CURATORIAL PROJECT: PUNKSACOLA

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PUNKSACOLA: Reflections of a Subculture
July 20, 2018 -July 15, 2020
2nd Floor Gallery, Pensacola Museum of History, at the University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
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As a crossroads of culture, Pensacola has a long history and strong connection to the global Punk scene. The exhibition immersed viewers in the punk subculture through oral history, video, music and ephemera to uncover a vibrant and important part of our social fabric. This exhibit was co-curated by founders of the 309 Punk Project, Lowell Basset, and The Historic Trust of Pensacola, FL.

Images from July 20th, 2018 on Opening Night

Photo Credit: Brian Butler @beautifulpensacola

Punksacola Programming

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CURATORIAL PROJECT: MIKE BRODIE

MIKE BRODIE: Relics from the Road 
September 6, 2019 - October 20, 2019
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
 
This exhibition presents Mike Brodie’s iconic photographs alongside objects from his travels and totems from the hobo community. Gnarled and crushed silverware, worn boots and garments show indices of lives lived hard, while the handmade embellishments demonstrate the creativity and common interests of the tight-knit community.
 
MIKE BRODIE: Relics from the Road is a curatorial collaboration between the Pensacola Museum of Art, the 309 Punk Project, and Mike Brodie.

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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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CUBED MURAL
Outdoor Mural Installation November 2, 2017 - September 2020. In downtown Pensacola at Museum Plaza behind the Pensacola History Museum until damaged during Hurricane Sally.

This Outdoor Mural installation offered a Live Mural-Making Performance on November 3-5 , 2017, where the public could engage these artists by witnessing their process and asking questions. CUBED was guest juried by Lyla Catellier who is the Co-Director of Public Programs and Special Events at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and planning at Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia GSAPP) and was Co-Curated by Evan Levin and Ashton Howard with the Pensacola Museum of Art.
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 This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb was a band whose members lived at 309. They wrote a song called Memoirs from the Secret Spot.

"I can see your house from here, at night it lights up the whole hill. The taxi driver know where to take me. To your house, we drive by your house five times. From here I can see the water tower. The Taxi driver knows where to take me. To the water tower. We drive by the water tower five times."

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This song inspired a tattoo that many Pensacola punks have inked on their bodies. We put out a call on Instagram asking Pensacola punks to send us images of their tattoos. Each tat is as unique as the punk who wears it. ​​ It is dedicated to Steve Winfrey.

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Past  Exhibitions

URBAN WILD: Folk and Street Art in The South
May 10, 2019- October 26, 2019
Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL

Sean Linezo created an art installation inspired from the 309 Archive including works titled:  Statues Also Die (A.K.A You Are Beautiful, Cops Can’t Dance, Stop the War and Eat the Rich, Indian Killer) and Musical Chairs Mosh Pit.

Urban Wild is an exhibition that looks for the diversity of art that is practiced throughout the streets, highways, and dirt roads of the South. Taking engagement with public space as the only cue–object making, visual art, collecting, public sculpture and installation abound. These artists draw from graffiti, tattoo, skate, and hip-hop culture, as well as comic book illustration, pop art, folk art, and even old-fashioned sign painting. The traditional dividing lines between high and low art forms are non-existent. This exhibition aims to capture the breadth and diversity of art that makes public place its forum, as the Southern Street becomes a stage and canvas all its own.

Curated by our newly appointed Director of Exhibitions, elizabet elliott, Alabama Contemporary Art Center has enlisted 38 artists from a number of disciplines whose work reflects the social environment, culture, and sub-cultures of life in the South. Artists hail from all over the South, up to and including our own backyard. 

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