# Event Details - **Event Name**: Casselberry Sculpture House Presents: "Homebodies" - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 10 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: Casselberry Sculpture House Presents “Homebodies” New Works by UCF MFA Emerging Media Candidates- Kaitlin Kirsch and Lenee Peterson Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10 | 6–9 PM The Casselberry Sculpture House is proud to present Homebodies, a new two-person exhibition by Kaitlin Kirsch and Lenee Peterson, current third-year candidates in the University of Central Florida’s MFA in Emerging Media, Studio Art & Design Track. The exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday, January 10 from 6–9 PM, offering audiences an early entry point into the artists’ emerging thesis research ahead of their formal MFA thesis defense in 2026. Working across painting, sculpture, embroidery, mixed media, poetry, and film, Kirsch and Peterson each explore the emotional terrain of domestic life—its memories, tensions, hauntings, and the personal mythologies that grow from home. Their practices intersect through themes of family dynamics, childhood, innocence, nostalgia, and the psychological imprint of place, while diverging into distinct visual worlds. This exhibition marks an important stage in their MFA journey, supported by thesis committees of three UCF faculty members, including artist and educator Bobby Aiosa, who serves on both. Homebodies examine the home as both sanctuary and battleground—a site of comfort, contradiction, secrecy, and transformation. Through intimate materials, domestic objects, Southern Gothic influences, and immersive installations, the two artists construct environments that are at once familiar and unsettling. The exhibition includes: • floor- and wall-based works • sculptural and textile-based installations • paintings rooted in memory and myth • embroidery, altered linens, and found domestic materials • video art and mixed media objects KAITLIN KIRSCH Domestic Surfaces · Embroidered Tension · Memory as Architecture Visual artist Kaitlin Kirsch creates domestic environments shaped by the loss of relationships, places, and time. Through painting, embroidery, sculpture, and poetry, she crafts mood rather than narrative, aiming to create “something out of place”—a subtle rupture that exposes the psychological atmosphere inside a home. Kirsch alters readymade objects, transforms curtains and linens, and uses color palettes tied to her personal history. Her work explores how individuals attempt to exert control over their environments during moments of emotional instability, transforming the interiors of home into spaces of introspection and symbolic storytelling. Her practice examines the shifting dynamics of her life and the homes that have held her—physically and emotionally—over time. LENEE PETERSON Southern Gothic · Familial Lore · Cycles of Power Lenee Peterson works in the immersive visual language of Southern Gothic and folk horror, drawing on motifs such as deep woods, grotesque figures, rural mythologies, and unsettling landscapes. Their paintings, sculptures, and video works explore the complexities of family lore, generational patterns, and cycles of power. Peterson describes their artistic aim as cultivating radical empathy, inviting viewers to confront how childhood experiences and subtle moments of imbalance reverberate through adulthood. By evoking eerie atmospheres reminiscent of American backwoods folklore, Peterson creates emotionally charged spaces where vulnerability and tension coexist. Although Kirsch and Peterson’s visual vocabularies diverge—soft domestic interiors versus uncanny Southern landscapes—they meet in their exploration of: • memory and its distortions • complicated family histories • the unspoken tensions of home • innocence, rupture, and reconciliation • constructing new stories from old wounds Homebodies offer two parallel yet entangled perspectives on how environments shape identity—and how art becomes a way to reclaim, reinterpret, or unravel those spaces. OPENING RECEPTION Date: Friday, January 10, 2025 Time: 6:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Casselberry Sculpture House Admission: Free & open to the public Guests will have the opportunity to meet the artists, explore in-progress thesis research, and experience an exhibition that transforms personal history into immersive visual worlds. UCF’S MFA PROGRAM Both artists are in year three of UCF’s three-year thesis-based MFA program. This third-year thesis exhibition will be followed by a thesis defense held within the exhibition space itself. Homebodies serve as a critical development phase in their research, offering a platform for community engagement and experimental presentation. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/casselberry/casselberry-sculpture-house-presents-homebodies/200029460071507 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, literary-art, entertainment, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 5 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029460071507?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=casselberry-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Casselberry - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: 120 Quail Pond Cir, Casselberry, FL 32707-3205, United States - **lat**: 28.67136 - **long**: -81.33589 - **full address**: 120 Quail Pond Cir, Casselberry, FL 32707-3205, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 2 - **organizer**: City of Casselberry (https://allevents.in/org/city-of-casselberry/25977670) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/839e7c0bd3d9220cf1d61e69a8e788e466ef195794b23118c0a7f0933dcf2f86-rimg-w1200-h628-dc2b1b15-gmir?v=1767827826 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/65f207dac8f77d076d4ca4249cbb3f258d2ad6c5b9536c0bf4489844609fc8ce-rimg-w300-h300-dcefc416-gmir?v=1767827827 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 10 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** 120 Quail Pond Cir, Casselberry, FL 32707-3205, United States - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** City of Casselberry - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, exhibitions, fine-arts, literary-art, entertainment, storytelling - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Casselberry Sculpture House Presents: "Homebodies" ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Casselberry Sculpture House Presents: "Homebodies"", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/839e7c0bd3d9220cf1d61e69a8e788e466ef195794b23118c0a7f0933dcf2f86-rimg-w1200-h628-dc2b1b15-gmir?v=1767827826", "startDate": "2026-01-10", "url": "https://allevents.in/casselberry/casselberry-sculpture-house-presents-homebodies/200029460071507", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "120 Quail Pond Cir, Casselberry, FL 32707-3205, United States", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "120 Quail Pond Cir, Casselberry, FL 32707-3205, United States", "addressLocality": "Casselberry", "addressRegion": "FL", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "28.67136", "longitude": "-81.33589" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Casselberry Sculpture House Presents\n“Homebodies”\n\nNew Works by UCF MFA Emerging Media Candidates- Kaitlin Kirsch and Lenee Peterson\nOpening Reception: Saturday, January 10 | 6–9 PM\n\nThe Casselberry Sculpture House is proud to present Homebodies, a new two-person exhibition by Kaitlin Kirsch and Len", "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "City of Casselberry", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/city-of-casselberry/25977670" } ] } ] ```