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Walter Hood: Arc of Life/Ark of Bones January 23 – July 7, 2024 Grand Gallery Arc of Life features oil paintings by MacArthur Fellow Walter Hood alongside his site-specific installation. The artist recalls growing up in a then-segregated Charlotte, North Carolina before living abroad and pursuing his education and career in an integrated world. Inspired by the Henry Dumas short story of the same name, Ark of Bones represents ancestral connections to Black Americans.

Radical Naturalism – Elizabeth M. Webb: a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo January 23 – July 7, 2024 Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Gallery

LEFT TO RIGHT: Walter Hood, (American, b. 1958), Hot Lanta, 2023, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the

artist. Elizabeth M. Webb, (American, b.1989), Lee County Stereo Views (Index 1), 2022, edition of 5, 1 AP, red clay soil print on Coventry Rag. Printed by the artist and master printer Laine Groeneweg at Smokestack Studios.

An artist and filmmaker, Elizabeth M. Webb parallels her process with John James Audubon etchings from Auburn’s collection. She researches maps and records of her ancestral land in Lee County— documents created by using trees and other natural landmarks to signify property lines. The result is a reflection on ownership, control and identity through prints, 16mm film projection and sculpture.

Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama January 23 – July 7, 2024 Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C With more than 30 objects on loan from private collections and cultural institutions, this group exhibition showcases four groundbreaking Alabama artists: Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett and Joe Minter. Together, their work chronicles Black America as observed from the Birmingham-Bessemer area— the brutality, the determination and the deeply-lived experiences.

Organized for Auburn by guest curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, PhD, the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Bethany Collins: Accord January 23 – July 7, 2024 Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth and Chi Omega Hargis Galleries

LEFT TO RIGHT: Bethany Collins, Moss Rose Waltz, 2023, graphite and charcoal on Somerset paper. Ronald Lockett,

England's Rose, 1997, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017.1.39 © Estate of Ronald Lockett / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Montgomery native Bethany Collins is a multidisciplinary artist who explores American history through language. In text assemblages, she foregrounds attempts to hide and forget the darkest chapters through the ways people write and speak about race. The exhibition also includes a new series where she molds architectural features from a historic Black church by combining paper and granite dust from a 1921 Stonewall Jackson monument removed from Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 1:30 p.m.

Free for Auburn students, faculty and staff · $25 for the general public Registration is required at aub.ie/art-forum Join us for an afternoon of one-on-one conversations between artists and scholars.

Bethany Collins, exhibiting artist, Accord; Janet Dees, The Block Museum, Northwestern University; Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States; Lonnie Holley, exhibiting artist, Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama; Walter Hood, exhibiting artist, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones; Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; Elizabeth M. Webb, exhibiting artist, a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo

Spring Fling Thursday, April 25 | 5:00 p.m.

Free for students, faculty and the general public Celebrate the museum’s 20th birthday and end the semester in style.

DON'T MISS THESE PROGRAMS · free and open to the public

Space is limited. Register at jcsm.auburn.edu.

SELF-CARE SATURDAYS | 10:30 a.m.

Enhance the mind-body connection with art COMMON GROUNDS | 6 p.m. on Thursdays A community-driven and accessible space to experience exhibitions

Tom Hammond (American, 1939–2020), TOP: Untitled (Revival in Progress), 1993, vitreograph.

BOTTOM: Magritte Kudzu, 1992, vitreograph. Gifts of Lynn Barstis Williams Katz to the Imprinting the South Collection.

CREATIVE CUBS | 9:30-10:30 a.m. on the first Wednesday of the month Storytime and artmaking for ages three to five

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Auburn adds to its art collection through charitable giving. To celebrate 100 years of sisterhood, alumni members of the Alpha Beta Chapter of Chi Omega gifted funds for a commissioned work by award-winning New Mexico artist Paula Castillo. Museum staff installed Demeter’s Harvest in the reflecting pool in October 2023. The artist incorporated sorority symbols, including the owl, white carnations and the patron goddess.

Donations such as these allow the museum to create memorable experiences in the arts for Auburn students, faculty, staff and constituents of the Southeast. Invest in the arts at Auburn at AuburnGiving.org/JULEWINTER24.

All giving levels are welcome. Want to discuss your passion for the arts? Contact Ellen Killough '92, development officer, at 850.258.9437.

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COVER: Elizabeth M. Webb, Boundary Exercise (On Perambulation) (film still), 2022, 16mm film loop, color, silent

264’ or one square chain or 7 min 20 sec.