Adding Stones to Rise A Group Exhibition of Sacramento-Based Artists
Adding Stones to Rise
A Group Exhibition of Sacramento-Based Artists
Artist and Curator: Adero Willard
May 1 – May 29, 2026
Second Saturday Reception: Saturday, May 9, 5–8 PM
Adding Stones to Rise is a curated group exhibition bringing together Sacramento-based artists working across multiple media, including painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and new media. The title was developed in response to the work and writings of the artists in the exhibition and to the regional presence of rivers that move through and around Sacramento. Water becomes a point of connection—flowing, sustaining, eroding, nurturing, and reshaping. It can lift, carry, overwhelm, or renew. The flow of a river may also be understood simply as the movement of material through the earth. In this context, adding stones may suggest burden, accumulation, protection, labor, or foundation; rising may evoke resistance, healing, survival, visibility, or change.
Artists were selected to create a diversity of voice, perspective, process, medium, and identity, speaking to the expansiveness of Blackness and representing a collective of varying experiences. Each point is distinct, yet inseparable from the whole—reflecting how identity, particularly Blackness, can be understood as fluid, relational, and non-monolithic.
Adding Stones to Rise centers the work of Black women and nonbinary artists—new to the region, rooted here, or returning. Together, these artists offer a collective meditation on movement, care, resistance, and transformation. This exhibition is one moment in an ongoing story. It is not the first of its kind, and it will not be the last.
Curatorial Note: As a curatorial framework, stones, water, and rivers function as metaphors for ideas brought together in this space and may not reflect the specific themes or content of each artist’s work.
Participating Artists
Debra Pitman, Laurelin Gilmore, Amari More, Victoria Kinyanjui, Khalia Morris, Tasha Green, Delgreta Brown, Alex Lowe, Sabrina Clark, Tasha Nicole
Press Contact
[Adero Willard] [potterybyadero@gmail.com |
