Boston, MA, June 9, 2026 – You are invited to Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming, a free, drop-in afternoon of workshops, rest, and collective imagination on Saturday, June 20, from 12:00 to 5:00 PM at the historic Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, MA.
On the longest day of the year, multidisciplinary artists Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) and Alisha B Wormsley extend their landmark exhibition Welcome to Cosmologyscape to this historically charged location to engage with a broader community of dreamers in Boston. Centering Black and Indigenous voices while welcoming all, the afternoon holds space for a simple but radical question: Whose dreams shaped the world we live in today and whose dreams might allow for a future everyone can thrive in?
Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming also marks Juneteenth at the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a site of memory where honoring the history of slavery means reckoning with the realities facing BIPOC communities today and dreaming together toward a more just and equitable future. Drop in for calming workshops and performances, spend time in community, connect, reflect, and dream together. All are welcome. No registration required. Full details can be found here.
Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 12:00–5:00 PM
Royall House and Slave Quarters
15 George Street, Medford, MA
Free, drop-in
Welcome to Cosmologyscape is on view at Wagner Gallery in Cambridge through June 26, 2026—and you can be part of it from anywhere in the Boston area. Submit your dreams via the Cosmologyscape website and watch them transform through algorithms and technology into an animation on view at the gallery, alongside textiles, furniture, and sound artworks generated through the artists’ interpretations of Lakȟóta philosophy, Afrofuturism, and Black quilting traditions.
The project is grounded in ethical technological protocols that prioritize care for communities, land, water, air, and future generations. Dreamers’ data is collected, securely managed, and intentionally destroyed, countering extractive data-harvesting practices. In return, participants receive restorative offerings, including herbal and tea recipes inspired by their dreams.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) is an artist, composer, and scholar whose work merges Lakȟóta knowledge systems with performance, sound, sculpture, and computational media. She is Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American & Indigenous Studies at Bard College, and director of the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI. Her work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, and the 14th Shanghai Biennale.
Alisha B Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer working at the intersections of public art, film, craft, and social practice. She is the founder of Sibyls Shrine, a residency and collective for Black artists who M/other, and creator of There Are Black People in the Future. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Wormsley is Assistant Professor of Art in Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon University.
ABOUT WAGNER FOUNDATION AND WAGNER GALLERY
For more than two decades, Wagner Foundation has been committed to building healthier communities by investing in and accompanying organizations dedicated to health equity, economic wellbeing, and the transformative power of art and culture. Together with partners in the US and around the world, Wagner Foundation celebrates our shared humanity and strives for long-term solutions to some of our most complex global challenges.
Through its Art & Culture program, Wagner Foundation centers artists as catalysts of change and community development through local and national investments in contemporary visual art exhibitions, publications, public art, and visual arts organizations at all scales. Wagner Foundation commissions new artworks, showcases exhibitions at their dedicated gallery, supports traveling exhibitions, and distributes more than 40 arts & culture focused grants annually. A highlight is the prestigious Wagner Arts Fellowship, the largest Boston-focused artist grants that recognizes three mid-career to established Greater Boston visual artists, whose work illuminates societal challenges and transforms our understanding of social change.
Housed within Wagner Foundation, Wagner Gallery is a dynamic exhibition space that showcases contemporary art with the mission that art and artists are essential to healthy communities.
Welcome to Cosmologyscape is on view at Wagner Gallery, 485 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA, through June 26, 2026. Wagner Gallery is free and open by appointment every Wednesday, 12:00–5:00 PM.
