Transformer Presents: Keychain Making Workshop with FlatFile Artist Electra Pelias

Date and Time

• Saturday, Apr 18, 2026  2pm - 4pm

Location

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Details

transformer presents..

A DISTINCT TERROIR

A FLATFILE EXHIBITION PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION
WITH THE FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS ALLIANCE

Feb 28 — May 20, 2026

Pavilion Pop-Up at The Heights Lobby, 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20015

Wednesday evening artist conversations and interactive workshops presented monthly on Saturdays. Free & open to the public!

ARTIST DETAILS

Art has always been omnipresent in Electra Pelias’s life, often arriving in bursts of chaotic inspiration that occasionally pushed the bounds of acceptable childhood behavior. Her studio is a patchwork of the sentimental and the strange: stuffed animals awaiting surgery, scraps of fabric with ambiguous past lives, ceramic fragments that didn’t survive the kiln but insist on being included anyway. There’s often a sense of play, but it’s underpinned by something stickier: grief, memory, the need to make sense of complicated feelings. Whether she’s screenprinting a series of tender oddities or building a soft sculpture with hidden weights inside, Electra’s work invites viewers to look closer, laugh a little, and maybe wince with recognition. “By merging the whimsical with the profound, I aim to create spaces where vulnerability feels both possible and shared. The work softens sharpness, turning discomfort into something tender. In doing so, it reflects the complexity of being human: that strength and sensitivity are not opposites, but deeply intertwined.” - Pelias
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