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People Who Make The World Go ‘Round: The Legacy of Sepia Magazine

Charting the legacy of Sepia magazine, the exhibition highlights the role of photo-based magazines, changes in printing technology, and how the political landscape shaped Black-interest photojournalism while emphasizing Sepia’s distinct style and audience in contrast to Ebony and LIFE.

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Photographer Unknown, Sepia Magazine: Natalie Cole, July 1978; Courtesy of the Sepia Photographic Archive at the African American Museum of Dallas.
Long-Term Mindset: Artists Exploring Deep Time

Long-Term Mindset centers visual discourse on science and environment, in which three artists each explore the anthropological entanglements that exist within—and between—geophysical life worlds, stimulating ideas about human agency and responsibility, and relational concepts tied to non-human existences and experiences.

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Mark Chen, James Webb’s NGC 3324 and The South Rim of Grand Canyon, February 10, 2023; ink on aluminum, 28 x 96 x 1 1/2 inches; Courtesy of the artist.
Murmurations: For the Love of Birds

With an introduction that briefly tells the story of birding, the urgent need to save birds, and the importance of conservation for our society as a whole, this exhibition includes the work of three contemporary visual artists who explore the topic through various media.

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Carolyn Monastra, “White-throated Sparrow” in blossoming redbud tree from the series The Divergence of Birds, 2015; photograph; Courtesy of the artist.
Spina Americana

In Spina Americana, acclaimed photographer Richard Sharum documents a narrow 100-mile-wide corridor from the Mexican to Canadian borders and examines what the people and the land of the central United States contribute toward the “national character” of this country.

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Richard Sharum, Two Sisters and a Cousin. Macksville, Kansas. June 19, 2021, Courtesy of the artist.
(Extended Tour!) Thrift Style

Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates how the “upcycling” of these bags mutually benefitted twentieth-century consumers and businesses. With forty-one works from patterns to garments, it serves as an example of past ingenuity that can inform today’s efforts towards sustainability.

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Seviella Smith Frischer (1893-1969), Four Patch Quilt, c. 1930; feed sack cotton, 80 x 75 inches; Courtesy of Kansas State University Historic Costume and Textile Museum.
(Extended Tour!) Small Wonders: Insects in Focus

In the air, water, and even under foot, insects inhabit every domain of our daily lives, performing essential functions that balance our fragile ecosystem on earth. By using cutting-edge technology and custom methods, artist Bob Sober created Small Wonders: Insects in Focus, an exhibition of breathtaking beauty that allows viewers to see this hidden world like they’ve never seen it before. Small Wonders aims to inspire, in an artistic way, our natural curiosity to understand the form, function, and diversity of nature.

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Bob Sober, Lanternfly (Genus species unidentified) Thailand, 2015; digital image printed on aluminum, 30 x 60 inches; Courtesy of art’s IMPORTANT, LLC.
(Extended Tour!) The Fourth Grade Project

In the past decade, acclaimed artist Judy Gelles interviewed and photographed more than 300 fourth-grade students from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds in China, England, India, Israel, Italy, Nicaragua, St. Lucia, South Africa, Dubai, South Korea, and multiple areas of the United States. She asked all of the students the same three questions: Who do you live with? What do you wish for? What do you worry about? Their varied stories touch on the human condition and urgent social issues.

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Judy Gelles, My Parents, South Korea, Private School, 2013; digital print on Dibond; 25 x 20 inches, Courtesy of Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia.; Judy Gelles, In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Private School, 2019; digital print on Dibond; 25 x 20 inches, Courtesy of Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia.; Judy Gelles, Pass Fourth Grade, Nicaragua, Public School, 2016; digital print on Dibond; 25 x 20 inches, Courtesy of Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia.
(Extended Tour!) Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad

This exhibition features beautifully dramatic color photographs, ephemera, and narratives that together tell the story of the Underground Railroad.

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Jeanine Michna-Bales, Wading Prior to Blackness, Grant Parish, Louisiana, 2014; digital c-print, 23 x 30 1/2 inches; Courtesy the artist @Jeanine Michna Bales

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About EUSA

ExhibitsUSA (EUSA) is a traveling exhibition program managed by Mid-America Arts Alliance, a nonprofit regional arts organization based in the heartland. Our mission is to strengthen and support artists, cultural organizations, and communities throughout the region and beyond.

Exhibition Proposals

Mid-America Arts Alliance is accepting proposals for art exhibitions of existing work to tour nationally through ExhibitsUSA. We are particularly interested in small to mid-sized exhibitions (approximately 2,000 square feet or 250 linear feet and under) with low security and environmental requirements that can travel via common carrier or van line. Read more here.
Variety of Opportunities

ExhibitsUSA offers more than thirty options, ranging from fine art exhibitions to shows with a focus on history and culture. Be sure to visit eusa.org often and join our email list so that you can stay up to date on what’s touring currently and what’s new in marketing.

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