Changing Skins: Joetta Maue
Exhibition on view October 23 - December 17, 2025
In conjunction with Motherhood as Muse on exhibit at
Concord Center for Visual Arts
37 Lexington Road
Concord, MA 01742
Middlesex School’s Ishibashi Gallery is pleased to announce Changing Skins, a solo exhibition of new and selected works by multidisciplinary artist Joetta Maue, on view from October 23 through December 17, 2025. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Motherhood as Muse at the Concord Center for Visual Arts and explores the evolution of Maue’s deeply personal and poetic practice across embroidery, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Changing Skins is presented alongside a site-specific installation created especially for Concord Art.
Drawing from the domestic landscape and her lived experience as a mother and caregiver, Maue illuminates moments of quiet beauty, transformation, and the invisible labor of care. Across media, she renders the intimate—and often overlooked—realities of daily life with a reverence that invites reflection on the complexity of human connection.
Changing Skins presents works from several of Maue’s ongoing series, including her acclaimed textile-based project Invisible Labor, the drawing series Dust and Cosmos, and new photographic works that reflect on the shifting intimacy between parent and child. The exhibition’s title is taken from one of the featured works and captures the emotional duality that runs throughout Maue’s practice: the simultaneous grief and yearning that accompany growth, aging, and change.
Maue’s work has been widely exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Weisman Museum of Art, and the Arts Complex Museum. Her writing and artwork have been featured in The Boston Globe, Boston Art Review, Art Spiel, and Artists Magazine. She is currently a Lecturer at Northeastern University, Lesley University, and UMass, and a frequent visiting artist at institutions across the country.
Join us for an Opening Reception on Tuesday, November 4, at 6:30 PM, and for a panel of artists from Motherhood as Muse moderated by Maue on Tuesday, December 2, from 6:30–7:30 PM, both free and open to the public.
About Ishibashi Gallery
Located on the campus of Middlesex School, Ishibashi Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting the work of emerging and mid-career artists to enrich the community’s experience of art, promote cross-cultural visual literacy, support diverse critical thinking, and ignite dialogue.
Middlesex School
1400 Lowell Road
Concord, MA 01742
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