EVENTS CALENDAR

 

APRIL - JUNE 2025

NEW SHOW: Join us on April 11th through June 21st to see "LUXE", a show featuring the lush colors, clever combinations and fanciful imaginings of SARA BARRETT, a mixed-media artist best known for her stunning collages, both digital & physical.
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LUXE [ looks, luhks; French lyks ]

luxury; elegance; sumptuousness

1550–60; < French < Latin luxus excess

(Show Runs April 11 - June 21st)


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JUNE / JULY 2025

NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, June 27th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "BLACKOUT", a show featuring the gilded blackout poetry of Rachel Gibson.  Observe a microcosm of the intersection of words and image, a complex and crucial aspect of communication.
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BLACKOUT POETRY, also known as erasure poetry or redacted poetry, is a form of found poetry where new poems are created by selecting and arranging words from pre-existing texts while obscuring the rest. This process often involves blacking out or crossing out unwanted words, in some cases replacing those words with elaborate imagery.

(Show Runs June 27 - Aug 9)


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AUGUST 2025

NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, August 15th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of TRASHY, a show featuring the magic nature's favorite scavengers -- opossums, raccoons & skunks, oh my.  
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“Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away,
some ends up where it shouldn't end up.”
― Carlo Ratti

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“For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry.”
― Delia Owens
  
(Show Runs August 15 - Sept 6)
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SEPT / OCT 2025

NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, September 12 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of DELISH:  To Eat or Be Eaten, a show featuring the art of the edible, reinforcing the profound connection between food and love and memory.

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“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” – Alan D. Wolfelt

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“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and
let the food fight it out inside.” – Mark Twain


(Show Runs Sept 12 - Nov 1)

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NOV / DEC 2025 


Join us Thursday, November 13th for The FORD Studios' holiday open house, 'Holiday Treasures & Treats'. Enjoy a holiday nutcracker photo opportunity, free homemade truffles & cranberry cocktails, holiday sights & sounds, plus gift-size treasures. We will unveil the new Marion Christmas ornament as well as a handful of newly curated gift sets including a new tea bowl shape, chopstick sets, one-of-a-kind watercolor field books, Van Gogh inspired embroidery kits & even paint your own Pac-Man & sugar skull ornaments. And, as always, there will be trees... lots & lots of trees.
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"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." --Norman Vincent Peale

(Show Runs Nov 13 - Dec 23)

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