Traveling Exhibitions

Critical Geography

Critical Geography reexamines dominant historical narratives that have shaped our traditional understanding of geography, provoking conversations around social justice, environmental sustainability, and transformative change.

Arctic Passage

In one of the most extreme and challenging environments on the planet, this exhibition examines the relationships between military personnel and Indigenous communities as a result of mounting geo-political tensions and climate change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Finding Alice: Artists Exploring Wonderland featuring Abelardo Morell

This exhibition is a wondrous collection of artists’ visual interpretations of Alice’s adventures that will be of intergenerational interest to art lovers as well as those intrigued with the wit and imagination of the stories.

Art of the Wish

If you had a wish for the world, what would it be? Two artists traveled the country asking this question to elders from diverse backgrounds and locations. Inspired by more than 250 wishes, Art of the Wish is a poignant and memorable reflection of the beauty in generational storytelling.

Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché through Illustration

Around 1,000 A.D. in the present-day country of Guatemala, a highland Mayan people called the Quiché created in pictographic form a creation myth of the Universe in which a pair of Hero Twins must descend into the Underworld to save the next and final generation of humanity. Artist Jaime Arredondo has painstakingly brought it back to life by creating 65 illustrations of the story following it chronologically.

The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource

Only 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its eight billion people. Brad Temkin’s photography puts visitors face-to-face with the systems and techniques that deliver our most valuable natural resource. In doing so, the exhibition encourages us to see water conservation as a process we can all get involved in.