The University Art Gallery presents Baggs McKelvey’s Indigo Hallow, a site-specific installation inspired by the edge of the Cumberland Plateau, on view in the UAG from August 27 through October 15, 2025.
Please join us! McKelvey will present her work on September 24, at 5 p.m., in Guerry Auditorium.
In all of her installations, McKelvey explores her relationship with the land and the environment. With Indigo Hallow, the University Art Gallery is transformed by McKelvey's intuitive and poetic response to Shakerag Hollow, constructed from secondhand denim with the help of Cumberland Scholar volunteers from Saint Andrew's Sewanee-School.
Dr. Jon Evans, Dr. Grady Wells, and Dr. John Willis all provided invaluable assistance with the research for this installation, and the University Lectures Committee, SIPE, Religious Studies, Humanities, and Art, Art History and Visual Studies lent indispensable support. Thank you.
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The University Art Gallery fulfills an essential role on campus. Devoted to exhibitions of contemporary art, the UAG fosters innovation and creativity, and experiential and visual learning. UAG exhibitions encourage conversation beyond the classroom, between all the members of our community, and a welcoming and diverse campus community.
Working together, faculty members and the Director and Curator of Academic Engagement build productive ways for UAG exhibitions and events to support courses across the curriculum. Students contribute to exhibitions and programming, they visit exhibitions to consider course themes and questions, they have conversations with visiting artists, they use artists’ methodologies and work as inspiration for class assignments, they put their foreign language skills to work in a community setting outside the classroom. Use the button below to contact Shelley MacLaren, Director and Curator of Academic Engagement, to discuss possibilities for your classes.
The University Art Gallery presents four to five exhibitions each academic year, from the work of our graduating to senior art majors to the work of nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists.
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