In Anima Mundi, Marissa Lehner creates sculptures and spaces that are poetic yet accessible. Through combinations of simple forms and textures, she provides an immersive, sensory experience for the viewer. Her themes and materials weave together, playing off each other and lending context and meaning from their use and relevance in our daily lives. Her work binds together themes such as birth, death, hope, fragility and futility, and the contradiction that creates tension between them.

Those who head to the Buffalo Arts Studio on the 5th floor will also get a sneak peek at the beginning of a residency-based installation by Marissa Carol. You will be invited to write your own affirmations on fabric strips, which Carol will then weave into and hang as a part of the growing canopy through the month of October.

A dance performance by Nancy Hughes will take place at 7:00pm.