In a new multiroom installation, artist Andrea Chung confronts the legacy and trauma of slavery from the perspective of an Afrofuturist utopia. For this work, Chung activates the possibility of a new world, a “Black Atlantis” called Drexciya, to subvert the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Drexciya is an underwater world populated by the […]

Otis Houston Jr. (born 1954) is best known for his public performances and installation work on FDR Drive by New York’s East River, where he has been working since 1997. His site-specific installations and performances include writing, poetry, singing, found objects, and fruit, which are used as both props and materials. A series of spray-painted towels […]

The annual Youth Art Month exhibition showcases exceptional student artwork from Sheboygan County and beyond. Elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as other youth-serving organizations, are featured in this year’s show. Visitors will see the many ways that students have interpreted the works of environment builders and contemporary artists found in the Arts Center’s […]

In ancient Persian literature, the adjective ماه طلعت (moon-faced) was used to describe the beauty of an individual, regardless of their gender identity. Today, the word refers to the beauty of women only. A similar shift in gender representation occurred in Persian visual culture—as evidenced in portrait paintings of Iran’s Qajar dynasty (1786–1925)—when Western modernization, […]