The Carlos Gallery

Family Weekend 2026

It's our annual Family Weekend at Sewanee this coming Friday, October 2, 2026. As part of the festivities, the Art Department (art.sewanee.edu) will be hosting an open house in the Carlos Gallery within the Visual Arts Building on Sewanee's campus. Studios will be open to walk through, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Abigail Hedley, whose exhibition "This Silence Echoes" is on exhibit in the Carlos Gallery, will be present.

Food and beverages will be provided, come join us!

The Carlos Gallery brings contemporary art and artists that are regionally located in the South East, and nationally, to the University's campus. This gallery is housed in the Visual Arts Building as part of the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and is curated to complement the University's Art curriculum. Every spring the space functions as the solo exhibition space for Senior Art Majors who are pursuing honors through their comprehensive exam.

This Silence Echoes

By Abigail Rose Hedley

Gallery Open:
September 14th- October 21st, 2026

Artist Talk and Reception:
Thursday, October 15, 2026
5:00 pm
Carlos Gallery

The Carlos Gallery in the Visual Art Building at the University of the South is pleased to present This Silence Echoes, a solo exhibition by artist Abigail Rose Hedley.

Hedley is a Midwestern sculptor who reimagines the familiar in wool. By working in the slow, engaged, and tactile process of needle felting, their sculptural works are intimately familiar yet detached from this reality. Informed by storytelling and distorted recollection, objects and forms that are subconsciously attached to memories become outlets to re-examine personal histories, generational folklore, and perceptions of society.

In This Silence Echoes, through the exhaustive processing of wool, the relationship between what is real and what is imagined becomes intertwined, melding into something unforeseen. Belonging equally to the physical world and an internalized speculative terrain, viewers are invited to sit comfortably with what is already known, while simultaneously collecting fleeting ideas of what could be