Traveling Exhibitions

How We Rebuild—Using Visual Narratives to Transcend Conflict and Help Communities Heal

This penetrating and transformative photography exhibition draws from twelve years of work created by grant winners and finalists from The Aftermath Project, a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of war stories, after the conflicts have ended—what it takes for individuals to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, and to recover the heartbeat of humanity.

Marking our way: First Nations prints from Australia

Marking our way: First Nations prints from Australia celebrates twenty years of vibrant creative activity through the Yirrkala Print Space located at the renowned Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Northeast Arnhem Land.

The 60s through the eyes of a revolutionary, by John “Hoppy” Hopkins

Born in England in 1937, John Hopkins, better known as “Hoppy,” was one of the best-known counterculture figures in London in the 1960s, not just as a photographer and journalist, but as a political activist as well. The 60s through the eyes of a revolutionary, by John “Hoppy” Hopkins tells this story through 66 framed works by the late artist, activist, and photojournalist.

The Unchosen Ones

County Fairs have become the venue where both city and farm folk come together, exchange ideas, exhibit their best wares, and engage in friendly competitions. Central to these fairs are livestock competitions. More than 3,200 fairs are held in North America each year. The Unchosen Ones, an exhibition of photographs by R.J. Kern, begins on the sidelines of county fair animal contests in Minnesota in 2016. These county fairs lead up to the Minnesota State Fair, one of the largest and best-attended expositions in the world.

Working America

In the photography exhibition Working America, artist Sam Comen presents American immigrants and first-generation Americans at work in the small, skilled trades as icons of the American experience. The subjects share stories of economic independence and struggle, belonging and exclusion, faith and fear, and service to both community and family.

Walking in Antarctica

Inspired and informed by her experiences, Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that the tourist ships do not reach and few people get to witness in person.

Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy is an exhibition of eight artists whose work reflects on the effect of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation.

Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design

The traveling exhibition Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design brings together art and design with environmental science using both scientific and artistic objects, as well as interactive learning stations. The exhibition is an adaptation of the High Desert Museum’s Innovation Lab: Design Inspired by Nature.

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.

Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon

Through two photographic essays, photographers Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds offer a calculated look at the “Architecture of Armageddon,” both the offensive and defensive implications of nuclear war. These quiet architectural spaces, devoid of people, allow viewers to come face to face with present nuclear realities while also offering a look into the collective psyche of the American people during the Cold War.