Image: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan
'Greater Than the Sum: Practices of Gathering, Reuse, and Assemblage' is scheduled at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from October 24, 2026, through February 7, 2027, featuring works by Carolina Caycedo, Arthur Simms, Judith Scott, Kea Tawana, and Lenore Tawney.
The artists utilize practices of gathering, reuse, and assemblage through sculpture, fiber, found objects, and collected materials. The exhibition frames a component’s value as arising not solely from its advertised or initial use, but from its ability to connect with other beings, ideas, and objects to create complex, stronger, and richer collectives and meanings.
Working with materials carrying rich and often unknowable histories, the artists create physical manifestations of relationships between material, cultural, and environmental experiences and histories through observation, collection, collaboration, and transformation.
The exhibition includes environmentally focused assemblages by Carolina Caycedo, spiritually charged sculptures by Arthur Simms, wrapped fiber works by Judith Scott, Kea Tawana’s custom-built trunks and systems of organization, and Lenore Tawney’s gathered materials, collaged boxes, and assemblages drawn from her studio practice.
Together, the artists offer models for connection shaped by community and environmental contexts. Carolina Caycedo, Arthur Simms, and Lenore G. Tawney Foundation Director Kathleen Nugent Mangan will lead a gallery walkthrough sharing insights into the artworks, materials, and ideas that shape the exhibition.
