Prints and Quilts from Gee's Bend
in the UAG
Aug. 28 to Oct. 13
The University Art Gallery of the University of the South is honored to host Prints and Quilts from Gee’s Bend. Informed by the tradition of quilting, the art objects on view—created by artists Mary Lee Bendolph, Louisiana Bendolph, Thornton Dial, and Lonnie Holley—were carefully selected from the Arnett collection to represent a new chapter in the long story of quilting and the community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama.
The University Art Gallery will host Allegiance, by Los Angeles-based artist Diedrick Brackens, recent winner of the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum Harlem. Brackens weaves tapestries of cotton—powerful in his work for its association with the slave trade—that consider the complexities of queer black identity, and the complexities of engaging with a difficult and painful history.
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.
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The Friends of the University Art Gallery was founded to support exceptional exhibition and event programming in the UAG, and to bring together people who believe in the power of contemporary art to foster conversation and community. Please consider renewing your membership, or becoming a new Friend today. If you would like to offer your support as a Friend of the UAG, please follow the link below, select “Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts” for your Designation, and write “Friends of the UAG” under “Specific program or initiative.” Friends will be honored with their names displayed in the UAG unless otherwise requested.
Isle of Printing’s interactive exhibition Communication Station: Automated Exchange was at the UAG from October 25-December 16, 2018. Visitors to the exhibition were introduced to the Isle of Printing’s projects: Our Town Nashville, All Are Welcome, and the Bryce Bux Currency Exchange, and participated in Communication Station No. 3: Automated Exchange, a project specially designed to spark our imaginations and generate conversations about the community of Sewanee and what we would like it to be.
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