This exhibition featured a WPA-commissioned mural by artist Abram Champanier, completed in 1938 for the children's tuberculosis ward at Gouverneur Hospital in Manhattan. Spanning 16 panels, the mural playfully reimagines Lewis Carroll's characters exploring 1930s New York landmarks. After the ward was abandoned in the 1960s, a team of painting conservators removed the canvas panels and, over the following decades, worked with New York City Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine to fully restore all 16. Following the exhibition, the panels will be distributed throughout New York's pediatric hospital network.

Design and Layout. The exhibition was designed with three goals in mind: to present the mural as a significant work of public art, to situate it within the broader history of arts in medicine, and to celebrate the mural’s rescue and its decades-long restoration. The floorplan was designed to create an immersive experience, surrounding visitors with the murals. Wall colors were chosen to evoke the original hospital setting while still allowing the newly framed and restored panels to stand on their own as works of art. A blueprint of the original hospital floorplan was displayed on the wall, and two dedicated video areas explored the exhibition's arts in medicine and conservation stories.

Interactive Elements. Throughout the gallery, pinwheel-shaped tables — inspired by the pinwheel motif in the mural's Coney Island panel — invited visitors to sit and draw their own vision of Alice and her friends exploring New York City. A grid of wall hooks at the end of the exhibition allowed visitors to contribute their drawings to a collective display, turning every visitor into an artist in the spirit of the original murals, reimagining Alice and her friends in the New York City of today.