Join us for an evening celebration of the life of multi-talented musician, filmmaker, photographer, musicologist, anthropologist, and educator, John Cohen (1932 – 2019) in conjunction with the exhibition Image & Music: John Cohen on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts through December 13, 2025. Different Johns, a FRUITBAT/FOLKSCARE film directed by Robert […]
Join us for an ARTtalk by internationally recognized writer, visual researcher, and photo-based artist, Jake Eschelman as he discusses his creative research into the interspecies dialogue between bees and humans. Eschelman actively invites his audiences to imagine what the bees may tell—or ask of—us.About the artistJake Eshelman (b. 1989, USA) is a photo-based artist and visual […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions contributing structure, on display in Gallery A through April 4, 2026. SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) is an artist currently based in Pine Plains, NY. They received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015), were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) […]
An ARTtalk panel will begin at 5:00pm, followed by the presentation of awards. The audience is then invited upstairs to a DJ set from 7:00-8:00pm with Ty Murray/DJ Soularia. This year’s exhibition will be juried by Ty Murray, artivist and Director of Art & Communications at The Bottom, a nonprofit cultural organization in Knoxville, TN, […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions Dear Body of Water, on display in Mayer Gallery December 5 through May 2, 2026. Gretchen Ernster Henderson is a body of water, an intermedia artist, and the Spence L. Wilson Distinguished Professor in Humanities at Rhodes College near the Mississippi River in Memphis, TN. Her fifth book, Life in […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions! Jill Pelto will speak about Community Contours in the Southern Appalachian Mountains on June 5th during the First Friday Art Crawl. Climate change artist Jill Pelto is currently based in Bellingham, Washington. She grew up in Massachusetts, lived in Maine for a decade, and New Mexico briefly. Pelto […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions Sculpting with Paper: Hand Papermaking at Dieu Donné, on display in Hodges and Community Galleries February 6 through August 8, 2026. John Shorb currently serves as Strategic Advisor to Dieu Donné. He was previously the Executive Director at Dieu Donné and has worked for non-profits for the […]
Join Curator shauna caldwell for a guided gallery walkthrough of belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks. Learn about the project partnership with the bell hooks Institute, book publication, and featured artists bell hooks, Alison Saar, Elizabeth Catlett, Wendy Ewald, Stephanie Santana, Glenis Redmond, and others. belonging to […]
Join exhibiting artist Nancy Hershberger as she walks guests through her works on display in the Bickers Gallery at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. A distinctive voice in the art quilt world, Nancy Hershberger weaves together tradition and innovation, with work that invites viewers into vividly constructed landscapes that evoke emotion […]