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Curatorial Project / Guitar Museum of New England
2025

Vibrant Matter brought together Massachusetts-based intergenerational artists exploring vibration, life force, and resilience on a damaged planet. Inspired by theorist Jane Bennett’s book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, the exhibition reflected on how all matter is alive with motion and agency—plants, animals, metal, trash... Through many mediums such as steel, paper, clay, and sound, the works drew attention to our material interconnectedness.
Jean Smith Bird Fountain and Stacey Boughrum McCarthy’s Wall
Jean Smith Chickadee and Orb
Installation view
Meg Alexander Memorial drawings
Installation view
Vibrant Matter curatorial text and description of the eight participating artists
Meaghan Elyse, Iris
O H Projects, Beaker Pots
Jean Smith, Shoes
Installation view
Meaghan Elyse, Looping
OARS 3 Rivers, Sounds of Life installation view
Meaghan Elyse, Hyacinth in the mountain



Organized by the artists themselves, the exhibition transformed a raw and beautiful space of the Future Guitar Museum into a site of collective inquiry—asking how energy is both held within our works, and radiates outward into the world. Highlights included hydrophone beaver recordings from a local river conservation group, kinetic sea pianos, a bald-faced hornets nest, and elemental ceramics attuned to the rhythms of a sentient world.


ArtistsMeg Alexander, Kate Conlon, Katy Duchamp, Meaghan Elyse, Stacey Boughrum McCarthy, OARS 3 Rivers, O H Projects, Jean Smith 

Organized byMeaghan Elyse & Jean Smith

Photos byJordan Kessler


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