Our newest art show is a group exhibition exploring architectures of care. Architectonics is the scientific study of architecture, or simply “musical, literary, or artistic structure.” This exhibition’s name points to the infrastructural, political-economic context of all art-making, while simultaneously signaling that art objects have a tenuous capacity to structure themselves. Facing a second Trump term and a R.I. state legislature controlled by extractive corporate interests, consistently uninterested in building structures – from debt and utility relief programs to affordable housing – that support and serve our most vulnerable and hyper-policed community members, it’s become increasingly clear we have to organize ourselves from the ground up to form a better world. In many ways, this is precisely the aim of Small Format, as a cooperatively-run and -owned queer cafe, gallery, and third space. Only by getting our hands dirty – whether with espresso grounds, bike grease, or oil paint – can we create a more democratic, communal, and interdependent city.