721 Hampton Drive Venice CA 90291
Sunday, June 29 at 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Ends Jul 20, 2025
Inspired by the Chinese goddess Nüwa—who molded humans from clay and patched the broken sky—this exhibition gathers 24 artists in a multisensory garden of regeneration. Featuring ceramics, fiber, sculpture, and installation, the works explore elemental transformation, myth, and collective repair.
Curated by Ann Shi and presented by a poco art archive with Charles Arnoldi Studio, "Nüwa’s Garden" unfolds through the spatial logics of Feng Shui and Wuxing (Five Element theory). Each piece is placed with intentionality, reflecting a cosmology where material, direction, and ritual form an ecosystem of meaning. Installed in the former potato warehouse of Charles Arnoldi’s studio, the space itself becomes a container for ancestral memory, mythic energy, and ecofeminist renewal.
Join us in this summer offering of clay, fire, and water—an ephemeral sanctuary shaped by touch, story, and soil.
Please RSVP if you're interested in joining the pre-opening tea ceremony and communal painting ritual at 11am, where we begin by aligning our intentions—body, mind, and space—in the spirit of Nüwa’s ancient gesture of creation, mending and healing.