Upturn: 30th Annual Benefit Fashion Show

2024 Annual Benefit Fashion Show

About UPTURN

This milestone show asks a timely question: what is the artist’s responsibility to their audience? When there is social unrest and dissent, how can art serve and save? (should it have to?) How can it hurt?

This show calls upon the artist, and therefore the audience, to question their relationship with society– and ultimately, with themselves. This is not easy, nor is it comfortable.

This question, and its answers become necessary. Art serves as a material reflection of the human experience, from various abstract, individual, collective and cultural perspectives. OCI offers this show as a space to use your perspective to answer this question, to have difficult conversations, bravely.

UPTURN is a call to action and a reminder that your voice matters - and so does your action.