How do you throw a brick through the window…

How do you throw a brick through the window… presents new commissions and recent works of art exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.

Now on view at TUAG through November 9, 2025 and on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) March 14–October 4, 2026, the exhibition is part of a two-year research initiative co-organized by TUAG and JMKAC that began in 2024.

How do you throw a brick through the window… features the work of seven artists—Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma—who engage the radical questioning of Korean-American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva: “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?”

This long-term research project, which includes a symposium, artist-led workshops, publication, and the group exhibition, responds to calls for reconsideration of public streets as de-facto sites for civic action and able-bodied action as the measure of protest. Participating artists offer works reimagining embodied dissent informed by disabled, sick, mad, and healing frameworks.

The exhibition is co-organized by TUAG Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin and JMKAC Associate Curator Tanya Gayer in dialogue with the artists.

Generous support for this TUAG exhibition and programming is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Teiger Foundation, The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence and the Theatre Dance and Performance Studies Department at Tufts University, as well as an anonymous donor. The accompanying symposium and pre-exhibition programming at TUAG were supported by a Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship for Laurel V. McLaughlin.

Image: Jeffrey Meris, Lift Up Your Head, 2024. Stainless steel, underarm crutches, zip-ties, 156" x 156" x 156”. Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photo by Marc Tatti.