Seed paper prints by Pratt students and Recess: Assembly participants
Installation view of Political Intimacy
Date:
March 2021 - April 2022
Facilitated by Amy Khoshbin with Camilo Godoy
Political Intimacy, a collaboration between Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute students, demystifies and humanizes how we interact with our local electoral system. Through a series of interviews that double as collage-making sessions with our political representatives, we aim to highlight the issues we care about— housing, environmental justice, healing, education reform—through creative action and alternative forms of dialogue.
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Founded in 2016, Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art and connections to working artists, while serving as an alternative to incarceration and its intersecting systems of oppression. The curriculum empowers young people to take charge of their own life story and envision a future through art. The program diverts both misdemeanor and felony charges and in 2020 expanded to include a peer-to-peer referral model, allowing us to broaden our reach.
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Opens February 7, 2026
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