about
Collective Futures
is a six-week, citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-based initiatives. This collaboratively organized project bringing together more than 30 independent spaces and organizations, Collective Futures will unfold across the city through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public programs from Kensington and North Chinatown to West Philadelphia, Fishtown, and Old City, between October 2 and November 15, 2026.

At its core, Collective Futures centers collective practice as a vital mode of cultural production. Across disciplines and contexts, the project highlights how artists come together to build shared platforms, experiment with new forms, and sustain creative communities.

Taking place during the 250th anniversary of the so-called United States, while many institutions in Philadelphia conjure programming around the complex histories of nation-building and democracy, Collective Futures highlights the artistic experimentation and alternative models that grassroots cultural spaces have long been building

Collective Futures is grounded in the specific conditions of Philadelphia, where a rich ecosystem of artist-run and DIY spaces has made collaborative cultural production possible. As rising costs and development reshape the city, the project affirms the importance of collective cultural life and the infrastructures that sustain it, so that our work can mobilize resources, deepen connections, and envision transformative futures.

Collective Futures is:

  • 2C Books / Marginal Utility
  • 5U Space
  • All Mutable
  • The Arts League
  • Asian Arts Initiative
  • AUTOMAT Collective
  • Batikh Batikh
  • Bearded Ladies
  • Big Ramp
  • Biomaterials Working Group
  • BYO Printmaking Collaborative
  • Center for Emerging Visual Artists
  • Cherry St Pier
  • cinéSPEAK
  • City Arts Salon LLC
  • Da Vinci Art Alliance
  • Fable Encounters
  • Fairmount House
  • FJORD
  • Future Flower Collective
  • FORTUNE
  • Gravy Studio
  • Grizzly Grizzly
  • The Halide Project
  • Hall Pass
  • Icebox Project Space
  • Jane Gallery
  • Luster Gallery
  • Memory Workers Guild
  • Muse Gallery
  • Obvious Agency
  • Paradigm Gallery + Studio
  • Peep Projects
  • Pentimenti
  • People’s Music Supply
  • Pink Noise Projects
  • Practice
  • Prism Arts
  • Second State Press
  • Space 1026
  • Teils Studio
  • Termite TV Collective
  • Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia
  • Ulises
  • Umbria Arts
  • Vox Populi

Collective Futures is made possible with the support of the Penn Treaty Special Services District (PTSSD), the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the PCI Catalyst Grant.

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PROM

FJORD

October 8 — November 15, 2026

PROM
Curated by Fjord
at Icebox Project Space
October 8 – November 15, 2026

Fjord gallery is pleased to present PROM. Celebrating fourteen years of collaboration, past and current members have paired off and created works that respond to their individual practices and time with the collective.

Featuring:

Natessa Amin @natessa.amin
Anthony Bowers @anthonybowersart
charlotte g. chin greene @yesmacaroni
Lindsay Deifik @lindsayilene
Sean FitzGerald @seanrobertfitzgerald
Anna Guarneri @anna.guarneri
Kyle Kogut @kylekogut
Doah Lee @doahlee.studio
Cameron Masters @beuys_ll_men
Theo Mullen @theo_mullen3
Alexandria Nazar @nazararts
Brice Peterson @brice_wp
Amira Pualwan @mirkat239
AJ Rombach @ajrombie
Chrissy Scolaro @chrissyscolaro
Sean M. Starowitz @starowitzprojects
Todd Stong @toddstong
Joy O. Ude @threadtheneedlephl
Seneca Weintraut @dead_horse_camp
Katie Wynne @katieoooowynne

About Fjord:

FJORD is a 501(c)(3) non-profit artist-run collective that elevates the visibility of both emerging and established artists within Philadelphia and beyond by facilitating exhibitions, curatorial projects, collaborations and public programming that highlight diverse media and artistic concerns.

Website: https://fjordspace.com/
Contact: fjord.curator@gmail.com
Instagram: @fjord_

FJORD is a 501(c)(3) non-profit artist-run collective that elevates the visibility of both emerging and established artists within Philadelphia and beyond by facilitating exhibitions, curatorial projects, collaborations and public programming that highlight diverse media and artistic concerns.