Courtney Surmanek, a multidisciplinary artist whose project “Becoming Our Spaces” debuted locally at the JumpstART event in downtown Riverhead this summer, assumed the role of “emissary from the future” from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a “network of artists and cultural workers mobilizing creativity in the service of social justice.”
Surmanek set up a pop-up “imagination station” as part of USDAC’s nationwide “Dare to Imagine” week, where visitors of all ages were asked to imagine the world as they’d like to see it and write about it or make a picture of it...