notions of gathering: aMBER AND cASSIA pOWELL

Image credits: Amber E. Powell, 2026 “Adam and Eve Split” Cassia Powell, 2026 “The Hare”

Notions of Gathering
Duo Exhibition with Amber and Cassia Powell

Opens July 11th...

Notions of Gathering is a duo, mother-daughter exhibition by artists Cassia and Amber Powell
composed of mixed-media drawings, textiles, installation and collage. Drawing on storytelling,
personal and spiritual folklore, this exhibition looks at gathered material as something one can
develop a kinship with, and explores what it means to produce and what it means to inherit and
gather objects over time. Considering each material as a vessel for memory, whether through
pieces of cloth in a collaborative quilt or selected images within a collage, each work in Notions
of Gathering marinate in the collective understanding of “how a material is made more alive
through social encounter, being passed between lives and hands.”1
Within the core of this show, there is an unpacking of the understandings of traditional nuclear
family dynamics, negating the standard for what kinship can mean. Looking at gathering as an
act of collecting, but also as a means of coming together.
What are the things we hold on to that are passed down? How can we cast these associations into
spaces of potential?

1Edwards, C., & Dittel, K. (Eds.). (2022). The material kinship reader: Material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family. Onomatopee.