Jackson Art Center x WSS Present: An Artist Talk with Erika Cleveland

Date and Time

• Sunday, Oct 11, 2026  3pm - 4pm

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We live in a world that often prizes rationality, practicality, and the things that can be seen, measured, and explained. But what about our dreams, fantasies, feelings, intuitions, and the stories that have lived inside us since childhood? Are these simply distractions from reality, or might they be essential ways of knowing and being alive?

Join us at the Washington Studio School Gallery on Sunday, October 11, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM as artist Erika Cleveland explores these questions through her lifelong relationship with imagination and her work as an artist and doll maker. Drawing on ideas from Carl Jung and her own experiences of living with one foot in the “real world” and one in the world of imagination, she invites us to reconsider the value of our inner lives. Through stories, reflections, and her handmade dolls, Erika asks us to entertain a provocative possibility: that the unseen world within us may be every bit as real, and as important, as the world outside us.