Opening Reception: a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread

Celebrate the opening of Pangarap, our newest exhibition, featuring art by Mär Martinez, with live music, a food truck, and a cash bar on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus!

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Admission, to this event is FREE! However, donations of any size are gratefully accepted with your order or at the event, in order to support our many free community programs!

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About the Exhibition

Mär Martinez, a Syrian American artist and Fulbright scholar, presents new work developed during her 2025–26 Fulbright research in Istanbul. Her project investigates traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern textile techniques while reflecting on themes of urbanization, surveillance, and cultural memory. Drawing from nighttime walks through Istanbul’s neighborhoods, Martinez transforms architectural barriers, barbed wire, fences, hostile design, into motifs of resistance and reweaving. Her haunting wood paintings explore personal heritage, global textile history, and contemporary social commentary in poetic, layered form.

All 2025-26 free programs at A&H are supported by a grant from Duke Energy Foundation.