Justin Randolph Thompson presents Surveying Gravity: A Mirror for Growing Contradictions, a research-driven, performance-based project exploring the remarkable life of the artist’s grandfather, former UMass chancellor Randolph W. Bromery. Bromery was a Tuskegee Airman, geophysicist, and jazz musician whose life bridged art, science, and service. In 2020, UMass renamed the building originally called the Fine Arts Center in Bromery’s honor.
Anita S. Hunt presents a synthesis of old and new pieces — prints, drawings, books, collages, assemblages, and paper sculptures — that remix her extensive printmaking archive into new two- and three-dimensional compositions.
Álvaro Alejandro López, a photographer based in Mexico City, presents a series of digital photographs that explore our physical and imagined relationships with books. De Natura Libris invites viewers to consider the book as both an object and a kind of living score — one that each reader brings to life through their own interpretation.
Athena LaTocha’s practice is rooted in an emotional and sensorial response to place, grounded in rigorous research into the geography, history, and cultures embedded within each site.
Between Earth and Sky: Artists in Dialogue with the Land presents works from the museum’s permanent collection that examine the American landscape as a foundation for artistic practice.