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Co-Prosperity Catskill, 391 Main Street, Catskill, NY (2026)

10/07/2022

Co-Prosperity Catskill is an East Coast satellite space that hosts both local New York artists (like Jeffery Gibson’s studio - opening a show soon!) and buddies from Chicago and beyond. In the past year, it’s also been the site of production for artists like Sofia Cordova and Victoria Martinez, exhibition space for local students, and a showcase for the work of Chicago buddies like Nicholas Zepeda, Juan Palacios, and Brandon Alvendia.

We are hoping to be able to keep this newest of our spaces open to keep the exchange going with such artists as Diana Solis & Nicole Marroquin and Jen Delos Reyes next year. If we can raise enough, with your help, we can continue to develop this new platform into a sustainable bridge from Chicago to the complicated rural cultural experiments happening in the Hudson River Valley.

Support Co-Prosperity Catskill and the rest of PMI with a matc today, and select from a set of thank you gifts we’re making just for you. Link in bio :)

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From now to November 4th, new and increased giving will be matched up to $50,000, thanks to the generous support of the Reva and David Logan Foundation.

Alt Text: A 4-panel multicolored image of a new PMI logo, 3D, popped out, looking like a building/factory/funhouse that is emanating complicated and confusing products, paper airplanes, and new kinds of tools. It’s on a black background, and there are little polychrome people walking around its base. The text on the slides reads: “Public Media Institute Matching Fund Challenge; Donate, Get a Gift!; As one of Chicago's
longest-running artist-run nonprofits, Public Media Institute needs your help to continue to serve the Chicago
community and beyond. Co-Prosperity is one of PMl's many moving parts. We need your help to keep them moving! (Then a collection of 9 logos for .chicago , , The Mutual Aid Guide, , .tv then it says: Your donation to PM decides the
future for these platforms of support!”

07/20/2022

Come hang out with this weekend as she finishes up her residency with and

Come for the opening Saturday, stay for the party close by at !

New silk works fresh steamed from the camp fire! Hot and toasty!

What the Cards Say
New Works by Victoria Martinez
July 23-September 30
Co-Prosperity Catskill
391 Main Street, Catskill, NY

Opening Reception Saturday, June 23 6-9pm

Public Media Institute is thrilled to present a new exhibition of works by Chicago-based artist Victoria Martinez at Co-Prosperity Catskill. Martinez will be in residence in New York making in the weeks preceding the exhibition, staying in Windham, NY with Public Media Institute partners Fictilis. She’ll be working toward major solo exhibitions of her work at the Chicago Cultural Center and Produce Model Chicago, as well as exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and Museo Universitario Del Chopo in Mexico City.

Victoria Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist who honors her Mexican-American ancestry through textile-based projects including painting, installation art, and printmaking. Her work is inspired by public art, architecture, and the urban environment.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Yale University Art Gallery, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the University of Chicago Arts Incubator, Northwestern University, and through the Perrotin Gallery viewing salon. Her work has been supported by The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Research Fellowship and The MacMillian Center Field Research Fellowship through Yale University, the Actos de Confianza Grant through the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), the Career Development Grant through the American Association of University Women, and a travel grant through Theaster Gates Rebuild Foundation. Martinez holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in Painting and Printmaking.

04/20/2022

Some detail shots and the open hours for Baby Get Closer!

We’ll be open every Friday and Saturday from 12pm- 5pm until it closes! Come on down!

04/13/2022

Baby Get Closer by Sahar Carter, Brandon Hartley, Rashad Heagle, and Immanuel Williams.

Opening Reception: 4/15 4pm- 8pm.
Visiting Hours: TBD

Baby Get Closer highlights the work of emerging artists Sahar Carter (multidisciplinary artist), Brandon Hartley (Sculptor), Rashad Heagle (photographer), and Immanuel Williams (multidisciplinary artist). They will be displaying works in conversation with the conceptual life, death, and rebirth of love in interpersonal relationships. This show would include a performance from Sahar Carter.

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03/05/2022

I Wanna Be You Anywhere
by Juan Arango Palacios and Nicholas Zepeda

Visiting hours until the end of March are:
Saturdays 12- 5pm, walk-ins welcomed.

I Wanna Be You Anywhere is an exhibition featuring prints, drawings, and installation work by Chicago-based artists Juan Arango Palacios and Nicholas Zepeda produced during a shared residency at the Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY. Zepeda’s attention to domestic spaces paired with Arango Palacios’ fantastical world-building set the stage for a tale of q***r becoming, told through a set of collaborative drawings and individual projects.

Both drawing inspiration from their favorite music, these artists unapologetically indulge in their vulnerabilities by referencing emotional lyrics and their own childhood memories.

02/19/2022

I Wanna Be You Anywhere is an exhibition featuring prints, drawings, and installation work by Chicago-based artists Juan Arango Palacios and Nicholas Zepeda produced during a shared residency at the Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY. Zepeda’s attention to domestic spaces paired with Arango Palacios’ fantastical world-building set the stage for a tale of q***r becoming, told through a set of collaborative drawings and individual projects.

Both drawing inspiration from their favorite music, these artists unapologetically indulge in their vulnerabilities by referencing emotional lyrics and their own childhood memories.
Although distinct in their own playlists, the two share a clear a dedication to drawing. One that can be traced to a pictorial structures course they both attended at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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In the fantasy of Arango Palacios’ work, characters from Latin American folklore are brought to life through the lens of contemporary q***r culture. Make-up wearing tattooed characters yield swords, and are guided by the magical lyrics of Cumbia and Reggaeton music.

Zepeda presents a new series of of text-based yearning and installation from a practice interested in the performance of sharing autobiographical work, and not leaving your apartment.

11/08/2021

‘s student show will be up in the gallery for the next week, in anticipation of their own upcoming Control the Bor(d)ers exhibition which will take us into 2022.

11/04/2021

Brandon Alvendia’s rapid follow up to his just-closed Catskill exhibition is open now at The Chicago Cultural Center!

10/22/2021

Brandon Alvendia’s Jungle Boogie 2: Portrait of the Artist As A Colossal Wreck - Artist Reception and send off
Oct 23
5-8
Co-Prosperity Catskill

Sunday Open Hours 1-6

Jungle Boogie 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Colossal Wreck is a restaging of extant artworks, documents, and reclaimed materials derived from 13 years of artistic output of the artist, curator, and educator Brandon Alvendia, living and working out of Chicago. The artist portrays himself in this solo survey as a co**se stranded on a deserted archipelago amidst the wreckage of a shipwreck scattering his smuggled wares.

The work will be placed throughout the space in a series of desert island vignettes, designed to highlight the different methodology at play, spanning installation, curating, research, publishing, and foremost, collaboration. All of which is delivered with the signature comedic timing of the recently self-proclaimed (on Twitter), “Friendly First Generation Filipino Failson, America's Next Top Model Minority, and Sane Middle Class Asian American Anchor Baby.”

Detourning and decolonizing what would be a momentous occasion of an objective mid-career retrospective, the artist instead portrays himself working on an act of salvage and survival during a proverbial mid-career crisis. The works appear as compromised, damaged, fragmented, shabby, weathered, obscured, indistinct, and otherwise incomplete hazy documents adrift in the psychedelic experience of being lost in the vast sea of our contemporary moment. However, signs of reclamation, repurpose, reinvigoration, and reenchantment pervade the scenes, quickly erected ad-hoc altars and other useful, albeit rickety, structures prop up the remains, evidence of a desire for connection despite the condition of extreme isolation, a faint beacon at the top of the small barren hill still stands. (cont’d)

08/28/2021

Join us TODAY at 8:30pm for a special performance by Brandon Alvendia!

🏦NFT (Not F*cking Telling)🏦
Detritus of a 5-act stage play adapted for a bank.

The artist will be premiering NFT(Not F*cking Telling). A 5-act stage play adapted for and performed privately for the purpose of documentation in the form of installation and photography. The 15-minute performance inverts the genre, aesthetic, and production value of the Hollywood buddy heist film wherein the artist and an anonymous crew rapidly execute an in situ installation of the work to leave behind for the weekend, the installation process will be captured through analog instant photography to also be left behind for visitors.

Walkthrough and artist reading “Jokes for the Working Class” on Saturday, August 28, 8:30pm. Performing just down the street at 💰337 Main Street, Catskill, NY💰

Masks required. Limited capacity. FREE.

Brandon’s exhibition “Jungle Boogie 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Colossal Wreck:
Selected Projects (2008-2021)” will open at Co-Prosperity Catskill Friday, September 3rd. More info at coprosperity.org~
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08/27/2021

It’s all coming together! 🐈‍⬛✨

Just us tonight for a closing celebration for Before the After Party!

✨7-10 at ✨

With DJ
Spinning on ‘s WGXC’s 90.7FM & free beer courtesy of ! Plus, a selection of printed works for sale from .chicago. Come by if you’re around for .

Learn more at CoProsperity.org.
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08/25/2021

Don’t miss your chance to see 🕚Before the After Party🕚!

A Long-Postponed Group Show Featuring Five 2019 ACRE Residents: Amy Cousins, Charles Ryan Long, Christopher Sonny Martinez, Toisha Tucker and Zachary Hutchinson. Co-curated by: Sofia Moreno, Paula Volpato and Nick Wylie.

Join us for a closing celebration 🌟Friday 7-10pm🌟
With artists, free beer, and recent resident, , will be playing disco, club, and q***r p**n selections to dance to under the fuzzy disco ball~

Remaining open hours Saturday 12-8pm and Sunday 12-3pm.

Plus, 🏦NFT (Not F*cking Telling)🏦 by Brandon Alvendia debuts this Saturday at 8:30pm. Walkthrough and artist reading “Jokes for the Working Class”. FREE. Performing just down the street at *337 Main Street, Catskill, NY*

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