BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:217265@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260831T103453Z DTSTART:20260924T110000Z DTEND:20270430T170000Z SUMMARY:Karle Norman: Leather Prayers –\\; Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Sculptural hand-stitched leather wall hangings and installati on work exploring belief\\, community\\, and control through the lens of Norman’\\;s own path away from a high-control religious group.\\nBel ief and community are both formed incrementally. Sometimes this can be po sitive getting to know others\\, bonding over similar interests\\, learni ng how you fit into a space. Repetitious acts help forge friendships and provide purpose. But this repetition can also build a set of rules\\, rei nforce control\\, and create space for manipulation. Stitching is often u sed as a metaphor for building a larger work from smaller parts. Stitchin g\\, metaphorically and literally\\, is central to Karle Norman’\\;s work in Leather Prayers\\, an exhibition composed of sculptural hand-s titched leather wall hangings\\, site-specific installation\\, and years of sketchbook ideas. Norman’\\;s specific life path in “\\;disf ellowshipping”\\; from a high-control religious group is told throug h the leather figures in the gallery\\, who are at once bodily proportion al roughly to Norman’\\;s own body and fantastical. Their three-dime nsionality is created by molding over different shapes and features\\, in dicating that we are all molded by forces that we can’\\;t choose.\\ nChoice is a key component in Leather Prayers. The work is physically c harged\\, both drawing in visitors through their vibrant\\, intentional c olor relations\\, while also creating a sense of unease simultaneously. C rucially\\, visitors have a choice about how they would like to engage wi th the work\\, bringing in their own experiences with community and contr ol\\, and their own bodily agency to move through\\, within\\, and under the work. The process of hand-stitching leather is painstaking and labor intensive\\, and that time component may call to mind the weight of grief \\, the joy of movement\\, or the realities of pain.\\nhttps://www.gayout .com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/karle-norman-leather-prayers -8211-art-exhibit-2026-09-24 LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/karle-norman-leather-prayers-8211-art-exhibit-2026-09-24 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR