July 25, 2025 6:00pm -
July 25, 2025 9:00pm
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Join us for Final Friday as we celebrate the closing of our summer exhibitions! Other happenings include the final Summer Youth Theatre production, Alice by Heart, and the annual Averill Awards!
Jeff Eaton | Hot Dogs for Breakfast
Borrowing from vintage advertising, carnival aesthetic, and car/tattoo culture, Jeff Eaton, AKA Pride of Gumbo, employs traditional sign painting techniques to make bold and colorful works, while keeping it lighthearted and off-beat. Like the hot dog, this exhibition is a combination of parts and pieces that might be overlooked or discarded on their own, but when refined and exquisitely combined into the sweet casing, the viewer’s experience is nothing short of a fulfilling delight. Working primarily with enamel, the results are straightforward and crisp graphics. With the objective of simply creating something enjoyable to view, Hot Dogs for Breakfast takes the viewer on a tawdry and delectable journey into the Pride of Gumbo.
Gabriel John Poucher | Ceramics Resident | Permeable & Boundariless
In 2020, the total mass of all human-made objects outweighed the total mass of all life on Earth. What do we consider “natural” in a world with more synthetic material than organic life? Permeable & Boundariless looks through the lens of queer ecology and ceramic materiality to examine geology, microbiology, and the definition of “nature” in the Anthropocene.
Topsy-Turvy is a new body of work from Vesna Jovanovic in response to stories of French medieval marketplace carnivals, where an emphasis on the human body and grotesque bodily humor—in contrast to the mind, or soul—brought laughter, understanding, and a sense of connection among people who otherwise seemed to have nothing in common. By randomly pouring ink on Yupo (a brand of synthetic paper) and then intervening with markers and paint, Jovanovic takes us on a fleshy journey into a world of reversal rituals, street performances, sparklers, and candy.
Thank you to Lunar Graphix 🌙 for providing gallery vinyl.
The Averill Award | A Summer Youth Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award
Join us as we honor 52 years of Summer Youth Theatre with a lifetime achievement award presented to Jeff Sherr and Rebecca Sherr Christian. This special pre-show presentation takes place on July 25th, on the MainStage. This Annual Award Ceremony recognizes Summer Youth Theatre alums and honors their work and dedication in the field of performing arts.
DETAILS
Friday, July 25 | 6:55pm
Pre-show Awards Presentation
Prior to Alice by Heart
MainStage
Summer Youth Theatre | Alice by Heart
From the Tony® and Grammy® award-winning creators of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, and co-written by Jessie Nelson (Waitress). In the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, Alice Spencer’s budding teen life is turned upside down, and she and her dear friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. When the ailing Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with her into their cherished book and journey down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. This musical encourages us all to celebrate the transformational power of the imagination, even in the harshest of times.
Content advisement:
This play’s subject matter includes smoking, drug use, and suggestive innuendo.
