The Educational Alliance, founded on the Lower East Side in 1917 and one of New York City’s beacons for equality and social justice, recently reopened following a two-year gut renovation of its historic building.

Tomorrow night, the Educational Alliance Art School celebrates the neighborhood with an opening reception for All | Together | Different.

On view will be paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, prints, installation, and video from artists aged 29 to 92, who live and work in the area, including Kiki Smith, Roger Welch, Richard Hambleton, Kim Keever, Kembra Pfahler, Rick Prol, Jim Radakovich, James Romberger, Marc Kehoe, David Sandlin, Judith Simonian, Hans Witschi, Susannah Coffey, Marguerite Van Cook and Anton Van Dalen, among others.

Installation view

The show represents this “forever changing, forever the same” neighborhood that is its home, said Emily Aldrege, Director of the art school. “For artists, the Lower East Side has always been a neighborhood where you could do as you pleased—with your art, with your life. This show pays tribute to the countless artists who have made and continue to make the Lower East Side an epicenter of creativity and of art.”

"We are excited to bring together the artists and organizations of the Lower East Side with work that ranges from minimalism to radical archiving, by those who set the tone for expressive freedom and the subsequent arrivals who inherited a culture that was unique to the area,” said Linda Griggs, co-curator, with Yona Verwer, of the exhibition.

“Although we lost many neighborhood artists to the AIDS epidemic, to drugs, and to rising rents, many stayed, fought for tenant rights for themselves and their neighbors, created communities, kept the spirit and attracted the next wave of artists who inherited the disjointed, yet allied individuality,” she added.

David Sandlin, Raised by Giant Worms, 2005.

All | Together | Different opens Thursday, February 12, with a reception from 7-9 pm. The Educational Alliance at the Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway, NY. NY. Information. For information about the Art School, go here. For information about all other programs, go here

CORRECTION The opening reception for Raven Schlossberg | Daytrippin’Nightskippin’, is Thursday, February 12, 6-8 pm. Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 531 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.