EXHIBITIONS
CULTIVATE 2026
Students & Intructors
September 22 - October 20
Opening Reception: September 24 | 4:00 - 6:00 PM
It is time to celebrate the skill within the Cultural Center's vibrant learning community! Join for our first annual show featuring the art of our teachers and students:
Cultivate 2026.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS IN 2026
SHE SPOKE UP
Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
October 20 – November 12
Opening Reception: October 23 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
She Spoke Up centers women’s voices through art that addresses advocacy, identity, and personal truth. Linda Pearlman Karlsberg presents a powerful body of work that honors courage, expression, and the act of being heard.
She Spoke Up III
Serena Williams, Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
VISUAL ECHOES
Connie Saems
October 20 – November 12
Opening Reception: October 23 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Saben Board Room
Visual artist Connie Saems possesses the ability to enter fully into another artist’s imaginative world, working in true sympatico. When her subject is swimming, she swims, as she does in her rendering of poet Christine Jones’ book-length poem Limb of Water (One Bird Books, 2025); what emerges on the page feels fluid, buoyant, and alive. In her alliance with poet Wendy Drexler’s Harvest of What Remains (Lily Poetry Books, 2026), Saems' art enhances individual poems as well as section pages that vibrate with two strands of intersecting letter drawings, one that enacts the poet's journey as
she navigates being a primary caregiver for her husband, who has Alzheimer's, and the other
that reflects the progressive scattering of her husband's mind.
Limb of Water, painting based on collaboration
response to Christine Bess Jones
Connie Saems