This exhibition recreates the artistic renaissance that Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) embarked on late in life, drawing, sewing, sculpting and decorating her “Playhouse” just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

Marie Watt’s Companion Species (Speech Bubble) serves as the central installation around which works from a diverse group of artists from multiple times and in various media celebrate the web of relationships among humans, animals, and nature. Companion Species is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in collaboration with the Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas.

In the Fighters for Freedom, William H. Johnson created a pantheon of historic and contemporary leaders who dedicated their lives to racial justice, individual accomplishment, and social equality.

Now booking for 2025 through 2026

Visitors to the exhibition Reforestation of the Imagination will use a downloadable app that superimposes digital information over seemingly barren sculptures, creating two distinct realities to explore.

Wildlife images from the last two decades dynamically confront categorizations and speak to the significance of wildlife in art – in unconventional ways.

Will Wilson’s contemporary exploration of self-representation through the science of photography and digital media in response to the continuing impact of Edward Curtis’s The North American Indian (1907-1930).

This exhibition features groupings that explore the human impact on the environment, the ways place informs identity, and how people build their own personas and sense of self.

This exhibition speaks to the ways artists orient themselves through relationships – either to people or places – and how other artists use their work to locate truths typically hidden from view. 

This exhibition brings together artists exploring the slippery task of tangling with history, the ways in which art can express concepts when words fail, and how some artists apply rationality to the random.

This exhibition brings together the sights and the sounds of the Mexican-American border through a transformative and multi-sensory experience.