WE MAKE THE ROAD: a benefit show for Abolition School
Fri, Mar 06
|Vox Populi
Vox Populi Gallery is hosting a fundraiser show for radical Philly education project W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction – lovingly known as Abolition School – in support of their free political education programs. Ella Konefal and Masina Frank Curate.
Time & Location
Mar 06, 2026, 6:00 PM – Mar 29, 2026, 10:00 PM
Vox Populi, 319 N 11th St Third Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
About the event
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6th | 6pm-10pm
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Vox Populi Gallery is hosting a fundraiser show for radical Philly education project W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction – lovingly known as Abolition School – in support of their free political education programs.
The show's title pulls from Paulo Friere and Myles Horton's 1990 "spoken book" We Make the Road by Walking, a meditation on the role of participatory learning in the development of radical social movements. That text in turn borrows from Antonio Machado's 1912 poem-turned-proverb Caminante, no hay camino – "Traveler, there is no road / the road is made by walking." Featured artists and activists have brought forward work that engages with the messy, laborious and liberating project of creating a path forward that has never existed before. The work ranges in form; lived-in protest gear from decades past shares space with paintings, prints,…