Exhibitions

POLISHING THE STONE

ShapeShifter Art School / 80 Oakleaf Office Ln. November 22 - 30th (Reception: November 22 6:00pm - 10:00pm)

Elizabeth Alley, Melissa Dunn, Pam McDonnel, Nikii Richey, Lisa Williamson

To polish the stone is to enter into a slow conversation between matter and spirit. It is the work of returning - again and again - to what is unfinished, unresolved, opaque. In the language of alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone transforms not by small effort but by attention: through difficulty, repetition, and faith in process.

ShapeShifter Art School was born of the same alchemical labor - five artists gathering around an idea and choosing to stay, even when the work became difficult. We turned full circle, more than once, learning to listen deeply to one another, to hold tension without shattering, to move from many voices into one shared pulse. What emerged is not only our new home, but a collective act of becoming - an experiment in community-as-creative-practice.

"Polishing" is not about perfection but about contact - the way time, touch, and persistence reveal what lay hidden beneath the surface.