Top Five Exhibitions We Can't WAIT to See in Columbus, GA This Spring
- TheColumbusite
- Jan 17
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 23
One: Women of the Pacific Northwest at The Bo Bartlett Center, January 18 - April 26
This exhibition highlights female artists whose work is rooted in material exploration within the tradition of Northwest influences and how environment shapes visual vocabularies and concepts. The exhibition, curated by Betsy Eby, challenges the way the viewer sees and experiences art by featuring works rooted by fellow female artists from Eby's native region of the Pacific Northwest. The artist panel discussion for this exhibition will take place on February 5th at 5:30PM with a public opening reception following immediately at 6:30PM.
*Publishing later this month: Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with Eby with further details about the exhibition, artists chosen, and why.
Two: Infinite Poem: Jewish Placemaking in the Deep South | Photographs by Emily Williams at The Do Good Fund Gallery,
This exhibition of photographs and oral histories is an exploration of identity and place - both literal and metaphorical - in small Jewish communities in the Deep South. Faced simultaneously with antisemitism and both pressure and opportunity to assimilate into whiteness, this work seeks to understand how Jewish communities have preserved traditions while forging their own unique identity in places that are often perceived at the very edge of the diaspora.
Emily Williams is a Pennsylvania-based artist investigating communal and individual memory, identity and placemaking through photography and oral history interviews. She holds an BA in fine arts and history from Haverford College and an MFA in photography from Louisiana State University. Her work has been supported by the Southern Jewish Historical Society, Texas Jewish Historical Society and Alabama Folklife Association.
An artist talk featuring Emily Williams in conversation with author and artist Andrew Feiler will take place on Thursday, January 23 at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Three: *Art Bridges Partner Network: American Art from the 1920s and 1930s at The Columbus Museum, Now through September 14, 2025
*Generously lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York as part of the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership.
The Columbus Museum was selected as a participant in the Art Bridges Partner Loan Network program with seven unique loans of American art from the 1920s and 1930s. The sculpture and six paintings are owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Art Bridges, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, exists to expand access to American art and to inspire institutions to open their vaults and share important works. The organization covers costs for packing and shipping as well as for educational programs centered around the borrowed objects.
For this generous year-long loan, The Columbus Museum has incorporated the pieces on loan from MoMA into the permanent collection galleries. Visitors have the opportunity to discover new works by familiar artists like Milton Avery and Stuart Davis. Fresh visual juxtapositions with “conversation partners” in the galleries have been designed to offer new insights and interpretations for old favorites at the Museum. What's more? Another group of loans from MoMA and Art Bridges will debut at the Museum this summer! Stay tuned for more information and in the meantime, don't miss an opportunity to see these rare pieces from MoMA in person.
Four: Eye of the Blackbird at The Bo Bartlett Center, January 18 - April 26
Inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, this exhibition is dedicated to artists for whom looking is inseparable from thinking. In each case, the eye is an agile organ capable of enabling both intellectual depth and emotional precision.
Be sure to come to the joint opening public reception on February 5th at 6:30pm!
Five: ARTSFEST Student Exhibition at Arts in the Park, April 27 12PM-5PM
ARTSFEST is returning this year! Columbus, Georgia's month-long festival of the arts will run April 1-30, 2025 with a special community-wide celebration happening at Arts in the Park on April 27 from 12PM-5PM at Lakebottom Park in Midtown.
This year's curated exhibition will feature the work of local students hand selected by a panel of professional artists, educators and curators. Stay tuned for more information! ◾️
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