Tell the Stars
Threaded Narratives of Resilience, Empowerment, and Transformation
September 20 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception – Saturday, September 20, 3:00 – 6:00
Artist Discussion/ Saturday, October 25, 3:00 – 4:00
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Esperanza Cortés
Talin Megherian
Curated by Jeannine Bardo
History… we forget that it goes right up to yesterday.
“The Lure of the Local”, Pg. 13
Tell me…
about the past
a story
the truth
why?
A star’s life begins with collapse
Its light reaches us even after its death
Stars are the seeds of life
We are stardust
Our stars are telling our stories
Our Tellers are our stars
The “tellings” in this exhibition are rendered through the works of the artists Alisa Sikelianos-Carter,
Esperanza Cortés, and Talin Megherian. Their art gives voice to the exploited, excluded and displaced, lives lived through the ages that make up our today. By weaving through the labyrinths of violence and cruelty, they illuminate themes of light, beauty, and transformation. Tell the Stars celebrates histories of resilience and resistance that, like starlight, continue to shine even after The Tellers have passed on. Their stories are eternal and transcendent, bridging time and culture.
Sikelianos-Carter, Cortés and Megherian mine the past to imagine new futures, a new covenant and new
becomings…
…a world where Earthly life is a place of healing.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a Black, Queer mixed-media artist from upstate New York. Her practice is
grounded in ancestral reverence, intuitive research, and visual theology. She explores themes of shadow work and mythopoetics as well as the emotional and energetic residues of loss through a spiritual and material lens. Her practice engages the unseen, what is felt but not always visible, through a framework shaped by animism, spiritual inheritance, and metaphysical inquiry.
Esperanza Cortés
Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés’ passion for the mosaic of the Americas, its folk art traditions, rituals, music, dance and their ever evolving changes are at the core of her sculptures, paintings, installations, site-specific projects and interventions. Her artwork examines the extent to which a consciousness—national or personal—defines itself through the opposing force of transcultural experiences. The work is poetically and intricately crafted to encourage the viewer to reconsider social and historical narratives, especially when dealing with Colonialism, and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
Talin Megherian
Talin Megherian is an Armenian-American artist born in Queens, NY and working outside of Boston, MA. Talin’s visual vocabulary weaves recognized symbols with everyday objects to explore issues of identity, empowerment, and rebirth using additive and subtractive painting techniques that imply a collage format. Her most current work gives voice to the history of the Armenian Genocide while also celebrating her heritage and its rich traditions. She is a lecturing artist, sharing paintings and stories about the Armenian Genocide though the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum at partnering schools.