"Place & Perception" Exhibition Opening
Date: 5/21/2026 6:00 PM - 5/21/2026 8:00 PM
About the Exhibition Opening
Join us for the opening of Place & Perception: Architecture, Landscape, and the Art of Observation on Thursday, May 21, from 6-8 p.m. at the James Castle House (5015 Eugene St., Boise). This event is free and open to the public with light refreshments available.
About Place & Perception
The James Castle House is partnering with Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS) to create a one-year exhibition examining the history of architecture in Deaf education and its impact on the Deaf experience in the United States.
Guest curated by a MASS team led by Principal Jeffrey Mansfield, a Deaf architect and artist, Place & Perception reimagines the James Castle House as a site of sensory connection, community gathering, and critical reflection.
Through James Castle’s spatial memory, the exhibition explores the intertwined legacies of the American West, Deafness (and disability), and modernity, alongside the many real and imagined experiences that emerge from them. Together, these seemingly disparate narratives, accumulated over time, form a collective memory.
The exhibition’s mission is to deepen connection to and understanding of place by centering the Deaf experience as a generative lens. Through historical and architectural elements, visitors will encounter fragments of Castle’s life alongside evolving ideas about Deafness and empire.
