Past Projects & Commissions
Hinge founders and artists Elizabeth Jabar and Sean Alonzo Harris are professional studio artists working with various for-profit and nonprofit entities, designing arts programming, curriculum, and community partnerships that promote civic engagement, mentorship, and cultural participation.
They produce a range of social change projects that connect people with emerging and established artists and community partners, including art institutions, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and educational institutions. Contact Elizabeth and Sean to collaborate on your next creative project.
Common Thread Mural
Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, ME
Visitors to the north stairwell of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center will discover this vibrant, large-scale mural designed by Elizabeth Jabar and Collen Kinsella as part of the Common Threads project. Featuring a beautiful rendering of the Two Cent Bridge and incorporating graphic elements created over the course of the project, the mural brings the exhibition outside the walls of the gallery and invites the community to reflect and engage.
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. Realized in partnership with the Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art.
Photo Credit: OPAL, Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville Creates, Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture, Dave Waddell for Downeast Magazine
Show Up Stand Up Speak Up
Waterville, ME
Show Up Stand Up Speak Up was a series of original story-based performances by students in the Activist Storytelling Workshop - Collaborative Company taught by Professor Bess Welden in the Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance at Colby College. Hinge artist and co-founder Elizabeth Jabar collaborated with Colby resident designer Jim Thurston to create original graphics for the stage and set. Audience members were also invited to activate their own voice during an informal post-show conversation and a chance to make a free screenprint with Elizabeth.
Photo Credit: Melissa Blackall
Tender Table Maine Banner
Portland, Maine
Hinge artist and co-founder Elizabeth Jabar collaborated with the artist collective Tender Table to design and print limited-edition banners to benefit the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. The banners were launched at Tender Table’s annual Night Market in Portland, Maine. Tender Table celebrates Black and Brown community by connecting and honoring our identities, traditions, joy, resilience, and fight for collective liberation through storytelling and food.
Photo Credit: Tender Table Maine
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