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Advocating for women in the arts since 1972. Supporting women in the arts since 1972.

09/11/2024

Submissions are open for the 2025 A.I.R. Biennial, "Find the Body," curated by Patricia Margarita Hernández () through October 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM ED! ⁠
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"Find the Body," invites artists to engage with the nebulous boundary between performance and daily life, a line increasingly destabilized by the confusion inherent in our hallucinatory media landscape. We often find ourselves caught between the tension of digital entanglements and analogue experience. Find the Body is an opportunity to reflect on the contradictory confluence of reality and artifice—and how we present our most vulnerable selves on and offline.

05/13/2024

2023–2024 Fellow Denisse Griselda Reyes has partnered with the Rural Women’s Association
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The Rural Women’s Association is a grassroots organization founded in 2015, formed to organize educational, artistic, and cultural activities aimed at empowering children, youth, and women. Donations support crucial initiatives such as educational workshops, literacy classes, and psychological services that uplift Palestinian communities, and also aid in promoting sustainable income projects like traditional crafts and agriculture, empowering women to not only support their families but also to become leaders in their communities. These programs are vital in overcoming the challenges faced in rural areas, enhancing children’s wellbeing, and providing women with the tools they need for economic independence.

03/19/2024

Join us on Saturday, April 6, from 2–4pm for a workshop on traditional Chinese water-based woodcut printmaking with 2023–2024 Fellow Xinyi Liu ()!⁠⁠
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The workshop will cover fundamental aspects, including historical context, material selection, carving methods, ink preparation, and printing processes on mulberry paper.⁠ No prior experience is necessary.⁠⁠
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Space is limited. To RSVP, please visit the link in our bio.

01/21/2024

Join us at A.I.R. Gallery on Saturday February 3 at 6PM for "Expression and Power", a panel presented by A.I.R. Gallery and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) in conjunction with "CURRENTS: Free Expression and the Inexpressible"!

This panel brings together three artists from the 2024 CURRENTS exhibition, Avram Finkelstein, Viva Ruiz( ), and Asia Stewart (), as well as NCAC’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program Director Elizabeth Larison and exhibition curator Aliza Shvarts, to discuss censorship as well as the state-mandated silencing, medically enabled violence, cultural gatekeeping, and mediatized overexposure that circumscribes what we can and cannot express.

To learn more or RSVP, click the link in our bio.

Image: Asia Stewart, FAH, 2023. Enlarged polaroid print. 20 x 20 inches.

12/20/2023

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed from December 20, 2023 through January 5, 2024. We wish you all a happy and restful holiday season!⁠⁠
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Regular gallery hours will resume on Saturday, January 6 with the opening of two new exhibitions, a solo exhibition by Carolyn Martin in Gallery I, and "Free Expression and the Inexpressible," the 2024 iteration of our CURRENTS exhibition series, curated by Aliza Shvarts, in Gallery II & III.

11/21/2023

Join at A.I.R. on Wednesday, November 29 7 to 9PM for a special screening and discussion of the landmark 1982 documentary "La Operación." Directed by Ana María García, the film explores the impact of US-imposed population control efforts in Puerto Rico, focusing on mass sterilization, or as it's commonly known, "la operación," that affected a staggering 1/3 of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s.

Post-screening, NWL will lead a discussion regarding the power structure’s motivations behind historical and contemporary population control policies and how individual interests in family planning are often exploited to achieve the goals of capital. Consider this: What role does the power structure play in shaping policies around population, migration, and labor, and how do these policies impact targeted communities?

06/08/2023

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed today, Thursday June 8, due to air quality conditions in NYC. Stay safe!

05/19/2023

In honor of our 50th anniversary we asked members of the A.I.R. community what the organization means to them! ⁠
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For the seventh iteration of this series we are thrilled to feature artist and current A.I.R. Fellow Asia Stewart () who's solo show "dreamgurl" is currently on view. Stay tuned over the next couple months for more!

03/23/2023

Join at on March 29 at 7 PM for a special public talk organized to celebrate Women’s History Month and learn about NWL’s campaign to get the Morning After Pill available over the counter!
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During the event, a NWL activist and plaintiff in the case against the FDA (Tummino v. Hamburg) will discuss the tactics used to win the fight to make emergency contraception available to all without a prescription.
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RSVP and learn more via the link in our bio!

03/17/2023

DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.

SZN 1 was a fantastic experience! I learned a lot and was able to connect with my immediate community of Black women. I wanted to see their work remembered and have our ideas recorded for the future so that history reflects them wholly. The artists featured in SZN 1 were: Ariel René Jackson, Ellesse Nyree Garvin, Bianca Fields, Kristen McKinney, and Keli Safia Maksud. SZN 2 recently began and included Kelli McKinney and Isabel Alicia Baptisa.

I want to take into consideration those who don’t use IG to provide a means of wider access. I can’t wait to share how it will unfold with you throughout 2023. Yes these are conversations about art, but they are also conversations about home, space, belonging, health, and more. The project is growing beautifully and I can’t wait to see how it blooms! Thank you to the A.I.R. community for letting me spend these last few weeks with you.

03/10/2023

🔺DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.🔺

Episode NMBR 5 featured 2022-2023 A.I.R. Fellow Keli Safia Maksud! I had met Keli through Blackburn and had done a studio visit with her. As the project developed, I reached out to her and she agreed to participate. During her episode, we talked about how sound shapes space. I didn’t know that Keli was a fellow at A.I.R. until after her episode. One day I entered the gallery, and they were preparing for their fellowship opening program, and Keli was presenting. It was kismet! Take a listen. I enjoyed and learned so much from our conversation.

DSCNNCTD is a podcast dedicated to exploring the practices of Black and POC artists across disciplines. These discussions decenter the sociocultural lenses of trauma and violence to allow for conversations on aesthetics, fun, history, craftsmanship, and ingenuity to thrive.

03/03/2023

Hi A.I.R. Community! It’s Stephanie E. Goodalle here to talk about my podcast DSCNNCTD. I started DSCNNCTD for several reasons. I was already in conversation with my Black women friends at the time. This screen cap is from SZN with Atlanta-based photographer Kelli Jai McKinney.

Many Black arts professionals can speak to the sudden boom of business or interest in their work after the events of 2020. The spectacle of Black trauma is profitable and I felt that I was being approached solely to engage with this. It's tiring, limiting, and unchallenging and others share my sentiments. DSCNNCTD is that space that decenters that trauma and violence. Yes, it exists, but it doesn’t have to consume every thought.

These discussions are an archive for artists as they develop in their careers. It’s important that there are immediate resources both for an artist and their audience. DSCNNCTD allows for artists to talk and allows for listeners to revisit the discussion at a later time. I don’t want history to have to play catch up with Black and POC artists this time around. I want the record, artistically, historically, and socially to demonstrate that they, we, are here.

12/27/2022

For ✨50 years✨ has provided an essential alternative space for artistic risk-taking and feminist solidarity in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. From challenging the inequitable representation of women and non-binary artists to championing reproductive justice and fostering international feminist community, A.I.R. has long been a platform where the arts and activism intertwine.
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As 2022 comes to a close, your tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫
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Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.
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Images: How to Perform an Abortion, “Trigger Planting” (2022); “CURRENTS: Abortion” (2018); “CHOICE” (1992); “Sleepless in Warsaw” (2022); [A.I.R. + BATURU] (2020-21); “Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together?” (2018); “Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States” (1980).
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12/15/2022

As celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever. The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 to address the lack of support for emerging and underrepresented artists in NYC and has since enabled more than 110 women and non-binary artists to realize their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community.
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Your end-of-year tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for generations to come. 💫To support us, click here: www.airgallery.org/donate💫
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Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.
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Images: A.I.R. Fellowship Exhibitions: Maya Jeffereis (2022), Bat-Ami Rivlin (2021), Sareh Imani (2020), Macon Reed (2019).
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11/29/2022

For 50 years has provided an essential alternative space for artistic experimentation and rigor in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. While much has changed since A.I.R. was founded in 1972, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever.
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Your contribution to the Campaign ensures that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫
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Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.
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Image 1: Women, Art, & Revolution, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 97 Wooster St, 1980, design by M. Field; image 2: Who Cares About Feminism?, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 63 Crosby St, 1991.
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11/21/2022

This year celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment! Always at the heart of our work at A.I.R. is the model of the cooperative—a collective venture built through shared space, support, and purpose.
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As a member of our community, we invite you now to join us as we collectively shape the next 50 years of this radical feminist experiment. Your tax-deductible contribution of any size to the will ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫To support us, click the link in our bio!💫
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Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.
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10/20/2022

This week at A.I.R. Gallery: As part of her exhibition "SOCIAL PORTRAIT," Finnish artist .haikala will be holding durational drawing performances each day from 4-6 PM. Haikala will draw two portraits of each sitter, and in the end, they will be able to choose which of the portraits they would like to keep for themselves.⁠
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Join us at the gallery from 4-6 PM on one of the following dates to participate: Thursday, October 20, Friday, October 21, Saturday, October 22, Sunday, October 23. ⁠
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Haikala's exhibition is the latest iteration of the artist’s ongoing "Social Portrait" project, in which she aims to equalize the art canon by drawing one-thousand portraits of everyday women around the world.⁠
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10/06/2022

09/16/2022

Today we are celebrating 50 years of A.I.R.!⁠
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At 10 a.m. on September 16, 1972, a group show opened at 97 Wooster Street in SoHo, officially introducing A.I.R. Gallery to the world. This opening marked the realization of radical efforts made by 20 women artists to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about women's art. 50 years later, A.I.R. continues to support and increase visibility for women and non-binary artists, providing an alternative space for risk-taking by artists who exist on the margins of the contemporary art world and the art historical canon.⁠
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Kicking off our 50th anniversary celebrations, we are thrilled to announce a collaboration series with The Feminist Institute ()! The series will consist of bi-weekly chapter releases of digital exhibitions that provide broader access to A.I.R.’s historic collection, which physically resides at The Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University. ⁠
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Produced by The Feminist Institute, the digital exhibitions are hosted on . Later this year, the exhibitions and ephemera will also be available via the newly redesigned thefeministinstitute.org alongside other feminist documentation, including materials from the New York Public Library (), , Mary Beth Edelson (former A.I.R. Member), supersisters™ (), and the Addresses Project ().

08/04/2022

From now through October 12, we invite artists to submit works to our upcoming 2023 Biennial exhibition, "Friend of the Artist", curated by Eriola Pira ()!⁠⁠
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As with most artist-run spaces, A.I.R. Gallery’s story begins with a couple of friends in 1972. Even if they didn’t put each other in their work, the gallery they founded ensured that we now know who they were there with, not to mention the countless other women and non-binary artists who have come together since. Fifty years later, the 15th A.I.R. Biennial looks to showcase the friends of artists, welcoming both glimpses of those you are together with today and considerations of community and solidarity more broadly. The show asks artists to invite the public into their intimate and interconnected webs of relations, love, care, and mutual support. So whether you are making work with your comrades or putting them in your art, show up!⁠⁠
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Curated by Eriola Pira (), Curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, this exhibition is open to artists working across all forms and disciplines.⁠⁠
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Learn more and apply via the link in our bio!⁠⁠
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05/08/2022

05/03/2022

"A Digital Pastoral", Michele Abramowitz
Photography: Sebastian Bach

03/20/2022

A.I.R. Members Daria Dorosh () and Yvonne Shortt () have been working on developing alternative methods for artists to show work and create their own communities and opportunities. The result has been the Artist Open Call Framework.⁠⁠
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Through the Artist Open Call, artists self-select to participate in opportunities, rejecting the traditional selection process as hierarchical and driven by a scarcity mindset. Artists meet weekly to build trust and connections through Zoom or in-person conversations. This preparatory exploration then impacts the creative process on-site. The Framework is currently being prototyped at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY⁠⁠
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To find more information about the Artist Open Call Framework please visit the link in our bio. Daria and Yvonne encourage anyone interested to reach out about creating their own Open Call. ⁠⁠
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Image Description: ⁠Black text talking about the Artist Open Call Framework on a gradient light green background.

03/18/2022

“Item # 25-033” a solo show by New York Member Erica Stoller (.stoller) opens tomorrow March 19, from 12-6pm!
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Continuing her use of unconventional industrial materials to define space, Erica Stoller’s “Item # 25-033” is a single wall-to-wall installation of Manila rope. The installation fills the gallery with lines of rope that define planes, create an enclosure, and throw shadows on the walls and floor. There are no metaphors here; the stuff is what it’s all about.
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Photograph © Jeff Goldberg/Esto
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Image Description: A woman facing away from the camera attaches orange paracord to a sculpture made of Manila rope.

03/17/2022

It’s been thirty years and the fight goes on! Featuring over 500 works dealing with the topic of reproductive rights, “Choice: A Show of Solidarity for Women's Reproductive Rights ” took place at A.I.R. Gallery at 63 Crosby Street, from December 10 to January 4, 1992. The exhibition was a demonstration of support by artists and writers for all women and their right to access reproductive information and abortion care. The proceeds were donated to Planned Parenthood, NYC. ⁠⁠
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To defend abortion access for all, sign the Planned Parenthood Petition via the link in our bio⁠.⁠⁠
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Image Description: Carousel image featuring an installation shot of the “Choice” show. There are many frames and objects hung on the wall, as well as pedestals carrying a box tv and miscellaneous items. The second image portrays the front side (top), and the back side (bottom) of the exhibition postcard.

03/13/2022

Today is the last day to see our current shows, “CURRENTS: Identity Politics” and “S...as in Sylvia”! ⁠⁠
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“CURRENTS: Identity Politics” features twelve artists whose works address timely issues of identity, coalition building, and intersectional analysis and action from nuanced and diverse perspectives.⁠⁠
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“S...as in Sylvia”, is an exhibition of recent work by the sculptor Sylvia Netzer. Installed on custom tabletop pedestals designed by the artist, the individual works serpentine across the gallery in another S-shape, the whole echoing its parts.⁠⁠
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Image Description: Carousel image of an installation shot in a gallery with one purple wall and one white. A video is projected onto the purple wall, and a blue, white, and red painting is hung on the white wall. Between these works is a purple pedestal with small sculptures on it. The second image is of a blue s-shaped sculpture on a bright yellow pedestal. Behind it are two yellow walls with drawings on them.

03/12/2022

Stephanie J. Woods’ (.woods), "Protection Politics" (2022) is a community engagement project started in 2018. According to Woods, "The phrase Protection Politics is about self-preservation, and self-governing. What are ways that we maintain our dignity when faced with tribulations? Is it through affirmations and perseverance? And are these coping devices that we have established a form of defense developed for our survival?" The iteration of "Protection Politics" currently on display at A.I.R. displays reflections from 72 southern Black American women. ⁠⁠
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“CURRENTS: Identity Politics” (February 12 - March 13) features twelve artists whose works address timely issues of identity, coalition building, and intersectional analysis and action from nuanced and diverse perspectives.⁠⁠
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Stephanie J. Woods is a multimedia artist from Charlotte, NC, currently based in Albuquerque, NM. Woods’ is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships, including Black Rock Senegal, the Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, ACRE Residency, the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency. Her work is featured in the permanent collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and she has exhibited her work at Smack Mellon, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NY. Additionally, her work has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Art Papers, Burnaway, and the Boston Art Review.⁠⁠
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Image: Protection Politics, 2022, Lavender Notes, Acrylic Sheets, and Brave Purple Paint, 3ft x 19ft. Description: The first image depicts nine white pieces of paper displayed on a purple wall, and the second shows one of the cards that reads in a typed font: “We are the ones who…”, and then in handwriting “Make ‘IT’ happen, built this country, bear the weight of it all, will overcome, shine into everlasting, take what’s ours only to turn around and share it”.

03/06/2022

It's the last week to see our current shows, “CURRENTS: Identity Politics” and “S...as in Sylvia” before they close on March 13! ⁠⁠
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“CURRENTS: Identity Politics” features twelve artists whose works address timely issues of identity, coalition building, and intersectional analysis and action from nuanced and diverse perspectives.⁠⁠
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“S...as in Sylvia”, is an exhibition of recent work by the sculptor Sylvia Netzer. Installed on custom tabletop pedestals designed by the artist, the individual works serpentine across the gallery in another S-shape, the whole echoing its parts.⁠⁠
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Image Description: Carousel image of an installation shot with two paintings and a freestanding sculptural piece, a second installation shot of a monitor portraying a film piece connected to headphones and a phone, and a third installation shot of two ceramic “S’ shaped pieces on two yellow, rounded pedestals.

02/25/2022

On view until March 5th, “CLOUD DREAMSCAPE”, is an exhibition at The Putney Public Library, in Putney, Vermont. A collection of works in a small- scale display case, the exhibition is the result of a collaborative process including 9 A.I.R. Gallery artists. Both whimsical and provocative, the use of the display case, turned miniature sculpture garden, creates space for material experimentation and cooperation. This is the first of two exhibitions spanning February-March that prototype a new model called the Artist Open Call.⁠⁠
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Participating artists include: Tomoko Abe (), Daria Dorosh (), Yvette Drury Dubinsky (), Maxine Henryson (), Rosina (Zini) Lardieri (), Negin Moss (), Yvonne Shortt ( ),Susan Stainman ( ), and Nancy Storrow⁠⁠ ( )
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February’s case features the following works:⁠⁠
"Lotus Cloud House" by Rosina (Zini) Lardieri, "If I Were A Book" by Yvonne Shortt, "Finger/ Prints" by Nancy Storrow, and "Silver Lining Milestone" by Tomoko Abe⁠⁠
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Image Description: 4 sculptures sit inside a wooden and glass case. The bottom of the case has a print of the sky and clouds.

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Fifty years after @airgallery was founded by twenty groundbreaking women artists, our mission remains as urgent as ever: ✨to provide vital support and visibility to women and non-binary artists in an art world and broader culture still dominated by patriarchal interests.✨⁠⁠ ✨⁠⁠ As our 50th anniversary year comes to a close, we invite you to make a tax-deductible contribution to the #AIR50Campaign. Your donation—big or small—ensures that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫To support us, click the link in our bio!💫⁠⁠ ✨⁠⁠ Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.⁠⁠ ✨⁠⁠ Images: Images: Opening of A.I.R. Gallery, September 1972 (photo by Linda Gustas); Installation of Erica Stoller’s “Item # 25-033,” March 2022 (photo by Jeff Goldberg).⁠⁠ ✨⁠⁠ #AIR50 #ForgingFeministFutures #FeministFutures #Feminist #Feminism #AIR #AIRGallery #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #NYCArt #AlternativeSpace #Support #Donate #WomenintheArts #FeministArt

For ✨50 years✨ @airgallery has provided an essential alternative space for artistic risk-taking and feminist solidarity in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. From challenging the inequitable representation of women and non-binary artists to championing reproductive justice and fostering international feminist community, A.I.R. has long been a platform where the arts and activism intertwine. ✨ As 2022 comes to a close, your tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the #AIR50Campaign will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫 ✨ Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures. ✨ Images: How to Perform an Abortion, “Trigger Planting” (2022); “CURRENTS: Abortion” (2018); “CHOICE” (1992); “Sleepless in Warsaw” (2022); [A.I.R. + BATURU] (2020-21); “Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together?” (2018); “Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States” (1980). ✨ #AIR50 #ForgingFeministFutures #FeministFutures #Feminist #AIR #AIRGallery #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #Art #Activism #ActivistArt #Support #Donate

As @airgallery celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever. The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 to address the lack of support for emerging and underrepresented artists in NYC and has since enabled more than 110 women and non-binary artists to realize their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community. ✨ Your end-of-year tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the #AIR50Campaign will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for generations to come. 💫To support us, click here: www.airgallery.org/donate💫 ✨ Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures. ✨ Images: A.I.R. Fellowship Exhibitions: Maya Jeffereis (2022), Bat-Ami Rivlin (2021), Sareh Imani (2020), Macon Reed (2019). ✨ #AIR50 #ForgingFeministFutures #FeministFutures #Feminist #AIR #AIRGallery #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #AIRFellowship #AIRFellow #EmergingArtists #UnderrepresentedArtists #Support #Donate

For 50 years @airgallery has provided an essential alternative space for artistic experimentation and rigor in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. While much has changed since A.I.R. was founded in 1972, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever. ✨ Your #GivingTuesday contribution to the #AIR50 Campaign ensures that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫 ✨ Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures. ✨ Image 1: Women, Art, & Revolution, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 97 Wooster St, 1980, design by M. Field; image 2: Who Cares About Feminism?, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 63 Crosby St, 1991. ✨ #AIR50 #AIR50Campaign #GivingTuesday #ForgingFeministFutures #AIR #AIRGallery #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #Support #Donate

This year @airgallery celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment! Always at the heart of our work at A.I.R. is the model of the cooperative—a collective venture built through shared space, support, and purpose. ✨ As a member of our community, we invite you now to join us as we collectively shape the next 50 years of this radical feminist experiment. Your tax-deductible contribution of any size to the #AIR50Campaign will ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫To support us, click the link in our bio!💫 ✨ Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures. ✨ #AIR50 #AIR50Campaign #RecastingArtHistory #ForgingFeministFutures #AIR #AIRGallery #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #Support #Donate

Today we are celebrating 50 years of A.I.R.!⁠ 💙⁠ At 10 a.m. on September 16, 1972, a group show opened at 97 Wooster Street in SoHo, officially introducing A.I.R. Gallery to the world. This opening marked the realization of radical efforts made by 20 women artists to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about women's art. 50 years later, A.I.R. continues to support and increase visibility for women and non-binary artists, providing an alternative space for risk-taking by artists who exist on the margins of the contemporary art world and the art historical canon.⁠ 💙⁠ Kicking off our 50th anniversary celebrations, we are thrilled to announce a collaboration series with The Feminist Institute (@thefeministinstitute)! The series will consist of bi-weekly chapter releases of digital exhibitions that provide broader access to A.I.R.’s historic collection, which physically resides at The Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University. ⁠ 💙⁠ Produced by The Feminist Institute, the digital exhibitions are hosted on @GoogleArtsCulture. Later this year, the exhibitions and ephemera will also be available via the newly redesigned thefeministinstitute.org alongside other feminist documentation, including materials from the New York Public Library (@nypl), @GlobalFundforWomen, Mary Beth Edelson (former A.I.R. Member), supersisters™ (@supersisterscards), and the Addresses Project (@gwenshockey).

From now through October 12, we invite artists to submit works to our upcoming 2023 Biennial exhibition, "Friend of the Artist", curated by Eriola Pira (@eriolasgram)!⁠⁠ 👥⁠⁠ As with most artist-run spaces, A.I.R. Gallery’s story begins with a couple of friends in 1972. Even if they didn’t put each other in their work, the gallery they founded ensured that we now know who they were there with, not to mention the countless other women and non-binary artists who have come together since. Fifty years later, the 15th A.I.R. Biennial looks to showcase the friends of artists, welcoming both glimpses of those you are together with today and considerations of community and solidarity more broadly. The show asks artists to invite the public into their intimate and interconnected webs of relations, love, care, and mutual support. So whether you are making work with your comrades or putting them in your art, show up!⁠⁠ 👥⁠⁠ Curated by Eriola Pira (@eriolasgram), Curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, this exhibition is open to artists working across all forms and disciplines.⁠⁠ 👥⁠⁠ Learn more and apply via the link in our bio!⁠⁠ 👥⁠⁠ #AIRGallery #Opencall #OpencallExhibition #CalltoArtists #ArtistOpenCall #EriolaPira #BiennialOpenCall #ArtistOppertunity

“S...as in Sylvia”, a solo exhibition by A.I.R. New York Member Sylvia Netzer, and “CURRENTS: Identity Politics” are both on view starting today! There will be an opening reception from 12-6pm. To book an appointment, please visit the linktree in our bio.⁠⁠ 💫⁠⁠ Featuring works by Ohan Breiding (@ohanbreiding), Kiani Ferris (@love.kiani), Yalda Foroughmand Arabi (@yaldaforoughmand), Ranee Henderson (@ranehend), KC Crow Maddux (@kccrowmaddux), Yvonne Osei (@eve_of_on), Denisse Griselda Reyes (@9riselda), Morgan Thomas Shankweiler (@morganthomasshankweiler), Julia Kim Smith (@juliakimsmith), Asia Stewart (@asiastewart), Angelica Trimble-Yanu (@angelicayanu), and Stephanie J. Woods (@stephaniej.woods). ⁠⁠ 💫⁠⁠ #SAsInSylvia #SylviaNetzer #AIRGallery #Ceramics #GroupExhibition #ContemporaryArt #AIRmember #ExhibitionOpening ⁠#Currents #IdentityPolitics #CombaheeRiverCollective #BlackFeministTheory #Intersectionality #ArtAndPolitics #OhanBreiding #KianiFerris #YaldaForoughmandArabi #RaneeHenderson #KCCrowMaddux #YvonneOsei #DenisseGriseldaReyes #MorganThomasShankweiler #JuliaKimSmith #AsiaStewart #AngelicaTrimbleYanu #StephanieJWoods⁠⁠ 💫⁠⁠ First image: Sylvia Netzer, “‘S’ as in Sylvia,” 2020, High-fired stoneware clay, high-fired glazes. Description: a rounded S-shaped ceramic form, with blue and sienna colored glaze, against an earth yellow background.⁠⁠ 💫⁠⁠ Second image: Yvonne Osei, EXTENSIONS, 2018, video still. Description: a Black woman wearing a brightly-patterned dress is getting her hair braided with dark blue extensions, with three working hands visible in the frame.

For her upcoming solo show “S...as in Sylvia” at A.I.R., sculptor and New York Member Sylvia Netzer produced a series of new ceramic sculptures all shaped like the letter “S.” 💥 Coil built and high-fire glazed, Netzer’s stoneware clay sculptures take form in a way that is not common in the field of ceramics. Sinuous and colorful, they are each unique in shape and size, the largest measuring almost two feet wide and 16 ½ inches high. Netzer’s work is predominantly formalist, driven by a passion for form, color, and the juxtaposition of materials. 💥 The opening reception for this show will take place on Saturday, February 12 from 12-6 PM. Please visit the linktree in our bio to book an appointment. 💥 #SylviaNetzer #AIRGallery #UpcomingExhibition #SAsInSylvia #AIRMember #SoloShow #Ceramics #Sculpture #HighFireReduction #CeramicInstallation 💥 Image Description: a slideshow of Netzer’s S-shaped ceramic forms, with blue, green, and maroon glaze, against an earth yellow background.

Thank you for being a member of the A.I.R. community of artists and supporters. Consider making a year-end donation today! ✨ With “Fractal Nature”, a group exhibition curated by Patricia M. Hernández (@spring_broken), we strived to expand and diversify our programming with work by nineteen A.I.R. National Members, who are based all over the country. We presented “The Scalability Project: Cacophony of Troubled Stories”, an international online exhibition and publication that reflects our ongoing engagement with building a feminist future founded in multiplicity. We also mounted our 14th Biennial exhibition, “An A-historical Daydream”. Curated by Jasmine Wahi (@browngirlcurator), the Biennial featured eleven artists thinking through alternative understandings of time, space, and feminist futurity. ✨ Furthermore, at a time of political turbulence, divisiveness, and social isolation, we collaborated with BATURU—a Chinese organization based in Beijing—to create a digital platform where artists, activists, and art students from both cultures, the US and China, could come together around feminism and art, and to transcend political and geographic borders. “Investigations: Remembering Barbara Siegel”, an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the late A.I.R. Member and organized by A.I.R. Members Nancy Storrow (@nancystorrow) and Kathleen Schneider, came full circle, representing the lifelong vision of care and belonging that the artists of the A.I.R. community uphold. ✨ You can make a contribution by donating to our website (or visit the linktree in our bio). You can also send a check to A.I.R Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 ✨ #GiveBack #Donation #MakeAGift #ThankYou #DonateNow #NonProfit #AIRGallery #SupportUs #SupportTheArts #SupportArt #GivingBack #ArtistCommunity #Community #PatriciaMHernández #JasmineWahi #BarbaraSiegel #NancyStorrowc #KathleenSchneider ✨ Image description: a gif comprising installation views o

A.I.R. Gallery is closed from December 20, 2021 to January 7, 2022. All of us at A.I.R. wish you a safe, restful, and festive holiday season! ☕ A.I.R. will resume regular gallery hours on Wednesday January 7, 2022. We will reopen to celebrate “S…as in Sylvia,” an exhibition of recent work in ceramics by the sculptor Sylvia Netzer; and “CURRENTS: Identity Politics”, the 7th edition of a biennial open call series curated by A.I.R. Executive Director Roxana Fabius (@device_agnostic) and Director of Exhibitions and Fellowship Christian Camacho-Light (@camachohyphenlight). We are currently open by appointment, Wed-Sun, 12-6 PM. Visit the linktree in our bio to book an appointment! ☕ #AIRgallery⁠ #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #WinterBreak #HappyNewYear #DariaDorosh #1974 #ThrowBack #LetterHead ☕ Image: against a pale orange background, A.I.R.’s logo outline reveals a moving sky with clouds, with “Happy Holidays” and twinkling stars layered on top. This design is inspired by the original letterhead designed by Daria Dorosh (@daria_dorosh) in 1974. Influenced by the Beatles, Dorosh used a pre-computer technology called ziptone, which involved cut-and-paste sheets with sticky overlays.

A.I.R. is fortunate to have built a radical global following on the subversive premise that a feminist art practice is not only about the kind of work an artist makes, but about how they work, and the community they build around them. Consider making a year-end donation to A.I.R. Gallery today! ✨ Over the past year, A.I.R. served as a vibrant hub for the multi-faceted work of over 100 talented women and non-binary artists, forging important connections, alliances, and points of resilience across local, national, international, and intergenerational networks. Even in unprecedented times like today, we produced twenty-five exhibitions in our gallery space in Brooklyn, New York, providing a generative space of dialogue and exchange for A.I.R. artists, including Daria Dorosh (@daria_dorosh), Ann Schaumburger (@aschaumburger), Liz Surbeck Biddle (@lizzbidd), Susan Stainman (@susanstainman), Nancy Azara, Barbara Roux, Mimi Oritsky (@mimi_oritsky), and Tomoko Amaki Abe (@tomokoamakiabe). ✨ You can make a contribution by donating to our website (or visit the linktree in our bio). You can also send a check to A.I.R Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. With a gift of $75 or more, you will become an Earth Patron member of The Coven, our beguiling, historic, and groundbreaking artistic community of patrons in New York City. ✨ #GiveBack #Donation #MakeAGift #HolidaySeason #ThankYou #DonateNow #NonForProfit #NonProfit #AIRGallery #SupportUs #EndOfYear #YearInReview #SupportTheArts #SupportArt #GivingBack #ArtistCommunity #Community #AIRMember #TheCoven #EarthPatron #DariaDorosh #AnnSchaumburger #LizSurbeckBiddle #SusanStainman #NancyAzara #BarbaraRoux #MimiOritsky #TomokoAmakiAbe ✨ Image description: a gif comprising installation views of A.I.R. exhibitions, with exhibition captions overlaid on top in neon green.

Thank you for being a member of the A.I.R. community of artists and supporters, and for helping us to grow A.I.R. into what is now the longest-running feminist, self-directed cooperative gallery in the US. Consider making a year-end donation to A.I.R. Gallery today! ✨ Over the past year, A.I.R. served as a vibrant hub for the multi-faceted work of over 100 talented women and non-binary artists, forging important connections, alliances, and points of resilience across local, national, international, and intergenerational networks. We provided mentorship and resources to twelve local emerging and underrepresented artists through the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 A.I.R. Fellowship Programs, supporting the development and sustainability of their art practices. ✨ #GiveBack #Donation #MakeAGift #HolidaySeason #ThankYou #DonateNow #NonForProfit #NonProfit #AIRGallery #SupportUs #EndOfYear #YearInReview #SupportTheArts #SupportArt #GivingBack #ArtistCommunity #Community

It’s your **LAST DAY** to apply to the 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Program! To learn more about the Fellowship, eligibility guidelines, and to apply, visit the linktree in our bio. Applications close TODAY (Monday, November 22) at 11:59 PM! 💟 The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 by former artist member Stephanie Bernheim in order to support underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery. 💟 #AIRFellowship #AIRFellow #AIRFellowshipProgram #ArtistFellowship #Fellowship #Fellow #NicoleFleetwood #GordonHall #BaseeraKhan #EmergingArtist #UnderrepresentedArtist #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #GenderNonConformingArtists #FemmeArtists #AIR #AIRGallery #LastDayToApply 💟 Image description: flashing GIF with a pink background, and texts that read: “A.I.R. Fellowship ‘22/’23”, “Open Call”, “Last Day To Apply!”

It’s your **FINAL** weekend to apply to the 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Program! To learn more about the program, eligibility guidelines, and to apply, visit the linktree in our bio! Applications close this Monday, November 22 at 11:59 PM! ⭐️⁠ ��In the last 28 years, more than 100 artists have had the opportunity to have their first solo exhibition in New York City with the support of the A.I.R. community. This program encourages artistic experimentation and rigor by providing a space where feminist historical precedence and intergenerational dialogue are at the forefront. Essential to this process is a series of professional development workshops, close collaboration with an A.I.R. artist-mentor, scheduled studio visits through the year—including one with a selection panelist—and participation in the Unforgettables Reading/Working Group. ⭐️⁠ 2018-19 Fellow Macon Reed’s (@macon_reed_studio)’s exhibition “Letters to My Imagination,” her first in NYC, showcased a new body of work, including photography and sculpture, that reflected on the human imagination as a site for re-envisioning and catharsis in times of crisis. ⭐️⁠ 2019-20 A.I.R. Fellow Crys Yin’s (@crysyin) solo show “Room for Salivation” showcased a body of drawings and paintings that explored the complicated intersection of desire and shame, and the power that lies in revealing one’s truest impulses, no matter how perverse—or mouth-watering. ⭐️⁠ Lizania Cruz’s (@lizaniacruz) "In Search of Motives” was the first chapter of a new body of work titled “Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary.” In this inaugural chapter, Cruz examined national and personal archives alongside individual testimonies gathered from the public in order to uncover evidence of the role that historical narrative has played in repressing African heritage within the Dominican Republic. ⭐️⁠ #AIRFellowship #AIRFellow #AIRFellowshipProgram #ArtistFellowship #Fellowship

Too many deadlines this application season? Then we have great news for you: the 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Program Open Call has been EXTENDED through Monday, November 22! For more information and to apply, visit the linktree in our bio or airgallery.org. ⭐️⁠ The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 by former artist member Stephanie Bernheim in order to support underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery. This year’s Fellowship Selection Panelists are Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood (@nifleetwood), Gordon Hall (@gordon_hall_), and Baseera Khan (@baseerakhan).⁠ ⭐ In the last 28 years, more than 100 artists have had the opportunity to have their first solo exhibition in New York City with the support of the A.I.R. community. This program encourages artistic experimentation and rigor by providing a space where feminist historical precedence and intergenerational dialogue are at the forefront. Essential to this process is a series of professional development workshops, close collaboration with an A.I.R. artist-mentor, scheduled studio visits through the year—including one with a selection panelist—and participation in the Unforgettables Reading/Working Group. ⭐ #AIRFellowship #AIRFellow #AIRFellowshipProgram #ArtistFellowship #Fellowship #Fellow #NicoleFleetwood #GordonHall #BaseeraKhan #EmergingArtist #UnderrepresentedArtist #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists #GenderNonConformingArtists #FemmeArtists #AIR #AIRGallery #CareerDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment #ArtistMentor ⭐️⁠ Image description: flashing GIF with a pink background, and texts that read: “A.I.R. Fellowship ‘22/’23”, “Open Call”, “Deadline Extended”, “November 22, 2021.”

2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Panelist Gordon Hall (@gordon_hall_) was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Vassar College, and will be 2022 resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Alongside Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood and Baseera Khan, Hall will be reviewing submissions to the 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Program — applications are OPEN NOW through Monday, November 15 💻📚📣! To apply, visit the Linktree in our bio. 🌟 Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York who makes sculptures and performances. Hall holds an MFA and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Hampshire College. Hall has had solo presentations at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, EMPAC, and Temple Contemporary, and has been in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hessel Museum, Art in General, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, among many others. Hall’s book “Other People’s Houses” (2021), published by A.I.R. Gallery in collaboration with Walls Divide Press and commissioned for The Scalability Project, is currently available for purchase at the gallery and on A.I.R.’s website. 🌟 In addition to producing an exhibition and community project at A.I.R., each Fellow receives a studio visit with one of the three panelists who selected them. 🌟 #OpenCall #AIRFellowship #Fellowship #FellowshipOpenCall #AIRGallery #AIRFellow #ArtistFellowship #EmergingArtists #UnderrepresentedArtists #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists ⁠#GordonHall #VassarCollege #Skowhegan #TheScalabilityProject #WallsDividePress 🌟 Image description: flashing GIF of a photo portrait of Gordon Hall against a pink background, and texts that read:“Fellowship Panelist” and “Gordon Hall.”

If you missed the last A.I.R. Fellowship Program Info Session, you’re in for a treat 🌈⚡! A second Zoom Info Session will be held on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 PM ET. A.I.R. Director of Exhibitions and Fellowship Christian Camacho-Light (@camachohyphenlight) will cover application and eligibility guidelines, benefits, and frequently asked questions, followed by Q&A. To register, please go to the Linktree in our bio or visit airgallery.org! ⚡ The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 by former artist member Stephanie Bernheim in order to support underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery. This year’s Fellowship Selection Panelists are Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood (@nifleetwood), Gordon Hall (@gordon_hall_), and Baseera Khan (@baseerakhan).⁠ ⚡ #OpenCall #AIRFellowship #Fellowship #FellowshipOpenCall #AIRGallery #AIRFellow #ArtistFellowship #EmergingArtists #UnderrepresentedArtists #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists ⁠#InfoSession

Congratulations to 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Panelist Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood (@nifleetwood) on receiving a 2021 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant!’ Alongside Gordon Hall and Baseera Khan, Fleetwood will be reviewing submissions to the 2022-23 A.I.R. Fellowship Program — applications are OPEN NOW through Monday, November 15 💻📚📣! To apply, visit the Linktree in our bio. 💫 Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood is a writer, curator and the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. She is the author of “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” (2020), winner of the 2021 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the National Book Critics Award in Criticism, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history, and the Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism. She is also the curator of the traveling exhibition of the same name, which debuted at MoMA PS1 in 2020, and recently opened at the University of Birmingham’s Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts in Alabama. This major show explores the works of artists within prisons in the United States, and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. 💫⁠ Photo credit: Sara Bennett, 2021. 💫 In addition to producing an exhibition and community project at A.I.R., each Fellow receives a studio visit with one of the three panelists who selected them. 💫 #OpenCall #AIRFellowship #Fellowship #FellowshipOpenCall #AIRGallery #AIRFellow #ArtistFellowship #EmergingArtists #UnderrepresentedArtists #WomenArtists #NonBinaryArtists ⁠#NicoleFleetwood #MarkingTime #MoMAPS1 #MacArthurGrant 💫 Image description: flashing GIF of a photo portrait of Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood against a pink background, and texts that read:“Fellowship Panelist” and “Nicole Fleetwood."

FINAL CALL! It’s your **LAST DAY** to apply to the 2022 A.I.R. CURRENTS exhibition “Identity Politics.” Applications close tonight (Monday, November 1) at 11:59 PM! Go to the Linktree in our bio or visit airgallery.org to submit your application. 💥💫 💪 A.I.R. Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the 2022 CURRENTS exhibition "Identity Politics." On the eve of the 45th anniversary f the Combahee River Collective Statement, this open call exhibition looks to the origins of identity politics in order to consider the concept’s continued relevance and contemporary manifestations. Curated by A.I.R. Gallery’s Executive Director Roxana Fabius (@device_agnostic) and Director of Exhibitions and Fellowship Christian Camacho-Light (@camachohyphenlight), the exhibition is open to all artists working across all forms and disciplines. Initiated at A.I.R. in 2010, CURRENTS is a biennial exhibition series with an activist bent. 💪 #OpenCall #2022CurrentsExhibition #IdentityPolitics #RoxanaFabius #ChristianCamachoLight @device_agnostic @camachohyphenlight #CombaheeRiverCollectiveStatement #CombaheeRiverCollective #IdentityPolitics #AIRGallery 💪 Image description: gif of the words “last day to apply” scrolling across a black background, with the words “2022 Currents Open Call” in blue and white.