A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests.

The 14 artists’ works in A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests center on materiality, color, and care. Set against

the precarity of this moment, the exhibition celebrates acts of making and gathering that lead to a

community. Within this shared space, their work reaffirms art’s capacity to

hold complexity and resistance, and to act as a regenerative force: a garden, a portal, a protest.

Care, connection, and community reverberate across these artists’ works, charging us to participate. The

artists consider life cycles: birth, death, grief, and the capacities and limits of our bodies. From a 20-foot

slack and billowing ladder to a steel and fiber sculpture derived from every possible method of folding a t-

shirt, the works require us to feel our relationship with gendered labor.