GALLERY EVENTS THIS WEEK:
FRIDAY 6-8pm: Retangle CLOSING RECEPTION
A.P.E. Gallery Hours THIS WEEK: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 12-5pm; Open until 8pm on FRIDAYS
33 HAWLEY Open Hours: WED - SAT 12-7pm
FRIDAY 6-8pm: Retangle CLOSING RECEPTION
A.P.E. Gallery Hours THIS WEEK: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 12-5pm; Open until 8pm on FRIDAYS
33 HAWLEY Open Hours: WED - SAT 12-7pm
Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
May 2 - 25, 2025
RIVER VALLEY RADICAL FUTURES
Artist Sunny Allis's studio with body extensions and creature masks, alongside the River Valley Radical Futures map, illustrated by Alix Gerber
Travel from the world we live in today in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts, to a future in this same place 100 years beyond the fall of capitalism. The River Valley Radical Futures exhibit shares the future visions co-created by members of at least 14 local groups who enact alternative ways of being in the Valley today. Some groups are systems of collective care that organize shared food, clothing, healthcare, plant medicine, and other mutual aid. Some are worker cooperatives who own the means of production collectively. Some are community land trusts that manage and maintain land for community use instead of for-profit development. These groups work every day to create alternative economies by embodying them. They show how capitalism systematically creates inequity, injustice, disconnection, and promotes endless growth that ignores the natural limits of our planet. We imagined beyond capitalism together by asking ourselves,
“What kind of world are we trying to create through the work we do today?”
The visions created by members of these groups have been brought to life by seven local artists who created artifacts excavated from the future we imagined. You’ll find artifacts such as: body extensions and creature masks by Sunny Allis, cow brushes and bells made of local materials and drawing from local histories by Mary Katherine Cleary, a floating house design by David von Dufving, a tool sharing station with Korean homi by Bo Kim, a secret-baring mural by Sharon Leshner, a flood system made of local clay by Michael Medeiros, and an apothecary by Laura Torraco. You’ll also see a map of the Valley in this future beyond capitalism, illustrated by Alix Gerber and conceptualized through a series of workshops with around 80 people who are building alternative economies today. It can be difficult to live the world we want into being. This exhibit is an invitation to contribute to a shared local folklore of the future we want to build together.
EVENTS:
MAY 9, 5-8pm • ARTS NIGHT OUT w/ Artist Talks
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MAY 10, 2-4pm • Designing for alternative futures today; with Alix Gerber
Designing Radical Futures is a practice of collective imagination—an iterative, participatory process for envisioning transformed social systems. Led by Alix Gerber, the work has involved artists, designers, scholars, and people organizing in their communities for systemic transformation. The practice began in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program at Parsons School of Design in 2014, and has been supported by faculty positions at Washington University in St. Louis and Smith College. An early project in collaboration with residents of Ferguson, Missouri imagined futures without policing by designing scenic installations that show what might exist where the police station used to be. At its core, Designing Radical Futures is about breaking through the limits of what feels possible. The systems that shape our lives persist because we accept them as inevitable. By creating space to think critically and generatively beyond reform, we cultivate the capacity to step into new realities. The process is not about designing a fixed blueprint but instead, refining our visions through iteration, so we can live into them with greater clarity, confidence, and power.
“What kind of world are we trying to create through the work we do today?”
The visions created by members of these groups have been brought to life by seven local artists who created artifacts excavated from the future we imagined. You’ll find artifacts such as: body extensions and creature masks by Sunny Allis, cow brushes and bells made of local materials and drawing from local histories by Mary Katherine Cleary, a floating house design by David von Dufving, a tool sharing station with Korean homi by Bo Kim, a secret-baring mural by Sharon Leshner, a flood system made of local clay by Michael Medeiros, and an apothecary by Laura Torraco. You’ll also see a map of the Valley in this future beyond capitalism, illustrated by Alix Gerber and conceptualized through a series of workshops with around 80 people who are building alternative economies today. It can be difficult to live the world we want into being. This exhibit is an invitation to contribute to a shared local folklore of the future we want to build together.
EVENTS:
MAY 9, 5-8pm • ARTS NIGHT OUT w/ Artist Talks
* * *
MAY 10, 2-4pm • Designing for alternative futures today; with Alix Gerber
Designing Radical Futures is a practice of collective imagination—an iterative, participatory process for envisioning transformed social systems. Led by Alix Gerber, the work has involved artists, designers, scholars, and people organizing in their communities for systemic transformation. The practice began in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program at Parsons School of Design in 2014, and has been supported by faculty positions at Washington University in St. Louis and Smith College. An early project in collaboration with residents of Ferguson, Missouri imagined futures without policing by designing scenic installations that show what might exist where the police station used to be. At its core, Designing Radical Futures is about breaking through the limits of what feels possible. The systems that shape our lives persist because we accept them as inevitable. By creating space to think critically and generatively beyond reform, we cultivate the capacity to step into new realities. The process is not about designing a fixed blueprint but instead, refining our visions through iteration, so we can live into them with greater clarity, confidence, and power.
Photos from Love and Depositions, conceived and directed by Marina Zurita, Acadia Barrengos, and Mollye Maxner. Photos by Marina Zurita
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