Westport Library Announces VersoFest 2026 Art Installations

WESTPORT, CT – The Westport Library announced that its annual VersoFest music and media festival will include significant art installations for 2026. VersoFest 2026 will feature Holly Danger’s immersive, interactive Lighthouse exhibit in the Sheffer Gallery, and Sean "Opus 1" Williams’ The SneakerVangelisT exhibits in both the South and Jesup galleries.

VersoFest 2026 is scheduled to begin on February 27 with a performance by The Thing. The festival continues with Susanna Hoffs on March 6 and concludes with VersoFest weekend from March 26-29. Scheduled artists for the weekend include Ani DiFranco, Wyclef Jean, David J, and Gina Gershon.

An artist reception for both Danger and Williams will take place on Wednesday, March 25. The reception will begin at 6 pm, followed by a talk with the artists and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.

Danger’s Lighthouse is a video art installation designed to be interactive. Visitors will move through thousands of colorful strings illuminated by projections and synchronized to an original soundscape. The exhibit includes faux fur rugs and floor pillows, inviting viewers to touch, interact with, and photograph the string art.

Williams’ The SneakerVangelisT exhibits showcase sneakers as forms of self-expression and art. The displays feature various iconic sneaker models presented through digital graphic-based works. Williams is known globally in the sneaker community as a consultant and exhibition curator, having curated exhibitions for organizations such as the Brooklyn Museum and the Bata Shoe Museum.

About the Artists

Lighthouse is created and produced by the wife-and-husband team of artist Holly Danger and Jeff Schram. Danger leads the visual design, while Schram runs tech and composes original music that synchronizes seamlessly with the visuals.

Danger's art combines motion, light, and sound to create joyful, immersive experiences that invite you to step into and become a part of the art. Some of her favorite projects to date have been creating an immersive art experience for the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, performing at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, her first international exhibit at the K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and creating large-scale string projection installations at the Ignite Light + Art Festival in Ft. Lauderdale and at the MAD Arts Museum at Dania Beach.

Danger was honored to receive an award for Most Innovative at the Digital Graffiti Festival and most recently received the Connecticut Artist Fellowship Award.

Sean “Opus 1” Williams (also known as the SneakerVangelisT) is a multi-hyphenate creative born and raised in Brooklyn. He is most notably known worldwide in the sneaker world as a consultant, teacher, and exhibition curator.

Williams has curated exhibitions in partnership with organizations such as the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, the Brooklyn Museum, The Mana Contemporary in New Jersey, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He even curated a sneaker exhibition for the Congressional Sneaker Caucus on Capitol Hill. Since 2013, Williams has curated or co-curated exhibitions that have been experienced by more than 13 million people worldwide.

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VersoFest Art Exhibits: Lighthouse by Holly Danger & The SneakerVangelisT by Sean “Opus 1” Williams

March 20 – April 5

Artist Reception: Wednesday, March 25, 6-8 pm

The Westport Library

Free to attend

Website: https://versofest.org/

Tickets: https://westportlibrary.org/versofest26-tickets/