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No Place Gallery relocating from South Side to Downtown
After James McDevitt-Stredney learned his lease was up at No Place’s longtime South Side home, he launched a fundraiser and will reopen Downtown on April 1
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Two days before 2020 turned to 2021, No Place Gallery’s James McDevitt-Stredney learned he had until March 1 to vacate the artist-run space’s South Side home at 1164 S. Front St., where the gallery director set up shop nine years earlier.
The news came as a surprise to McDevitt-Stredney, who not only directed the gallery, but also turned No Place into a multi-pronged endeavor. “I run a gallery space up front, and then I manage studios for artists in the back. And then there's a screen printing [business] and wood shop back there,” he said. “To uproot that amidst a global pandemic … just seemed unreasonable. There’s some lunacy to the request, knowing how we've embedded ourselves into this brick-and-mortar space.”