The exhibition PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity includes an Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence whom Curtis mentored. Each artist serves as curator-facilitator-performers for events, performances, and happenings that engage deeply with Curtis’s legacy and archive.

Each artist presents a program that also extends Curtis’s commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice and embodied presence. The exhibition PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with GRAVITY includes an Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence whom Curtis mentored.

Each artist serves as a curator-facilitator-performer for events, performances, and happenings that engage deeply with Curtis’s legacy and archive. Each artist presents a program that also extends Curtis’s commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice and embodied presence. Saturday, July 18, 2026 Pitched Rendering4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Store House GallerySee below for reservation link.

Abby Crain invites movement artist Tiffany Taylor and sound artist Sheldon Smith to join her in a live sonic/vocal transcription of the Please. Stay. Touch. exhibition. Sunday, July 19, 2026 – Arion Press Collaboraton“The Book of Apparitions: navigating absence through objects” with Lorena Marín and Erasmo Pantoja1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

See below for reservation link. “The language of the dead,” writes Haytham El-Wardany, “is that of the tiniest imperishable life forms, persistently sending signals, even from beneath the earth.” Writing can be an extension of the body, and also a form of reading, finding ways to connect with what is missing, to invoke apparitions.

What objects around us can help us read the signals from these “imperishable life forms?” How can we connect with what is no longer present? Marin and Pantoja invite participants to bring an object through which they feel the presence or signals of someone or something missing from this world.

In bringing our attention to these objects, participants create writings and drawings that explore relationships with absence. Mourn the loss of loved ones by making a special book to honor them. The exhibition PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity includes an Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence whom Curtis mentored.

Each artist serves as curator-facilitator-performers for events, performances, and happenings that engage deeply with Curtis’s legacy and archive. Each artist presents a program that also extends Curtis’s commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice and embodied presence. \n