Fever Dreams at WAM

In Spring 2026 I’ll debut a new body of work developed in collaboration with my partner-in-all-things, Andrew Yang. Our exhibition "Fever Dreams of a Cool-Breathed Earth” for the Worcester Museum of Art (WAM) is a multi sensory reflection on climate-driven extreme heat, exploring the deeply material and figurative relationship of our bodies to the changing planetary body as complex systems in transformation. For the past year and a half we’ve been drawing, sculpting, recording endangered sounds, and hosting conversations with scientists, teens, gardeners, and other community members in the Worcester, MA region.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at our process through the forthcoming book “Facing the Elements” (published by Hirmer and distributed by University of Chicago Press), which pairs our work with a parallel exhibition of historical prints at WAM engaging themes of weather and climate. The book features essays, studio images, interviews, and layered interventions.

Artist Research at MacLeish Field Station

Since August 2024 much of my studio research has been based at Smith College’s Ada and Archibald Macleish Field Station, a 250-acre area of forest and pasture land where I’m currently working as a Visiting Artist. Every week I visit two sites there to record the changes in soundscape as part of an informal acoustic ecology study. As a way of getting to know both the human and non-human activity at Macleish, I have also been scheduling walks with researchers, staff, students, and neighbors who know the area well, and they are introducing me to the sounds and species they know and notice. There is so much more going on here than meets the eye. In 2025-26 I’ll be doing workshops in nature journaling and field recording, and you’ll get glimpses of new work in a variety of media inviting human visitors to listen, sniff the air, and sink our fingers into deep moss and snowdrift.

Exhibitions and an Artist Talk in Western Mass

After a year and a half settling in to a new rhythm in New England, it’s wonderful to find opportunities to share my work here among some excellent creative colleagues and friends. Coming up / on view now:

Thursday, March 7th, 6:15 pm
The ArtSalon
Smith College, Carroll Room (in Campus Center), 100 Elm Street, Northampton, MA 
Doors open 6pm, presentations begin 6:30pm. Sliding Scale Entry $5-15
A dynamic social evening of engaging (and fast-paced!) presentations by established and emerging artists in the Pioneer Valley, featuring Christa Donner, Justin Kim, Todd Colby, Magda Bermudez, and Julie Lapping Rivera. Please join us March 7th for an evening of exciting presentations by local artists. More information :https://www.theartsalon.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/theartsalon/

Opening: Friday, March 8th, 5-8pm
Physiotasmagorical
A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
On view from March 7th - 29th, 2024
A group show investigating corporeal secrets at the juncture of the clinical and the imaginary. What effects do our internal phenomena have on our defining characteristics of both body and mind? How does the somatic self reveal our unique human reality? Intentional awareness of sensation, our “gut instinct,” reveals knowledge that is an embodied subject of “self.” The wisdom of the body is vague, invisible and powerful; a cabinet of curiosities. Featuring work by Carolynn Desch, Christa Donner, Michael Medeiros, Bobbi Meier, Deb Mell, Melissa Oresky, and Susan Sensemann. More information: https://www.apearts.org/upcoming1.html

Opening: Thursday, February 22, 5pm
Amherst College Art & the History of Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition
Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, 17 Fayerweather Drive, Amherst, MA
On View from Feb 19th - April 12, 2024
Work in painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, fiber arts, video and sound by the remarkable faculty and staff of Amherst College’s Department of Art and the History of Art, including Joshua Baum, Sonya Clark, Douglas Culhane, Christa Donner, Emily Drummer, Betsey Garand, David Gloman, Brian House, Zibby Jahns, Justin Kimball, Seth Koen, Adam Levine, Lucia Monge, Gabriel Phipps, and Robert Sweeney.