Flood of Memories

If You Go

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St.

Admission is free.

Open Wednesday –Friday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

www.contemporaryartscenter.org

Launched in 2017, Center of Unfinished Business from Contemporary And (C&) is a roving reading room and discussion-based program. It has traveled to art spaces and museums around the world. The CAC’s iteration, in the lobby, features a curated selection of books and a series of discussions that respond to water as a literal and metaphorical framework for exploring African American and African experiences and cultures.

Breaking Water brings together works in installation, video, photography, painting, sculpture, and performance that offer a range of approaches to the subject of water, liquidity, and feminism. Co-curated by CAC Senior Curator Amara Antilla and independent curator and writer Clelia Coussonnet, Breaking Water opens on May 6 and continues through August 15, 2022. The exhibition will be accompanied by a parallel film screening program that extends the exhibition’s central themes.

Co-organized by the CAC and Wave Pool, Artist-Run Spaces explores a moment of self-reflection and reopening amid the pandemic. The needs and interests of these artist-run and independent spaces, which are often able to pivot and react to current events much quicker than larger organizations, are timely and important. This exhibition features ten artist-run spaces and collectives that developed an installation highlighting their work and ethos, with a focus on showcasing the work of artists and makers within their networks.