On January 28, 2015, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Herndon Gallery will host a public participatory painting workshop and discussion led by Antioch College art students on the Antioch Solar Farm Fence Project.

The Herndon Gallery at Antioch College is pleased to announce its newest exhibition, TAG! Territorial Negotiations, an exhibition curated from the street art of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and exploring the territorial claims and negotiations inherent in public art.

The exhibition will continue through February 13, 2015.

Curated by Raewyn Martyn, assistant professor of art; Andrew Thompson, visiting assistant professor of sculpture; and Jennifer Wenker, creative director of the Herndon Gallery, TAG! Territorial Negotiations is a street-savvy exhibition featuring diverse street artists negotiating territorial space claims on the public turf and bringing up conversations about overt and covert space claims, the give-and-take of community, individual, and personal interests that each artist negotiates when making art in our shared public spaces.

The title, TAG, allows for numerous meanings of the word, from the playground game, to identification, a graffiti signature in spray paint, and to hashtags used in social media to simplify or categorize a more complex subject.

Murals, panel art, graffiti, yarn-bombing and street performers infuse our community with layers of sensory experiences in our shared public spaces—some as gifts, others as claims. This timely exhibition will offer opportunities for dialogue among diverse perspectives of the muddled and contentious relationships among public art, street art, graffiti and vandalism.

More than 30 Yellow Springs street artists are represented in this exhibition. Additionally, the local street art negotiations will be contextualized within the broader world through global street art documentary screenings and public presentations. All events are free and open to the public.

Herndon Gallery
South Hall, Antioch College
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m.
For more info, contact Jennifer Wenker at jwenker@antiochcollege.org or 937-319-0114