Alicia Renadette is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the potential of symbolic transformation in everyday things. In curbside piles and thrift shop isles, Renadette seeks out those objects initially intended to either assist with domestic comfort, or distract from internal conflict. With If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Thought of You...I Could Walk Through My Garden Forever, rescued flowers from the tangled brush of a cemetery landscape are given new meaning in the form of sculpture and collage.

While canonical conversations about romance novel artwork largely focus on the Fabios—the sentimentally lush paintings used for the covers of books by publishers like Harlequin and Avon—Elizabeth Goodspeed’s “How to Live on Love” explores a generally overlooked aspect of these layouts, the form’s typography.

I Walked Up to the Cloud is a show of decorative and utilitarian woolen works by Claire Crews. The show’s title is a borrowed line from the poem Samuel Palmer: the Characters of Fire by prairie poet Ronald Johnson. Like clouds—or translucent windows reflecting a changing sky—these geometric structures invite and suspend. They remind us that fog up close is radiant. All pieces are handwoven on a four-harness floor loom, using natural toned and dyed churro wool, the compositions based on watercolor sketches in the artist's daybooks. 

Creating art quilts that reflect her culture and heritage, Veronica Mays embraces the use of bold colors, batiks, and African prints to create empowered female figures, historical characters, and family images. Working from source photos, Mays artistically reimagines clothing and backgrounds through a process that combines machine quilting with free motion quilting to embellish her finishing stitches.

Public Collectors publication #75, Protest Grim Reapers, is a dive into the world of discarded and resold press photo archives. This exhibit reproduces details from 27 press photos of the famed Pale Horse rider, spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Across six of New England’s coldest weeks, we’ll get cozy with the documented personification of death in a neighborhood bookshop.

PSE QSL PVD is a celebration of the humble QSL card’s place in folk art history alongside old punk show handbills, early hand drawn hip-hop party invites, 80s Chicago-area dance club posters, and so on. This show—featuring 28 enlarged selections from the pair’s respective archives—is the tip of the iceberg.