Hold Signal: A Response to Distance – SOLD OUT

Hold Signal: A Response to Distance | Thurs. April 17, 2025 | 7:30 pm ET | In-person

SOLD OUT

Hold Signal: A Response to Distance is an experiential tour of the Museum’s space through sound with artists Sam Gasparre and Colin Pezzano. This special event engages with echoes, loops, and resonances, inviting participants to navigate the Museum in a new, sensory way. Join us for a unique evening at the Museum like never before.

Space is limited. RSVP is required to attend this event.

About the Artists

Sam Gasparre

Samuel Gasparre is a Philadelphia musician and craftsman who works with guitars, computers, wood, electronics, and voice. His music has spanned genres, from jazz to punk rock to free improvisation and he has performed in both concert halls and basements.  He apprenticed as a luthier and has worked in stringed instrument repair and woodworking for over a decade. Combining his background in composition and fabrication, Sam makes and repairs the equipment used while performing. He is currently playing in the band DeStructos as well as hosting a local film screening series Cinema Diabolique.

Colin Pezzano

Colin Pezzano, born in 1992, is a woodworker, printmaker, and craft artist based in South Philadelphia. His practice combines digital and hand processes to infuse humor, pathos, and memory into his chosen materials. By relying on woodworking processes, he connects his actions and memories to the traditions of his predecessors.

Colin graduated from the University Of The Arts in 2014. Upon graduation, he received The Faculty Choice Award and The Windgate Fellowship.  After graduation, Pezzano was featured in Craft Forms (2014) and interviewed in an article with American Craft. In the Spring of 2015, Pezzano had his first solo show, “Contain You,” at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. In 2018, Colin had his second solo show, “Still Life With Dead Game,” at Allens Lane Art Center. In 2022, he received The Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award through The Center for Craft.

In conjunction with the exhibition “Home as Stage” at the Wharton Esherick Museum in the fall of 2022, Colin released a graphic novel titled Soma, told in 45 woodcuts. A “mundane horror,” the narrative investigates lived and imagined experience, corporality, and the passage of time.

During his career Pezzano has participated in group shows, juried exhibitions and attended residencies in the USA and Sweden. He maintains his practice in his basement studio.

This event is free to the public. The Museum for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of it. A suggested donation of $5 per person enables us to provide programs and exhibitions throughout the year.

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Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications at [email protected].

Pictured above:
Detail installation image of the exhibition Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points. Photo: John Carlano
Image of instruments and equipment used by Sam Gasparre and Colin Pezzano. Photo: Colin Pezzano