š£Calling all museum workers, curators, archivists, art handlers, educators, teaching artists, art historians, front of house, and cultural workers!Ā š£
Join us this Friday as we hold space and stand in solidarity #WithWhitneyWorkers who spoke-up in a letter to Whitney leadership expressing demands for a more ethical museum.
We’ll be rallying in front of the Whitney Museum for a big evening of city-wide museum worker alliance building, conversations, speak-outs, public outreach, and more!Ā
Antonio Serna is an artist working in New York with both a collective and studio based practice. He is currently working on āDocuments of Resistanceā and āCollective Timelinesā two pedagogical projects that focus on the history of artists and workers of color. Additionally he is a member of Arts & Laborās Alternative Economies Working Group which organized āWhat Do We Do Now?ā the first alternatives economies fair and resource guide for artists in NYC. Through these and other autonomous collectives he promotes self-organized cultural events, research, education, and artist-as-activist interventions.
Antonio also maintains a productive studio practice as a place of experimentation, reflection, and as a balance to working collectively. He has recently developed artCommons, an art-sharing platform for studio artists.
Originally from Texas, Antonio has participated and organized projects in New York, Texas, Las Vegas, Spain, Mexico, Berlin, and Romania. Antonio Serna holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, and a BFA from Parsons School of Art.
