Common Field, a new visual arts organizing network, has opened tickets and registration for its itinerant convening – Hand-in-Glove, September 17-20, in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Organized by Works Progress Studio and The Soap Factory, the 2015 convening will assemble over 350 visual arts organizers from across the United States and beyond to explore the contexts and conditions of artist-centered projects and spaces and celebrate the official launch of Common Field.

Tickets, schedules, and info are now available at commonfield.org.

Since 2011, Hand-in-Glove has brought together arts organizers, leaders, curators, artists, supporters, and radical administrators to share practices, exchange ideas, and deepen peer relationships. The Minneapolis-St. Paul convening will include debates, panel discussions, artist-designed dinners, workshops, celebratory evening events, and an art tour across the two cities.

Southern Exposure is proud to be a founding member of Common Field, which aims to serve as a platform for independent, non-commercial, experimental contemporary visual arts organizations and organizers from the US and beyond that supports learning, connectivity, research, and advocacy across these groups. Common Field was co-founded by Southern Exposure’s Executive Director, Courtney Fink with a group of organizers and leaders in the field. Common Field’s launch at Hand-in-Glove will officially open membership to visual arts organizations and organizers. Self-nominating members will include artist-run organizations, non-profit art spaces, publications, digital exhibition venues, festivals, residencies, collectives, and collaborative organizers working in a variety of mediums. Common Field's network will facilitate peer-to-peer resources, research, learning, advocacy, and alliances – bringing new voice and visibility to support and grow the field. 

As new members of Common Field, Hand-in-Glove 2015 participants will join founding members and leaders in developing futures for the network.

Hand-in-Glove 2015 Presenters
Presenters will include Joe Ahearn (Clocktower Radio, New York, NY), Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (University of Texas, Austin, TX), Elizabeth Chodos (Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI), Complex Movements (Emergence Media, Detroit, MI), DeAnna Cummings (Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN), Lisa Dent (Creative Capital, New York, NY), Alison Gerber (University of Uppsala, Sweden), Wing Young Huie (The Third Place, Minneapolis, MN), Seitu Jones (CREATE: The Community Meal, Saint Paul, MN), Tricia Khutoretsky (Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN), Gavin Kroeber (Experience Economies, New York, NY), Jessica Lynne and Taylor Renee (ARTS.BLACK, Brooklyn, NY and Detroit, MI), Nat May (SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME), James McAnally (Temporary Art Review, Saint Louis, MO), Dylan A.T. Miner (East Lansing, MI), Chaka Mkali / I Self Divine (Hope Community, Minneapolis, MN), Abigail Satinsky (Threewalls, Chicago, IL), Susannah Schouweiler (Mn Artists, Minneapolis, MN), Mona Smith (Healing Place Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN), Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz (Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY), Sheila Smith (Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, Saint Paul, MN), Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN), Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E., New York, NY), Maria Sykes (Epicenter, Green River, UT), Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (University of Texas, Austin, TX), Chaun Webster (Ancestry Books, Minneapolis, MN), Rosten Woo (Los Angeles, CA), Common Field founding members, and more.

Hand-in-Glove 2015 Organizers
Lead Organizers: Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker (Works Progress Studio), in partnership with The Soap Factory, and Local Advisors: Scott Artley (Collective Creation), D.A. Bullock (Bully Creative Shop), Adrienne Doyle, Regan Golden, Sam Gould (Red 76), Tricia Khutoretsky (Public Functionary), Oskar Ly (Asian Economic Development and Little Mekong), Susannah Schouweiler (Mn Artists) and Mona Smith (Healing Place Collaborative)

Common Field Leadership 
Abigail Satinsky (Threewalls, Chicago, IL) & Stephanie Sherman (Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC) (Co-Directors), Elizabeth Chodos (Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI), Courtney Fink (Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA), Nat May (SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME)

Common Field Founding Membership 
Kenneth Bailey (Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston, MA), Shana Berger (Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL), Elizabeth Cline (Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA), Chris Cook (Cannonball, Miami, FL), Kate Hackman (Former Program Director of Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO), Ben Heywood (Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN), Kristin Kennedy (PICA, Portland, OR), Jori Ketten (186 Carpenter, Providence, RI), Colin Kloecker + Shanai Matteson (Works Progress, Minneapolis, MN), Chris Lynn (Former Executive Director of Spaces, Cleveland, OH), Sharon Maidenberg (Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA), James McAnally (The Luminary Center for the Arts, St Louis, MO), Jonathan Middleton (OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada), Maia Murphy (Recess, New York, NY), Victoria Reis (Transformer, Washington DC), Lane Relyea (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL), Bob Snead (Press Street, New Orleans, LA), Shannon Stratton (Former Executive Director of Threewalls, Chicago, IL), Andrew Suggs (Former Executive Director, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA), Jon Brumit & Sarah Wagner (dflux, Detroit, MI), Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace, New York, NY), Nancy Zastudil (Central Features, Albuquerque, NM)

Common Field Council
Dana Bishop-Root (Transformazium, Pittsburgh, PA), Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (UT Austin), Matthew Fluharty (Art of the Rural, St. Louis), Ryan Dennis (Project Row Houses, TX), Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace, New York, NY), Anne Focke (Seattle, WA), Kemi Ilensanmi (Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY), Mark Allen (Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA), Colin Kloecker (Works Progress Studio, Minneapolis, NN), Lane Relyea (Northwestern, Chicago IL)