The Shed Exhibition Walkthrough of Open Call: Portals
2:30 – 3:30PM
Civil Art is pleased to invite you to a guided tour of the Open Call: Portals exhibition at The Shed, led by Dejá Belardo, Assistant Curator, Civic Programs and Visual Art.
The exhibition walkthrough will delve into the process of curating these emerging artists’ installation-based works and their social, political, and ecological relevance to the world we live in.
IMPORTANT: Make sure to cross-register for a free ticket to the exhibition on The Shed’s website. You must do this in order to access the walkthrough.
Itinerary:
2:30 - 2:40 PM | Guests arrive
2:40 - 3:30 PM | Exhibition Walkthrough
About Civil Art
Civil Art empowers the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community by making the contributions of the API creatives accessible to wider demographics through our educational programming, editorial platform, community gatherings, and other events. Civil Art’s public programming highlights the ways in which the contributions of API creatives communicate cultural narratives, including employing themes that speak to the multiplicity of the API community’s identity. Our programming raises awareness of the community’s diverse histories while fostering opportunities for intra-community connection, understanding, and further creative development.
About Open Call: Portals
Twelve early-career, NYC-based artists and collectives present new works that harness personal stories and ancestral global history to open portals for passage, transformation, and resistance. Ranging from painting and film to sculpture and performance, their works explore forces shaping our world: colonialism, migration, and environmental crisis.
Together these artists forge profound connections between the past and present, memory and material, and displacement and belonging to create Open Call: Portals. Artists featured in the exhibition were selected as part of Open Call, a commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists redefining what it means to make art.