Join us for an opening reception & curator’s talk to celebrate Keep a Place for Me, an exhibition curated by the Teen Curators of Fall 2024 at Stove Works! December 14th, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Open to the public during Gallery Hours from 12/14/24 – 01/18/25
Keep a Place for Me
Curated by Teen Curators Thomas Miguel, Khivionna Owens, & Penelope Suffern.
Including work from Clay Aldridge, Trinity Rose Anthony, Crowley Haworth, Oliver Ito, Nina McLean, Russell Robinson, Naomi White, Danyelle Woods, & Riley Younger.
Everything has a place. There is often the promise of tragedy, but also comfort in holding a physical or mental space; to know that you always have a place to go, a home to come back to. Keep a Place for Me gives the impression that you won’t be forgotten, but remembered in that hopeful promise.
Keep a Place for Me may seem lighthearted and jovial, but could be read in a more desperate sense, such as longing for a place to call home. This place doesn’t have to be physical, such as storing someone or something in your mind to come back to, or reminisce about.
Keep a place for me: a seat at the table, a cabin in the woods, a hair in your painting. Keep a place for me: on your plate, in your memories, in a book. Keep a place for me.
Thomas Miguel is a senior at the Howard school. He loves all types of art from drawing to music. He is excited to be a part of Stove Works this year and to learn all the wonders that come with becoming a curator.
Khivionna Owens is a senior in High School. She’s been drawing since she was in the 3rd grade and enjoys the process of creating art and showing it off, particularly film wise, but she enjoys all forms of art.
Penelope Suffern is a senior at Hilger Higher Learning. She loves drawing both physically and digitally, and is fond of character creation and worldbuilding. Excited to work with Stove Works as a Teen Curator, she hopes to cooperate with her peers and learn more about art curation as a potential career option.