April – August 2025 | Wilson Gallery, Museum of Art + History
How do we hold onto fleeting moments of love, care, and loss? How do we express the quiet, powerful emotions of caregiving?
Artist Meg Kaczyk explores these questions in Notes from Next to the Bed: A Caregiving Love Story in Words & Pictures, a deeply personal exhibition that captures the emotional landscape of caregiving through paintings and narrative reflections. This collection, on view in the Wilson Gallery from April to August, 24 2025, invites visitors into a journey of love, grief, resilience, and profound presence.
A Visual and Emotional Chronicle
In October 2022, as Meg cared for her husband in the final months of his life, she turned to daily sketching and writing as a way to process the experience. Using her phone to capture everyday moments, she later transformed these images into gouache, graphite, and charcoal sketches—simple, striking depictions of cups, chairs, windmills, and figures in solitude.
What started as a private practice evolved into a year-long project, culminating in an 80-page picture book of paintings and quiet, contemplative words. The works in this exhibition range from small, intimate sketches to large-scale oil paintings, each carrying the weight of memory and the warmth of care.
Art as Healing and Connection
“Writing and painting helped me through the long years and critical months of caregiving," Meg reflects. "It is how I honor my grief. And how I emerge. My hope is that sharing this story provides companionship and the warmth of recognition for others in a caregiving role.”
This exhibition offers more than just a glimpse into one artist’s personal journey—it is an invitation to reflect on caregiving as an act of love, as a shared human experience, and as a moment of connection between past and present.
Join us at the Museum of Art + History to experience Notes from Next to the Bed.
📅 On view April – August 2025
📍 Wilson Gallery, Museum of Art + History