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Within Where the World Breaks：A Ekphrastic Writing Workshop
When a painting is no longer silent, when a poem takes on color and form—EKPHRASIFICATION is that moment when the two ignite each other. You don’t need to already be a “writer.” All you need is to be willing to look, to feel, and to write down the first word.
Opening Recap | When Paintings Become Poetry: A Book Returned to the Artist
During the opening celebration, several poets gave live readings from the collection before presenting the newly published Edgeworks to He Gong.
Curatorial Preface: Where the World Breaks
Where the World Breaks examines the collapse of a shared reality and the fragmentation of the worlds human beings imagine themselves to inhabit.
Curatorial Preface: Ex Nihilo
x nihilo “out of nothing” is often used to describe sudden creation. In this exhibition, it names something more intimate: the thoughts, emotions, and quiet awareness that arise within the viewer while spending time with Matthew Remsbecher’s paintings, where very little is given at first glance and meaning must surface gradually.
Desire for More: Women, Art, and the Machen Collection
Desire for More: Women, Art, and the Machen Collection by Dr. Sophia Kidd The artworks in this exhibition—by Michel Angela Petersen, Maria Wickwire, Karen Adams, Amy Stone, Katherine Sheers, and Carrie McIntyre—have lived together for years, bound by the discerning...
Curatorial Preface: Maps of No Return
By Dr. Sophia Kidd “Maps of No Return" traces the psychic cartography of Chinese-American artist He Gong, whose works chronicle the irretrievable passages of migration, memory, and myth. Drawing from his lived experience—from the Cultural Revolution's forced rural...