Experience the art installations while taking a guided tour of the historic house.

Thursdays - Saturdays | Availability Varies | $15-20

Philippa Pham Hughes is a social sculptor, speaker, and writer. She has been a Social Practice Resident at The Kennedy Center, Visiting Artist For Arts & Civic Engagement at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and a Lecturer at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is a contributing author on art and civic engagement to “An Empathy-Building Toolkit For Museums,” and on the [New] American Dream to the “American Futures Anthology,” published by the Catalyst for American Futures. She applies relational thinking and an aesthetic of care and delight to her work in democracy building, civic engagement, and repairing the social fabric of our country one creative conversation at a time.

Xena Ni is a Washington, DC-based artist, time traveler, and designer who uses public archives and interactive experiences to uplift stories obscured by history, policy, and neglect. She believes that public institutions should work with and for the people they serve. To that end, she creates multimedia installations and interactive experiences to advocate for humane, equitable, and just public policies. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Washingtonian, and Bloomberg.

Her participatory installations ask penetrating questions about public benefits, the arbitrariness of government policies, and the role luck plays in American lives.