Traveling Exhibitions
The Gadsden Arts Center & Museum is committed to providing access to its collections through the loan of art objects to AAM accredited museums for educational purposes. The Museum’s Permanent Collection mainly represents Southeastern American Art, with emphasis on Southern Vernacular Art and Folk Art. Loans of art objects to qualified institutions for exhibition are an essential part of Gadsden Arts’ mission to foster understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and to enhance arts education, provide cultural opportunities, and to offer a depth of cultural and historical content to serve people of all ages.
For more information about the traveling exhibitions available for loan from Gadsden Arts, contact Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, (850) 627-5021.
Available Exhibitions
EDDY MUMMA: Compelled to Create
Compelled to Create presents the spirit-infused work by “Mr. Eddy” Mumma (1908-1986), an individual who was driven to create hundreds of works of unique and powerful art. This exhibition explores the amazing tale of how, upon Mumma’s death, his work was rescued by a dedicated art collector, and ended up in the collections across the United States including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the American Visionary Art Museum.
Mose T: An Alabama Legend
An exhibition curated from the Gadsden Arts Center & Museum’s Permanent Collection, Mose T: An Alabama Legend explores the imaginative career of Mose Tolliver, one of the first southern Black artists to be exhibited at a national level. This exhibition explores the range of Mose T’s work, starting with his earliest work from the 1970s, demonstrating an artist who is working to discover his voice.
RESOLUTE: The Thornton Dial Legacy
Thornton Dial, Sr. (1928-2016), and those within his sphere of influence, all hailed from rural Alabama and came of age during, or directly after, the Civil Rights Movement. Resolute, an exhibition curated by the Gadsden Arts Center & Museum from its Permanent Collection, explores the legacy left behind by Dial, Sr. and his impact on the artists Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Arthur Dial, and Thornton Dial, Jr.