Exhibition - Care/Repair: Mending the Circle
Jun 1, 2022 - Jun 22, 2022
Exhibition Date: WED, JUN 1 - WED, JUN 22
OPENING RECEPTION: SUN, JUN 12, 12-5 PM (ARTIST WALKTHROUGH at 2-3 PM; ARTIST WORKSHOPS at 3-5 PM; see below for details)
Gallery Hours: Everyday, 12-5 PM
FREE ADMISSION
All individuals must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and matching identification to attend this event. If you are interested in attending this event in person, please read the full COVID Safety Policy carefully before visiting.
Care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environments, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex life-sustaining web. – Joan Tronto
Care/Repair: Mending the Circle is not just an exhibition, it is a statement and conversation about human cooperation and our mutual interdependence. Care is fundamental to the human condition. It is manifest in myriad acts of kindness and labors of love. All humans are engaged in care activities, both as receivers of care and in most cases as care givers. And we care most for those that are emotionally, physically and culturally closer to us. What are the boundaries of our caring? How far should the boundaries of caring be expanded?
Unlike the expansiveness of Care, repair is a humble act of conserving resources. In days past, it was a necessity. Today it can offer a powerful antidote to the consumable, throw-away society in which we live. Other cultures have long recognized the beauty in the broken, imperfect and flawed. Repair techniques like Kintsugi in Japan, which highlights the cracks and repairs of broken pottery, and Rafoogari in India, which mends the fault lines in textiles provide visible and invisible ways of maintenance. Repair can express resistance against cultural norms and be a call to action against environmental catastrophe. The artists featured here invite renewed forms of social exchange and offer alternative, holistic ways of facing environmental and social breakdown. We hope this exhibition will catalyze empathy and action. Collectively, we can care more – and should.
This exhibition is presented by SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance). Participating artists include Damali Abrams, Natali Bravo-Barbee, Sherese Francis, Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks, Chemin Hsiao, Marvenia Knight, Rejin Leys, Angela Miskis, Shervone Neckles, Elizabeth Velazquez, Shenna Vaughn, Margaret Rose Vendryes. The exhibition is curated by Shilpi Chandra.
VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY
ARTIST WORKSHOPS
Herbarium Verbarium by Sherese Francis
SUN, JUN 12, 3-5 PM, FREE (no RSVP required)
Herbarium Verbarium is an art and writing workshop inviting participants to make their own nature journals using various recycled materials and found materials, and to write responses to sensory-based prompts inspired by what is in the local environment. This workshop is meant to encourage mindfulness about ourselves, our bodies and our environment, and paying attention to the world around us.
Caregiver's Tools by Rejin Leys
SUN, JUN 12, 3-5 PM, FREE (no RSVP required)
During Caregiver’s Tools, work with SEQAA artist Rejin Leys to create cast paper tools as tributes to the caregivers in their lives.
This program is presented as part of Queens Rising, the month-long celebration of arts and culture in Queens. Click HERE to learn more about the Queens Rising events at Flushing Town Hall.
Exhibition Date: WED, JUN 1 - WED, JUN 22
OPENING RECEPTION: SUN, JUN 12, 12-5 PM (ARTIST WALKTHROUGH at 2-3 PM; ARTIST WORKSHOPS at 3-5 PM; see below for details)
Gallery Hours: Everyday, 12-5 PM
FREE ADMISSION
All individuals must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and matching identification to attend this event. If you are interested in attending this event in person, please read the full COVID Safety Policy carefully before visiting.
Care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environments, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex life-sustaining web. – Joan Tronto
Care/Repair: Mending the Circle is not just an exhibition, it is a statement and conversation about human cooperation and our mutual interdependence. Care is fundamental to the human condition. It is manifest in myriad acts of kindness and labors of love. All humans are engaged in care activities, both as receivers of care and in most cases as care givers. And we care most for those that are emotionally, physically and culturally closer to us. What are the boundaries of our caring? How far should the boundaries of caring be expanded?
Unlike the expansiveness of Care, repair is a humble act of conserving resources. In days past, it was a necessity. Today it can offer a powerful antidote to the consumable, throw-away society in which we live. Other cultures have long recognized the beauty in the broken, imperfect and flawed. Repair techniques like Kintsugi in Japan, which highlights the cracks and repairs of broken pottery, and Rafoogari in India, which mends the fault lines in textiles provide visible and invisible ways of maintenance. Repair can express resistance against cultural norms and be a call to action against environmental catastrophe. The artists featured here invite renewed forms of social exchange and offer alternative, holistic ways of facing environmental and social breakdown. We hope this exhibition will catalyze empathy and action. Collectively, we can care more – and should.
This exhibition is presented by SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance). Participating artists include Damali Abrams, Natali Bravo-Barbee, Sherese Francis, Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks, Chemin Hsiao, Marvenia Knight, Rejin Leys, Angela Miskis, Shervone Neckles, Elizabeth Velazquez, Shenna Vaughn, Margaret Rose Vendryes. The exhibition is curated by Shilpi Chandra.
VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY
ARTIST WORKSHOPS
Herbarium Verbarium by Sherese Francis
SUN, JUN 12, 3-5 PM, FREE (no RSVP required)
Herbarium Verbarium is an art and writing workshop inviting participants to make their own nature journals using various recycled materials and found materials, and to write responses to sensory-based prompts inspired by what is in the local environment. This workshop is meant to encourage mindfulness about ourselves, our bodies and our environment, and paying attention to the world around us.
Caregiver's Tools by Rejin Leys
SUN, JUN 12, 3-5 PM, FREE (no RSVP required)
During Caregiver’s Tools, work with SEQAA artist Rejin Leys to create cast paper tools as tributes to the caregivers in their lives.
This program is presented as part of Queens Rising, the month-long celebration of arts and culture in Queens. Click HERE to learn more about the Queens Rising events at Flushing Town Hall.
