Save the date for the opening of So It Goes, our 2025 Summer Exhibition! The show features 43 artists in and around Maxon Mills throughout the summer, using the refrain of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to explore the desensitized ways in which we cope with recurring horrors. The artists invited for this show have chosen methods like play, reflection, and scale to awaken us from that desensitized state and into a fever dream. Among the works shown are stained glass windows referencing private property signs across rural America by Siara Berry; Lin Qiqing’s naturally dyed, hand-spun paper yarn and paper collage recording the passage of time and movement with the body; religious textile sculptures inspired by John Brendan Guinan’s Catholic anarchist upbringing; portraits by Yomi Orimoloye speaking to the disconnect between the self and documents — like IDs — that identify us; a video sculpture starring Ollie Goss as a goose who protests at a town hall meeting; intricate tapestries of aerial landscapes during Pakistan’s 2022 mega floods by Saberah Malik; and, on the top floor, a triptych by Rosabel Rosalind depicting a post-apocalyptic San Fernando Valley as the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
Alongside the opening, our JV and Varsity Art Clubs will present their end-of-year exhibition, Science Fair, at the Luther Barn. Come see the imagined science projects students have worked so hard on, exploring the past, present, future, and what it means to be consciously alive, as well as other pieces completed this year.