Furman Department of Art announces 2025-26 exhibitions

The Furman University Department of Art has announced exhibitions for the 2025-2026 academic year. All exhibitions are free and open to the public and take place in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building on campus. Thompson Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Work by Atefeh Farajolahzadeh

Atefeh Farajolahzadeh and Megan Young, “Out of Time, In Place”
Ongoing through Friday, Sept. 19
Friday, Sept. 5, 5 p.m., gallery tour, artist talk and opening reception.

A multimedia exhibition of textiles, video, sound and animation that explores the memory and material of human migration. The artists build an abstract sensory landscape based on their own lived experiences and, by layering theses narratives with fragmented materials from their personal archives, show how bodies can become vessels for carrying forward complex histories across time, space and generational experience.

Textile art by Quinn Hunter

Quinn Hunter, “Paradise”
Monday, Sept. 29, through Friday, Oct. 31
Thursday, Oct.16, 5 p.m., opening reception

An exhibition that focuses on the systematic destruction of Black urban space in the mid-20^th century United States, specifically Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Hunter creates woven tapestries based on archival photographs of these locations, which she then dismantles and reassembles. The resulting textiles layer history, geography and social relations to honor resilience, imagine new futures and reflect on diasporic spaces.

Andrew O’Brien, “Stringer’s Ridge”
Monday, Nov. 10, through Friday, Dec. 12
Thursday, Nov. 13, 5 p.m., opening reception

A multimedia exhibition that investigates the hybrid ecosystems shaped by the non-native honeysuckle plant in the Southeastern United States. Drawing on history, environmental science, organic chemistry, and advanced imaging processes, O’Brien creates scent-based sculptures and photographs that examine ecological complexity, invasive species and the layered transformation of our region’s forests and other natural landscapes.

Jessica Lambert’s “Sportsball”
Monday, Jan. 12, through Friday, Feb. 13
Thursday, Jan. 29, 5 p.m., opening reception
Friday, Jan. 30, performance, time TBA

AiR Exhibition, Alexa Wheeler
Thursday, Feb.19, through Friday, March 27
Opening reception to be announced

Senior Exhibition
Monday, April 6, through Saturday, May 9
Friday, April 10, 6-8 p.m., opening reception

For more information, please contact the Furman Department of Art’s Sarah Archino at 864-294-2950, and [email protected].