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VISION & STRATEGIC PLAN
EXHIBITIONS
Camera Lucida: Recent video art and moving digital imagery
AUG. 27, 2016–JAN. 7, 2017
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C
Organized by JCSM, Camera Lucida screened new media art by contemporary artists from five countries. This exhibition was made possible in part by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Curated by Jacqueline Woodson
FALL 2016
Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Gallery
In conjunction with the Auburn Public Library’s community-wide reading initiative, award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson chose drawings, paintings, photographs, porcelain and prints from the museum’s collection that resonated with her personal experience growing up in South Carolina and New York.
1072 Society Exhibition
NOV. 5, 2016–JAN. 29, 2017
The collection focus for this year’s 1072 Society consideration was contemporary art in ceramic and glass. JCSM acquired ten objects from the exhibition with funds provided wholly or in part by the 1072 Society.
Audubon Inspirations: Prints by Jane E. Goldman
NOV. 5, 2016–JAN. 29, 2017
Audubon Inspirations: Prints by Jane E. Goldman featured silkscreen and hand-painted digital prints that pay homage to 19th-century naturalist and artist John James Audubon. Loans from the artist and Stewart & Stewart publishers, together with works from the museum’s collection, composed the exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS
Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here
JAN. 21–APR. 30, 2017
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C
South Korean artist Jiha Moon, based in Atlanta, Georgia, combines Asian and Western cultural elements to examine the multifaceted nature of contemporary global identity. The exhibition was organized by the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, in collaboration with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina.
Teen Take Over
FEB. 11–APR. 16, 2017
Auburn-area high school students created art in response to works they selected from the museum’s permanent collection, culminating in a side-by-side exhibition with explanatory texts composed by the student artists.
