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
  • 3rd Street Gallery
  • 5U Space
  • All Mutable
  • The Arts League
  • Asian Arts Initiative
  • AUTOMAT Collective
  • Batikh Batikh
  • The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
  • 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
  • errata projects
  • Facing Bench
  • 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
  • The Wooden Shoe

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

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PRINT TIME AFTER TIME

FORTUNE

October 9 — October 11, 2026

Icebox Mall

FORTUNE presents: PRINT TIME AFTER TIME, a weekend-long gathering around print — its methods, its practices, its manifold lives, afterlives, and half-lives. Read more about each program, and register here!

Focusing on publishers and printshops with liberatory work models; print projects led by queer, trans, BIPOC artists; both local standbys and traveling acts — PRINT TIME AFTER TIME offers workshops and panels, and closes with a fair featuring collectively operated print projects and presses. 

We hope to ask: How can print learn from, and leverage, its archives? Why do analog print forms continue to matter, in all the material and labor of their assembly? How can print continue to meet its publics, with intention? What can self-publishing as a collective practice teach us, time after time?

SHOP TALK — Friday, October 9 (5–8:30PM ET)

5–6PM: Trade Economies & International Solidarities, A Conversation w/ Tofu Stand (Berlin) & Display Distribute (Hong Kong) 

6–7:30PM: Books and Their Margins, A Panel w/ Ulises, Tomorrow Today, & Bungee Space (New York)

7:30–8:30PM: Post-Obsolescence, A Talk w/ Robert Baxter & Aiden Bettine (Minneapolis)

SHOP TALK — Saturday, October 10 (12–6PM ET)

12–2PM: Make Your Own Scrap Paper Notebook, A Workshop w/ BYO Print Collaborative

2–3:30PM: Getting the Word Out, A Panel w/ Queer Reads Library (Hong Kong & Vancouver), GenderFail (Brooklyn), Mortar Press (Los Angeles), Brown Recluse Zine Distro (Oakland) 

3:30–4:30PM: Collective Subjectivity, A Talk w/ Noam Youngrak Son (Brussels) 

4:30–6PM: Making It Work, A Panel w/ Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work (Providence), tangled stream (Providence), BULK Space (Detroit) 

THE FAIR — Sunday, October 11 (12–6PM ET)

Join us for a print fair featuring 20+ collectively run print projects and presses. Snacks, bar, disco all day.

​Vendors:

Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work

BULK Space

Bungee Space / Ten Books

BYO Printmaking Collaborative

Clockface Press

Dovetail Projects

The Elephants / Asterion / Timeless Infinite Light

GenderFail

Ginger Arts Center

Iffy Books

Late Night Copies Press

Many Folds Press

Mortar Press

Philly Radical Text Distro

Queer Reads Library

school printer press

Second State Press

The Soapbox: Community Print Shop

tangled stream

Tomorrow Today

Ulises

Upstream

Who Press’d Press