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The Persephone Project:
Extraction and Metamorphosis @ 6018 North
A Time-Based Collective Experience
6018 North , Chicago, IL
The story of Persephone is both ancient and urgently contemporary. At its center is a cyclical journey between two realms — the Underworld and the Upperworld — descending into the darkness and emerging into the light..
This same movement shapes the residency itself. Selected artists enter a period of process and exchange — working in dialogue, sharing unfinished material, allowing their work to be changed by what surrounds it — before returning to the light in two evenings of public performance. Like Persephone's passage between worlds, the residency does not separate the dark from the bright; it treats both as necessary stages of the same journey.
Throughout the summer, 19 visual artists and performers responded to the myth of Persephone through the lens of extraction and transformation.
Mothernizing Montreal: The Let Down Reflex
July 10 – August 21, 2026
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
Co-organized by Amber Berson and Juliana Driever, The Let Down Reflex proudly advocates for artist-parents and caretakers, and their professional participation in the art world. Spanning ten years, LDR creates a radical presence for families in spaces where they are typically absent, centering advocacy and caretaking in its organization and conceptual framework.
