Speak Yet Again

an art installation 
to be inhabited
conversationally

A work by Kelly W. Foster
Barrington Center for the Arts
Gordon College
January 20 – March 4, 2026

Opening Reception: January 24, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

About This Installation
This site-specific installation in the gallery at Gordon College’s Barrington Center for the Arts invites us to consider the space between ourselves and others as we interact in conversation. The artwork creates spaces to inhabit, an interwoven set of “rooms” to stand or sit in, allowing us to take on a variety of postures in relation to others who are or could be in the spaces with us. Fences and furniture, color and texture, structure and pattern – the kinds of things that form the spaces we inhabit every day – are foregrounded here to structure various ways of imagining ourselves in relation to one another as we participate in life together.

About the Artist

As an educator, an architect, a writer, and a multi-disciplinary designer, Kelly Foster explores how the spatial and visual dimensions of our embodied experiences connect to our interpersonal interactions. Teaching and working in a variety of art and design media, he pursues questions of how responsible creativity in the aesthetic realm can fuel our imaginations for better ways of life together.

As a registered architect in Texas and Massachusetts with degrees from Texas A&M and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Kelly has practiced architecture in and around both Austin and Boston. As an educator at both the high school and the college level, he has introduced students to art and design principles and to design fields including graphic design, industrial design, motion graphics, and architecture. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Gordon College, where he teaches art and design classes, stewards the design curriculum, and co-leads the art program.