This is something worth knowing about.

Living as Form is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.  The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists' projects in a large-scale survey exhibition inside the historic Essex Street Market building (in NYC), features nine new commissions in the surrounding neighborhood, and provides a dynamic online archive of over 350 socially engaged projects. Aliya Bonar graduated from Hampshire a few years ago and has been working at Creative Time helping to pull this exhibition together.  If you'd like to volunteer at the exhibition email her at aliyab@creativetime.org

Also check out the Creative Time Summit, September 23rd (tickets are selling fast!)

The Creative Time Summit is a conference that brings together cultural producers—including artists, critics, writers, and curators—to discuss how their work engages pressing issues affecting our world. Their international projects bring to the table a vast array of practices and methodologies that engage with the canvas of everyday life. The participants range from art world luminaries to those purposefully obscure, providing a glimpse into an evolving community concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art.

NYC is only a few hours away and car pooling or megabus makes it easy and cheap.