Gathering and Giving Thanks
Welcome to the PORCH! A room with a view. A threshold. A beginning. A place of comfort and discovery. A place of exchange. Sweet hellos and melancholic farewells. Since May 2025, the PORCH has been ours – yours and mine – to embrace our past, celebrate our present, and prepare for our future. Here on the PORCH, we gather, reflect and give thanks as we sing, dance, laugh, learn, play and remember, for a farewell salute to this place of welcoming, discovery and transformation, together!
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Saturday, November 22
10 am - Porch Life
Hands-on Building by Somewhere Studio
Words on Water: Venice by Akima Brackeen, 2026 American Academy in Rome Fellow (FAAR)
Site Unscreened by Tameka Baba, 2026 American Academy in Rome Fellow (FAAR)
Music with Kalyn Fay & Olivia McGraw
Friendship Quilt tying off with Danielle Hatch, Danielle Hatch Studio
11 am - 1 pm - Porch Moves Screening in Rotunda
11 am - Design Dialogues with Matthew Mazzotta, Artist
12 noon - 2 pm - Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater
1 pm - Friendship & Hospitality with Erick Williams, Virtue Restaurant and Elliot Hunt, Atlas the Restaurant
2 pm - Design Dialogues with Walt Swanson, Nick Tobier, Perseis Skipper, Kaimon Griffin, Brightmoor Maker Space
3 pm - Design Dialogues with PORCH co-commissioners Peter MacKeith and Susan Chin, and assistants to the commissioners Francesco Bedeschi and Jonathan Boelkins
4 pm - The Tower: Drawing from Tarot in Times of Entropy by Lex Brown, 2025 American Academy of Rome Fellow
5 pm - Reading by Ada Limón, 24th U.S. Poet Laureate
