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Multimedia

Martha Poggioli: Transmissions

Martha Poggioli explores the channels through which sounds and images move, across distance, through physical matter, and over time. For her newly-commissioned installation at the Fine Arts Center, Poggioli invites […]

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Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound

In Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound, each of the featured artists grapples with the possibilities and shortcomings contained in the official records of history. Beginning Sept. 12, Sofía Gallisa Muriente’s […]

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Open-Hearted

Open-Hearted examines the history, meaning, and contemporary realities of health care and well-being. Moving beyond the individualistic framework of “self-care,” the exhibition reframes wellness as a collective project—one that necessitates […]

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Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard

Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard counters the assumption that artistic production is bound to the studio, gallery, or museum. The exhibition explores artwork inspired by or […]

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Na Mira: Hotel

Hotel is the latest work in a series (Dust, 2022–ongoing)  inspired by Na Mira’s long-standing interest in the artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982), in which she pays […]

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Alisa Banks: Unerased

Alisa Banks (American, b. 1961) is a book, fiber, and multimedia artist whose work explores the links between contemporary culture, her Louisiana Creole heritage, and the African diaspora—including those of […]

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Senga Nengudi: Warp Trance

For more than five decades, Senga Nengudi has been making art about movement, ritual, and collectivity. A leading figure of the avant-garde, she has created work from diverse materials, from […]

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Sondra Perry: Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II

Sondra Perry’s Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II (2013) opens the FAC’s Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound series. The two-channel projection features two performers who dance in the corner […]

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Los Muros De Nuestra Comunidad (The Walls of Our Community)

This film tells the story of Arte Mestiza—a mural in the FAC’s collection—and the artist who created it, Emanuel Martinez. Los Muros De Nuestra Comunidad explores Martinez’s inspiration, the process […]

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Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation

Gathering Place is the first comprehensive reinstallation of the museum’s first-floor galleries in nearly a decade. This powerful new exhibition invites our community to explore the diverse histories, cultures, and […]

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