Artist Talk: June 13 at 2:30pm with Mary Lesser & Fethi Meghelli

Opening Reception: June 13, 3-5pm

What experiences shape the paths we take?  

Our lives unfold through thresholds—moments of movement, change, remembrance, and  growth. Journeys: Mindscapes and Migrations brings together artists whose work explores  these layered experiences, both personal and collective. Through diverse media and distinct  visual languages, each artist offers a personal lens on how we navigate a rapidly shifting,  fractured, and still beautiful world.  

Susan Clinard creates expressive figurative sculptures that speak to our shared humanity. Her  sculptural figures—raw, vulnerable, and evocative—stand as emotional witnesses to stories of  belonging, loss, connection, and resilience. Carved from wood and assembled from found  materials, they hold the weight of grief, hope, and perseverance.  

Shaunda Holloway draws from Black identity, ancestry, and spirituality to create layered,  luminous mixed-media works. Her pieces speak to inherited journeys—cultural, environmental,  emotional, and divine—summoning the presence of those who came before while carving  space for contemporary self-understanding.  

Mary Lesser examines the intersections of nature, climate, and global systems. Her Global  Trade series confronts the transactional undercurrents of contemporary life, while her  Amusement Park paintings offer seemingly joyous moments laced with unease. Both series  evoke journeys shaped by human activity, capitalism, and globalism.  

Fethi Meghelli creates mixed media painted objects and garments that blend drawing, collage,  and storytelling into poetic meditations on exile and memory. His layered compositions reflect  the fractured experience of diaspora and the longing to reassemble oneself amidst personal  and historical dislocation. Drawing from both personal experience and global events, Meghelli’s  work interweaves reflection and resistance.  

Greg Shea works with the 19th-century wet plate collodion process, bringing the past into  haunting conversation with the present. His tintype portraits capture not only faces but souls,  suspended in time. The imperfections of the medium reveal a deeper truth: our presence is  always in flux—and stillness itself can be a form of migration.  

Together, these artists invite us to pause, reflect, and reconnect—with ourselves, each other,  and the world we move through.