Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection, located in our Masterpiece Gallery, centers artwork and artifacts that engage with the landscape, labor, craft traditions, and people that have called the Appalachian region home. Well-known artists and photographers including Henry Ossawa Tanner, Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, and Aaron Siskind are presented alongside lesser known and unrecorded [...]

Laura Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic sites and preserve land within Florida, a place she sees as one of many dualities. For Colomb, the sinkhole embodies this duality. Sinkholes create crystal clear natural springs for swimming and diving, but they can also destroy lives and property within seconds, holding both intense wonder and terror [...]

Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing features works of textiles and sculpture that explore the semblance of place as understood through cartographic measurements, embodied experiences, and technological mediations. Responding to the Lower Traylor Gallery’s architecture, and informed by the stratigraphy of the geological record, this exhibition embraces spatial and temporal disorientation as a device for shifting perspective [...]