Traveling Exhibitions

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.

The Legend of Kente

“The Legend of Kente” features over 50 kente weavings, 4 garments, and detailed interpretive materials that explore the histories, meanings, and stories depicted by the extraordinary master weavers of present-day Ghana.

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.

The Perfect Shot: Walter Iooss Jr., and the Art of Sports Photography

Over his long career, photographer Walter Iooss Jr. had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest athletes of the past sixty years, capturing on film carefully crafted moments of triumph and disappointment—universal emotions that athletes and non-athletes alike know so well.

Backstage Hollywood: The Photographs of Bob Willoughby

Venture backstage into the golden age of Hollywood in this exhibition that explores the photography of Bob Willoughby.

Hemingway in Comics

This ExhibitsUSA exhibition will explore legendary American author Ernest Hemingway as a person, an artist, and a pop culture icon through the lens of comics.

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.

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.