Upcoming Exhibits

Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In

Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster

September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026

Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine’s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster’s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues of communication access, and recognizes ASL interpreters, who offer a linguistic and social bridge between the distinct cultures of Deaf individuals who use ASL and people who cannot sign. Co-curated with Michelle Ames and Meryl Troop, the show is a site of both remembrance and creative action.

Maine’s Deaf community is vibrant and bright, and was disproportionately impacted by the mass shooting in Lewiston on October 25th, 2023, which left 18 people dead and 13 severely injured. The tenth-deadliest shooting in US history, this tragedy claimed the lives of four Deaf community members and traumatized many more, as ASL interpretation services were withheld by authorities at hospitals and other official settings during the unfolding event. Unspoken Resilience offers a place of healing, recognition, and learning, both centering the enduring creativity of the Deaf community in the group of artworks curated by Ames and Troop, and uplifting Lewiston in Kolster’s sensitive, luminous cityscapes.