Exploring Art, Memory, and Healing
Sacred Spaces is a curated exhibition that investigates the deep connections between art, memory, and healing. Centering creation as both personal and collective ritual, the exhibition highlights how repetition, introspection, and acts of making can transform wounds into pathways of resilience and renewal.
Artists across painting, sculpture, crochet, installation, and video reveal how creation becomes an act of memory—ancestral, cultural, and individual—and a tool for healing. The exhibition asks: Why do we return to the act of making? How does art foster connection, catharsis, and community?
During this group exhibition, select artists have made works available for purchase, with 50% of proceeds supporting the mission of Cayenne Wellness Center.
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Exhibition Duration:
August 29 – December 27, 2025
Saturday & Sunday | 10 AM – 6 PM
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Opening Reception:
Friday, August 29 | 6 PM – 10 PM
Free Admission
Catered by Wild Love Vegan
Featuring live music
Valet parking available
General Admission:
$10 General Admission
$5 Seniors,Full-Time Students with ID & Children 2–17
FREE to Members and Children under 2
“Art makes us human; humans are subject to love and pain, joy and trauma, engagement and loneliness. Art is what balances me and makes me whole. It is my lifeline and a bridge to connection. Sacred Spaces: Healing Through Art will lend itself to just—being.”
– Dr. Carolyn Rowley, Executive Director | Cayenne Wellness Center
Sacred Spaces: A Healing Through Art
The debut Exhibition at The CWC Art Gallery, part of The Sanctuary, Cayenne Wellness Center’s newest location devoted to holistic healing and creative expression.
This exhibition invites artists to explore the connections between art, making, and healing. It centers the relationship between creation and memory – both individual and collective – and the role of ritual, repetition, and introspection as pathways to transformation and discovery.
How does art serve as a medium for healing and transformation?
How can your work offer healing to the viewer and reflect your personal understanding of what heals?
Within the Submission process, Artists were invited to reflect on their own relationship to these themes. Consider how memory—whether personal, ancestral, or communal—can be unearthed, reinterpreted, and mended through your artistic practice in a way that offers grounding, security, and renewal.
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Curatorial Acknowledgment
This exhibition has been artfully curated by Julian Prins.
“By foregrounding ritual and artistic process, Sacred Spaces reveals art as both instrument and sanctuary—a means of restoration, discovery, and wholeness.”
– Julian Prins, Curator | CWC Art Gallery
Featured Artists
Alberto Lerdo • Julia Aguila • Ross Edward Doyle • Stephan Reza Jahanshahi-Ghajar • Kevin Newton • Jackson Daughety • Jack Taylor • Annika Klein • Sonia Langouev • Austin Matzelle • Jonn Sherrill • Elaine Kan • Ariana Bailey • Robert Prins • Hazel Many • Eugenia Moreeva • Isabel Riedling • Jo Corbett • Andrew Osborn • Nick Eiser • Alyce Yang • Jacob Brethen • Esmeralda Sandoval
Donor Support
This exhibition and its related educational programs at The CWC Art Gallery are made possible by Cayenne Wellness Center with the support of generous donors like you. To invest in the lives of persons currently living with sickle cell disease and keep this content accessible to all, make a tax-deductable donation today. Your donation will help to provide education and support services for persons living with sickle cell disease in California.
