What happens before you die? a site-specific installation and performance by Carin Rodenborn and Sommer Browning opens Saturday, August 9th.

Sommer Browning is a poet, writer, and artist. Her latest book is Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). She’s the author of two other collections of poetry, Backup Singers and Either Way I’m Celebrating, as well as the artist book, The Circle Book (Cuneiform Press), the joke book, You’re On My Period (Counterpath), and others. Her poetry, art writing, and visual art have appeared in Brooklyn Rail Lit Hub, Bomb, Artforum, Chicago Review, The American Poetry Review, The Comics Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Richmond. 

Carin Rodenborn is a visual artist and writer who makes painting-objects, installations, ephemeral drawings, and text-based works.  Her work has been exhibited at ISE Cultural Foundation in NYC, the Texas Biennial, Area 405 in Baltimore, several university and grassroots galleries, and featured in New American Paintings. She has taught in art and design departments at colleges and universities across the United States, and is now supporting the well-being of artists, poets, writers, musicians, designers, and creative folks as a mental health counselor.  She lives in Rhode Island.