Event Info
BRIC Contemporary Art invites you to the opening of to hold a we, on view in BRIC House’s Gallery and Project Room through December 22, 2024. Come experience the exhibition for the first time and meet the artists. At the request of artists involved in the exhibition, masks are required at this event and will be provided for all guests.
Honoring the many interconnected relationships that facilitate making and being, to hold a we features newly commissioned and recent work by fourteen emerging and early-career disabled artists and collectives from the BRIClab residency program. Across drawing, text, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and performance, the artists continually turn to memory, intimacy, grief, and the archive as both a source of inspiration and a means of connection.
to hold a we is organized by Maria McCarthy, Curatorial Associate and danilo machado, Co-Curator with A. Sef, Alex Dolores Salerno, Brothers Sick (Ezra and Noah Benus), Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, Cinthya Santos Briones, Dominic Bradley, Finnegan Shannon, Isabella Vargas, Linda Ryan, OlaRonke Akinmowo, Pelenakeke Brown, Steven Anthony Johnson II, and Yasi Ghanbari.
Social narrative for the exhibition and opening reception (PPTX) [6,978KB]
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Accessibility
BRIC is committed to advancing accessibility for disabled artists, audiences, and staff members. We understand disability as a spectrum, inclusive of neurodiversity, chronic illness, mental health disabilities, and invisible disabilities, as well as disabilities that affect mobility, sight, hearing, and other senses.
The main floor of BRIC House has an accessible entrance on Rockwell Place, in addition to an accessible, all-gender bathroom. The Main Gallery is accessible via a wheelchair lift. The Project Room is on the main level and it is wheelchair accessible. The opening reception will have a sensory-friendly, low-stim room and sensory kit. ASL, CART, and Portable FM assistive listening devices are available upon request. There are large print copies of the exhibition text available in the Gallery and Project Room and online.
For more information about accessibility at BRIC, visit bricartsmedia.org/
