UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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The Land, the Environment, and the African Diaspora (Upper Gallery)
january 29 - april 26, 2024
This spring 2024 semester, we are proud to announce we will present a student art
exhibition titled, The Land, the Environment and the African Diaspora. This exhibition is a partnership with theThe Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology The Hampton-Pinder Center for Agroecology serves to provide an interdsciplinary space
and think tank for training, developing, and building a sustainable future for Black
regenerative farmers and land stewards.
Florida A&M University is a land grant university established in in 1887 and in 1891
received funding from the Morrill Act establishing it as an agricultural and mechanical
arts college.
This exhibition will examine the themes around the environment and agroecology, (which
includes our human production and consumption practices), and how these essential
elements of our world impact us culturally, historically, socially, and many other
ways. Participating students were invited to share their artwork focusing on their
relationship with the land, the environment, and the African Diaspora.
Graduating Spring Senior Art Exhibition
APRIL 1 - APRIL 26, 2024
Opening reception Thursday, April 4, 2024
This April we will present our Graduating Senior Art Exhibition. Stay tuned when we announce our class of 2024 art graduates and their respective
senior art capstone exhibitions!
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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The Faculty Art Exhibition (Main Galleries)
Florentine Sketchbook (Lower Gallery exhibit)
The Gallery Members' Exhibit (Lower Gallery exhibit)
september 11 - december 8, 2023
We are proud to present the Faculty Art Exhibition, featuring a brilliant array of former and current FAMU art and architecture faculty’s
works of art. The Faculty Art Exhibition will be on view from September 11 through December 8, 2023.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception, Thursday, September 14, 5:30
– 7:30 PM.
The Faculty Art Exhibition celebrates the achievements of the featured faculty and recognizes the history of
the art program and its current and past faculty. Featured faculty are Kabuya Bowens-Saffo,
Valerie Goodwin, Nan Liu, Anthony Hayes, Nasab Maxim, and Harris Wiltsher.
We are also presenting two smaller exhibits during this time in the lower galleries.
The two smaller exhibits are firsts for our gallery. The First Annual Members’ Exhibit features the artwork of Foster-Tanner Art Gallery members. As the title suggests,
the Members’ Exhibit will continue each year featuring our growing number of member
artists. The second exhibit is Florentine Sketchbook, a collection of studies and personal work created by FAMU art student Haley Wilson
(c/o 2024) during her study in Florence, Italy in 2022.
The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM, and is free and open to the
public.
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Graduating Senior Art Exhibition | SPRING 2023
Featuring Kala Way and Jude Jones
APRIL 3 - APRIL 28, 2023
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Nearly each semester, the FAMU Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery presents the Graduting Senior Art Exhibition. This exhibition features the capstone art series of program graduates. This spring,
we are proud to present Visual Art seniors Kala Way (Jacksonville, Fla) and Jude Jones
(Washington, D.C.) April 3 - April 28, 2023 in the gallery. Way and Jones are exhibiting their respective series, Outside the Garden and REM Diaries in the Lower-Level Gallery.
Way said her paintings in Outside the Garden, "highlights the impact that Adam and Eve's sin have on gender roles." Jones' REM Diaries series examines the persona within her dreams and invites the viewer to reconsider
how they process their own subconscious thoughts and emotions.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception, Thursday, April 6, from 5 p.m.
- 7 p.m. Way and Jones will present an art talk about their paintings, starting at
5:30 p.m.
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Elevation from Within: Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
january 23 - may 5, 2023
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Elevation from Within: Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities presents a historically and culturally impressive selection of original works of art
by Black artists spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Elevation from Within is curated
by Dr. Leo Twiggs. A native of St. Stephen, South Carolina and Claflin University
alumnus (1956). Elevation from Within pays homage to HBCU alumni and professors whose educational backgrounds chronicle
a vital chapter of American history and whose aesthetic achievements have made an
indelible mark on this nation’s art.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have served as stewards of visual
art by Black artists since the early 20th century. This curated collection features works drawn from the Johnson Collection’s
holdings of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture. On view are works by 20th-
and 21st-century artists John Biggers, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron
Douglas, James Herring, James Porter, Alma Thomas, Leo Twiggs, Charles White, Ellis
Wilson, Benny Andrews, and Hale Woodruff.
This exhibition speaks both to and of the curator's own experiences. Twiggs stated,
“For African Americans living in a segregated society, the sources for our creative
expression came from within. Our hardships are expressed in our blues, our many moods
in our jazz, and our relationship to God in our spirituals. Painting, sculpture, and
dance became a way to express all of it visually.” “My paintings always express my
personal journey. It is only through the humanity of the personal that expression
is elevated to the universal.”
The Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission
is free and open to the public.
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With Roots Deep, Foliage Thrives: A Vision of Chinese Artists in American Academia
november 8 - december 2, 2022
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This exhibition presents a survey on the artworks created by a group Chinese artists
teaching in American universities. The project Across the Divide is a platform where this group of artists and scholars meet with their counterparts
in American universities creativein sharing their research and academic experiences. Through organized exhibitions,
symposiums, and international exchange activities, this group of artists has created
an Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia, and call for participation
from its members across the country in sharing their artistic experiences in both
academic teaching and personal creativities. Reflecting their heritages rooted in
the richness of thousands of years of Chinese history and artistic traditions, these
artists strive to bring the East and the West closer not only through their teaching
engagements, but also in exhibitions as a form of representation in open dialogues
with general publics.
Featured Artists: Xun Chi I Xia Gao I Yu Ji l Lin Xia Jiang l JunCheng Liu l Nan Liu l Qing Liu l Aihua Z. Pearce l Joe Ren l Xuhong Shang l Liqin Tan l Howard Tran l Peter Tong Xiao l Rebecca Ruige Xu l Shencheng Xu l Renqian Yang l Li Zhang l Naijun Zhang l Weimin Zhang l Xiaohong Zhang l Kio Zhu l Yingxue Zuo
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IN WHAT WE SEE: A Printmaker's Response
SEPTEMBER 13 - OCTOBER 29, 2022
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We are excited to announce our first exhibition of the fall 2022 semester. IN WHAT WE SEE: A Printmaker's Response features 12 contemporary Black printmakers and some of their most recent work. Curated
by FAMU Professor of Art and printmaker, Harris Wiltsher, this exhibition seeks to
show the dynamism of print media through the eyes of African and African American
printmakers.
Curator’s Statement: Printmaking, an ever-evolving media, has a long tradition of printmakers of color
like Bob Blackburn, John Muafangejo, Elizabeth Catlett, Leon Hicks, Howard Smith,
Dox Thrash and others. In this quest, this exhibition seeks to uncover the artist’s
perspective of the world around them through technique and context. These artists
are unique in their approach of printmaking, lending to opening the “eyes” and soul
of the viewer. Eyes are said to be the “windows of the soul” thereby these same eyes
of an art maker capture the essence of what surrounds them daily.
Featured Artists: Chloe Alexander, Jamaal Barber, Ricky Dyaloyi, Kenneth Falana, Justyne Fischer, Latoya
Hobbs, Robin Holder, Tenjin Ikeda, Soloman Isekeije, Tracy Murrell, Carl Richardson,
and Harris Wiltsher
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Unlimited, Unbound: Selections from FAMU Affiliated Artists
june 1 - july 1, 2022
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The Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery proudly presents artworks created by FAMU affiliated
artists in Unlimited, Unbound (i.e., faculty, alumni, and current students) in our June exhibition. It is an integral
aspect of the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery to feature FAMU-affiliated artists who
have contributed much to the goals and mission of the visual art program over the
years and inspired generations of artists.
Unlimited, Unbound exemplifies the extensive art styles coming out of the FAMU visual art program and
the seven featured affiliated artists. Featuring paintings, mixed media, printmaking,
and Chinese brush drawings, the exhibition also showcases everyday figurative subject
matter and abstract works of cultural and historical relevance.
The FAMU Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery serves as a teaching gallery whereby our
primary goal is to provide an environment for students of all disciplines and visitors
of all backgrounds to encounter various visual art mediums, styles, themes, and topics
welcoming them to explore the full range of what the visual arts provide: critical
thinking, cultural concepts and criticisms, aesthetics and so much more. We cordially
invite you to visit and view the artworks from the minds and hearts of our FAMU artists
for the month of June.
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