Presenting Artist • Boston Museum of Science • April 18, 2026 • Rare New England
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 Perception Framework Keynote Presentation - Status: Accepted
An interactive, research-informed session exploring how stress, context, and lived experience shape communication in high-care environments. Through storytelling and visual reflection, participants learn to recognize “invisible lenses,” strengthen empathy, and navigate misunderstandings with clarity. Teams leave with practical tools to build trust and support children, families, and colleagues.
A Perception Framework Exhibition - Status: Accepted
Exploring how rare disease symptoms are filtered, misread, or dismissed through cultural and medical perception. The project has been accepted for exhibition at the Boston Museum of Science, for "Night at the Museum" by Rare New England.
Arts Connect 2025 Exhibition - Status: On Going
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. Selected by Catamount Arts for exhibition.
A Grassroots Coalition - Status: In Partnership with VCW & DRVT
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.
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: 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.
Rare Artist Competition - Status: Finalist
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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