With artist Theaster Gates at the helm, FAI is on a listening tour to determine what the West Kensington neighborhood needs and wants from a space like this.
will open in stages over the next two years. The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street. The multipurpose space will hold a gallery, performing arts venue, and garden area, in addition to FAI’s offices.
In late 2022 and early 2023, the couple purchased a vacant lot and four adjoining buildings on the 2200 block of American Street, including a former electric company substation, an office and retail building, and a former foundry, for $13.5 million. FAI will work with Philadelphia architecture firms DIGSAU and Ian Smith Design Group to transform the 100,000-square-foot site.
FAI is undertaking an extensive listening tour to determine what exactly the West Kensington neighborhood needs and wants from a space such as this. Gates will work with newly appointed FAI executive director Adjoa Jones de Almeida, who was previously at the Brooklyn Museum, and associate executive director Sunanda Ghosh, a local nonprofit strategist who has worked with BlackStar and Asian Arts Initiative, among others.
“We were interested in the notion that we’re not displacing anybody — the buildings that we bought were all commercial,” said Rice. “It’s just repurposing.”“Kensington is at this kind of crossroads moment. There’s a lot of feelings about the potential but also the limitations ,” she said. “I also hear and see the annoyance of people from the neighborhood around the narratives that the outside world knows of Kensington, without recognizing the more nuanced and more complex reality.
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