The Places We Carry

Featuring Artist Verónica Ibargüengoitia · Murielle White · Brandi Waller-Pace

September 12th - December 12th , 2026

Memory moves. Place changes. We carry both.

The Places We Carry brings together three artists whose practices move through sound, landscape, and material memory. Verónica Ibargüengoitia, Murielle White, and Brandi Waller-Pace each ask how identity and belonging are shaped when people, traditions, and environments cross borders, experience rupture, or change over time.

Ibargüengoitia uses sculpture, installation, and materials gathered along migration routes to examine displacement, fragmentation, grief, and the collective reconstruction of identity. White gathers traces of coastlines, water, trees, architecture, and lived environments into landscapes that hover between the physical and psychological. Waller-Pace’s work centers Black musical lineages and the stories that dominant histories have too often obscured.

Together, these practices suggest that memory does not sit still. It travels through rhythm, gesture, language, objects, and the body. It erodes and accumulates. It can be interrupted, but it can also be recovered through listening, gathering, collaboration, and care.

Presented within Kinfolk House—a historic home transformed into a collaborative project space—the exhibition invites visitors to consider home as more than a fixed location. Home can be a story sounded again, a remembered terrain, an inherited practice, or a relationship remade. Belonging, in this space, is not simply found. It is created together.

Learn more here: The Places We Carry

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Kinfolk House Community Investment Campaign

Help us unlock $200,000 in transformative operating support.

Kinfolk House is entering a defining moment. With a $100,000 challenge grant from the Eugene McDermott Foundation, supporters can help raise a $100,000 community match to sustain and expand a community-rooted arts space in Polytechnic.

$100,000 + $100,000 = $200,000

McDermott Challenge Grant + Community Match = Transformative Operating Support

What Your Gift Supports

  • A full-time Managing Director to strengthen operations, partnerships, and donor stewardship
  • A part-time Grants Coordinator to grow fundraising capacity
  • Expanded artist stipends, public programs, educational partnerships, and neighborhood-rooted outreach
“Kinfolk House is working towards breaking down the barriers of accessibility to the arts and bringing the representation of the arts to the neighborhood where they reside.”
— Julia Cartwright

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In this place, we will return to ourselves…

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  • “Kinfolk House is working towards breaking down the barriers of accessibility to the arts and bringing the representation of the arts to the neighborhood where they reside; bridging the gap between arts, culture, and community.”

    — Julia Cartwright —

  • “It was a beautiful experience that we know the children will remember for a long time.”

    — Jack and Jill of America, Fort Worth Chapter —

  • “Kinfolk House provided me with a unique gallery experience. I felt a sense of comfort and connection immediately upon arrival... It was refreshing to see pieces of work created by marginalized groups whether that be women or people of color.It was refreshing to see pieces of work created by marginalized groups whether that be women or people of color.

    — Kiaya Johnson —

  • “A hole in the wall site where community flourishes. Every single time I stepped onto the land of Kinfolk House, it has always been accepting and calm. It’s like a little bubble where I don’t have to worry about life or school or anything else. I can just BE.”

    — Ofuchi Akpom —

  • “I enjoyed Kinfolk House. I didn't realize how many local BIPOC artists there were in Texas, before Kinfolk House. This space felt like home and is definitely unique compared to other galleries I’ve experienced.”

    — DayJus Hill —