ArtsWestchester's Art in a Season of Revolution
The exhibit is running through August 2, 2026.
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250 years after 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, ArtsWestchester is asking more than 35 artists what that promise means today.
“We felt it was important to ask artists, what does it mean to be 250 years as a nation?” says ArtsWestchester CEO Kathleen Reckling.
The exhibition builds on a tradition of artists responding to the evolution of the American promise, bringing fresh perspectives and diverse voices to the nation’s past, present and future.
Some works look directly at history — among them a piece honoring Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Others, like Lauren Cohen’s Undulata, reimagine the flag as a living document, restless with the words of the founding promise.
For artist Susan Manspeizer, the stakes are urgently present tense: “We’re trying to figure out what this country wants to be. But you better have hope.”
Curator Megan Meadowlark says the range of responses went beyond what anyone anticipated — artists looking simultaneously backward and forward, asking what America values and what it still owes.
Taken together, Art in a Season of Revolution presents the United States not as a settled story, but as a country still in negotiation with itself.
