WHAT IS A
SIGNAL HOUSE?
A Signal House is an immersive
custom-built architecture for
FELT SOUND
HEALING LIGHT &
ATTUNEMENT.
No two Signal Houses are alike.
Each is shaped by the community it is designed for.
DESIGN
We design and build permanent, temporary, and mobile Signal Houses.
ACTIVATE
We activate Signal Houses through ritual prayer meetings, worship, and community gatherings.
SCHOOLThe School shares Signal House's methods and practices through classes, workshops, training, and public programs.
ABOUT
THE FOUNDERS
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. She 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 mixed media artist whose work is shaped by 19 years of incarceration in the New York State prison system and his lifelong experience living with spina bifida. Navigating both physical disability and confinement, his practice explores adaptation, survival, and the psychological limits of space.
Before his incarceration, Lenahan studied Media Studies at Pace University and exhibited in New York City. While incarcerated, and often without access to traditional materials, he developed resourceful methods of making using found and improvised materials.
In 2023, he met artist Maggie Hazen at Shawangunk Correctional Facility through New York State Arts in Corrections programming. Following his release in 2026, Lenahan relocated to Los Angeles, where his work continues to center the transformative, communicative, and healing capacities of art within shared spaces.
Signal House is grounded in the understanding that the body is a living temple—a site for perception, presence, and connection.
This 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 both body and architecture as receptive instruments of vision and voice.
Like a PRISM, it refracts light, revealing a spectrum and transforming singular vision into multiplicity.
Like a TUNING FORK, it transmits vibration, bringing different frequencies into relation and rhythm.
Vision and attunement are not separate acts, but interdependent processes of perception.
Here, frequency becomes a collective field: fractured experience is not smoothed over, but received, held, shaped, and transformed through attention, presence, and alignment.