Utopia Neighborhood Club: A Student Response

5:30pm: Opening remarks by artists/curators
6pm-8pm: Performances from members of PER4M
6:00pm Erin Lynch
6:30pm Clare Halpine
7:00pm Cicelia Ross-Gotta

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Utopia Neighborhood Club: A Student Response, the second installment in a series of highly-participatory exhibitions and programs meant to generate ideas about our potential new space and future mission, inspired by the legacy of Professor Emeritus Jacob Lawrence. The curators asked, “We think we know what we want for the future, but do we really? This is part of your future too; do you know what you want? Tell us by giving it to us.”

The students responded — passionately, incisively, and resoundingly. In A Student Response, an “Occupy the Jake” political take-over will share the same space as cat-themed-photography art installation. A Black Friday religious experience will live alongside Baroque horror-movie-meets-art-history presentations, and a glitter-heavy collaborative painting party will come in contact with virtual reality installations. The ambitious works, installations, and performances in A Student Response continue to interrogate our initial questions–what is a club, a neighborhood, an idealized utopia?

Exhibiting artists include: Peter Barbor & Katie Schroeder, Maryam Bhurgri, Zachary Bowling & Jessica Capó, Holly Chan, Nate Clark, Ji Huang, Alex Kang, Annieo Klaas & Diego Suarez, Natalie Lew & Abe Poultridge, Peter Mataya, Emma McIntosh, PER4M (Cicelia Ross-Gotta, Ben Gale-Schreck, Brandin Steffensen, Erin Lynch, Daniela Mora, and Clare Halpine), Nick Phillips, Edward Scott, Mckinley Smith, Amy Wang, Huiqing Wang, Brianna Way, Tingjje Wei, Yabsira Wolde, and Bobby Yin.