The Hyde Park Art Center was founded in 1939 by Senator Paul Douglas and other leaders of the New Deal. Very much in the spirit of the time, Harold Hayden, a Chicago artist and the Art Center’s first director, proclaimed that “art should be found wherever people work and live.”
Pequignot Palace is an interdisciplinary residency in northern, rural Missouri with an agricultural aspect that allows visitors to become a part of the living cycle by tending to the chickens, assisting in the garden, learning and experimenting with fermentation, and cooking holistically.
Tiny Park, an art space founded in 2011 in Austin, TX, presents contemporary art exhibitions, readings, performances, and film screenings by local and national artists. Tiny Park will celebrate the opening of their new gallery space on June 29th with a group exhibition entitled, “Greatest Hits.”
The POP UP Project launches this month, taking over temporary spaces in changing neighborhoods in St. Louis.
Small Engine is an exhibition space and avant-garde music, sound art and performance venue in Albuquerque.
The Peñasco Theatre hosts year-round arts programs including youth summer arts workshops, circus arts classes, community events, professional performances, and artist residencies.
Parallel Studios is a venue for new media artists. Currents 2012: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, featuring single channel video, sound and interactive video installations, multimedia performances and more, will run from June 22 through July 7.