To be human is to tell stories. Since time immemorial, it is through spoken and written word that we have learned one another, taught one another, and made manifest our existence.

I Was Here honored mark-making: the physical, creative desire to take proverbial pen-to-paper and the visceral, human yearning to record, to memorialize, to matter.

Featured: Miriam Londoño, Lavett Ballard, Julia Ibbini, Kimiko Yoshida, Nicola Anthony, Ashley Nora, and Lakwena Maciver.

Celebrated in sculptHER at the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden are Julia Ibbini (UAE), Cha Jong Rye (South Korea), Miriam Londoño (Colombia), and Nicole Pietrantoni (Prague/USA). Each artist creates in either paper or wood, though these are no "ordinary" manifestations of either medium. Here, sculpted at the hands of Ms. Cha Jong Rye, wood appears to flow like water, and Nicole Pietrantoni transforms paper into an intimate installation. Miriam Londoño's handmade paper tells stories through its shapes; Julia Ibbini's works in paper and wood alike are a beautiful collision of history, architecture, and design.

Works by established and emerging artists embody Front Page, an exhibit exploring the strengths of a medium traditionally thought to be limited to sketches and studies. The artists featured: Lavett Ballard (collage); Yulia Brodskaya (sculpture); Moira Cameron (painting on upcycled paper); Constance Edwards Scopelitis (graphite on paper; lenticular printmaking); Mary Evans (collage); Fiona Grady (watercolor on paper); Rose Electra Harris (chine-collé, painting); Julia Ibbini (sculpture); Tamar Kander (collage); Sabina Klein (painting); Miriam Londoño (sculpture); Destiny Palmer (collage); Nicole Pietrantoni (sculpture); and Lois Main Templeton (collage, painting).