As Mending the Seams comes to a close, we invite you to join us for the final weekend of programming at Camden FireWorks.
The closing weekend will include a sustainable bag workshop, followed by an artist talk reflecting on the exhibition, the works on view, and the conversations that have unfolded throughout its duration.
Over these past weeks, Mending the Seams has been shaped through dialogue, attention, and collective presence. We’re grateful to the artists, curators, and community members who spent time with the exhibition and helped bring the space to life.
Thank you for being part of this experience.
Mending the Seams remains on view through May 24th!
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Hi friends! Registration is open for my art workshop with @natural.lands ! Saturday May 23: 1-4 pm at Saunders Woods. No experience needed. Bring your playfulness, imagination and open heart and let’s make something in community with the trees and stones and flowers at this beautiful nature preserve.
Please register on @natural.lands website, also linked on my bio.
/event/wild-materials-0523-2026/
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Introducing @ljsilver7 one of the artists included in our upcoming exhibition Mending the Seams! Lauren Silver is a Philadelphia-based mixed-medium
and ritual artist. Her art draws upon found & reclaimed objects and assemblage approaches.
Lauren serves as a faculty member in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. As part of a community of queer, feminist abolitionists, she actively works to end violence and sexual harm against children while imagining new modes of radical care, love, and kinship.
She assembles fragments, fibers, scraps, gifts from nature, and discarded objects, mending them into something beautiful and whole. Lauren’s art has appeared in juried exhibitions across the region, including the Abington Art Center, Schuylkill
Environmental Center Art Gallery, Philadelphia Small Works Gallery, Vox Populi, Cherry Street Pier Gallery, and the Luster Gallery. In April 2024, Lauren was commissioned along with four other artists to participate in an Immersive Art Installation on grief, supported by an Art and Change Grant from the Leeway Foundation.
Her work engages material and process in ways that reflect on accumulation, transformation, and the subtle labor of repair. Through careful attention to form and surface, the work considers how meaning is built over time.
We’re honored to include her in this exhibition.
Mending the Seams
April 12 - May 24
Opening Reception April 12 | 3-5PM
See you there!
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Lauren Silver (@ljsilver7 )
Abolish cages. walls. borders. Now., 2026
Mixed-medium assemblage with found canvas, objects, fabrics
On view March 6–29 at @voxpopuligallery
Fri/Sat/Sun 12–6pm or by appointment
To enter the raffle for this artwork, visit đź”—đź”—in bio for tickets. In the entry form, this piece is identified as Artwork 5
This is picture is for me.
I want to remember how it feels to take up space.
To let the sun massage my body, rubbing tenderly and with delicate pace the tiredness from my flesh.
And I feel this sunshine. I mean I truly feel it. I feel my hands on my belly.
I feel my whole back on this bench.
I take up space.
I took this picture as a feeling memory.
As a survivor, I want to look at myself, truly see myself, and remember what ease feels like. Remember. Remember what it feels like to sink, to sink into comfort, bliss even.
Remember what it feels like to let my body relax, release, and remain still.
I am content here.
