Alternative Lifestyle

alternative lifestyle


V.20 No.31 | 8/4/2011
Harvest: a portrait of the artist, Roberta Price, 1972
David Perkins

Gallery Review

Life on the Flip Side

Concurrent exhibits at 516 ARTS home in on alternative communities

The first thing you notice is a bearded man with “Hug Life” tattooed across his beer gut, standing on a homemade raft. This image, and numerous other examples of alternative living, are the focus of two summer exhibits at 516 ARTS: Across the Great Divide, a collection of photographs by Roberta Price, and Worlds Outside This One, featuring more than a dozen contributors. Across the Great Divide documents life in Southwestern communes―small, rural communities based around collective land ownership. Worlds Outside This One shows environmentally friendly and often portable methods of housing from around the world.

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