A BOOK AND PUBLICATION PROJECT THAT CHARTS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTIST-RUN SCENE IN FIFTY CITIES AND FIFTY STATES.
IMPRACTICAL SPACES is a collaborative national project and groundbreaking anthology of publications that offers a historical look at defunct and active artist-run projects throughout the United States. To build this anthology, we partner with artists, arts professionals, and non-profits in states across the nation to produce publications documenting their local art scenes, and bring them together in the form of a book to demonstrate their overall impact. It is the first project to comprehensively chart the development of these spaces on a national scale.
Impractical Spaces’ advocacy for artist-run projects begins the work of building humane infrastructure for art across the country. We believe in creating meaningful support systems that ensure that the work we all feel compelled to do isn’t lost and forgotten as quickly as it is made.
