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The Gullah Journey: West Africa to Mexico

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present The Gullah Journey: West Africa to Mexico curated by Jorge Baldor, historian, art collector, and founder of the Latino Arts Project. The densely layered exhibition Baldor has organized centers on the centuries-long journey of the Gullah-Muscogo people and their culture – from West Africa to South Carolina enslavement, then escape to Spanish Florida and intermingling with the indigenous Seminole Nation, to forced resettlement in Oklahoma, and finally to freedom and the founding of the town of Nacimiento de los Negros, Mexico.

Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present an exhibition that explores how we raise awareness about and characterize the artwork of conflicted artists of the Asian diaspora who never produced overt “conflict art.” This traveling exhibition features three little-researched diasporic painters — Chao Shao-an (1905-1998), Keisho Okayama (1934-2018), and Ann Phong (1957-) — brought together through their unusual approaches to painting shared experiences of conflict in Asia.

 Paper Trails: Cecelia Feld, Jessica Drenk and Rachel Livedalen 

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 The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Paper Trails, a three-person exhibition featuring artists Cecelia Feld (Dallas), Jessica Drenk (Rush, NY) and Rachel Livedalen (Fort Worth). The exhibition curated by Gallery Director Dr. August Jordan Davis and Visual Resources Curator Lilia Kudelia focuses on how each artist engages with the materiality of paper and books in their artworks, often to unexpected ends. 

Pauline Hudel Smith: A Celebration of Life and Art

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The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition honoring the life and creativity of longtime faculty member, Pauline Hudel Smith, who died in 2024 after a battle with cancer. Organized by colleagues, friends, and family members, the exhibition displays over 100 sculptural and mixed media works along with graphic design and illustration posters created throughout her long career, ranging from 1980 to 2020. Many of her early works have rarely been seen and attest to her creative design and conceptual process, setting the stage for her later award-winning commercial graphic designs.