Activism in Action
Photos by Scott Elmquist courtesy of Style Weekly
Gallery5’s Activism in Action programming is built around the idea of asking questions – questions about our society, our systems, conventional wisdom, the status quo, and how each of us can play a part in making our worlds and communities better for all of us.
Gallery5 may be a community arts space, but we also know that good art and effective artists ask questions and point out issues, asking us all to imagine possibilities, alternatives, and new ways of doing things. In that light, a series that asks questions and delivers skills and knowledge for building new worlds seemed natural for us. We hope you’ll join us for some of our upcoming workshops or discussions. Feel free to check out resources as well from our past partners for this series!
Got an idea for a future workshop? Email us at rentals@gallery5arts.org with it and we’ll see what we can do!
“You might find yourself comfortable on the front lines of a protest. You might find that that’s not the right position for you, but maybe something like mutual aid is. People are welcome regardless of the level of information they have. ... It’s okay to come and not know everything. It’s okay to ask questions.”
Featured Partners
Co-founders Megan Nolde (left) and Lindsey Spurrier in Style Weekly
“We’ve always seen Gallery5 as a resource that’s really centered around the arts, but the arts dip [their] toes into all kinds of things including political activism. ... We have this space. We have this network of people that we know. It made a lot of sense to provide this service.”
