Long Tone Exhibition

As the inaugural iteration of the program, the Fall 2025 semester has served as a site in which a shared vocabulary began to take form: a commitment to creative inquiry as lived practice, the cultivation of perceptual sensitivity, and the building of a community attentive to the nuances of each other’s work. Participants engaged in investigations that crossed media and discipline, developed their own curriculum, met with visiting thinkers and practitioners, and continually returned to the central gesture of the studio: listening as a mode of relation to one another and to one’s work.

This first semester has also functioned as a testing ground for what a semester-long studio at Arts Letters & Numbers can become. Long Tone has developed through weekly gatherings, studio visits, seminars, shared readings, improvisational sessions, research presentations, and extended periods of focused making. It has been a setting where work unfolded at its own pace, where ideas shifted and reconfigured, and where each participant found ways of inhabiting the openness of the studio.

The concluding events of the semester present the works, processes, and relationships that have taken shape throughout the fall. They highlight works in progress and completed pieces, experiments, gestures, traces, and the inquiries that have guided each participant. The culmination of the semester reflects not only the results of the studio but also the time invested, the attention given, and the new pathways that have opened for each member of the cohort.