join us at sumac cottage for Home Once, a combination of musical performance + visual installation from jenna clark, featuring ryan brown, jasper lee and sam herman. this body of work explores four stories centering on ideas of home, shelter, and places of belonging. the work highlights the fragmentation of interpersonal and communal relationships that occur from interacting through digital interfaces, by displaying different personal stories in both part and whole. These stories act as grounding orientations, abstracted reflections, and vignettes of place/landscape within North and Central Alabama.
About the artists + performers
Jenna Clark is a maker of mixed media, textiles, drawings, sculptures, and soundscapes. Her work has been exhibited throughout the southeast and investigates the combination of subjects such as spirituality, identity, ecology, memory, community, and place. She is a current MFA candidate at FAU where she furthers her research and storytelling through visual and sonic art.
Ryan Brown is a professional musician & educator based in Birmingham, Alabama. He plays Upright & Electric Bass in a variety of groups & settings throughout the United States. He once made a potholder in the 7th grade.
Jasper Lee is an artist from central Alabama whose work with sound has included performing in groups, recording film scores, creating sound installations and radio art. He plays in Vernal Scuzz and misuses zithers of various kinds including a homemade invention called the pyraharp. He founded Sweet Wreath in 2016 which has published many interdisciplinary artists, writers, and musicians in the South and beyond.
Sam Herman is a multi-instrumentalist based in Birmingham. He grew up playing drums and guitar in various psychedelic rock and indie bands in his hometown of Huntsville before relocating to attend UAB in 2008. Since graduating in 2012 with a degree in Music Technology & Percussion, he's been freelancing in Birmingham, collaborating with other artists, and working with his own experimental music group, Iron Giant Free Association. Iron Giant's new album, Terry RIley's In C, was released on Earth Libraries Records in July 2025. Sam spends lots of his freetime exploring the outdoors with his dogs.
