Join us on Friday, February 9 from 6 - 9 PM to kick off our 2024 Exhibition Season with FOUR openings!
Hand to Mouth
Curated by TK Smith
On view until June 22 in the Main Exhibition Space
Hand to Mouth is a group exhibition of early and mid-career artists who explore labor through movement and performative gestures. Hand to Mouth participates in a multimedia exploration of the intersections of art, process, and labor brought to popular discourse in the mid-twentieth century by feminist and experimental artists. Centering the body, Hand to Mouth explores how contemporary artists are making visible the invisible, how they imbue laboring bodies with value, and how creating performative dissonance can be an act of resistance.
Peekaboo Sham
Works by Jordan Martins
On view until April 5 in the Side Spaces
Jordan Martins is a Chicago-based visual artist, curator, and educator. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including painting, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Documentation of Black Lunch Table
Photographs by J. Adams
On view until March 9 in the Classroom
Documentation from the weekend of May 20, 2024 when Chattanooga creatives participated in a Wiki-edit-a-thon, Artist Roundtable, and the People’s Roundtable organized by Black Lunch Table, an oral-history archiving project that creates space for people, art, Black studies, and social justice issues. Organized around literal and metaphorical lunch tables, Black Lunch Table takes the lunchroom phenomenon as its starting point. The Artists Roundtable, BLT's founding initiative, invited Black artists from Chattanooga's local communities to engage in dialogue with one another. At the People’s Table, Chattanooga community members participated in conversations around site-specific sociopolitical issues affecting historically disenfranchised populations.
V.3, R.2
Practise Makes Practice
On view until Feb 24 in the Library
What is the necessary process involved in using “graphic design” - a discipline characterized by its unique and intricate demands and roles - as a language of expression? How does the designer’s research, references and toolkit become intertwined with their practice, iterations of visual output and codification?
V.3, R.2 examines and presents the influences of the designer’s library combined with a micro examination of the common designer’s toolkit with a macro visual result. These assets are arranged to help viewers recognize how the use of form, color, texture, line, typography, and research repeat, intertwine, transform and expand. As a viewer steps back, they are invited to view the entirety of “process” as a completed work. As the viewer steps in closer, they are invited to interact with the printed matter on display and to appreciate the micro details of the design elements on their own.
Practise Makes Practice facilitates an innovative and inclusive design community through accessible programming, experiences, and collaborative events that highlight the relevance of design in all aspects of life. We fill the gap between traditional design education and the unlimited potential of design practice, resulting in a vibrant, diverse, and creative design culture.