Fairfield University professor creates immersive 'Pause' installation in India

For more than three decades, professor of visual & performing arts Jo Yarrington has taught studio art at the John Charles Meditz College of Arts and Sciences, guiding students through printmaking, book arts, drawing, and capstone seminars. Alongside her teaching, her work as a professional artist has focused on these media as well as mixed-media installations. In Dec. 2025, her creative work took on a new scale, the culmination of a yearlong sabbatical in India. As an invited artist at the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, India, Yarrington created the site-referential installation PAUSE, an immersive, walk-through meditation of light, sound, and textile. Visitors moved through yards of white muslin suspended from scaffold-like frames, sunlight filtering through hand-printed patterns inspired by a century-old piano roll. Four sound boxes—