



Free and Not Yet
CRYSTAL BRIDGES, BENTONVILLE, AK
2017As part of her participation in The Beyond, Molly Larkey presented an interactive discussion and participatory program combining art and conversation. She worked with girls who were in a jail diversion program through Teen Action and Support Center in Springfield, Arkansas to present the work at the museum. During the event, Molly facilitated a discussion centered on her work in the exhibition, as well as a special participatory engagement with her ceramic pendants, each of which is offered to the visitors, to take, wear and keep. Guests were invited to reflect on this event as a symbolic act based in the sharing of resources, mutual wellbeing, and our inherent connectedness.
Larkey and the youth participants from Teen Action and Support Center were on site to talk to visitors about economies of generosity and care, and to discuss concrete ways of organizing alternative economies and social structures.