A Room of their Own: Still-Life Sculpture and the Creative Interior

May 1 – October 26, 2026

Curator: Amrut Mishra

BA Harrington Time Capsule, 2006 Poplar, basswood, birch plywood, maple, pearwood, brass knob H. 42 x W. 27 x D. 30 inches Courtesy of the Artist Photo: Stephen Funk

Drawing on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1928), A Room of Their Own examines the conditions and effects that facilitate creative work. A staged ladies’ writing desk anchors a still-life of carved wooden sculptural objects—domestic forms rendered with care and precision. This exhibition, comprising art from the Museum for Art in Wood’s permanent collection alongside works on loan, reflects on nourishment of thought, time, and space as supports for the inspiration, focus, and discipline required for living a creative life.

Artists:

Teresa Audet, Humaira Abid, Kate Davidson and Charlotte Holt, Marceil DeLacy, BA Harrington, Michelle Holzapfel, Daphne Osolnik and Rude Osolnik, Merryll Saylan

A Room of Their Own is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Bresler Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, William Penn Foundation, and Windgate Foundation.