Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common room, and a think tank. After an engaging year of thoughtful and interactive community events, we are excited to extend The Salon for Possible Futures for another year. Guests are invited to immerse themselves in the space and use it as an outlet for thought and conversations. There are themes and prompts embedded in every aspect of the room’s design, from the custom wallpaper and upholstered furniture to the thematically curated curiosity cabinets densely packed with art objects, books, and ephemera. As a viewer, you are invited to open drawers, read, write, draw, sit, spend time with yourself and your thoughts, or with others sharing the space with you. This is a space meant to be used, not just observed. The installation rewards viewer curiosity and participation with the discovery of prompts, games, lessons, secrets, and tools for making and manifesting a future imagined together in the space. The Salon is a collaboration of dozens of artist contributors whose work is integrated into the installation. But the collaboration goes beyond the work of the artists and engages the viewers, asking them to share their own contributions and to use the collections in structured and unstructured ways. The Salon not only serves as a catalyst, but an archive of activity within the space, and all that it may invoke. Documentation and artifacts from the Salon’s community events and programs become a part of the permanent “collection” of the installation. The goal of the space is to act as a portal for a better collective future, fostering dialogue and collective dreaming about what such visualization even means (and doesn’t mean) – but perhaps more importantly, fostering the relationships and community needed to establish any kind of future at all.

MUSEUM HOURSFREE ADMISSIONTue., Fri., Sat.: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Wed., Thu.: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.Sun.: noon-5 p.m.Mon. and JCCC Holidays: Closed