Arts + Literature Laboratory and LAB^4, the community curation project, will host an opening reception for July exhibitions on Thursday, July 17, 2025, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Free admission.
The exhibitions on display Tuesday, July 8 through Friday, August 29, 2025 include:
Art by mars explores relationships between human bodies, plant bodies, the places we both inhabit, and form. She expresses this curiosity and research through interdisciplinary art practices; constructing wearable art, building eco-soft-sculptures, weaving mixed media textiles, ceramics, and printmaking.
Poornima Moorthy | The Whimsyland Series
Through the use of realistic, pattern-filled imagery and vibrant, colorful landscapes – The Whimsyland Series conveys a place where one feels unconditional love, acceptance, and protection. There is an invisible thread that binds us: love, empathy, curiosity. These are the magical forces we can’t see.
Ronaldo V. Wilson | Family Beings, Before the Sea in the Sky's Eye
Three videos, and three related books offer distinct and related configurations of family beings and animated personas enacted through video, drawings, dance, song, and writing, crossing domestic, natural, and urban locations.
Sara Black, Jessie Mott, Claire Pentecost | The Persistence of the Unsorted
A motley collection of makeshift beings wanders through a museum in search of a home. Lost, excluded, imperfect and unfinished, these creatures of indeterminate constitution persevere. They persist in a world almost beyond repair, a realm where all they have is what they can scavenge from a failed paradigm.
Stitching the Story: Capturing Heart and Resilience through the Story Cloth
Stitching the Story is a powerful group exhibition celebrating the artistry, resilience, and lived experience of local Hmong artists. Rooted in the traditional textile art of paj ntaub, the featured works reflect stories of survival, displacement, healing, and cultural pride.
Home Is Where You Find It: Reimagined Little Free Libraries
Home Is Where You Find It invites viewers to explore the intimate, expansive, and layered concept of “home” through a unique collaboration between six Madison-area artists and the city’s iconic Little Free Libraries. Madison becomes both canvas and collaborator in this citywide installation, reimagining these beloved neighborhood structures as portals into artistic expressions of the many things that “home” can mean.
