PSIC: Women of Color Organizing (in the arts and beyond)

Project Space Industrial Complex de-centers and provokes the standard actions and motivations of independent art spaces. Co-taught by Chloe Alexandra, Carmen Denison, Eleanor Ford and Devin Ruiz, each class of PSIC will present candid discussions of standard institutionalisms alongside experimental constructions of space and community building beyond the heteropatriarchal white supremacy of the status quo. The subject matter of each course will build upon the last, with a resultant expanded discourse that includes space construction, art markets, social/political structures and the function of ‘alternatives’ within white supremacist institutionalizes.

The second class of PSIC will be a forum on the subject of Women of Color Organizing. Inspired by Andrea Smith's essay Rethinking Women of Color Organizing, and with a sharp awareness of the amount of work carried by women of color, we felt this topic would present an occasion to come together and recognize the necessary labor put forward by woc in the arts and beyond. Multiple speakers will join instructors to give short presentations on and around the topic of Women of Color Organizing – ranging from personal experiences to textual readings.

Cover photo: Where We At (WWA) Black Women Artists Collective (1973)

The class will be livestreamed and archived for those who can't join us at this place and time.