Join us for the opening of Eighty-Six Reasons For Asylum Admission on October 20th, 2022 at and experience the exhibition with a tour led by the artist Kimberly Chapman. The Museum is open from 2–8 pm with the tour beginning at 6 pm. 

Eighty-Six Reasons explores how and why women were sent to asylums in the 19th and 20th centuries and examines the unfair and misconstrued diagnoses and treatments they received at the hands of medical misogyny. The exhibition includes sculptures and paintings by Kimberly Chapman inspired by the West Virginia Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum’s “Reasons for Admission” that inventoried preconditions for mental illness. Chapman is a full-time porcelain sculptor in Cleveland, Ohio and has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions across the state. Her work has also recently been featured in the 98th and 99th Nicole & Harry Martin Spring Show.