Seek COMFORT: An Interactive Installation |
Walk into Phillip Campbell's Comfort and you'll find yourself in the last place you'd expect to feel safe: a hospital triage area. But this isn't the harsh fluorescent nightmare of actual emergency departments. Campbell has quilted the entire space – gurney, curtains, every surface – using clothing donated by people in recovery. The pockets that once held keys and loose change now hold Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and 12-step books.
Visitors can take what they need and leave something behind: letters to people they've lost to addiction. After seven years managing an Emergency Department team that serves people with substance use disorders, Campbell knows what he's talking about. These spaces usually scream crisis and desperation, but he's flipped the script entirely. Guests don't just walk through Comfort; they participate in it, take from it, and add to it, making the space evolve.
Click to read the full blog, and come visit from Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm to engage with this impactful installation for yourself. |
Pause and Linger with Liminal by Kate Oberreich
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In a world driven by tight schedules, impatience, and the pursuit of instant gratification, slowing down can feel counterproductive. But that's exactly what artist Kate Oberreich chose to embrace during the creation of her show Liminal. Through slow, tactile processes and a deep passion for making, Liminal offers a fresh perspective on the world—one shaped by time, attention, and care.
Liminal came together through practices and materials that resist the pace of speed. Blending cyanotype and Polaroid photography with embroidery and beading, creating Liminal demanded Oberreich's patience.
Click to visit the Online Gallery and read the full blog. |
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| Last Week To Apply: Golden Ticket |
Don't forget to apply to the Harrison Center's annual color show for 2025! Launched with the Golden Ticket theme this year, the Katharine B. Sutphin Foundation will present cash prizes for the best and most creative art. To be considered, entries must be artwork that incorporates the color gold. The show opens from 6pm to 9pm on Friday, December 5th, and the work hangs through the month of December.
This show could be your golden ticket— Apply now! |
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Join Free Workshop this Thursday |
Be sure to stop by Polk Stables this Thursday to take part in this free, educational presentation by Sampson Levingston of Through2Eyes with his series on the historic Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood!
Sessions are held monthly on every third Thursday at 1533 Lewis St. This event will involve a lot less walking and a little more talking than Levingston's famous Walk & Talks. Come with questions, leave educated and inspired. Click here to sign up. |
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Trace Memory Through Lake Station Addendum |
Tyler Meuninck's latest Gallery Annex show, Lake Station Addendum, is a deeply personal and atmospheric exploration of the South Shore. Like the region itself, his work is filled with history, memory, and grit.
While Meuninck's primary medium is oil paint, he also incorporated colored pencils, paint sticks on butcher paper, paper cut-outs, and pastels into this show. Still, oil paint is his favorite. There's something unnameable…about oils, though, that I like. Its viscosity when I use it." He's especially drawn to the uncertainty oil paint brings and its "unpredictable drying possibilities." For Meuninck, unpredictability is an opportunity for potential.
Click to read the full blog and visit the Online Gallery.
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