A STUDIO
A SCHOOL
A SANCTUARY
an
architecture
of attunement
where art shapes how
we heal
Signal House is
an evolving platform for shared practice and exchange—where the collective body is held as both temple and instrument through visual art, music, dance, and healing practices.
Signal Sessions
Open, guided gatherings shaped through sound, movement, voice, and prayer.
Each session is led by a facilitator in the role of a psalmist, who composes and holds the environment through their chosen instrument—whether DJ, voice, or other forms of live sound. Each session follows a shared structure, but is shaped by the sensibility of the psalmist, allowing the experience to shift week to week while remaining grounded in a common rhythm of listening and response.
Participants are invited into moments of call and response—through voice, movement, or simple acts of making—as a way of entering the field together.
Come as you are.
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The Practice Field
A cohort-based program offering ongoing classes in visual art, film, movement, and sound. Participants return weekly, developing discipline, creative skill, and a deeper capacity for perception and expression over time. Scholarships ensure access across income levels.
Current Workshop
Contemplative Drawing with Vibroacoustic Sound
An intergenerational workshop where drawing becomes a meditative, restorative practice. Through subtle sound and vibration, participants are supported in cultivating focus, regulating the nervous system, and deepening embodied presence.
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1 : 1 Creative Direction
Sessions that combine creative consulting with spiritual and intuitive guidance.
Drawing from psychoanalytic listening, visual strategy, and spiritual discernment, these sessions focus on supporting inner attunement.
Offered to individuals and small groups—including businesses, couples, and families—this work supports clarity, direction, and movement through creative, personal, and relational challenges, engaging the inner landscape through conversation, art-based practices, and spiritually-informed reflection, while remaining distinct from clinical therapy.
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Signal House is grounded in the understanding that the body is a living temple—a site of perception, presence, and connection. It is where experience is received, shaped, and shared. This understanding extends into the architecture itself: a space shaped by what it holds, what it shelters, and what it offers back as a habitation of spirit.
Working with light and sound as elemental forces, Signal House treats the physical architecture of space and body both as receptive instruments of vision and voice—one that listens, resonates, and responds to conditions of presence.
Like a PRISM, it refracts light, revealing a rainbow spectrum already contained within a single beam, transforming singular vision into radiant multiplicity.
Like a TUNING FORK, it transmits vibration, bringing disparate frequencies into relation and shared rhythm.
Vision and attunement are not separate acts but interdependent processes of perception.
Here, frequency becomes a collective field: fractured experience is not resolved or smoothed over, but received, held, shaped, and transformed through attention, presence, and alignment.
HOSTING
Workshops,
conversations, screenings, exhibitions, & prayer meetings, shaped by the community and the voices that sustain it.
HOSTING
HOSTIN
ABOUT
MAGGIE HAZEN
Artist & Co-Founder
Maggie is a visual artist, concept architect, prison abolitionist, and Christian mystic who weaves centering prayer, Jungian thought, and personal symbolism into a healing, creative practice. With more than a decade of experience leading multidisciplinary projects at the intersection of visual art, design, and social justice, she bridges award-winning collaborators, incarcerated artists, musicians, institutions, and grassroots organizations.
Rooted in sculpture and digital media, her practice spans fine art, filmmaking, animation, immersive environments, digital fabrication, and curatorial strategy. She holds an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a BFA in Sculpture from Biola Theological University and has taught at Bard College, New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, and the Shanghai Institute for Visual Art.
For over six years, she has navigated the United States prison system and fostered community collaborations with incarcerated individuals across various correctional facilities, including the Columbia Secure Center for Girls, the Brookwood Secure Center for Youth, the Shawangunk Correctional Facility, and the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
Michael Lenahan
Artist & Co-Founder
Michael Lenahan is a formerly incarcerated mixed media artist who served 19 years in the New York State prison system. His work is grounded in the lived experience of disability and confinement, shaped by his lifelong navigation of spina bifida alongside the imposed conditions of incarceration. Through this dual reality—being confined within his own body while also confined within a prison cell—Lenahan explores themes of adaptation, survival, and the psychological and physical limits of space.
In 2023, while incarcerated at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, Lenahan met artist and educator Maggie Hazen through her work with Wave Farm and New York State Arts in Corrections. Hazen facilitated in-person workshops that provided system-impacted individuals with weekly programming in visual arts, sculpture, and literature, expanding access to structured creative expression within the facility.
Lenahan holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Pace University. Prior to his incarceration in 2007, he exhibited work at Gallery One Twenty Eight in New York City’s Lower East Side. During nearly 16 years without access to traditional art materials, he developed resourceful methods of creation, using prison-issued toothbrushes, soap, and pigments extracted from available paper materials and other found sources to produce his work.
Following his release in 2026, Lenahan relocated to Los Angeles. His continued practice reflects both personal transformation and a broader commitment to the therapeutic and communicative power of art. Having experienced and witnessed the impact of arts-based programming firsthand, he recognizes its ability to foster self-awareness, strengthen communication, and support healing within community-centered spaces.