Hours:  
Please note that the PAC Gallery will be closed Monday January 19 for MLK Day
Monday - 10am-5pm, Tuesday - 10am-5pm, Wednesday - 10am-5pm, Thursday - 10am-7pm, Friday - 10am-5pm

Parking:
Guests and visitors may utilize the pay-to-park areas marked in green on the campus maps. Please use LOT H2 on the Allendale campus, across the street from the Haas Center for Performing Arts. When parking in pay-to-park, we highly recommend using ParkMobile. ADA parking is available in the KC LOT.  Large groups, please get in touch with the gallery for parking passes.

Between Rooms brings together works by Xiao Han, Maddie May, Sarah Sproule, and Rachelle Wunderink. Through negotiations with domestic materials, imagery, and rituals, these artists question what it means to raise and to be raised across sociopolitical and interpersonal landscapes. Their practices unravel the weight of memory and the complexities of familial life, offering new ways of seeing what is inherited through lived experience. 

Han’s video and photography practice reflect on language and migration as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, tracing the intimate and political stakes of raising a child in Canada. May transforms remnants of Midwestern upbringing into unsettling worlds where household objects absorb and narrate the grief, instability, and impact of addiction, violence, and economic disparity in the home. Sproule manipulates plaster into bodily, shifting forms that unsettle domestic order and speak to the tensions of childhood and the resilience of queerness, body politics, and religious trauma. Wunderink explores matrescence—the loss of identity when becoming a mother—through collages that bind women’s images to domestic artifacts, complicating the narratives of care and identity within the home. 

Together, these works approach the domestic sphere as both tender and fraught, a site where memory, ongoing experience, and identity are built, unbuilt, and rebuilt. The exhibition asks us to reconsider the everyday spaces and objects that surround us: what stories they hold, what histories they conceal, and how they shape the people we become. 

Xiao Han is an artist-curator and first-generation Chinese Canadian mother whose socially engaged, lens-based practice explores diaspora, cultural memory, and community. Her ongoing project bridges cross culture generations through storytelling and has evolved into exhibitions, film, and public events. Developed during pregnancy and early motherhood, Han’s work affirms her identity as an artist-parent—where care and creativity coexist, and motherhood enriches rather than interrupts her artistic journey. 

Maddie May is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who explores intimacy, domesticity, and turmoil through textiles, sculpture, print, scent, and sound. Having lived in 27 houses, May draws from their turbulent upbringing to examine how systemic issues such as economic disparity, addiction, grief, and violence shape relationships, everyday objects, and the spaces we inhabit. Their multi-sensory works reflect the emotional residue of Midwest lower-class households, turning objects into characters that embody lived histories in the aftermath of trauma. 

Sarah Sproule is a Hamilton-based artist whose work examines legacy, religious ideology, and embodied identity through casting and mould making. Her recent series, Variations on a Form, reimagines angel wings first cast by her grandmother, transforming them into vessels that hold both tenderness and trauma. Working with plaster, clay, and found objects, Sproule centers queerness, disability, and religious deconstruction, asking how familial, cultural, and spiritual systems shape bodies and identities while also creating space for resistance and transformation. 

Rachelle Wunderink is a queer feminist artist whose work explores gender through embodiment, focusing on motherhood, and the complexities of “women’s work.” Through collage, video, and installation, she examines how women navigate these experiences amid societal expectations and personal transformation. Incorporating found materials tied to domesticity and traditional women’s craft, Wunderink uses replication, layering, and abstraction to evoke memory and identity. Her work elevates everyday objects offering reflection on care and the intersection of personal and collective histories, inviting viewers into deeper dialogue around women's lived experiences. 

Location

January 14 - March 27, 2026

PAC Gallery (PAC 1121)
Haas Center for Performing Arts, Valley Campus
1 Campus Dr.
Allendale, MI 49401

Contact

For special accommodation, please call:
(616) 331-3638

For exhibition details and media inquiries, please email:
Joel Zwart, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
[email protected]

For learning and engagement opportunities, please email:
Jessica Sundstrom, Learning and Outreach Manager
[email protected]