🗓️ Open September 12 – October 24
📍Harvard Ed Portal Crossings Gallery, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Challenge beauty standards one curl at a time with Maya Alia’s vibrant digital art series Curls & Coils. This exhibit is an ode to the ways textured hair can transcend into a form of expression and identity for women of color. Vibrant illustrations portray a shared journey toward self-acceptance and empower those whose hair types have historically been considered subpar, not enough, or unkept. Each image celebrates the power reclaimed when choosing to exist unapologetically. Through bold portraits with symbolic flowers, Maya explores beauty standards, love, and culture to illustrate a story of strength and resilience.

Join the Ed Portal for the following free events:

Reception & Pop-Up Shop
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Meet the artist, network with neighbors, and enjoy the exhibition. Join us for a tasty bite, beverage and special AIRI Jewelry and Gallery pop-up shop featuring work by Maya Alia
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Take Your Flowers: Botanical Watercolor Workshop 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm
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Superbloom: A Crystal-Inspired Watercolor Painting Workshop (beginner-friendly)
Thursday, October 10, 2024 |5:30 – 7:00 pm
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Artist In Residence Exhibition

🗓️On view September 27-November 22, 2024
📍Gallery 224, 224 Western Ave., Allston
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Artist In Resident Audrey An explores the notion of home, where furniture in domestic spaces becomes a repository for physical remnants of accumulated memories, shaping and reflecting one’s identity. Drawing inspiration from Korean historical artifacts and cross-cultural iconographies, in “Wishful Things”, An creates hypothetical spaces that embrace emotional states of oscillation between cultures, offering a venue for reflection and self-personification through in-animate objects.