ARC
2026
activate, research, create
ARC (activate, research, create), A.P.E.'s curated summer residency program, is in its ninth season, continuing the investigation of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community. From JUNE 1 thru 28, 2026, A.P.E. will host four projects in our Main St. Gallery that include explorations of durational performance, relationality, and ethical engagement with terrain, live bilateral painting as embodied inquiry into regenerative and restorative practices, quiltmaking as a project to connect trans people to each other across identity, geography and time, and new modes of intergenerational artistic collaboration that challenge the binary between art for “kids” and “adults.” During each residency, the gallery will be open to the public through a variety of workshops, performances, showings, and interactive installations. Each project maintains a central inquiry into the relationship between the public, the work, and the space in which it is made.
The ARC 2026 projects are:
The ARC 2026 projects are:
- Bodies of Land - NiFe Lucey-Brzoza
- fires + flowers (and the meaning we make) - Pasqualina Azzarello
- Places - presented by Transmissions: Quilts for Trans People; Cordy Joan and Joey Dehais
- Imaginary Friends - Alexandra Ripp and Daniel Sack, Odradek Projects
photo credits clockwise from top: Jes Gallegos; no photo credit; Tripp Clemens; Pasqualina Azzarello