During her solo residency, Lexington, Kentucky-based artist Meg Whelan developed new collages for her hybrid poetry and collage manuscript, Hand Me Down. This work is firmly planted in Kentucky and asks questions about what our bodies know, how we can access the knowledge of the natural world, how we remember. This collection honors grief, challenges religion, documents sexual violence, reckons with intergenerational abuse, witnesses queer discovery, and upholds a healing love. Here, Whelan is trying to understand what has been handed down to her, how she has been handed down, what her hands might do with what they hold, and what she might hand down in her lifetime. On Friday, 25 July, 4-6PM, the public is invited to visit Kolaj Institute Gallery to meet the artist and see how the artwork is progressing.

Learn more about Meg Whelan's Solo Residency: https://kolajinstitute.org/solo-residencies/