LOOK HERE
September 19 – December 13, 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
https://hav.to/lookhere
This fall, Philadelphia’s leading progressive art studio, the Center for Creative Works (CCW), is partnering with Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery to present LOOK HERE, a dynamic, multi-sensory exhibition illuminating the nuanced and revelatory perspectives represented in the work of neurodivergent artists. Ranging from colorful illustrations that meticulously catalogue differences in categories of food, transit, and appliances, to found object sculptures that form relics of a world understood through touch, the exhibition invites visitors to look, listen, smell, and touch to connect with a diversity of ways of “looking” at the world.
LOOK HERE features six artists with studio practices based out of CCW – Kelly Brown, Cindy Gosselin, Clyde Henry, Tim Quinn, Brandon Spicer-Crawley, and Allen Yu. Curated by Jennifer Gilbert alongside two CCW artists – Mary T. Bevlock and Paige Donovan – the exhibition emphasizes art’s ability to communicate across different sensory channels.
Allen Yu, Hand and Hair Drying Air Machines, 2024, graphite and marker pen on paper, 9 x 12". Courtesy the artist and Center for Creative Works.
The exhibition design itself will also integrate many elements to enhance accessibility for wide audiences, including braille, videos about the artists with ASL embedded, touch panels featuring artists’ materials, sensory backpacks, an Easy Read guide, a quiet room, and tours led by neurodivergent artists.
Brandon Spicer-Crawley, Boys, 2019, acrylic paint on reclaimed art print of Deer, Bat, and Tree by Matsumara Keibun, 22 x 28". Courtesy the artist and Center for Creative Works.
LOOK HERE will be complemented by a series of related events, including two satellite exhibitions – one at Haverford’s VCAM gallery, LOOK THERE, featuring a single work from a larger group of 99 CCW artists, curated by Bevlock and Donovan, and another, LOOK EVERYWHERE, at Philadelphia's Atelier Gallery in October, featuring works from 33 artists from progressive art studios around the country, also curated by Jennifer Gilbert.
These exhibitions will coincide with the 6th annual Creating Community Symposium, which brings together professionals from progressive art studios nationwide to discuss best practices, advocacy, and the evolving intersection of art and disability. Originally started by California’s Creative Growth Art Center, the nation's most widely known progressive art studio, this is the first time the gathering will be held on the East Coast.
Cindy Gosselin, Untitled, 2022, mixed media sculpture with acrylic thread, wood, tinsel, foam, ping-pong racket, and plastic doll hand, 10 x 6.25 x 2". Courtesy the artist and Center for Creative Works.
Tim Quinn, Untitled (Dining Room), 2016, watercolor and ink on paper, 15 x 15". Courtesy the artist and Center for Creative Works.
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