Recess Activities, Inc. offers a new model that gives contemporary and emerging artists space to use as a studio, exhibition venue, or grounds for experimentation. The street-level space is open to the public, facilitating meaningful visual and intellectual interactions between artists and the community.

Recess’s signature program Session offers artists two or three month public residencies, during which artists are given agency to determine the visibility of their work and the parameters of its presentation.

In between residencies, Recess offers shorter programs that likewise offer artists and audiences creative control and demystify the tropes of the artistic process.