SITES OF REFUSAL – Opening Reception

MAG Presents SITES OF REFUSAL

SITES OF REFUSAL

Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 2, 2025 | 7PM – 9PM
📍 MPACC BoxPark Gallery,
925 Mt. Vernon Ave,
Columbus OH

This August, we invite you into a space where protest meets presence, and resistance takes shape in everyday life.

Sites of Refusal is a month-long photographic exhibition featuring the work of father/daughter artists Christopher Summey (Portraits in Protest) and Sydney Summey (A Day in the Periphery).

Through their lens, Sites of Refusal invites us into an intergenerational conversation about Black life, protest, and presence. Their portraits offer both intimate and expansive views of what it means to live, resist, and create outside of systems never meant for us.

“Black life does not simply resist systems that were never made for us—Black life creates, remembers, and lives visions of freedom that are self-defined and rooted in our everyday acts of refusal.”

Join us in celebrating the power of image, memory, and legacy.

🎟️ Free and open to the public.
📅 Exhibition runs through August at the MPACC BoxPark Gallery.