About the Exhibition

PULLEY: a collaborative exhibition presents a radical experiment and mutual exchange between ten NIAD artists and Christopher Robin Duncan. The show’s punchy title refers both to the physical mechanism that allowed for these works to be created and to the greater concept of a pulley system: a collection of wheels and ropes that operate in concert to lift an object.

The artists in PULLEY upend the convention of the traditional group show as a collection of individual artists presenting individual works, instead prioritizing the magic alchemy of working in tandem with one another, with light, with space. The exhibition features fabric canvases, wearable fabrics, and ceramic sculpture.

Guided in a workshop facilitated by multidisciplinary artist Christopher Robin Duncan, the NIAD artists prepared fabrics to go up via pulley to the building’s roof to be exposed for three to six months before being “harvested.” A signature of Duncan’s practice, these sun-bleached fabric canvases are site-specific and durational documentation of the adaptive, responsive, and warmly generous relationships between artists working across the disability spectrum.

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Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 2025, 3 - 5 pm.

Artist Conversation & Potluck in the park: Saturday, October 18, 2025, 1 - 4 pm

Book Launch & Closing Reception: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 3 - 5 pm