No Place Like Home

Varied perspectives, techniques, and themes from queer artists in the metals community will remind the viewer of the complexity and contradictions behind Dorothy’s mantra, “there is no place like home.” Guest curator and artist, Andrew Thornton, continues the conversation begun by our recent exhibition, We Are Here: LGBTQIA+ Voices in the Contemporary Metals Community with this brief, month-long installation. Here, the viewer is encouraged to consider the concept of “home” in the queer community, and specifically in metalsmithing. Thornton explains that the exhibition offers, “an investigation of what home means to people with vastly different life experiences and how they feel like they fit into the world around them or don’t.” The materials employed in the exhibition, moreover, lend themselves to the questions raised by Thornton, as he sees metal “itself is so versatile. It can exist in so many different forms and shapes and is a vehicle for storytelling that illuminates internal discussions about the world we live in.