An Endless Meeting: Still Taking Minutes
Friday, October 2, 2026 - Sunday, November 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2026 6pm-10pm
Still Taking Minutes
Presented as part of An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together
Friday, October 2, 2026 - Sunday, November 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2026 6pm-10pm
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Still Taking Minutes, curated by Logan Cryer, is a interview-based exhibition that explores how Philadelphia artists build, sustain and leave collectives. Cryer interviewed over 13 artists based in Philadelphia about their experience as current or past members of artist collectives. Subsequently, four Vox Members — Aaron Terry, Ollie Goss, Gregory Donnell Parker and catia colagioia — met to discuss the conflicts, triumphs and reflections shared those conversations. The resulting exhibition consists of commissioned works from these four artists that reflect some complicated truths about the history of artist collectives and the future of the DIY artist community in our city.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Aaron Terry grew up as a kid with no electricity or running water in the woods of Upstate New York until fate brought his family to Philadelphia, where he grew into the city as a young adult. His biggest fear as a child was nuclear war or a bear attack. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Art and Design, where he teaches Printmaking and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. Terry’s previous teaching includes extensive work in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts with a focus of work abroad in South America organizing arts and language programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. His creative work and research often address themes related to the Cold War and its enduring impact on contemporary politics, particularly the gap between the promised ideals of democracy and the realities of late-stage capitalism's economic inequalities. Terry's work utilizes printmaking techniques, explores the potential of multiples (visual and sonic) and as a re-usable or shared source material, and often incorporates interactive, public art practices.
catia colagioia (b. 2001, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based artist, researcher, and musician working across sculpture, installation, video, print, and performance. She has shown work across the Philadelphia area, and is an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery and Da Vinci Art Alliance, and holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her practice is rooted in her ongoing traversal of Philadelphia. It engages the collection and resurrection of found materials and experiences, treating urban debris and overlooked objects as carriers of memory, pressure, and latent agency, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems.
Gregory Donell Parker is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and editor from PG County, Maryland currently based in Philadelphia, PA. His practice is an object of confession; bruised pitiful by queer poiesis, devotion, and applause. A blank page, he writes: ‘EVERYTHING IS STILL SO EMBARRASSINGLY ABOUT YOU.’ He is currently an artist member of Vox Populi gallery, collaborating on in house exhibitions and other curatorial projects. Also pours a nastyyyy latte.
Ollie Goss is an artist, puppeteer, and performance-maker whose work blends sculptural installations, animated objects, re-tooled electronics and live performance. They attempt to achieve this through a prefigurative politic, hoping to align the means and the ends within their work. In 2016, they received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which took them to seven countries to research puppetry and collaborative performance making. Their work has been shown in places like Icebox Project Space, Temple Contemporary, the Wassaic Project, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Dixon Place and La Mama. They regularly hold performance events throughout Philadelphia and in collaboration with Hannah Tardie annually curate work for the exhibition portion of Electronics Faire. Ollie holds an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture where they currently teach.
About the Curator
Logan Cryer is a curator, writer and mysterious friend with a penchant for local art histories. They are an alum of Moore College of Art & Design, where they acquired a BFA in Fine Arts and minored in Curatorial Studies. Logan attended Headlong Performance Institute and has orbited experimental performance spaces ever since. They are the Co-curator of Icebox Project Space and the creator of Orange Crate Magazine, a quarterly music publication. In addition to art and culture work, Logan works as a tax preparer with the group, Philly Tax Prep for artists, who provides accessible tax prep and consultations to artists and independent contractors. They like to rewatch documentaries.
About An Endless Meeting
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality and enhances public life, and engages in an exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders.
