In honor of National Women's History Month we present two bodies of work by Shannon Amidon and Karen Russo that explore the inner landscape of the feminine spirit through nature, material, and attentive making. Across word, garden, wax and clay, the exhibition reflects on creativity as a form of refuge, resilience, and quiet endurance.

Amidon’s work is inspired by the life, garden, and correspondence of Emily Dickinson, and considers solitude and observation as sources of creative strength. Encaustic works incorporating pressed flowers, altered books etched with botanical imagery and lines of poetry, and translucent herbarium-based pieces suspend language and plant life between presence and memory.

Russo's ceramic sculptures are entrancing, emotive figures that symbolize the confluence of feminine spirit with nature. Shaping and carving the clay, she wraps her figures in textured, rhythmic whorls suggestive of water or petal forms, adding color with painted underglazes, casein and acrylic. Her sculptural figures emerge intuitively from clay, shaped through a physical and meditative process. Rooted in the rhythms of the natural world, her feminine forms hold tension and balance, strength and delicacy, love and grief revealing the body as a landscape shaped by experience.

Together, these works honor an enduring strength from within.