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Curatorial Project: Vibrant Matter brought together Massachusetts-based intergenerational artists exploring vibration, life force, and resilience on a damaged planet. Organized by the artists themselves, the exhibition transformed a raw and beautiful space of the Future Guitar Museum into a site of collective inquiry—asking how energy is both held within our works, and radiates outward into the world.
Inspired by theorist Jane Bennett’s book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, the exhibition reflected on how all matter is alive with motion and agency—plants, animals, metal, trash... Through many mediums such as steel, paper, clay, and sound, the works drew attention to our material interconnectedness. Highlights included hydrophone beaver recordings from a local river conservation group, kinetic sea pianos, a bald-faced hornets nest, and elemental ceramics attuned to the rhythms of a sentient world. 

2025



Jean Smith Bird Fountain and Stacey Boughrum McCarthy’s Wall
Jean Smith Chickadee
Meg’s Memorial drawings
Pamphlet
Meaghan Elyse, Iris
O H Projeccts
Jean Smith Shoes
Meaghan Elyse Snails
OARS 3 Rivers


ArtistsMeg Alexander, Kate Conlon, Katy Duchamp, Meaghan Elyse, Stacey Boughrum McCarthy, OARS 3 Rivers, O H Projects, Jean Smith 

Organized byMeaghan Elyse & Jean Smith

Future Guitar Museum of New England
Concord, MA


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