Six strangers gather at a silent retreat, each seeking clarity at a personal crossroads. Stripped of words, they navigate isolation, connection, and the quiet tension between seeking solitude and craving understanding. Through gesture, silence, and vulnerability, Bess Wohl’s offbeat play reveals how people on separate journeys can still collide, overlap, or quietly pass each other by. When language fails us, new ways of knowing and relating can emerge.

Faculty and select graduate students in the department of music offer private lessons to members of all ages in the community.

Guest curator Elizabeth S. Hawley considers the history of American art through the collection at Auburn University. Pairing paintings from the museum’s iconic Advancing American Art Collection with other contemporary collection objects, this exhibition encourages visitors to ask what being and belonging in American art might mean in the past, the present and the future.The museum is not open to the public on the following dates: October 11, October 18, November 1, November 22 and November 29.

Binh Danh explores his Vietnamese heritage, landscapes and memory through experimental and vintage photography techniques. Chlorophyll prints of the past and daguerreotypes of the present blur the line between history and the now, examining a transformation of American identity.The museum is not open to the public on the following dates: October 11, October 18, November 1, November 22 and November 29.

Artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente gather testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who migrated to Central Florida following 2017’s Hurricane Maria. This immersive, four-channel video installation layers fictional and non-fictional narratives, speculating about how community is created anew. The title, Foreign in a Domestic Sense, comes from the 1901 Supreme Court case in which a justice described the island nation as “unincorporated territory” of the U.S.The museum is not open to the public on the following dates: October 11, October 18, November 1, November 22 and November 29.

Acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey will engage faculty, students and the Auburn community as a poet-in-residence at The Jule. Working with Auburn’s collection by the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, Sealey will marry language and art by pairing works from Audubon’s monumental “The Birds of America” with both contemporary and historical poetic responses, inviting visitors to question the symbolic and cultural meanings we ascribe to the natural world.The museum is not open to the public on the following dates: October 11, October 18, November 1, November 22 and November 29.