The art space sent us the following statement: Because it will not be business as usual. Pen + Brush will be closed Friday, January 20th and Saturday, January 21st as we stand with countless other like-minded organizations in our refusal to be “business as usual”. The gallery will be open on Sat the 21st with artist John Morton keeping our normal hours 1-6 while Director Ellen Fagan marches in NYC.” - Ellen Fagan “ODETTA will be closed on Inauguration Day in solidarity with the J20 Art Strike. We will also be hitting the streets to support student walk-outs, benefits for civil rights organizations, and protests across our city.” -Rachel Gugelberger, Curator & Director of NLE Curatorial Lab “In solidarity with the calls for a #J20ARTSTRIKE, No Longer Empty will be spending time outside the office on January 20th strategizing to support youth leadership during these uncertain times. On January 20, The Kitchen building and gallery will be closed so that our staff can join dialogues with fellow institutions, colleagues, and artists. The art space issued an email that included the following line: We will be open our regular hours on January 21 and 22 ( 12 to 5pm each day) please visit if you’d like a space to talk, read, or reflect during all the events of the coming days. On January 20, 2017, we will be closed in solidarity with the General Strike. The organization sent out an email with the following statement: “Please add FiveMyles to the list of galleries closed on Inauguration Day.” “In solidarity with many other NY galleries, the exhibiting artist at First Street Gallery will not open on Friday, Jan 20th, Inauguration Day. We will continue, as always, to be open to our resident artists 24/7 for them to continue creating and organizing.” - David Borgonjon “On January 20th, in solidarity with the #J20 Art Strike, Eyebeam will be closed to the public, Eyebeam staff will be on strike, and Eyebeam social media will go silent. Instead, EFA will join the Queens Museum to instruct and assist in risograph printing for their “ Sign of the Times: Sign Making in Solidarity” afternoon of graphic materials production. In recognition of the J20 Strike, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts will host no events on January 20. It is made in solidarity with the nation-wide demand that on January 20 and beyond, business should not proceed as usual.Įlizabeth Foundation for the Arts : Below this list is another listing of those spaces organizing special programming for January 20, the day of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.ĬAA posted the following statement to its website:ĬAA is taking part in the J20 Art Strike, an Act of Noncompliance on Inauguration Day. We apologize if this has caused you any inconvenience, but we consider this action important to take. This call concerns more than the art field. Since there are thousands of spaces across the country, we decided to start local and contact New York-area galleries, art nonprofits, and museums to see which would be closing. It is an invitation to motivate these activities anew, to reimagine these spaces as places where resistant forms of thinking, seeing, feeling, and acting can be produced. It is not a strike against art, theater, or any other cultural form. Like any tactic, it is not an end in itself, but rather an intervention that will ramify into the future. Tactic among others to combat the normalization of Trumpism - a toxic mix of white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchic rule. The Art Strike is intended as an act of solidarity with the broader slate of #J20 events and, as the movement’s site puts it, as a The #J20 Art Strike is imminent and we’ve compiled a running list of spaces that will be closing for Inauguration Day. (graphic by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
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