opening reception: Friday, Dec. 9, 5-7pm
shown in conjunction with “A Mentor’s Gift”

Created for the 2022 SGCI Conference

Collective art spaces are innovative. With aims to disrupt old rules and persistent hierarchies, they move outside transactional economies and traditional education, advocating for affordable access through forms of mutual aid. These include skillshares, shared space, resources, and equipment as well as experiential opportunities like exhibitions, collaborative projects, and community-focused events. This ethos is based in generosity, transparency, equity, and joy, supporting a safe and inclusive social and cultural space. Collectivity is flux, a process of constant experimentation, breaking down barriers, emphasizing the importance of art in everyday life for any and everyone. Within our specific community, the collective is an interface for sharing, near and far, producing unique programs that stretch boundaries and present diverse perspectives. 

These communal spaces embrace a shared responsibility in bringing accessibility to the art of printmaking. With this in mind, we seek the voices and visions of other intentional collective spaces to contemplate the work required to bring about livable, meaningful, just, emergent futures. 

We invited participation from community-driven, non-profit print shops to collaborate on a portfolio. Innumerable tactics could inform your print edition, but consider the history of print media as a catalyst for social/political/cultural change. How does this influence the future of the collective art space? What does it mean to you to be part of a collective community? How might aspects of our shared and disparate spaces interact, clash, congeal, and present reconfigured cultural resonances? How and when must they take the form of social ruptures? What is out of reach, but available to your imagination, and why?

Artists:
Zeké Martinez, Candace Weigand, Lydia Diemer, Desiree Dahl, Ariane Parkes-Perret, Johnny Brian, Kalmia Strong, John Engelbrecht, Christine Medley, Gregory Santos, Ashlee Mays, Lila Shull, Jennifer Harper, CHema Skandal!, Sharon Jue, David Bendernagel, Maggie Booth, Aunna Escobedo