For the first time in the presentation of Western expedition art, this exhibition compares and juxtaposes the different cultural and aesthetic perspectives of 19th-century artists in the exploration of the American West.   The West Was All Before Them includes images of landscapes, indigenous people, and frontier animals as seen by Lewis and Clark and other early military and independent expedition artists and compares them with the political, sublime and majestic images by later, major 19th-century artists and photographers such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, William Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. Consisting of approximately 100 works of art and original artifacts, this exhibition illustrates the artists' roles in introducing the American West to those unfamiliar with this region during the era of Westward Expansion.

This image of The Romance Makers is representative of the exhibition, as the loan of the artwork is under consideration.

The Democracy Workshop showcases key contemporary artists whose projects intervene in public space to amplify and engage the audience with crucial social issues. Sometimes subtle, but often controversial, these projects affect real social change because they cause people to see new perspectives on issues like the economy, health care, immigration, the war in Iraq, food, housing, and the environment. This exhibition is a survey of this new burgeoning sector within global contemporary art and contains a combination of documentation from public art projects as well as original works of art.

Beginning in late 2009, The Democracy Workshop highlights a larger national series of public art projects organized by the Provisions Library, Washington, DC.

The stories of the Underground Railroad are some of the most powerful in American history. Color in Freedom is an exhibition of 50 paintings, etchings and drawings by Joseph Holston created to capture the essence of the courage and determination required to escape, and to enhance understanding of the conditions of slavery and the powerful instinct toward freedom. The exhibition was created in four movements similar to a musical composition, and tracks the flow of events in the lives of those who traveled along the Underground Railroad.

Color in Freedom is organized by the Arts Program of the University of Maryland University College and includes a classroom educational component with multidisciplinary lesson plans and a virtual exhibition tour.