Peter Bullough Foundation

10/19/2026

October’s Open Studio was a wonderful night of great conversation and new faces! Thank you Jaime Bird midnightzonemirrorball , Wisteria Deng Wisteria Deng , and Christa Lei christa lei for sharing your work with our local community and making the evening one to remember!

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season’s events!

10/15/2026

10/15/2026

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10/08/2026

Origins were explored and tales were told during writer-in-residence Christa Lei’s (they/them) christa lei storytelling workshop! Thank you Christa for creating space for us all to share a bit of our own lore!

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season’s events and a special thank you to our wonderful friends at ARE’s R.I.S.E Center ARE’s R.I.S.E Center for hosting a great evening of story telling!

10/07/2026

Join us on Thursday October 15 for an evening of jazz and poetry in the gardens of the Peter Bullough Foundation. We’ve gathered together some of our favorite local poets: executive director of 1455 Literary Arts and author Sean Murphy, former PBF artist-in-residence and Walking Mall Poet Joseph Jablonski, and author and educator Wayne David Hubbard for an unmissable event!

📍 Thursday, October 15th
🕠 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
📍 Peter Bullough Foundation Gardens, 120 W Cork St, Wi******er, VA
🎟️ FREE Event - RSVP at link in bio!

The night will begin with jazz and light refreshments with the garden gate opening at 5pm. Readings will begin just after 5:45pm. This event is free thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts.

About the Poets:

Sean Murphy bullmurph is the founder of the non-profit 1455 Literary Arts 1455 Literary Arts and directs the Center for Story at Shenandoah University. He is the author of four poetry collections—The Blackened Blues (2021), Rhapsodies in Blue (2023), Kinds of Blue (2024), and Red, White, and Blues (2026). The short fiction collection This Kind of Man published in 2024, and his memoir, Please Talk About Me When I’m Gone, won Memoir Magazine’s 2022 Memoir Prize.

Joseph M. Jablonski Walking Mall Poet is the typewriting street poet of Wi******er, Virginia, known as the “Walking Mall Poet,” and is the owner-operator of With Ink: Typewriter Poetry, providing poetic entertainment to events throughout the country. In addition to being published in numerous literary journals and running a writers group at his church, he has also been an artist-in-residence at the Peter Bullough Foundation and volunteers currently as the Northwest Region Vice President for the Poetry Society of Virginia.

Wayne David Hubbard Wayne David Hubbard is a writer and systems thinker whose work explores the intersection of science, culture, and human experience. His perspective is shaped by a life that moves across disciplines—structured systems, creative expression, and education—bringing a unique lens to how we understand the world and ourselves.

10/05/2026

Thank you Wisteria Deng Wisteria Deng for an informative session regarding the use of poetry and guided reflective exercises in exploring questions of identity, belonging, continuity, and change. We appreciate you taking the time to share how you incorporate these activities in a workshop format.

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season’s events! Special thank you to our partners at Shenandoah Oncology Shenandoah Oncology for their collaboration with this event!

10/05/2026

Stroll through our garden, taste warm seasonal refreshments, and spend some time with our artists-in-residence! Jaime Bird midnightzonemirrorball , Wisteria Deng Wisteria Deng , and Christa Lei christa lei will showcase what they’ve been working on while in Wi******er at this casual, open house-style event. This event is FREE but we do ask that you please RSVP at the link in bio or through the event page on the PBF website.

📍 Thursday, October 8th
🕠 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📍 PBF Artist Studios, 120 West Cork St, Wi******er, VA
🎟️ Free Event - RSVP appreciated! Link in bio!

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season’s events!

10/01/2026

Paper puppet creatures sprung to life on top of a hand crafted ocean scape during Tuesday night’s workshop as artist-in-residence Jaime Bird midnightzonemirrorball showed participants the fun art of animation! Thank you Jaime for sharing your expertise and patience as we learned how to gently move our puppets across the scene! Also, thank you for compiling the clips into this great video!!!! Bravo 👏

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season’s events!

09/30/2026

Drawing from poetry-integrated, meaning-centered therapy, Clinical Psychology PhD and Peter Bullough Foundation artist-in-residence Wisteria Deng Wisteria Deng will teach attendees how to use poetry and guided reflective exercises to explore questions of identity, belonging, continuity, and change. This approach builds on meaning-centered psychotherapy developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and on a poetry-integrated adaptation subsequently piloted at Yale. Participants will identify sources of strength, connection, and meaning while also making space for uncertainty and loss. This intergenerational workshop invites participants of all ages to reflect on how illness, disability, aging, grief and bereavement, and major life transitions can alter one’s sense of home within the body. Those currently undergoing active or palliative treatment or those that have dealt with illness, aging, and bereavement are welcome to attend, as are caregivers and members of the public. All materials and light refreshments will be provided for this FREE event!

📍 Friday, October 2nd
🕠 10:30 AM – 12 PM
📍 Peter Bullough Foundation Gardens, 120 West Cork St, Wi******er, VA
🎟️ FREE Event - Reserve your spot at link in bio!

This workshop is hosted in partnership with Shenandoah Oncology Shenandoah Oncology and the Peter Bullough Foundation and has been graciously sponsored by the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts.

About the Artist:
Wisteria Deng is a poet, theater-maker, and clinical psychologist whose work explores home as an evolving attempt rather than a fixed place. Across creative practice and clinical care, she is interested in how we create meaning and belonging when the body, language, or geography we call home becomes unstable.
Wisteria received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University, where she provides trauma-informed psychotherapy across diverse medical and marginalized communities, including sexual and gender minorities and patients nearing the end of life.