Galleries closed for installation until April 10, 2026.
How do you tell the history of a society in crisis? What does it mean to transform sites of injustice into spaces for art? Join us for a conversation about the relationship between museums and prisons, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall and featuring Dr. Baz Dreisinger (who conceived the project together […]
Join us for the final open weekend of The Writing on the Wall at the Davenport Jail! Devon Simmons and Matthew Wilson, who have interpreted The Writing on the Wall at previous iterations including The High Line in New York, will guide visitors through the installation. Dr. Baz Dreisinger, who conceived the project together with […]
Join us on November 1 for a conversation between Lisa Dent, Elissa Blount Moorhead, and Maori Karmael Holmes about the problems and potentials of art institutions in the United States. The conversation will be mediated by Dr. Gina Dent. Art institutions have struggled with issues of inclusion and have often failed to serve communities of color. […]
How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism outside of constricted paradigms of exceptionalism and the structures of the nation-state? What can be learned about the global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession through critical analysis of the historical and present struggles in Palestine? At this event, author and […]
