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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Sunday, November 23
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
11 am - 1 pm / Porch Moves Screening in Rotunda
11 am - Design Dialogues with Ross Altheimer and Maura Rockcastle, TEN x TEN
12 pm - Design Dialogues with J.P. Rysavy and Jenna Dezinski, Letter J
1 pm - The Tower: Drawing from Tarot in Times of Entropy by Lex Brown, 2025 American Academy of Rome Fellow
2 pm - Conversation with Erick Williams, Virtue Restaurant and Akima Brackeen, 2026 FAAR
3 pm - Conversation with Danielle Hatch, Danielle Hatch Studio and Tameka Baba, 2026 FAAR
3 pm - 5 pm / Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater
5 pm -Music with Kalyn Fay & Olivia McGraw
5: 30 pm - PORCH Farewell
