Priya Suresh Kambli, from Family Pictures

Please join us for the opening of Priya Suresh Kambli’s exhibition, Family Pictures, from 6-9pm. At age 18, a couple years after the death of her parents, Priya Suresh Kambli moved from India to the United States, with all her possessions, including a treasured collection of family photographs, in one suitcase. Since then, Kambli has navigated a sense of belonging in two worlds, with her family photographs acting as stepping stones across continents and generations. First installed at Mulvane Art Museum in 2025, the exhibition Family Pictures brings together 15 years of Kambli’s work as she connects to family, culture, and heritage through photographs, both new and old. The exhibition will be in Aurora’s Main Gallery from September 5 - November 14, 2025.

Erin Patton McFarren from Um Passo à Frente

In Aurora’s Efroymson Gallery, in the series Um Passo à Frente, artist Erin Patton McFarren creates large-scale cyanotypes as a means of marking time and place. Using non-toxic materials and the original 1842 recipe, her cyanotypes interact with sunlight and bodies of water, allowing shifting forms of light and movement to produce unique images on paper. In 2024, Patton McFarren was awarded the Eli Lilly Creativity Fellowship, which enabled her to spend a summer creating art along the coast of Brazil. Patton McFarren writes of her work, “My journey as an artist is one of movement — both physical and internal. Each place I have explored in Brazil — Itamambuca, Rio, São Paulo, São Luís do Paraitinga — has left its mark, offering new ways of working, observing, and being.” At Aurora through September 15.