UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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Appalachian Remix: Hip Hop Album Art by Regional Artists ( November 3 - December 5)
Appalachian Remix: Hip hop Album Art by Regional Artists
The Reece Museum is calling for Appalachian artists to participate in an upcoming exhibition exploring hip hop visual culture. The museum is requesting artists to create album cover art inspired by their favorite hip hop albums.
Any media is acceptable
Artwork submitted can be any size but should be in square format.
Submissions due by October 17.
How to submit: Send an email to brenner@etsu.eduwith the artwork as an attachment and the following information:
First and Last Name:
City (home location):
Media:
Artist/album re-created:
(Optional): Artist Statement and/or Bio:
You will be notified by Reece staff if your work has been accepted for the exhibition. If your work is accepted, staff will print a high quality, digital version to be mounted and displayed in the Hallway Gallery from November 3 through December 5, 2025.
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WONDERLANDS (January 12 - May 22)
WONDERLANDS, an exhibition by Tema Stauffer, explores the strange and potent intersection of tourism, recreation, and escapism with natural beauty, religion, and folklore in Southern Appalachia. The title of the series draws inspiration from novelist Charles Baxter’s collection of essays about the craft of fiction, WONDERLANDS: Essays on the Life of Literature, in which he describes settings that reflect a heightened psychological atmosphere in literary works. In Baxter’s words, “Wonderlands are caused by, or are expressive of, emotional instability, estrangement, fantasy, and solitude.” The series of photographs focuses on settings that evoke characteristics of wonderlands in this region. Roadside motels and structures, religious iconography, relics, and verdant landscapes create a psychic experience that is at once eerily still and emotionally charged.
Tema Stauffer is a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscape of American spaces. Her work has been exhibited at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery, and Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, as well as galleries and institutions nationally and internationally including a survey of Contemporary U.S. Photography at the Houston Fotofest 2010 Biennial. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at East Tennessee State University and has previously taught at Concordia University in Montreal, Ramapo College of New Jersey, College of Staten Island, School at ICP, William Paterson University, and Toxico Cultura in Mexico City. She was awarded an AOL 25 for 25 Grant for innovation in the arts in 2010 for her combined work as an artist, curator, and writer. She has contributed articles to PDNedu, American Photo Magazine, Ciel variable, Culturehall, and other publications. She has published two monographs, UPSTATE (2018) and SOUTHERN FICTION (2022) with Daylight Books.
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Through the Light: Sculptural Works by Molly Sawyer (January 19 - April 3)
Through the Light: Sculptural Works by Molly Sawyer is a crossdisciplinary exhibition that weighs the ominous nature of our human dilemma against that of peaceful, and sometimes, playful intention.
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Molly Sawyer is an Asheville, NC based artist whose materials-based, contemporary work bridges painting, sculpture and installation art. In the forefront of her practice are gathered and salvaged materials, selected with emphasis on reduction of carbon footprint. Her experimental combinations of these with fiber and paper further Sawyer’s investigation of a narrative describing the balance of forces in nature with the human condition. As one’s trash is another’s treasure, Sawyer states of her practice, “By collecting materials which have had one or more lives already, I am giving credence to their narratives which have been developed through handling, weathering and age.”