Memory is a Verb

Memory Is A Verb is a collective of ten photographers whose work mines our relationship with memory, mortality, perception, and the passage of time.

Each photographer pulls from deeply personal experiences to create bodies of work that explore the aftermath of loss, the fluidity of memory, and the ways in which their medium becomes the mechanism to more fully understand the intricacies of our relationship with the past.

So many of our memories are connected to loss.  Loss of family members, home, land, and even loss of the ways in which we used to preserve memories—on film, slides, or in albums. Technology becomes obsolete, objects are thrown away, time passes and no one remains to recognize a face in a photograph. What happens then?  Who becomes the keeper of your memory, and what story would they tell?

Please join us at an opening reception for the exhibition, Saturday, February 7, 6;00-8:00. Free and open to the public. Register here.


Dates: January 31 - May 24, 2026
Participating artists: Elizabeth Bailey, Annette LeMay Burke, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Susan Lapides, Lori Ordover, Jennifer Pritchard, Rosalie Rosenthal, and Aline Smithson
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Rosalie Rosenthal, Leaving , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Lori Ordover, Self Portrait Night Sky , 2025, Photo print under Acrylic Glass
Sarah Hadley, Leading Me Down , 2023, Archival Pigment Print
Annette LeMay Burke, Dining Room Dinghy , 2022, Archival Pigment Print on Silk
Diane Hemingway, Lady Slipper and Trees , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Jennifer Pritchard, Unraveling Time, Photograph
Elizabeth Bailey, Entering, Vinyl Print
Aline Smithson, I Don’t Know #4 , 2005/2023, Collaged Photograph, printed as an Archival Pigment Print
Susan Lapides, July 1988 frame 18 , 1988/2026, Archival Pigment Print
Dena Eber, The Land of My Country #1 , 2024, Archival Inkjet Print