OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 5, 5-8 PM

REcreation is a solo exhibition spanning thirty years of making for artist Stacey R. Chinn. Each work REvisits, REinterprets, or REbuilds upon earlier pieces beginning in 1995–96. These sculptures, paintings, and mixed-media works incorporate ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, found materials, and more. They range from small wall and pedestal pieces to larger installations, all connected by a renewed sense of purpose, perspective, and identity.

For the past decade, Chinn has devoted much of her creative energy to functional ceramics, handcrafted jewelry, and design work. While those pursuits continue, this exhibition marks an important return to her truest artistic self — the visual artist driven by curiosity, experimentation, and the need to transform the familiar into something new.

REcreation is not just about re-making art; it’s about re-making the self. Each piece represents the courage to move forward, to reinterpret the past without being confined by it. As Rollo May wrote in The Courage to Create, “If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” That spirit lies at the heart of this show — REconsidering personal history, REsponding to the present through new work, and daring to be REinvented.