With textiles, embroidery, whittling, ceramics, collage, photography and 3D printing, HomeEc references the domestic realm in concept and craft. The participating artists hail from Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and New York and contribute a variety of unique considerations of home, domesticity, privacy, tradition, belonging and displacement.

Ceramicist Summer Carmack evokes the tradition of afternoon tea, while Nick DeFord gently rebels against traditional notions of the home front in embroidery and image. Joe Ford's 3D printed cul-de-sac addresses privacy and surveillance. Paul Loughney's collages of floating millwork and destabilized architectural detail face Cara Sullivan's photographs of burnt interiors. Jenna Richards presents ghostly ceramic shells of folded garments - memorials to time and care - while Rowan Haug's paper quilt top floats on ambient air flow suggesting clothes drying on the line. A second work by Sullivan documents a performance in which she mimics the catnap and the charming collection of hand whittled spoons by Marty Haug deliver both a variety and unity of form.

Joe Ford / Artist Statement:

"My work concerns itself with how individuals maintain sanity in a troubled world and create meaning from the leftover bits of culture.

In Invisible Suburb, the viewer is offered a drone's-eye-view of a suburban neighborhood masked in a 21st century camouflage of pattern and color reminiscent of the digital shroud used by government installations on Google Maps.

It is part of a new body of work exploring an imagined future of the American suburbs, post economic and societal collapse. Each piece in the series is a small vignette of life in a balkanized suburb, populated by techno-pioneers attempting to live off the land and securing their future using cobbled-together bits of 21st century e-waste. Invisible Suburbs is inspired by google maps, DIY culture and the NSA."