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

Social Media 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.
Arts Connect 2025 Exhibition - Status: Accepted

Reception - Arts Connect

Exhibition - Arts Connect
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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

Social Media 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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

Social Media 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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

"Rare Diseases Are Not Rare" - NIH
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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: Under Review

"Night at the Museum" - Rare New England
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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

Social Media Campaign
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.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: In Development

Social Media 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.
Rare Artist Competition - Status: Finalist

Rare Artist Competition
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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Sat | Closed | |
Sun | Closed |
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