill Cunningham in the NY Times

2013   “Picturing You” w/ Benton C. Bainbridge &  John LaMacchia

2015   Uproot museum from 1st floor and re-install on 2nd floor

2015   "Refresh" ten videodance screenings by Kathleen Laziza w/John LaMacchia

2016   “Artist by Definition’ w/ Jamie Leo, Mike MacIvor, Pamela Sneed, Kay Nishikawa

2017 "MAKE IT YOUR OWN" An 8 parts/9 minutes video series that exploring creative life. YouTube & this website

2018 Four LED co. Videodances (circa 1998, 1995, 1986, 1985) re-imagined w/German songwriter Rich Millen and Metamorphosis (circa 1987) was re-imagined by Brazilian composer Marcel Rocha. Available on YouTube.

2019 Kathleen Laziza published first pedagogical book: “TEEN GUIDE TO PARENTS” How to Manipulate Without Them Knowing”

2020 Covid Hospitality Series for NYC Housing Authority Families: Boredom Buster Art Packages

2020-2025 Micro Museum® is involved in a multi-prong archival project. We are physically documenting the interactive sculptures and all the various types of media.

MICRO MUSEUM® PERFORMING ARTISTS 1986 - 2014

PARTIAL LIST

Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project (music)

The Knights (music)

Paul Rajeckas & Neil Intraub (movement theater and education)

John LaMacchia (music)

Urban Bush Women (dance)

Patricia Hoffbauer (dance)

George Sanchez (theater)

Anna B Parson with BIG Dance (dance)

Ella Moore with Charles Moore Dance Company (dance)

Arthur Avila (dance)

Julieta Valero (dance)

The Big Apple Circus Hospital Clown Program (performance)

Kings County Shakespeare (children’s theater)

Brooklyn Indie Band: Candiria (music)

Jamie Leo (theater)

Fredrix LIVEN DIRECT!!! (music)

Pamela Sneed (poet and performance)

Kay Nishikawa (dance)

Maxine Steinman (dance)

Vanessa Bley (music)

Carmelita Tropicana (theater)

Edisa Weeks (dance)

Lorraine Goodman (dance)

Nancy Zendora (dance)

Maya Milenovic (dance)

Reggie Workman (music)

Tamar Rogoff (dance)

Carol Goss (video)

Benton Bainbridge (video)

NY Goofs (clowning)

Joseph Jarman (music)

Darryl Hell (music)

Walter Wright (video)

Muffinhead and Amber Ray (performance)

This is a partial list.