| Title | The Icebox Project Space |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Ryan McCartney (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0367.1.32 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/out-of-place-artists-pedagogy-and-purpose/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ryan McCartney |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2021-10-28 |
| Page range | pp. 349–357 |
| Print length | 9 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Ryan McCartney is a curator, educator, and artist living and working in Saint Louis. Born in 1979, Ryan was raised in rural Salem County of southern New Jersey on an estuary of the Delaware Bay. McCartney’s early upbringing was in a now vanishing landscape, one of endless tidal marshes and tall grasses. Based in Philadelphia from 2005–20, Ryan served as one of the first two directors of the Icebox Project Space, with his co-director and friend, Timothy Belknap beginning in 2013. Ryan sought to push the Icebox to reach new communities and audiences through a focus on radically inclusive curation and personal outreach. Each year at the Icebox, McCartney curated and coordinated year-round, visual art programming and performance and produced small-run, artist’s publications and artists’ audio recordings as a continuation of the idea that the gallery space should be a platform for departures, rather than an end in and of itself.