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Ahead of the opening of her incredible solo show, Mending Lands, at St Vincents @stvincents in May, Marte Mei @martemei speaks to Mark Smith about her new body of work developed through extended research into phytoremediation. Her furniture lies at the intersection of art, design, & climate, and at the cutting edge of sustainable design. Read about her innovative process this weekend in @fthtsi Thank you to @amancalledmark for your amazing words @amelieambroise for the photos The @fthtsi TEAM: @jellison22 @craftacularuk @katiefcwebb @louisquinze and more And of course @stvincents & @martemei for this wonderful story!

TIME named Walter Hood of Hood Design Studio to the 2026 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes appear in the April 27, 2026, issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, April 17, and now online. The list recognizes the impact, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Hood joins artists Jafar Panahi and Benicio Del Toro, Photographer Lynsey Daddario, Olympic gold medal skater Alysa Liu, and Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani on the list. This recognition represents another milestone in the growth and evolution of the Oakland-based Hood Design Studio. In addition to this honor, Walter Hood was recognized as one of Galerie Magazine’s Creative Minds for 2026, in May 2026 groundbreaking will commence on the major overhaul of Lincoln Center’s Damroch Park, the studio was selected to design the Kresge Foundation’s new campus in Troy, Michigan with Diller Scofidio Renfro, and The African American Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum was released. Within the studio, Landscape Architect Alma Du Solier, who led the NVIDIA Campus and Intuit Dome landscape design teams was elevated to Partner, and Sarita Schreiber, who coordinated Migrations at the San Diego Airport was named Director of Social Art. In her tribute landscape architect Kate Orff said, “Whether he‘s riffing off of the intertwined practices of landscape architecture, sculpture, and cultural anthropology, or crafting community parks in Oakland, California, his work allows us all to take part in a wider civic conversation. Walter has an almost kaleidoscopic power to ground us where we are, by propelling us into the past and simultaneously toward a more just future that is slowly coming into focus.” @hooddesignstudio Thank you @time @sampjacobs @cate.matthews Kate Orff/ @scape_studio

Congratulations to @bestorarchitecture for their inclusion in the #AD100 list. Thank you so much to everyone at @archdigest & to @yoshihiromakino for these superb photos! (The Claremont Residence can be found in the July/Aug issue)

Thank you @cultured_mag for including Walter Hood of @hooddesignstudio on the Cultured 100 list! Honorees “in their respective fields—art, fashion, film, literature, politics, food, and more—they are choosing risk over reward, courage over fear, curiosity over cynicism, and conviction over covering bases. ” Thank you @sarahgharrelson @maraveitch Ella Martin-Gachot @sophie2laura #cult100 Link in stories & bio

Walter Hood in @wallpapermag Each of his gardens, community spaces, streetscapes and masterplans finds its own voice through a blend of history, ecology, art and culture. Instead of erasing what existed before, Hood recovers forgotten histories, represents the particularities of place and makes marginalised people visible. Thank you @shonquis Ellie Stathaki & the @wallpapermag team Thank you for the wonderful photos by @peterprato

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🤗 To all friends and fans of FCCW, on Saturday, May 16, we're hosting our annual fundraiser benefit, and we would LOVE your support! The funds that we raise at this event support free programs, new books, amazing exhibitions, our talented, generous staff & the lovely space, where we work SO HARD to make a home for our collective queer, creative, intersectional feminist dreams!⁠ ⁠ If you're able to attend, please buy a ticket (you know where to find the link) they start at $150 dollars — and we're presenting you with an evening full of goodies and baddies:⁠ ⁠ HOSTED by Sabrina Jalees @sabrinajalees ⁠ ⁠ FOOD by Oooey Studios @oooey.studios ⁠ ⁠ DRINKS by Silverlake Wine @silverlakewine ⁠ & Hi Tops ⁠@hitopslosfeliz ⁠ ⁠ DJ SET by The Alaia @the.alaia ⁠ ⁠ PREVIEW of Radical Kinship curated by Chloe Flores @sea_flow ⁠ ⁠ PERFORMANCE by Sharon Chohi Kim @sharonchohikim ⁠ ⁠ ART RAFFLE featuring works from a group of stunningly awesome women, nonbinary, trans artists we adore — find more info in our bio to enter!⁠ ⁠ Even if you can't attend, send us some love, make a small donation, become a member, buy a book, send your favorite sponsors our way, come to a program, every little bit makes a difference 💗⁠

Meet Me In The Middle, a group exhibition curated by St Vincents founders Henri Delbarre and Geraldine Jackman explores the language of jewelry in contemporary design. The exhibition gathers eight female designers whose work bears the imprint of jewelry — whether as foundational training, lifetime obsession or quiet undercurrent. Meet Me In The Middle is not a show about adornment, but about transference: how jewelry’s enduring value can mutate when untethered from the body and amplified into space. @stvincents Anne Büscher @anne_buscher Madeline Coven @madeline__coven Marijke De Cock @marijke_decock Kimy Gringoire @kimygringoire_design Hannah Kuhlmann @studiokuhlmann with Lisa Scherebnenko @lisascherebnenko Marte Mei @martemei Emily Thurman @emthurman

Walter Hood of @hooddesignstudio will be lecturing at the Architectural Association @aaschool in London He will be joined in conversation with Nana Biamah-Ofosu @biamah.ofosu April 21 6:30 pm AA Lecture Hall 36 Bedford Square

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Now Open: Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, Exhibition Design by Katy Barkan of Now Here, at The National Portrait Gallery @nownowherehere @katy.barkan Room with Rooms stages a dialogue between Catherine Opie’s expansive portrait practice and the long history of portraiture housed within the institution The exhibition, curated in collaboration with the artist, is the first major museum exhibition of her work in the UK. The exhibition design, designed by Katy Barkan of Now Here stages a dialogue between Catherine Opie’s expansive portrait practice and the long history of portraiture housed within the institution. Rather than dispersing Opie’s works throughout the galleries, the design reconstitutes the Gallery itself within the exhibition, creating “rooms within rooms” that allow for a direct encounter with both the formalities of portraiture and the politics of identity. This architectural framework organizes the show as a sequence of square and rectilinear spaces threaded by enfilade views, recalling the classical rhythm of museum galleries while simultaneously misaligning their axes. This subtle displacement reframes familiar conventions through the lens of queerness—introducing moments of defamiliarization within a recognizably traditional setting. The first rooms stage Opie’s most radical and political works within formal containers, while later spaces blur distinctions between portrait and landscape, the personal and the collective. Catherine Opie: To Be Seen 5 March, 2026 - 31 May 2026 National Portrait Gallery St. Martin’s Place London, WC2H 0HE

Caught a couple of days of @matterandshape with wonderful programming by @danthawley Some favorites tagged in photo