Jenny Welden’s Everyday Saints offers a monumental exploration of the sacred and the passage of time through a collection of twelve interconnected artworks in twenty-two components, including a 32-foot modular altarpiece entitled FEAR NOT.

Animating her fourteen-foot longarm sewing machine with flowing motions of her body, Welden combines intuitive drawing, abstract painting, improvisational quiltmaking, and somatic meditation to form monumental multimedia networks. Welden’s free-motion stitchwork arrives at this show bolder than ever, with her signature strong use of color and expressive linework now emblazoned in iridescent silk dupioni, torn into narrow strips. She describes this new material as “an offering.”

This body of work, created especially for The Art Base over the past two years, processes the forces of creation-destruction, loss-renewal, and personal sacrifice toward higher good.

“The season of creation was full of trials and tectonic shifts in my life: unexpected pregnancy, nearly dying while giving birth, our household move, life with a precious new baby, and the passing of a beloved mother figure and friend. “Layer by layer, I stitched offerings into this work: fabrics from mills that no longer exist, rare silks, my childhood blanket, my wedding dress… Each tiny stitch is a life cycle of connection. To stitch is to pierce, to draw together, to heal, to illuminate, and to always begin again.” –Jenny Welden

We invite you to come engage with Welden’s intricately layered pieces and delve into the artist’s creative process.

Jessie Chaney’s Choose Your Own Direction captures the delicate balance between absence and presence within abandoned spaces. Her series delves into environments once vibrant with life, now empty yet resonant with the echoes of their past inhabitants. Chaney’s photographs reveal the beauty amidst decay, celebrating the remnants of progress and change left behind in deserted buildings.

Chaney’s photographs capture the delicate interplay between absence and presence in environments once bustling with life but now left to the passage of time. Through her lens, she reveals the subtle narratives embedded in the ruins—places where the vestiges of former inhabitants linger as quiet witnesses to change and progress. Her work evokes an air of nostalgia, not for the sake of mere reminiscence, but as a reflection on the rapid shifts of modern life. By highlighting these forgotten spaces, Chaney invites viewers to see the lingering light and beauty in what remains.