MHS 2026 Juror Announcement!

Gabe Duggan (they/them, b. Buffalo, NY) is an associate professor at East Carolina University and have taught elsewhere including the University of North Texas, Georgia State University, North Carolina State University, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and the Penland School of Craft.

About their body of work:

“I construct installations in three-dimensional space through tension and repetition that engage with four-dimensional space through ephemerality or perpetuation. Laboring tediously over precarious systems I challenge definitions of functionality and permanence.

Installations such as WAS HERE (2022, NC), RECOHERE (2021, MA), and no one knows (extent since 2020, NY) simulate the inherent interreliance between binaries through balanced tension. Constructed with Dyneema®, these works can weather various climates but are primarily survived in the datasphere.

VISKUBIT (2023) and violence/consent (2024) abandon media specificity altogether and use the body as a subtractive technology upon the earth's surface. These works etch a mark regardless of consent by the receiving species. Related to desire paths and meditation labyrinths, VISKUBIT and violence/consent enlist trauma and reparations. The physical existence of these works are inevitably erased through reclamation by the beyond-human, though they are etched like graffiti across satellite-based surveillance.”

Our enormous thanks to Gabe for lending their time and expertise to jurying this year’s selection of artwork!

Submissions close on November 21, 2025 at midnight central time. See MHS Call page for more exhibition details and to submit.

Artwork Image:

"violence/consent, 2024"

~ 100 X 200 ft. artist impact on Mohican and Munsee Lenape Land (42°07'24.4"N 73°52'53.5"W), 432 repetitions.