Upcoming Exhibitions

August 27 - December 7, 2024 

Don Russell Clayton Gallery and Malinda Jolley Mortin Gallery 

_{Image credit: Jeffrey Gibson (Native American, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and Cherokee), Round Dancing, edition 3/4, 2021. Screenprint on handmade elk hide drum. Image: Aaron Wessling Photography, Courtesy  Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.}

Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love presents a sweeping survey of over thirty-five objects spanning fifteen years. The exhibition includes prints, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and video. The inclusion of contemporary adornment in fashion is influenced by intertribal powwows as well as the dance clubs where Gibson found safe spaces as a teenager. The exhibition’s centerpiece is an expansive and immersive work titled To Name An Other—fifty-one printed elk hide drums and fifty wearable garments, which was originally commissioned as a performance by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in 2019. Born in Colorado in 1972, Jeffrey Gibson is of Cherokee heritage and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. His vibrant work, which is represented in more than twenty permanent collections across the United States, is a call for Indigenous empowerment as well as queer visibility. Gibson has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art, London. Gibson is representing the United States at the Venice Biennale 2024—the first indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the American Pavilion. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University and curated by Ryan Hardesty, Executive Director. 

_{Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition and related education and outreach programs has been made possible by a grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.} 

_{The Zuckerman Museum of Art would like to acknowledge that it is built upon and surrounded by land belonging to the Cherokee people, both the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. We recognize that the Cherokee Nation was the original steward of this land prior to their forced removal. The land continues to carry the stories of the Cherokee people as well as the history of their survival and resistance. The Zuckerman Museum acknowledges and honors the resilience and cultural vibrancy of the Cherokee people, who continue to play a vital role in the United States today.}