Welcome Home

What is home? How does it shape you? How do you shape it? Artists have long explored these difficult questions, capturing the idea of home and belonging in ways both tangible and abstract. In Welcome Home, an exhibition drawn entirely from the Addison’s permanent collection, we consider how people create home and build family while grappling with their responsibility to the wider world. Considering this subject from points of view both personal and universal, the artists in this exhibition position home as a reflection of shifting cultures and societal expectations. These artworks reveal a tension between the lived realities of domestic life and the ways we imagine or perform in these spaces. In times when belonging is challenged and home feels precarious, holding onto what welcomes us home becomes urgent.

This exhibition was curated by Phillips Academy students enrolled in Art 400 Visual Culture: Curating the Addison Collection. It is on view in the gallery’s Museum Learning Center; as an active teaching space, it may sometimes be occupied by a class.