What stories do people tell about water? What stories does water tell? What memories does it hold? Consider its materiality, and how it powers the expression of art, sometimes as subject, context, medium, ingredient, or afterthought.

(Photo by Victoria Ford)

These questions and more are explored – joyfully, fretfully – in the new juried exhibition, “Water Stories,” at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, now through Aug. 13.