Please join us for the Closing Reception & Artist Talk for Social Contracts, presented by Current Space and Invisible Architectures, a program of Co-Lab at Towson University; curated by Ada Pinkston, Julianne Hamilton, and Michael Benevento.

Including:
Alyssa Dennis
Andrew Awanda
Anne Bouie
Elena Volkova
Eric Garner
Jaimes Mayhew & collaborators*
Johab Silva
Jose Trejo Maya
Jung Won Lee
Oliver Maddox
Sandy Williams IV

*Collaborators with Jaimes Mayhew include:
- Dr. Kalima Young, Ti-Malik Colemen and Blair Franklin
- Monte Ephram, Beth Hare, Louis Hughes, Tina Jones, and Cheryl Parham
- Aileen Santiago and Foster Reynolds-Santiago
- Jess McPherson, Joshua Hudson, Maureen Zieber, Eastern 2-Spirit & Indigiqueer Gathering Planning Committee
- Mally Deveroux and Ngaire Philip

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Exhibit Runs: March 9 - April 6, 2024
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm or by appointment
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: April 6, 2-5pm. Artist talk 3pm
Location: Current Space, 421 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

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This exhibition is a part of the Social Contracts Festival, an interdisciplinary art festival being held in and around Baltimore, MD in the Spring of 2024. It represents the final year of the Co-Lab sponsored project, Invisible Architectures . Festival locations include Current Space, Maryland Art Place, StartUp at the Armory Gallery in Towson, MD, and more.

The term social contract started when philosophers from France to England started to think about the nature of humanity and the tensions that exist between the people who enact power and the people who do not. What are the agreed upon boundaries that exist within our social, family and political structures? How do these boundaries create or negate cognitive distance with what actually happens in any social theater?

As we approach another election year in the United States, agreements about what is included in an American social contract continue to be up for debate. Artistic interventions have the potential to offer us much needed insights and possibilities for our collective future.

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Accessibility and Parking Info:
currentspace.com/visit

Space Access –
Physical: The courtyard and first floor, including restrooms, are all ground level without any steps or curbs. However, the restroom is not wheelchair accessible.

Parking: Pay-for street parking available directly out front, if filled: Franklin St, Park Ave, or Howard St. There is also a pay lot on corner of Franklin St and Park Ave (behind Current Space). If you park in this lot directly behind the back gate, be sure to pay – they tow extremely aggressively.

Light Rail: Centre Street
Metro: Lexington Market

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Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and garden bar; nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Thank You
This festival is being produced with the generous support of The Grit Fund, administered by the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Jaimes Mayhew's project is funded by a 2021 Rubys Artist Grant, a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation with in-kind support from The University of Vermont.

Programs at Current Space are made possible in part by supporting members like you; the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; The Creative Baltimore Fund, which is a grant program funded by the Mayor’s Office and the City of Baltimore; and The Rouse Family Foundation.