2007 Past Exhibits

June 5 – July 29, 2007
Borderlands Gallery

Featured thought-provoking bone, wood, and stone sculptures by Chattanooga artist John McLeod that emphasized the importance of emotional and spiritual awareness. This exhibition highlighted issues relating to human-animal interactions, inviting viewers to consider their relationship to other living beings on earth.

June 2 – September 16, 2007
Special Exhibition Gallery

This exhibit explored a wide range of objects gathered from Southern collections including beadwork, leather, quillwork, pottery, and basketry. While viewing these outstanding works of art visitors were encouraged to ponder their intended uses, who the makers were, and why they were so elaborately decorated.

May 1 – July 22, 2007
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

This exhibition featured Western, Civil War and Presidential sketches and completed illustrations by Jack Davis spanning his 60 year career. Davis’ work has appeared in MAD Magazine, DC Comics, Life, Esquire, True West, Frontier Times, Ebony, and Time, including many covers. He also illustrated movie posters, bubble gum cards, display advertising, and music albums.

April 10 – June 3, 2007
Borderlands Gallery

Visitors explored Maier’s series of vibrant, impressionistic watercolors of the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Many of the works were painted on location. These evocative landscapes seek to transport you to the American Southwest.

April 10 – June 3, 2007
Borderlands Gallery

Visitors enjoyed the warm glass designs inspired by the things Nicholson sees, feels and touches in her everyday life. A graduate of the Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Dale Chihuly, Nicholson draws on her Latina roots and the natural beauty around her as inspiration to create expressions in glass.

March 3 – May 13, 2007
Special Exhibition Gallery

This exhibition presented 66 action portraits of young cowboys and cowgirls by Santa Fe photographer Gene Peach. Many people assume, as did Peach, that “the cowboy was a relic of the past.” This exhibition dispelled that belief and other myths and stereotypes associated with ranching and rodeo culture and provided light on this enduring and authentic way of life through the lives of children.

March 3 – May 13, 2007
Special Exhibition Gallery

Steve Fitch spent a decade driving across the American Great Plains, stopping along the way to photograph the interiors of abandoned buildings – churches, schools, dance halls, and homes. Using a large-format view camera, Fitch captured the interiors of structures in Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

February 13 – April 8, 2007
Borderlands Gallery

Inspired by Will James and John Steuart Curry, Georgia sculptor Gerry Wempner creates playful works of horses, deer, antelope, and other wildlife. These bronzes evoke thoughts of Americana and the wide-open spaces of the West Wempner observes on his frequent trips to Montana.

February 13 – April 8, 2007
Borderlands Gallery

Georgia artist Keith Rasmussen created lithographs using a multicolor printing process that required each color to be applied separately. He interpreted the canyons, deserts and rock formations of the West, capturing its physical essence and atmospheric effects.

February 6 – April 29, 2007
Theatre Lobby Gallery

Arizona photographer Jay Dusard’s images of contemporary western cowboys, horses, and landscapes are meticulously printed. The exhibition featured 18 images, some are as large as 4′ x 8′, and many of them never seen before. Dusard draws his inspiration from the work of Ansel Adams and Frederick Sommer.