Nothing Lasts Forever
Gallery Aferro 2003-2023
 
Dear friends,
 
Gallery Aferro will be closing down after a truly spectacular twenty-year run as a DIY artist space.
 
It is fundamentally impossible to fully summarize, let alone describe, all the projects, programs, collaborations or initiatives wrought since we began. This seems fitting: Aferro was experimental, expansive, and multivoice in tendency; animated by belief in radical generosity, risks, trust, and exchanges of ideas. These continue to be subversive gestures, in a culture that remains, at times, extractive and transactional.
 
As working people, we aimed to create and share resources, and upend conventional notions of who art is by or for. Connections made across difference and between generations were an important part of our work year after year, and we believe that the full impact and meaning of this work will be ongoing. It doesn’t end, it gets passed on.
 
Thank you for twenty wonderful years of community. 
 
Gallery Aferro’s true legacy is every moment shared between people, a wildly dispersed constellation of memories held by all of us collectively and individually. If you’re moved to share a story about Aferro, we hope it will inspire, as example of what we can accomplish collectively.
 
Let the legacy be love. 

Co-Founders, Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox