Dish

Laura Tanner Graham
Dec 3, 2022–Jun 4 2023

Featuring new work by Laura Tanner Graham, Dish presents a visual archive of the rituals, recipes, and traditions of different communities around the country. By exploring each community’s unique foodways, Tanner Graham examines and highlights the ways food can be used to better understand a community’s economy, social structure, political leanings, and, ultimately, its people.

Through her captivating drawings and installations, Laura Tanner Graham seeks to uncover the edits and omissions take from dominant historical narratives through the lens of a Southern female perspective.

Since receiving her MFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Tanner Graham has shown work in several national exhibitions. She serves as the Producer and Co-Host of The Open Call, a podcast featuring conversations with contemporary artists. Originally from Georgia, Tanner Graham now resides in Boca Raton, Florida where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Art History at Florida Atlantic University.

Mirror Mirror

Oct 22, 2022– Mar 19, 2023

Mirror Mirror looks at contemporary women artists who focus on issues of identity – as a woman, artist, mother, wife, and/or daughter. Curated by Dr. Christine Fowler Shearer, this exhibition brings together 60 works by artists around the country. Mirror Mirror was organized by Fowler Artistic and the Springfield Museum of Art.

Opening reception with lite bites, cash bar, and curator remarks: Saturday, Oct 22, 6-7:30pm

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wild & Tenacious

Beth Edwards
Oct 1, 2022 – Apr 23, 2023

Beth Edwards meticulously captures every minute detail of nature’s foliage and flora in this series of hyper-realistic, magnified paintings of floral bouquets and garden oases. Painting with a vibrancy matched only by real life, Edwards seeks to preserve the fleeting colors, light, shadows, and negative spaces that imbue the natural world.

Beth Edwards is a full-time artist working in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and her MFA from Indiana University. With a career spanning over 30 years, Edwards has earned multiple awards, grants, and commissions. She has exhibited and taught in several states across the U.S., including at the University of Dayton and University of Memphis.

Lake Valley by Rachel Rose

Sep 17, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023

Our next collaboration with Art Bridges, Rachel Rose’s Lake Valley is a film installation combining collage, found footage, and repurposed materials. Together, the fantastical scenes Rose creates serve as the setting for a narrative tale in which a lonely, rabbit-like pet explores a nearby forest while looking for friendship. Object on loan from Art Bridges.

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76th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition

Jul 30 – Oct 2, 2022

The Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition returns for its 76th year in 2022. Participation is open to all members of the Museum and the show highlights works by all ranges of talent.

 

About the Juror

Deidre Hamlar is the Director of the Aminah Robinson Legacy Project at the Columbus Museum of Art. In this role, she develops inspirational exhibitions and public programs centered around Robinson’s artwork in addition to maintaining Robinson’s library, archives, and home studio. Having earned a B.A. in Sociology from University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from Howard University Law School, Hamlar has merged her two passions: social justice and the arts, into a multifaceted and prolific career, additionally serving as a lawyer, arts administrator, artist’s representative, and independent curator.

Springfield High School Youth Visual Art Exhibition

May 18 – Jun 27, 2022

Springfield High School will host its Youth Visual Art Exhibition this spring in the Museum’s Beach Gallery. Featuring an arrangement of artwork by young, up and coming artists, this free exhibition pushes contemporary ideas through conceptually contrived works.

Reception: Tuesday, May 24, 5-6pm

Amalgamations

Lisa Merida-Paytes
Apr 16 – Sep 18, 2022

Lisa Merida-Paytes explores the connections and disconnections among the body’s systems, the processes of growth and decay, and the animal-like nature of the human form. Through this series of dynamic paper, clay, and wire sculptures, she exposes the skeletal and embryonic core of the human body while also examining what happens when the body’s systems breakdown and its interrelated parts no longer communicate. As an artist living with disabilities caused by Ataxia, Merida-Paytes intimately understands the transformative, physical changes that result from progressive, neurological diseases. With her artwork, she seeks to generate an awareness of the ways in which bodies are impacted by disabilities.

Merida-Paytes is a female, Hispanic artist based in Cincinnati, OH. Her sculptural installation work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and she has contributed extensively to several ceramic publications including Ceramics Monthly. Most recently, Merida-Paytes served as a Co-Liaison for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference held in Cincinnati in March of 2021.  She received her B.F.A. from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1991 and her M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1997.

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Mar 19 – Jul 10, 2022

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe, organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, explores Rowe’s artistic practice as a radical act of self-expression in the post-Civil Rights era South.

Support for this exhibition and publication is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Major funding for this exhibition and publication is provided by Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges.

 

 

 

 

 

Radical Imagination

Through November 2022

Images and language are powerful and can change the way we see the world. This new, interactive exhibition encourages us to use our imaginations as radically as possible to envision the kind of world in which we want to live. Radical Imagination features artwork from the permanent collection including colorful imagery by Nan Hass Feldman, a large scale painting by Angelo Ippolito, and rarely seen works by Elijah Pierce.

Along with the art is a selection of poetry inspired by the reading curriculum of Springfield City School District middle schools where students are exploring the power of language.

On a Snowy Evening

Nov 2021-Winter 2022

Celebrate all things winter with this exhibition of snowy artwork from the Springfield Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection. The exhibition contains a number of pieces that have been featured on our past holiday postcards including work by Paul Sample and Dayton artists, David Smith and Robert Whitmore.