What is Lost What is Held: 2025–2026 artists-in-residence exhibition
Mar 5, 2026 5:00 PM
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Apr 1, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Small Hall
Opening: Thursday, March 5th from 5pm–8pm
(AiR Conversation Series from 7-7:45pm)
Exhibition runs until April 1st
Viewing Hours:
Weekdays: 9 AM - 7 PM
Weekends: 10 AM - 5 PM
Powerhouse Arts presents What is Lost What is Held: 2025 - 2026 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition with works by artists in residence Grace Lynne Haynes, Nazanin Noroozi, and Ngozi Olojede. Each artist collaborated with our fabrication shops while reflecting on what is lost and what is held. Pivoting from her vibrant painting practice, Haynes worked with our Ceramics team to create her first series of large clay vessels. Experimenting with scale and underglaze painting, she transforms her painted visions into physical forms creating whimsical underwater worlds that envision expansive futures for Black women.
Through her experimental analog film background, Noroozi worked with both our Printshop and the MGC Community Print Studio to create a series of works including large-scale body prints. Through Super-8 family films, found footage, hand-pulped paper, and collograph printing, she showcases the refugee crisis along southern European shores.
Lastly, with their lens of immersive spatial installation background, Olojede worked and gained rendering skills with the Public Art Shop and The Alpha Workshops to create dynamic projection of 3D renderings, models of ultimate ambition, and 3D seating sketches, along with hand drawn renderings with a sound component. They experimented with dyeing techniques and a variety of fabrics to create large tapestries as a preliminary vision for ITUNU. An installation showcasing a shared space to grieve and heal Black loss. Together, the artists use palpable mediums as a vehicle where memory sweeps in waves, communal grief sustains unimaginable loss, and imagined futures are shaped through time.
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