Opening Softly...

PS122 Gallery
July and August 2022
www.abcnorio.org/summerschool
Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance focuses on the artist’s role as activist, art as a community organizing tool and teaching as the sharing of resistant knowledge. Emphasizing the processes of artists participating in public discourse, Summer School examines how support for shared values drives alternative politics and ideas through the arts.
Historically, summer school is a place for remedial education, with the focus on improving skills to prepare students for participation in required curriculum. Offering a different type of remediation, the projects included in Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance are creative in nature and fill a gap left by mainstream histories, governments, educational systems, and other established institutions.
In the spirit of community spaces, PS122 Gallery’s exhibition space will be activated by events and workshops throughout the duration of the show, with installations changing in concert with these events.
Summer School includes artwork, screenings, documentation of current and past projects, workshops, skill-shares, and other public presentations. All events are free to the public, but may require RSVP. Participating Artists, Collectives, and Organizations:
Yasmeen Abdallah, Shiva Addanki, Amplifier Inc., Big Sky Workshop, Beyond Prisons Podcast, Chto Delat, Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, Agata Craftlove/THEMM! & Gregory Sholette, Priyanka Das, Shawn Escarciga, Peter Fend, Kevin Frech, Christina Freeman, Robby Herbst, Interference Archive with Willa Goettling, Mobile Print Power, North Bronx Collective, Octavia Project, Antonio Serna, Gina Peyran Tan, Workers Art Coalition.

ABC No Rio frequently explores new ways to organize and implement its projects. Summer School continues this tradition of actively involving participating artists, collectives and other entities in the planning, organization, and installation of exhibitions.
Organizers:
Yasmeen Abdallah, Vince Carducci, Barrie Cline, Priyanka Das, Steven Englander, Shawn Escarciga, Peter Fend, Christina Freeman, Robby Herbst, David King, Chris McHale, Alan Moore, Arthur Polendo, and Stephen Zacks.

ABC No Rio in Exile
In 2017 the Lower East Side arts center ABC No Rio vacated its building on Rivington Street in advance of constructing a new facility. During the construction period ABC No Rio programs and operations continue “in exile” at other venues and in collaboration with other organizations. ABC No Rio in Exile provides a renewed and focused orientation towards collaborative work that brings us back to our roots — ABC No Rio was founded as a project of the 1970s artist group Collaborative Projects — and in “exile” ABC No Rio remains a "place" where people share resources and ideas in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support.
PS122 Gallery
PS122 Gallery is a not-for-profit alternative exhibition space in the East Village operating since 1979. It is dedicated to fostering and developing the arts by providing opportunities and support services for emerging and under-recognized artists. It is an ongoing program of Painting Space 122, the grassroots, artist-run cooperative that helped foster the vibrant cultural community at the City-owned 122 Community Center (122CC). PS122 Gallery strives to present the work of artists of all backgrounds in a diverse and equitable context. By acting as a platform, PS122 Gallery also seeks to reengage with its surrounding community, welcome new communities, and create new, audience-driven opportunities for engagement. In addition to PS122 Gallery, the Members of Painting Space 122 offer support through the Project Studio Residency program by providing one-year workspace studios at below- market rates to a diverse group of professional artists.

Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance is funded in part by the New York State Council on Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.