Teppeto Volante founders curator Paola Gallio and artists Jared Deery, JJ Manford, and Elisa Soliven are proud to announce La Banda, an expansive and inclusive summer group show of works on paper, paintings, and sculpture. The show features work by TV’s founders and artists of their choice who also share TV’s commitment to the community.

The show includes works by Eve Ackroyd, Chris Bertholf, Katherine Bradford, Maria Calandra, Karen Dana Cohen, Erik den Breejen, Jared Deery, Mary DeVincentis, Laura Frantz, Priscilla Fusco, Alicia Gibson, Tamara Gonzales, Gretta Johnson, Benjamin Klein, Osamu Kobayashi, Leonora Loeb, JJ Manford, Justin Q. Martin, Christopher Martino, Amy Mascena, Seung-Min Lee, Rachel Ostrow, Peter Park, Nora Riggs, Mason Saltarrelli, Francesco Simeti, Elisa Soliven, Alessandro Teoldi, and Annette Wehrhahn; as well as a performance of The Carpet Series by Pigeonwing Dance at 7:30 pm on opening night.

With its second show, TV continues its mission of uplifting and recharging the arts. La Banda is a playful yet poignant reference to The Blues Brothers, where the brothers explain they are bringing their band back together because “we’re on a mission from God” (to save an orphanage). After lockdown, social distancing, and isolation, celebrating, honoring, and nurturing the resilience of the art community amid the worldwide pandemic and its aftermath is TV’s mission.

Drawn from TV’s founding artists’ and curator’s network of contacts—from family to friends and beyond—La Banda embodies and embraces our newfound appreciation of the beauty of connections and relationships. As the pandemic retreats and social isolation recedes, we celebrate banding together to enrich and empower our community. The show is also an expression of gratitude for finding strength in creativity and commemorating the 4 million people who died.

TV is also honored to present The Carpet Series, a performance on opening night by New York-based Pigeonwing Dance, a company founded by 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Gabrielle Lamb. The company chose the name "Pigeonwing" for its fusion of airiness and New York City grit. The Carpet Series is a compact outdoor performance taking place on a 5 x 8 Persian rug. Twice a week starting in July 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, Pigeonwing Dance turned the rug in a portable outdoor stage—essentially a frame—for a 15-minute performance, announcing the extemporaneous locations on Instagram. Pigeonwing Dance is TV’s first interdisciplinary guest—and a welcome collaborator with a shared mission: to keep on creating and giving to our community and culture in challenging times.