Zuckerman Museum of Art Fall Exhibits (wednesdays)

From the venue:

The Naturalist

August 25 - December 5, 2025

Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson

This exhibition features several distinct bodies of work exploring humanity’s intimate relationship with the natural world. More specifically, Wright’s works are a personal celebration and inquiry into her relationship with nature, the passing of time, and the value of human touch. Functioning as visual expressive elements, poetic texts play a central role and allow reflection on issues surrounding beauty, self, and belonging. Moving from the UK to the US in 1999, the artist states that she inhabits a space where identity and relationship to place are shaped by the push and pull of belonging and not belonging.

Lady Bug

An Installation by Jennifer Angus

August 26 - December 5, 2025

Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson

Created explicitly for the Don Russell Clayton Gallery, the large-scale installation Lady Bug celebrates pioneering women in entomology— the Madame Dragonfly, Moth Queen, and Termite Lady sound like superheroes of the DC comic book universe, but they are the pseudonyms of women entomologists Cynthia Longfield (1896-1991), Alice Balfour (1850-1936) and Margaret Collins (1922–1996). Other than clean air and water, insects which are the primary material of Angus’ installations, are ground zero for human survival on our planet. Her works often explore issues related to the environment and the vital role insects play within it, encouraging individuals to raise awareness, advocate on issues, and build momentum toward collective change.

Project Wall North: Stephanie Smith

August 26, 2025 - July 24, 2026

 
The ZMA is pleased to present the work of printmaker Stephanie Smith. Smith is an Atlanta-based artist, printmaker, and educator who makes expressive hand-pulled prints and artist books. Her works, composed of both narrative and symbolic images, explore themes of memory, loss, time, chance, and change. Smith earned a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the University of Georgia. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West Georgia where she teaches printmaking in the School of Visual and Performing Arts and is the current manager of the UWG Vault Gallery in Newnan.

Ruth V. Zuckerman Collection: Inside Out

Long-term display located in the Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion

Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves

For the preservation of artwork, museums must often hold their permanent collections in storage rather than in public view. "Visible storage," maintains the necessary safe-keeping of the objects while allowing museum visitors to see and study work that would otherwise be unavailable. This installation employs visible storage to showcase a substantial number of Ruth Zuckerman's sculptures and drawings from the KSU Permanent Collection, while making aspects of a collection's care transparent for the public.

Project Wall West: Vadis Turner

August 26, 2025 - July 24, 2026

The ZMA is pleased to present a newly commissioned artwork by artist Vadis Turner. Turner has had solo exhibitions at the Frist Art Museum, the Huntsville Museum of Art, and the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2016, she
was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her work is included in numerous permanent collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, 21C Museum, and the Tennessee State Museum among others. She teaches at Vanderbilt University and is represented by Geary in Millerton, New York.

Project Wall East: Melissa Harshman

August 26, 2025 - July 24, 2026

The ZMA is pleased to present the work of Athens, Georgia based artist Melissa Harshman. For Maude, composed of numerous components of handmade paper floral forms, will be on view through July 24, 2026. She has taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. She was awarded a University of Georgia Senior Faculty Research Grant in 2019 titled Explorations in Papermaking. She was one of the inaugural Arts Lab Fellowship recipients from the University of Georgia for 2022/23, focusing on papermaking wall installations.