OPENwALL SERIES
Free Center’s commitment to sharing the best of our creative community is showcased with our OPENwALL ’zine gallery series. Join us for provocative responses comprising a full range of artistic expression to themes that are relevant to our community, our times, and our humanity.
This exhibit features work in all creative mediums by artists who consider themselves to have physical, intellectual, or mental health disabilities. Artwork doesn’t focus exclusively on issues of disability—the exhibit is designed to celebrate the talent, vision, and abilities of members of our community who thrive despite a broad range of access inequities.
GALLERY COMING FEBRUARY 2024
Free Center partnered with the Hill-Stead Museum and many other local organizations to celebrate Liberation and the Black Identity. This exhibition features Black self-portraits, as an introspection into our rich Black identity and a reflection on our path to Liberation. Through these portraits, we explore our history, present, and collective futures.
Opening Valentine’s Weekend, this exhibit is a thematic retrospective showcasing work of all creative forms that present a perspective on queerness from our Free Center community members, near and far.
While Free Center works to create safe spaces and access for all, we live with the challenges embedded in these words—in the power and delicacy of both safety and spaces, with the idea that achieving peace too often requires creating upheaval. In this spirit, we invited our community to contribute to our first OPENwALL exhibit by sharing observations, experiences, and lessons learned through the double pandemic of Spring and Summer, 2020.