Select Past Exhibitions

Reece Museum

2026
- Wonderlands by Tema Stauffer
- Through the Light: Sculptural Works by Molly Sawyer
- Rising Sun: The Musical Legacy of Clarence Tom Ashley
- Decades of Dress: The Collection of Mrs. Louise St. John Taylor
- From the Collection: Celebrating Women's Art
- Spring 2026 BFA Senior Exhibition
- New Apparitions Stalk the Earth
- America the Beautiful
2025
- Pat Mink: Layered
- Layered Influence: Select Works from Students of Pat Mink
- From Africa to Appalachia: The Tie that Binds
- Spring 2025 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Tennessee Holocaust Commission: Selections from Three Traveling Exhibitions
- Memory to Materials & Objects
- Bound & Threaded Stories: Teen Renaissance Camp
- Vintage Charm: The Collecting Legacy of Blue Ridge Pottery
- The Place Speaks: Sacred and Artistic Genealogies of Appalachia
- Spotlight on Old-time
- Exploring the Culture: Hip Hop in Appalachia
2024
- Rappalachian Soundbox: A Retrospective
- StoreHouse of Knowledge: Recent acquisitions to the Reece Museum Collection
- View from West Poplar Street to Gilmer Park
- Embodying Culture: Women in Appalachia
- Spring 2024 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Appalachia and Yemen: Living in Mountain Spaces
- Fire, Earth & Life
- Tag the Reece: Graffiti in the Museum
- Botanical Journeys
- Stitch Together: The Social Seamstress in Southern Appalachia
- Tennessee Visionary: The Art of Paul Lancaster
- CASS 40th
- 12th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
- Harmon Pottery
2023
- Southern Fiction: Photographs by Tema Stauffer
- Mr. December: The Life, Art, & Experience of William Nealy…
- Spring 2023 BFA Senior Exhibition
- An Exuberant Spirit: The Sammie L. Nicely Collection
- Innerworkings
- Reece Galaxy: Art in Space
- Gov' Hub: Appalachian Patchwork
- Figuratively Speaking
- Ballet in Appalachia
- 11th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
2022
- Appalachian Dream Mechanics: Twenty Years of Art by JJ Cromer
- Rare Mileage: Train Collections at ETSU
- A Campus Treasure Chest: The History of the Reece Museum
- Spring 2022 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic
- Women's Rights Are Human Rights
- (MUSE)um: Photographing the Reece Museum Permanent Collection
- Tune in on My Memories: The Work and Play of Richard Blaustein
- Reece Grove: A Mixed Media Experience
- Gov' Hub: Blighted Pine: Appalachian Ancestors
- 10th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
- Appalachian Environmental Oral Histories
- Old Deery Inn & Museum: Tennessee Antiquities & The Social Life of Stories
2021
- Contemporary Culture Makers
- Field of Life: Monument Structures
- Depth of Fields
- Spring 2021 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Folly: recent work by Christian Rieben
- Moments of Illumination
- Archives of Appalachia Film Series
- Gov' Hub
- Sustained Melodies
- Illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy
- FLEX: Recent work by full-time Department of Art & Design Faculty
- Al Norte al Sur: Latino Life in the South
- 9th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
2020
- Hurricane Season: Selected Works of Art Rosenbaum
- In Begleitung / In Accompaniment
- Nichola Raynolds MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Jubilant Thicket: A Survey of the Black Mountain Poets
- From the Collection
- Suffrage in Southern Appalachia
- 8th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
2019
- Johnson City Collects: Recent acquisitions to the Reece Museum’s Collection
- Tangibility of Faith: Art and Religion in Appalachia and Tennessee
- A Place for All People
- Spring 2019 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Lydia Wilson Memorial Exhibition
- EPIDEMIC
- A Journey
- Underwater World: A Fibers Exhibition Experience
- Textile Traditions of Mountain South: Fiber Arts of the Overmountain Weavers Guild
- The Tri-City Beverage Story: A History of Dr.Enuf & Mountain Dew
- Fragments of Memory
- 7th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
- Johnson City: Then & Now
2018
- Along the Horizon: Contemporary Drawing in Tennessee
- Finite Disappointment / Infinite Hope
- Spring 2018 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Salvador Dali and the Divine Comedy Part III: Paradise
- Find the Pattern and Break It
- On the Radio: The Poetry of Carl Sandburg
- New Developments
- Renewal
- Handmade Here
- Personal Impressions
- Self-Taught Art by Any of Its Names
- The World through a Woman’s Eyes
- AIDS Memorial Quilt
- The Shoreline Project
- 6th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
- Upstate: Tema Stauffer
2017
- Parting Shots: Photographs by Mike Smith
- Somewhere Along the Line: Photographs by Joshua Dudley Greer
- Under the Influence
- MFA Group Show
- Spring 2017 BFA Senior Exhibition
- Salvador Dali & the Divine Comedy: Part II, Purgatory
- Elephants in the Reece
- Indirect Measure: Sculpture by Nicholas Boismenu
- Revisiting World War I: One Hundred Years Later
- Summer Craft 2017
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- Paper and Ink: Prints/Drawings/Installations
- 5th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
- New Subjectivity: Figurative Painters After 2000
2016
- Reading Appalachia: Voices from Children’s Literature
- Art by the Exceptional Child: Revisited
- Digital Dialectic
- Between You & Me: an installation by Vanessa Mayoraz
- Elsewhere: Master of Fine Arts Exhibition by Amber Law
- Imprint: a video art installation by Travis Graves
- Synonyms of Experience: MFA Group Exhibition
- Salvador Dali & the Divine Comedy, Part I: Inferno
- Johnson City Lady: The Mattie Mettetal Collection
- In My Den: The Winston Family Collection
- Shaping Lives: The Transformative Power of the Figure
- Governor’s School: Roots of Appalachia
- Best of Tennessee Craft
- New Mythologists: A Pook & Other Stories (David Mazure & the MMXIIII Collective)
- 4th Annual FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT: Socially & Politically Engaged Art
- Face It Reimagining Contemporary Portraits
- The Whatnot & Whimsy: Unique Riches from the Reece Collection
2015
- Textures from the Recce Collection
- The Magic of Mongolia
- EXUBERANCE! Kids Make Art About Art
- like daylight and dark (Amanda Richardson)
- Through the Fishbowl: MFA Group Exhibition
- Countdown to Kick OFF: A History of ETSU Football
- Patterns of Time and Place: Regional Textiles and the Appalachian Landscape
- The Religious Art of Clorinda Bell
- Rick Skaggs Photography
- From an African American Perspective
- Governor’s School: Follow the Tracks
- Victory From Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience
- Exploring Nature’s Forms: Porcelain and Raku by Lily Kusmik
- Paintings by Theresa Markiw
- Magnificent Magnavox
- 3rd Annual FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT: Socially & Politically Engaged Art
2014
- Wallflowers: Photographs of Clifford Maxwell
- Life in the City: The Art of Joseph Delaney
- ETSU Master of Fine Arts Group Exhibition
- Four Color Culture: Comic Books and American History, 1938-2014
- The Lovelies of John Alan Maxwell
- Caught in the Crossfire: The Journey of Three Appalachian Families through the Civil War
- Mountain Visions 2014: A Regional Juried Exhibition
- Governor's School Yahooo! Mountain Dew
- Tri-Cities Woodturners Association
- Mike Smith: Seeing Rural Appalachia
- Tennessee Craft: Northeast
- Exposed Spaces
- Unicoi’s Farm Heritage, 1945-2013: Seeds of the Past, Seeds of the Future
- John Steele: Paintings
- Tibetan Monks Sand Mandala
- Reece Museum’s Indigenous Artifacts
- 2nd Annual FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT: Socially & Politically Engaged
- The DeVault Tavern