{"id":39307,"date":"2025-09-04T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39307"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:31:40","slug":"furman-department-of-art-announces-2025-26-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-department-of-art-announces-2025-26-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Department of Art announces 2025-26 exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Work by Atefeh Farajolahzadeh<\/p><\/div>\n

Atefeh Farajolahzadeh and Megan Young, \u201cOut of Time, In Place\u201d
\nOngoing through Friday, Sept. 19
\nFriday, Sept. 5, 5 p.m., gallery tour, artist talk and opening reception.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Textile art by Quinn Hunter<\/p><\/div>\n

Quinn Hunter, \u201cParadise\u201d
\nMonday, Sept. 29, through Friday, Oct. 31
\nThursday, Oct.16, 5 p.m., opening reception<\/p>\n

An exhibition that focuses on the systematic destruction of Black urban space in the mid-20th<\/sup> century United States, specifically Detroit\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Andrew O\u2019Brien, \u201cStringer\u2019s Ridge\u201d
\nMonday, Nov. 10, through Friday, Dec. 12
\nThursday, Nov. 13, 5 p.m., opening reception<\/p>\n

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\u2019Brien creates scent-based sculptures and photographs that examine ecological complexity, invasive species and the layered transformation of our region\u2019s forests and other natural landscapes.<\/p>\n

Jessica Lambert\u2019s \u201cSportsball\u201d
\nMonday, Jan. 12, through Friday, Feb. 13
\nThursday, Jan. 29, 5 p.m., opening reception
\nFriday, Jan. 30, performance, time TBA<\/p>\n

AiR Exhibition, Alexa Wheeler
\nThursday, Feb.19, through Friday, March 27
\nOpening reception to be announced<\/p>\n

Senior Exhibition
\nMonday, April 6, through Saturday, May 9
\nFriday, April 10, 6-8 p.m., opening reception<\/p>\n

For more information, please contact the Furman Department of Art\u2019s Sarah Archino at 864-294-2950, and sarah.archino@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Art hosts six exhibitions in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building. All exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":39308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39313,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions\/39313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}