Based on our ten-year anniversary exhibition, Rays, Ripplies, Residue, this decadal season extends the spirit of the exhibition into programming that considers, obscures, and cyclically revisits, and at times, re-imagines, the past, present, and future of 421 as witness to the transformations, translations, and adaptations within and surrounding its walls. 

The seasonal general public programming invites four modalities of translating our past, present, and future. 

Retrospective programming revisits our histories in programming, formative moments that have carved the foundations of 421’s ethos of gathering, making, and witnessing. 

Perspective programming centers the ongoing, dynamic practices and ecosystems that make up our creative, socio-cultural and artistic fabric today. These offerings are from today’s perspectives. 

Speculative programming invites collective imagination, offering speculative and experimental approaches to envision possible futures, im/possible outcomes, and otherworldly what-if translations. 

Through embodied practices, cross and multidisciplinary approaches to making and learning, intergenerational and inter-materiality dialogues, this decadal season invites our community to contemplate, to look back, to look ahead, and to look forward at the tangible and intangible traces of our ever-evolving arts landscape and encourages our community to plant their speculative seeds.