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Textures of Being

September 25, 2026 - January 16, 2026

Textures of Being brings together artists who honor the body as a site of knowledge and creative force grounded in lived experience. This exhibition reimagines disability as a form of freedom and an intimate sensory lens through which the world is perceived and shaped. 

The artists reveal how sensation, shared knowledge, interdependence, and embodied practice can generate new forms of connection and expression. Their works explore the complexities of presence, care, visibility and possibility, offering a tactile language for experiences often unseen. Textures of Being invites viewers to slow down, to feel, to listen, and to recognize accessibility, inclusivity, and sensory difference as shared human concerns. It is both an offering and a call: to honor the textures that make each of us, and all of us, fully and profoundly human.

September 25, 2026 - January 16, 2027

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