In Conversation | Noel Maghathe
Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 11:30 – 12:30
McClure Gallery
Join artist Noel Maghathe for a talk about her work with Curator Jenie Gao on Thursday, October 15th, from 11:30 – 12:30 pm in the McClure Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
In her work and upcoming exhibition, Over Everything, Noel uses photo weaving as a means to process memory, time, joy, absence, and longing. Embedded with words and motifs, the fabric becomes a means of communication with the past—messages to a younger self, to close and distant relatives.
Over Everything examines how memory is shaped, altered, and reconstructed through the act of retrieval, initiating a dialogue between longing, connection, and remembrance.
Over Everything is part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View. Noel Maghathe, AAC Class of 2017, is a Palestinian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally from New York and Cincinnati to Jordan, Palestine, Tasmania, and Helsinki. In Over Everything, Maghathe draws from familial archives, photographs, words, and woven imagery to explore memory, identity, heritage, and the search for home. By reconstructing moments they never personally experienced, Maghathe blurs the boundaries between truth and fabrication while considering how memory changes across time, distance, borders, and generations.
