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Aesthetics of Resilience

Yolande Harris: Sound Portal

October 3, 2025-January 11, 2026

In Sound Portal for Whale Bubbles Yolande Harris composes glass sculptures of whale bubbles, bronze traces of marine mammal movements,...

Still from Deep in The Eye and The Belly, Chapter 4.

Aesthetics of Resilience

Sam Williams: Deep in The Eye and The Belly

October 2, 2025-December 6, 2025

Deep in The Eye and The Belly brings together film, collage, sculpture, archival objects, and specimens to reflect on histories of preserving...

Exhibition space with white walls and various works within the space

Visualizing Abolition

Seeing through Stone

April 12, 2024-January 5, 2025

The eighty-one artists and collectives in Seeing Through Stone, including currently and formerly incarcerated artists as well as those without...

people painted pink on train car

Visualizing Abolition

Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte: EDELO

January 31, 2025-April 20, 2025

The first survey exhibition of artists Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte, EDELO brings together new and existing works emerging from their...

image of gallery space lit by a blue glow with a large projection on the wall and a marble sculpture

Visualizing Abolition

Levester Williams: Our Bedrock

January 31, 2025-April 20, 2025

Our Bedrock is the first West Coast solo show of Philadelphia-based artist Levester Williams. Including sculpture, installation, performance and...

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