On Friday, September 11, 2026, enjoy the opening reception for the inaugural Art at Arch Street Meeting Houseinstallation, Redefining Democracy in Red, White, Black, and Blue.
Redefining Democracy in Red, White, Black, and Blue is the latest series by local artist Walter Francis Elling. In homage to Jasper Johns, Elling uses actual flags as canvases to provoke responses to issues of race and queer liberation. Spray-painted messages interweave with a color-altered geometric landscape of the flags themselves, transforming the geometry of the stars and stripes into visual symbols that reimagine patriotism.
