There is an encaustic revival as a contemporary art medium in the 21st century. This exhibition features a group of twelve women artists who use the medium in various ways, utilizing the encaustic tradition in conversation with contemporary sculpture, painting, photography and collage.
Comprising 67 spectacular works of art, Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art is the culmination of a 35-year journey into a realm that few have explored with such passion and dedication—the world of art and art collecting.
Margins and the Height of the Sun is comprised of a body of work Elaine Elledge created as she worked to find balance between her life as an artist and full-time parent, while also seeking a diagnosis for an unknown medical condition. Using everyday items such as cheesecloth, gauze, paper, and fabric, her work explores the depth and complexity of motherhood, the frailty of the human body, and what it means to cultivate through care and relinquish control.
Photographer Mark Perrott has spent the past several decades documenting the ever-expanding group of tattooed Americans. Perrott turns his camera to the diminishing population of highly decorated and graying Americans in his current series, ANCIENT INK.
The quilts presented in this exhibition are graphically striking examples that embody a sense of “wall power.”
Lou Schellenberg invites viewers to respond to patterns of habitat and change in small towns, suburbs, and rural communities and the human story behind every dwelling and built boundary.
These narrative quilted swing coats by artist Patricia A. Montgomery celebrate under-recognized women who made major contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
If life as we know it were to come to a sudden stop, what would archeologists find decades from now? "Future Fossils" presents a possible view into that frozen moment in time and culture.