Curious Constructions

This exhibition explores how tradition, whimsy, and personal narrative collide through craft, yielding objects that are at once uncanny and deeply rooted in place.

This show foregrounds the power of craft-based practices and the visionary capacity of self-taught and regional makers. It draws from the rich vein of American folk expression—painted saws, embellished tools, carved creatures, and stitched tales—to ask: What happens when culture, craft, and imagination build new worlds from familiar things?

Through fantastical storytelling, community-informed aesthetics, and an unapologetically playful spirit, these works remind us that artistry lives not just in academies, but in basements, barns, and porches—passed down, reassembled, and reinvented.