CONJOINED or And May The East And West Be Bound Together

_EXHIBITION OPENING 7.22.26 at 6pm EST

Join us for the opening of the group exhibition 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 or 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 opening Wednesday July 22, 2026.

6pm at Akhsó Gallery at ATNSC.

Guided by the lived practice of Glenville resident + artist Ernestine Taliaferro (1913-2005), this exhibition marks the gallery’s fifth year by inviting four living artists to be in conversation with the ancestor and each other:

Ara Azad (Lebanon), a contemporary artist based between Boston and Beirut.

Alison Croney Moses (Guyanese-American), a Boston based sculptor whose primary medium is wood.

Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, a Harlem based interdisciplinary contemporary artist + educator.

Abbey Williams, a NYC based contemporary artist, educator and administrator who works primarily in video and installation.

This exhibition is held by Taliaferro’s Baháí faith through two lectures given in Cleveland in 1912—one at a private home, the other at Euclid Hall:

“Consider: What is this material civilization of the day giving forth?”

This exhibition considers and contains ideas about: motherhood, migration, black womanhood, whiteness, exile, war, arrival, friendship, grief, tourism and asks “What is required to birth the spiritual civilization?”

An invitation to move toward the edge of your own meaning-making.

We look forward to a microcosm of our world, conjoined, to celebrate with us.

curated by artist + ATNSC director M. Carmen Lane

For media or collections inquiries: akhso@atnsc.org

_About ATNSC:

ATNSC: Center for Art, Practice and Inquiry is an artist-led incubator: retreat, residency, research and exhibition space sited in a multi-unit residential home prioritizing socially engaged Indigenous artists and artists of color. ATNSC, as experimental space, stewards a sound and literary repository, woodshop, risograph, digital lab, gallery and pollinator garden. Engaged at the intersections of contemporary art, equity leadership, holism and place, ATNSC values hospitality and mutual exchange. Founded by artist M. Carmen Lane, ATNSC explores the architecture of home as a site for inquiry for artists and cultural workers and is located in the historic Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.