Here’s a current list of all the July Culture Splash 2025 events:
Thursday, July 3
Title: Take What You Need | Pay What You Want
Featuring: Deb Read
Description: Wearables, fragmented paintings, and totemic sculptures rooted in material generosity, autonomy, and exchange.
Thursday, July 10
Title: The Body is Both Archive and Instrument
Participating Artists: CoCo Haze (collaborative team of Deb Read & Tracy Hayes), Cait Daly, Laura Esbensen
Description: Bridging somatic inscription and embodied care through sculptural layering, mark-making, and poetic trace.
Thursday, July 17
Title: Trace Light: The Archive in Motion
Participating Artists: Beth d’Elia, Chuck Davis, Mario Quiroz, Juan Santos, Angelina Ruiz
Description: Photography and time-based works exploring the archive as ephemeral, flickering, and emotionally resonant.
Thursday, July 24
Title: Familial Patterns: Generations of Patients
Participating Artists: Kaitlyn Niznik, Shelly B. Phillips, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Young Adults Network (CCYAN)
Description: Medical imagery and embodied illness refigured as visual pattern and personal lineage.
Thursday, July 31
Title: All We Hold
Participating Artists: Meghan Bailey, Anne Barnes, Martha Chason-Sokol, Leah Craig, Linda Forsythe, Elizabeth (Liz) Rennie, Caroline Sirois, Wen-hao Tien, Nicole Weber, Stéphanie Williams, Brian Unwin
Description: A collaborative iteration of Rooted in Ruins, reflecting on gardens, decay, political erosion, and regeneration.
Gallery RAG August 2025
Culture Splash Events
SANDWORK
Artist: Brian Wilson
Thursday 8/7 4-7pm
In this project, Brian Wilson, a sculptor, photographer and professor at Bently College explores the relationship our society has with sand. The sculptures created for this installation combine glass and concrete, two building materials that have very different surfaces, but are derived from the same silicon base material. Beautifully echoing familiar architectural forms, the simple but monumental sensibility of each piece reveals the tension between beauty, form, environmental degradation, and our relationship with finite resources. The diptych series of images help to illustrate the human impact on the environment.
GRADIENT OF MOVING IMAGES
Curator: Stephanie Williams
Artists: Jonathan Rand, Stone and Adrian Johnston (KMOV Studio), Jeannine Swallow
Thursday 8/14 4-7pm
Join us for the exciting curatorial debut of Stephanie Williams in bringing together four nationally and internationally emerging artists to discover an exploration of time, through sound, images, videos and movement in this innovative and thought provoking installation.
Tejido Vivo / Living Weave
Corina S. Alvarezdelugo and Mariana Paz
Gallery RAG’s Desala Residency Fellows
Thursday 8/21 4-7pm
Join us on Thursday night at Gallery RAG to experience the first ever collaborative art installation and performance by Mariana Paz and Corina S. Alvarezdelugo, winners of the 2025 Desala Residency Fellowship sponsored by the Art+Everywhere Foundation. They will explore the intersection of performance, contemporary art, and communal memory. Corina’s woven, mixed media objects and textiles reference the craft-making lineages of her Venezuelan ancestors, evoking early childhood memories. Her work acts as both talisman and guide. Mariana is known for her warm, intimate, lyrical performances that generously offer spaces of rest, renewal and joy. She will be wearing and performing with custom made textiles created especially for the installation. Please come and share stories and laughter over good food and drink.
The Desala Residency is the beginning of an International Residency Program initiated through the Art+Everywhere Foundation linking Norway, Arkansas, and Gloucester MA. The residency is named in honor of Laurie Frigolletto and Sarah Selden, our most beloved art supporters!
Coco Haze Wakes Up!! (A Celebration of Art and Friendship)
Coco Haze (Tracy Hayes and Deborah Read) with a performance by Joel Iwaskiewicz
Thursday 8/28 12-7pm
Coco Haze will be joined by Exeter-based writer and performer Joel Iwaskiewicz, for a special collaborative event! Come immerse yourself and co-create a floor to ceiling installation with Coco Haze along with a collaborative, improvisational performance by Joel. What develops when you deeply listen to each other and let go of the out-come? Find out with their performative, on-going, giant collage, covering every inch of the gallery by the co-founders of Gallery RAG and the Art+Everywhere Foundation. Join in on the laughter and the sheer pleasure of collaboration and friendship.
