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Perception Policy™

At Haus of Van Eps, the lens of perception is not just a metaphor, but a tool. Through art and systemic storytelling, we explore how invisible burdens, rare diseases, and cultural biases shape policy, healthcare and inclusive futures. This page presents key projects where creativity meets civic impact.

Recent Policy Projects:

Art & Advocacy Campaign: Ball & Chain

A Grassroots Coalition - Status: In Partnership with VCW & DRVT

VCW & DRVT

12/3/2025

Social Media Campaign

Ball & Chain Campaign

A visual policy project in collaboration with Disability Rights Vermont & The Vermont Commission on Women exploring systemic weight, disability, and justice through wearable sculpture and public storytelling. DRVT & VCW partnerships are active, with other partnerships in development. 


Wearable Sculpture: Ball & Chain

Arts Connect 2025 Exhibition - Status: Accepted

Catamount Arts

12/13/25 2pm-4pm

Reception - Arts Connect

Catamount Arts

12/2/25-4/5/26

Exhibition - Arts Connect

Ball & Chain Exhibition

A wearable sculpture confronting the unseen weight of chronic illness and disability. Using industrial chain, and personal narrative, the work makes systemic burden physically visible. Accepted by Catamount Arts for exhibition.


Objectified Wearables: The Evidence Rack Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

In Partnership Development

2025-2026

Social Media Campaign

Evidence Rack Campaign

 A visual archive challenging the narratives placed on women’s bodies.


This installation displays the actual clothing worn during moments when women were objectified, harassed, or dismissed. Using chain hangers and artifacts as testimony, the campaign confronts how perception, not clothing, drives blame. Objectified Wearables transforms garments into evidence, reframing personal experience as policy-relevant data. 


Access Check: Everyday Equity Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

In Partnership Development

2025-2026

Social Media Campaign

Access Check Campaign

 A micro-intervention exposing gaps in basic needs access.


This campaign uses mirror prompts and in-bathroom prompts to ask a simple question: “Do you have what you need?” By centering period supplies as a matter of dignity and public policy, not personal responsibility, Access Check: Cycle Care highlights how overlooked essentials reflect broader inefficiencies in care, equity, and everyday access. 


Rare Connections Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

National Institute of Health

2026

"Rare Diseases Are Not Rare" - NIH

Rare Connections

A visual and policy-based model illustrating how rare disease patients navigate a fragile web of healthcare, insurance, family, labor, and social systems. Each thread represents a dependency, one breaks, and the entire structure collapses. Submitted to the NIH Rare Diseases Are Not Rare Challenge as a systemic redesign concept for a secure care infrastructure. 


Rare Perceptions Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: Under Review

Boston Museum of Science

4/4/26 5pm-7:30pm

"Night at the Museum" - Rare New England 

Rare Perceptions

Exploring how rare disease symptoms are filtered, misread, or dismissed through cultural and medical perception. Currently under review for exhibition at the Boston Museum of Science, for "Night at the Museum" by Rare New England.


Our Neighbors Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

In Partnership Development

2025-2026

Social Media Campaign

Our Neighbors

Documenting the local narrative climate we’re all living inside. By anonymizing harmful public comments as “Our Neighbor,” the project reveals how economic stress, social pressure, and longstanding bias shape the way communities talk about one another. This is not about individuals. It’s about systems, patterns, and the real impact they have on our most historically vulnerable neighbors. 


Doors Closing Project

A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

In Partnership Development

2025-2026

Social Media Campaign

Doors Closing Campaign

Remote and flexible work is an economic security issue.


It is a disability rights issue.
It is a gender equity issue.
It is a rural infrastructure issue.
And it is a care economy issue.


Policies that close doors harm Vermonters who already shoulder invisible labor and systemic barriers.


This project documents those impacts.



Wearable Sculpture: Ball & Chain

Rare Artist Competition - Status: Finalist

Everylife Foundation

2025

Rare Artist Competition

Rare Artist

A wearable sculpture illustrating the invisible weight of rare disease and systemic barriers. Finalist recognition in the Rare Artist competition, transforming lived experience into visual advocacy.  

Completed Project.

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Haus of Van Eps offers consulting and creative-policy design services including: inclusive perception audits, visual storytelling for policy initiatives, adaptive technology strategy, and rare-disease community engagement frameworks.

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