Underground Gallery Shows

At a time when hard-core, investigative journalism is in peril, the Sanctuary's Underground Gallery presents "Media Nodes," a view behind the curtain, beyond the front page, to the interior landscape of a news industry in transition.

Award-winning photographer Sean Hemmerle, in collaboration with the Columbia Journalism Review, took his camera into newsrooms around the country.  "People throw around this word all the time, mostly disparangingly: 'oh, the media,' and 'media spin," he says.  "That made me think: who is the media?  And what about the media?  I wanted to put a face on these media nodes, the places where news is 'made.'"

10/16/11 - 12/3/11; Mon, Tue, (closed Wed), Thu, Fri, 11 AM-1 PM; an hour before, during and an hour after events; plus by appointment.

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"Media Nodes" series visually articulates the transforming activities and environments of our news media at a time when hard-core, investigative journalism is in peril. 

Scrappin' Upstate, from the “Upstate Girls Documentary Project" 

Brenda Ann Kenneally and The Upstate Girls

Funding for this exhibit made possible through support by Open Society Documentary Photography Fund Audience Engagement Grant (formally called the Distribution Grant). 

In partnership with Rensselaer County Historical Society and Media Alliance; generous in-kind support of printing and copy work from Daniel Portnoy Photography.

For the opening of the Fall '09 season  Troy-based artist Sara Worden brought her Vertical Mushroom Gallery to The Sanctuary for Independent Media.   

Folks came to watch these mushrooms grow, and learn more about permaculture in urban environments!  Check out photos from the opening on Sept. 26, 2009, when permaculture and art friends stopped by to share Kombucha (homemade fermented iced-tea) and conversation in the Wish Garden in front of the Sanctuary.

Installed by Sara Worden and Jack Magai.

The Underground Gallery at The Sanctuary for Independent Media features an exhibition organized by the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange called, "Don’t Forget Us: Iraqi Children 2001 – 2008 (Sanctions, War, Occupation and Exile)” from September 12 through December 14, 2008. The show is open to the public free of charge an hour before, during, and an hour after events and workshops at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

The exhibit is a collection of artwork, created by Iraqi children, especially for this child-to-child art exchange project, and photographs taken in Baghdad and Amman Jordan by ICAE director Claudia Lefko.