GROOVIN’ .
Where Art Meets Music.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Groove is easier to feel than it is to define. It lives in the body before the brain catches up — in the pause before the beat drops, the note that lingers after the song ends, the rhythm you carry with you long after the music stops.

Groovin': Where Art Meets Music explores what happens when that feeling walks into the studio.

The work in this exhibition is as varied as music itself. Some pieces are literal: musicians, instruments, performance — the visual world of sound made tangible. Others are structural: carved marks, stitched patterns, layered gestures, repeated forms that build visual rhythm the way a bassline builds tension. Still others work from the inside out — the specific album playing on repeat, the cultural current of a genre, the quiet interior cadence that shapes how an artist moves, decides, stops.

What emerged, across 23 artists and as many distinct approaches, is that music is rarely just background. For many of the artists in this show, it is an active collaborator — shaping pace, temperature, and direction in ways that are sometimes conscious and sometimes not.

Groovin' is the result of that relationship, made visible. Come hear what it looks like.

Featuring 23 Artists
Andrew Chalfen · Bill Brookover · Brian Hallas · Carol Taylor-Kearney · Jay Lynch · Jenn Mehm · Jessica Smith · Johanne Lamarche · John Damiani · Karen Kiick · Kelly Silver · Kerith Glass · Lauren Cassidy · Lee Muslin · Maria Morales · Michael Jicha · Michael Scotko · Nancy L Harty · Nathan Rutkowski · Ruth Cottingham · Sarah Mello · Saya Okayama · Ted Wallen

Plan Your Visit
Powell Lane Arts is located inside the historic Lumberyard complex in downtown Collingswood.

Parking tips and local food and shop recommendations: PowellLaneArts.com/PlanYourVisit.

Shop the show — individual artworks coming soon to our online store.