Shimmer Symposium Keynote Conversation: Art, Technology, and the Posthuman Imagination

Printmaker and book artist Sarah Matthews’s new exhibit *uter(us) is a series of letterpress prints and artists’ books created as part of her 2026 Visiting Artist residency at Hatch Show Print. The project examines women’s health through the language of medicine, exploring the words and phrases physicians and nurses use when speaking to patients.

Jianhui London creates innovative statement jewelry with sustainability at its heart, transforming unexpected materials like recycled plastic bottles, paper, leather, and textiles into distinctive wearable art. This special trunk show features custom pieces celebrating the Frist’s latest exhibitions: Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman and Robin Vuchnich: In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers—The Memory of a Season.

The nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau has long been celebrated for his profound essays on subjects ranging from natural history to social justice. In his most prominent work, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), Thoreau meditates on the transcendent experience of living in direct communion with nature.