Exhibition: Even Our Oddkin

Lisa Crafts, Still Life with Gummibears, 2010-2013, still from video/animation
Lisa Crafts, Still Life with Gummibears, 2010-2013, still from video/animation

"Even Our Oddkin" brings together artists who are curious about the lives unfolding all around us: not just those of humans, but the many beings, materials, and systems with whom we share the world. The phrase “more-than-human” reminds us that we are part of a vast web of animals, plants, microbes, machines, weather, chemicals and infrastructure.

These artists imagine what it might mean to meet those presences halfway and to consider inner worlds we can’t fully know. They approach “nature” not as something distant or pure, but as it exists now: shaped by technology, politics, industry and everyday life. As a result, familiar boundaries between nature and culture, human and machine, organic and manufactured begin to dissolve.

Leaning into this complexity, the artists ask us to reconsider what kinship might mean today, and how we might live more thoughtfully within a world where even our oddest neighbors are part of the family.

Artists: Meg Baldwin, Mollye Bendell, Lisa Crafts, Josh Dorman, Billy Friebele, Sophie Maguire, Jacob Marrero, Jessica Segall, Fanni Somogyi, and Maarten Isaäk de Heer

Guest curated by Professors Lynn Tomlinson and Danielle d’Amico, Department of Film, Audio, Media Arts.

All events are free and open to the public.

Exhibition Hours and Events

  • Exhibition on view: Sept. 4 – Dec. 5, 2026
    Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
  • Opening reception: Sept. 3 at 7:30 p.m., following a lecture/performance by artist and landscape architect Sophie Maguire and landscape architect Meg Baldwin in the Center for the Arts Gallery, CA 3040, at 6:30 p.m.
  • Panel Discussion by Billy Friebele, Fanni Somogyi and Mollye Bendell, Thursday, Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Gallery, CA 3040.

  • Planetarium Screening, fulldome art films: Maarten Isaak de Heer, Dancing with Dead Animals and Lynn Tomlinson’s Mountain Nocturne, Friday, Nov. 13. Three showings starting at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 7 p.m. in the Science Complex, room 2206 (tickets are free but must be reserved)