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Fort Makers is pleased to present Goodnight House, an immersive group exhibition of works inspired by the American children’s book classic, Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, first published in 1947. Through contemporary reimaginings of various objects found within the book’s bedroom setting, Goodnight House explores how the book has been woven into a collective, American cultural understanding of comfort, sleep, compassion, and imagination.

Goodnight Moon is a short rhyming poem describing a young rabbit’s bedtime ritual of saying repetitive, …