The Light We Hold, The Light We Carry

During a sabbatical year devoted to creative exploration, Lauren Michelle Levesque immersed herself in the slow, reflective processes of making. The resulting works, gathered under the title “the light we hold, the light we carry”, illuminate the quiet ways in which art-making brings meaning, care, whimsy, and a touch of magic into everyday life.

Created within the intimate spaces of home, these textile-based pieces give form to stories of connection and transformation. An arts-based researcher and associate professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Levesque’s work explores how everyday spaces become sites of social, political, and personal significance. Through this exhibition, she invites viewers to reflect on how creativity itself becomes an act of holding light — for ourselves, and for one another.