Inviting the public into dialogue with artists, theorists, researchers, critics, educators, and cultural workers, the Gallery’s events position exhibition making as a lens through which to examine today’s issues and debates. Recognizing the public’s sense for inquiry and experimentation, these workshops, lectures, screenings, tours and other interventions ask us to reflect critically upon the ways we look and the forces inflecting our experience. Welcoming and supporting different modes of public participation, the Gallery’s programming aims to make and hold space for new vectors of interpretation and inclusion.
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Produced with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund
An Image Before Last
Screening Series
Wednesday, August 20, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 27, 6:00 PM – 8:00
At J.A. DeSève Cinéma
Free, in English & Arabic
An Image Before Last (الصورة ما قبل الأخيرة) is part of Othered Cartographies: On Place and Presence, a multi-part public program curated by Lynn Kodeih.
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may utang ka sakin / you owe me something / vous me devez quelque chose
Workshop & Closing Event
Friday, August 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
In the FOFA Gallery Courtyard
Free, in English
may utang ka sakin / you owe me something / vous me devez quelque chose is a participatory postcard-making and object-exchange workshop that explores soft debts, memory, and reciprocity. Participants are invited to create handmade postcards using dollar store materials and images, including photographs by Tyra Maria Trono and visual designs by John Mendoza. Each person will make two postcards, one to keep and one to exchange for a cantaloupe drink served. We will collect one postcard from each participant to form a small collective archive. The event will close with an open karaoke session, where people can dedicate songs to someone they love, miss, or feel owed by.
This event will close out the exhibition of the IGNITION 20 Satellite Project: Just a Small Amount for Your Expenses by Tyra Maria Trono.
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