IMPACT! Celebrating 20 Years of Art at the Overture Center was a curated group exhibition held at the Overture Center for the Arts’ Playhouse Gallery during the Winter 2024/2025 season as part of their 20th anniversary exhibition. I was selected as one of 16 artists in this curated group exhibition which was up from November 26, 2024 through March 9th, 2025. My work featured new ceramic musical instruments including the first Electric Tenor Ukulele.

Impact! celebrates two decades of artistic contributions at Overture Center for the Arts, inviting artists to reflect on the intersections between visual art, music, dance and theater. This juried exhibition offers a platform for artists to consider how these disciplines converge, creating an environment that values and is shaped by both their practice and the audience’s experience.

Since the beginning, Overture Center has served as a nexus for creative collaboration, dissolving boundaries between art forms. Artists participating in this exhibition were encouraged to reflect on how their interactions with this multidisciplinary space have influenced their work, whether through direct inspiration or more subtle exchanges between different creative fields. This celebration of artistic diversity is a testament to the community that Overture Center has fostered over the last twenty years.

Impact! is a commemoration of the past and a prompt for ongoing inquiry. It invites artists and viewers to critically engage with how they contribute to and are influenced by the Art community in Madison. In doing so, we aim to foster a continued dialogue about the evolving role of the arts within the unique ecosystem of Overture Center and beyond.

The Saturday prior to the reception there was an unfortunate incident in the gallery where an unattended child ran into the pedestals containing the Electric Tenor Ukulele and Jazz (Anthology) pieces, knocking them over and causing damage to all pieces on the pedestals. I spent the days leading up to the reception remaking and repairing the damaged pieces primarily using a technique similar to Kintsugi where the cracked fragments are glued together and highlighted using gold powder.