Coil & Cord
A queer-owned studio and gallery in Gowanus that combines rope instruction with craft, figure drawing and art exhibitions. Its rope room has bamboo, single-point and post hard points, and it runs beginner intensives, open jams and specialised community nights, and sells rope on site.
Coil & Cord is a queer-owned studio, gallery and creative space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, that treats rope as one discipline among several. Its about page describes a multidisciplinary art space of roughly 420 square feet with a dense grid of hard points near the ceiling for suspension and aerial work, three vertical posts, adjustable exhibition lighting, a sound system and a projector.
On the rope side, the studio lists beginner-through-advanced workshops, intensives and skill shares, open practice nights, rope jams and performance events. Ticket pages from 2026 show the range: a beginner rope intensive, chest-harness fundamentals, an introduction to suspension, and a workshop on moving from ground rope to partial suspension with attention to strain on muscles, skin and connective tissue and to upline management for tops. That partial-suspension workshop is designed for tying pairs, and solo attendees may observe. The studio uses sliding-scale pricing for its workshops and asks people who cannot afford the lowest tier to write in ahead of the class.
Parker, a nonbinary queer rope instructor with more than 17 years of experience, is named on the studio’s ticket pages as a co-founder. Parker teaches workshops, intensives and private lessons from novice to advanced level, presents at conventions in North America and Europe, and hosts the monthly Queer Rope Social jam.
Beyond rope, Coil & Cord runs monthly queer craft nights, figure drawing sessions, movie nights and craft markets, and a gallery program of rotating exhibitions with opening receptions and artist talks, including a group show made in collaboration with Trans Art Fest. The gallery opens on Saturday afternoons during exhibitions. The studio sells POSH rope online for pickup at the space and offers the room for rental.