Dissonant
works
2025
Annual Fundraiser
Dissonant Works is honored to continue growing our impact with an end-of-year fundraiser starting this Giving Tuesday. Your support strengthens a sustainable home for visual and performing arts in our community. Together, we can reach our $25,000 goal and continue to build our music lending library, multimedia archive, and an inclusive, long-lasting center for learning and creative exchange.
Your donation helps fund performances, exhibitions, workshops, and artists. It also allows us to maintain our space and expand access to creative tools, education, and experiences. If you believe in what we’re building, an inclusive and curious space for sound and art, please consider making a one-time or recurring donation.
current exhibit
Maureen Keaveny: DICHOTOMIES
Dissonant Works proudly welcomes Maureen Keaveny as our first artist-in-residence. We invite you to experience her series, Dichotomies, in our ever-evolving creative community space.
Dichotomies is a photographic exploration shot across desert landscapes that captures the desert not only as a physical terrain but as a conceptual site of contradiction where absence holds presence, stillness implies motion, and vastness coexists with intimacy. Through stark compositions, manipulations and uncanny textures, the images interrogate the paradoxes of survival, isolation, and transformation. They reveal the desert as a mirror to contemporary anxieties where the sublime beauty of the environment is haunted by both memory and myth.
Maureen is a visual artist based in St. Louis, MO, working across sculpture, installation, and photography. Her practice explores the uncanny intersections of primordial nature, synthetic structures, and the human psyche. Using everyday materials, she reflects on the surreal textures of contemporary life, shaped by ecological, psychological, and social crises. She earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. Her work has been featured nationally in both solo and group exhibitions, primarily in experimental and artist-run spaces.
This program is supported in part by a grant from
