Gallery at RAC: Friday, 19 June 2015

WITH NOT FOR: Art and Archeology from Alumni of the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute The Regional Arts Commission (RAC) presents WITH NOT FOR: Art and Archeology from Alumni of the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute. We want to showcase, document, and amplify the process of how the network of CAT Institute graduates work within communities with art as the common language. Through visual work and a series of performances, we are mapping our connections and multiple layers of experiences; exhibiting some of the artifacts, archeology and anthropology of arts-based community development projects and programs; and speaking out loud our manifesto of the powerful intersections of community and art. WITH NOT FOR hones into a few words a key principle of the CAT Institute. In the field of arts-based community development, the most potent work is that in which we are not doing things for people in our communities but working with them - side by side - to create the better world we wish to live in together.   For more information about the CAT Institute and its 300 alumni, visit http://racstl.org/art-community/community-arts-training-cat-institute   Join us at the opening reception on Friday, June 19 from 5:30 – 7:30pm, and at our performance series every Friday from June 26 through July 17.   Opening Reception: Friday, June 19, 5:30 – 7:30pm Gallery Performances:    Friday, June 26, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Friday, July 3, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Friday, July 10, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Friday, July 17, 6:00 – 8:30 pm                                 All events are free and open to the public.                                 WITH NOT FOR continues through July 19, 2015. GALLERY HOURS: Mon through Fri from 10am to 5pm; Sat and Sun 12 to 5pm.         The Gallery at the Regional Arts Commission (RAC) 6128 Delmar Blvd. 63112 (across from The Pageant) Free parking behind The Pageant or metered street parking