This event is open to current Columbia and Barnard students on a first-come, first-served basis with limited capacity.

Reflect on the importance of rest, comfort, and safety during this guided exhibition tour of over 60 works—including paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures—that explore the ways that celebrated folk and self-taught artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.”

Taken both literally and metaphorically, Somewhere to Roost represents spaces where artists live and work, as well as places remembered, imagined, or dreamed. The exhibition will highlight experiences of immigration, incarceration, and housing insecurity, as well as visions of home that are playful, inventive, and unexpected.

Eager to keep exploring? Stick around after the tour to roam the galleries independently and explore additional exhibitions—Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic and Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture.