A Very Big Ramp Xmas - 12.13.25

For Immediate Release:  

A Very Big Ramp Xmas

December 13, 2025 6-9pm

(Silent auction ending live at 9pm)

Adam Ledford, Amy Shindo, Carmel Dor, Cecilia McKinnon, Cindy Stockton Moore, David Moré, Elliot Engles, Evan Mendel Dawson, Feather Chiaverini, Frankie Modesto, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson, Heather Swenson, Helen Zuckerman, Jacob C Hammes, Jacob Lunderby, Jazmyn Crosby, Jennifer Johnson, Kenneth “Not Ken” Hilario, Kim Altomare, Lewis Colburn, Liisa Nelson, Lindsay Thomson, M Fernanda Nunez, Maddie Jones Rodriguez, Marcelo Daldoce, Maria Ah Hyun Stracke, Marilla Cubberley, Matt Witmer, Nicolo Gentile, Paolo Mentasti, Philip von Zweck, Ren Mahon, Soso Capaldi

Dearest friends and colleagues,

It’s beginning to look a lot like... the apocalypse, everywhere you go. Hmm, that's not right. We’re dreaming of a white...crypto-fascist takeover of our democracy… NO!!  Not dreaming, more like feverish nightmaring.  And yet, we can already hear those jingly-jangly sleigh bells curling our scowling mouth skin into unsteady smiles, softening our haunted thousand-yard stares into twinkly-eyed cheer. Ho Ho Ho?  Who’s ready for the Gestapo? This tingly numb feeling can only mean it’s time to shop!  So we jiggle our jolly bellies on down to the mall to feed the empire’s insatiable economic furnace…just as sweet little Baby Jesus intended.

Yes, that’s right, the holidays will soon be upon us and this year at Big Ramp, we hope to put the “más” back in Christmas. We want more, more, more!!! More time with you, more merriment, more art! So here we are announcing our inaugural pan-holiday-detournement-spectacle-freak-out, A Very Big Ramp Xmas on Saturday, December 13. This is a party, a fundraiser, AND an art swap rolled into one pine-scented yule log!  And we’re inviting you—our beloved community of friends, collaborators, and collectors—to help Big Ramp deck its halls this December! We’ve called on dozens of our most talented and cunningly transgressive artist friends to fill Big Ramp to the gills, floor to ceiling, cheek to jowl with artwork—each piece designed to fit cozily inside a classic red Christmas stocking, like the ones your parents pull out of the attic every year still smelling faintly of mothballs and forgotten candycanes.  Each artist is “exhibiting” two works stuffed into stockings: One “foot” in the pair is auctioned and the other is exchanged.  One stocking will be sold to help Big Ramp’s 2026 programming, and the other will be exchanged with another exhibiting artist to support…the gift of friendship.  

So get ready to sit on a hairy old drunk’s lap who softly whispers the promise of consumer goods.  Get ready to light a weiner dog-shaped menorah days before we’re supposed to.  Feel the power of Santa’s ancient Pagan witchcraft, as he freezes time to fly the skies on an antlered steed, up on the housetop ingesting a magic potion concocted from vodka, cigarettes, and sugar cookies.  And get ready to stand longingly beneath that hanging mistletoe as it tempts and taunts our pent up libidos with the promise of nourishing human contact.  We’ll have art, hot seasonal cocktails, holiday games, too many santas, a sing-along, a morbidly detached santa’s lap, and the opportunity for creating powerful peppermint-flavored memories.  Part art auction, part Secret Santa, and part drunken holiday party for you and your estranged family, this is the event of the season before the foretold prophecies mark the end of days.  

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