Crafting Material Visions
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Fri, Feb 5, 2027 - Sun, May 9, 2027
Location
Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway
Details
Through These Hands: Crafting Material Visions features the work of four Tennessee-based artists whose innovate creative practices engage with Black craft traditions: Brittney Boyd Bullock, Samuel Dunson, Desmond Lewis, and Althea Murphy-Price. Together, they formulate material languages that integrate personal narratives with cultural memory to express distinctive visions. The exhibition consists of more than 20 works, including sculptures, textile assemblages, 3D-printed forms, repurposed furniture, and more. As part of the Crafting Blackness research initiative, led by Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Through These Hands seeks to expand how craft and Black creative labor are understood within American art history. By foregrounding innovative craft practices and the artists who sustain them, this exhibition repositions craft as a vital and evolving field within contemporary art.