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RECORDS:

MEMORY AS PROTEST
MAY 1 - 24, 2026



How does the act of witnessing shift
when remembrance is made visible to a broader public?



RELATED EVENTS


FRIDAY, MAY 8; 5-8pm
Opening Reception / Arts Night Out

SATURDAY May 16, 2-4pm:
Visual Diaries and Daydreaming 
a workshop with artist Tana Oshima 






RECORDS: Memory as Protest is part of A.P.E.’s Guest Curator program.


In an era marked by media repression, book bans, mass censorship, and ongoing attacks on education, acts of both individual and collective remembrance remain urgent forms of social action. RECORDS: Memory as Protest brings together a powerful collection of work by over
twenty artists that positions memory as a living, active force that resists erasure and challenges dominant narratives.

Spanning photography, sculpture, visual diaries, textiles, and mixed media, the exhibition presents memory not as a static archive but as something continually shaped, revisited, and
reimagined. Across the works, memory is stitched, drawn, layered, and embodied—emerging through sites of personal and ancestral pain, survival, and transformation.

Artists in the exhibition document the body in pain, the rituals of care, the echoes of generational trauma, and the quiet, daily efforts to make sense of dislocation. One artist confronts the erasure of childhood and culture through a drawing ritual—a diary that refuses linearity and embraces complexity. Another weaves ancestral grief and feminine resilience into
visual symbols that transcend time. Others render blood, loss, and silence as material for reclamation. 

Throughout the show, memory is treated as both burden and blessing—unreliable, vivid, painful, and necessary. These works collectively assert that to remember is to resist, and that in the act of preserving and sharing memory, we cultivate space for healing, transformation, and connection across generations. In RECORDS: Memory as Protest, remembering becomes a radical gesture, a way to assert presence, protect lineage, and honor the truths that persist even when they don’t fit
neatly into dominant narratives.

FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: Simone Alter-Muri, Matthew Best, Jacob Clayton, Binda Colebrook, Clarajames Daly, Eva Fahey, Ken Gagne, Eliza Gelinas, Ula Grabski, Haley Jenner, Boram Kim, Hallie Krause, Amina Meckel-Sam, Michael Medeiros, Zoe Mikic, Tana Oshima, Anna Parisi, Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, Mugi Salaverry-Takei, Sam Staas, Garrett Sanders, Chloe Torri


CURATED BY Sophie Gill and Adrienne Albro-Fisher




ABOUT THE CURATORS

ADRIENNE ALBRO-FISHER is a visual artist from Northampton, MA. She received her BFA in studio art with a painting concentration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2023). She has worked with A.P.E. as an exhibiting artist and is now part of the Emerging Curator Program. Adrienne works out of her studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where she explores meditative art practices and draws inspiration from the natural world. 

SOPHIE GILL is a Northampton native who returned home to the Pioneer Valley after graduating from Clark University (2023). She received her bachelor’s degree in Media, Culture, and the Arts and Community, Youth, and Education Studies. Sophie, who produced her undergrad honors thesis on the transformative nature of community art projects, is invested in art and creative practices as a tool for social change.  

A.P.E.'s programming is made possible in part by sustained support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.