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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

From the Deep

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson is the first solo exhibition by artist Ayana V. Jackson, marking her shift into immersive video, animation, and installation. Drawing inspiration from the mythic underwater world imagined by Detroit techno duo Drexciya, Jackson creates a feminist, Pan-African aquatopia inhabited by water spirits from African and Afro-Atlantic traditions.

Collaborating with designers and creatives across Africa and the diaspora, and filmed over 90 feet underwater, the exhibition blends costume, photography, sound, and film into a powerful journey through ancestral memory and myth.

Exhibition materials are available in four languages, and a forthcoming full-color catalog will include interviews between Jackson and curator Karen E. Milbourne, as well as essays by N’Goné Fall, Marta Moreno Vega, Ingrid LaFleur, and the late Greg Tate. The exhibition was organized by/originated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC and its tour is organized by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC.

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson will begin touring in Fall 2028, and the exhibition is now available for booking.

 

Please contact Isabelleb@ArtsandArtists.org for more information.

Goya’s Caprichos: Fantasy, Satire, and Artistic Innovation

Goya's Caprichos

Goya's Caprichos: Fantasy, Satire, and Artistic Innovation showcases the famous print series Los Caprichos (1799/1890) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, frequently celebrated as the last of the Old Masters and first of the Modern artists. Through 80 images, Goya records his impressions of societal follies and prejudices, providing astute commentary through visual storytelling.

Goya’s career spanned a complex and turbulent period in both Spanish and European history. He turned increasingly to drawing and printmaking, finding the graphic arts an ideal medium for recording his unvarnished observations of the world around him and exploring his imagination. Goya’s Caprichos encompass a wide range of themes, depicting incisive social satire alongside supernatural creatures whose activities mirror humans’. Caprichos is celebrated as a defining body of work by an artist whose creativity and vision pushed the techniques of the Old Masters into the modern era.

IA&A is pleased to bring this exhibition to our partners. Goya's Caprichos: Fantasy, Satire, and Artistic Innovation will begin touring winter 2027 and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact Nicoleb@ArtsandArtists.org for more information.

 

Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts’ Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839

Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839

"The gladdest moments, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands."

—Sir Richard Burton.

International Arts & Artists and Hallie Ford Museum Director, John Olbrantz, are extremely proud to present the first touring exhibition of the work of David Roberts, which continues to resonate for its technical and aesthetic excellence, as well as for its profound impact on history and culture. David Roberts (1796–1864) was a self-taught Scottish painter who rose from poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh to become one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, a member of the Royal Academy, and a painter whose works can be found in some of the most distinguished public and private collections in Europe and America. A highly ambitious and motivated artist who loved to travel, he is best known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia- a travelog illustrated with 247 hand-colored and tinted lithographs of Egypt and the Holy Land that he produced with lithographer Louis Haghe from sketches he made during a nine-month trip to the region in 1838–39.

Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838 - 1839 features sixty-two prints of Spain, Egypt, Syria, and the areas known as Nubia, Idumea, Arabia, and the Holy Land. All the works are generously on loan from the collectors, Ken and Linda Sheppard. In addition to the works on display, the exhibition is accompanied by a text panel, chat panels, maps, annotated labels with excerpts from Roberts’s Eastern Journal and other correspondence, Arabic and Middle Eastern music, and a full-color, clothbound book written by Olbrantz, with an introduction by collector Ken Sheppard. 

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its insight into David Roberts' artworks to our partners, Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839 will tour for four years, until late 2029 and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact Nicole Byers  for more information and for bookings.

 

Dancing With Life: Mexican Masks

Dancing With Life: Mexican Masks

Dancing with Life: Mexican Masks invites audiences to explore the rich festival culture of Mexico through historic and contemporary masks from the collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.  The exhibition centers the work of the mask makers and dancers themselves through written and recorded interviews, including bilingual Spanish and English texts. This approach invites visitors to appreciate danzas as expressions of contemporary living culture, in which symbols and scripts from pop culture and religious narratives coalesce into explorations of spiritual matters, political issues, and community life.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and curator, Dr. Pavel Shlossberg. Commonly referred to as the “MAC,” the museum preserves and cultivates the heritage of the Inland Northwest people through collections, exhibitions, and programs that bring their stories to life. Dr. Shlossberg is the associate dean in the School of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. As a young scholar, Pavel had the privilege to live with and learn from mask artists in Tocuaro, Michoacán, Mexico. His continuing collaboration with artists in Michoacán has shaped his work critiquing academic and museum approaches to framing and representing Mexican Indigenous masking practices in Mexico and internationally.

Please contact Isabelle Baldwin for more information and bookings.

 

Finding Queertopia: Self Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us

Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us

In a world that is constantly evolving, Finding Queertopia serves as a celebration of the diverse and resilient LGBTQ+ community, exploring the myriad of ways individuals navigate the path to self-realization within the context of their surroundings. The exhibition brings together work by more than 20 artists to collectively explore the multifaceted dimensions of queer identity, tracing the intersections of personal growth, societal acceptance, and the significance of physical and metaphorical spaces.

Home, once oppressive or transient, transforms into a site of radical self-discovery—a refuge for free expression and a hub for forging connections with chosen family. Beyond domestic realms, queer people find home in the spaces that provide safety, validation and a sense of belonging: queering a space by inhabiting it. 

Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us begins with an introspective exploration of the self, featuring thought-provoking artworks that encapsulate the essence of self-discovery. Visitors will encounter pieces that delve into the struggles, triumphs, and transformations that mark the journey of queer individuals as they navigate their identities, grapple with societal expectations, and ultimately embrace their true selves. Moving beyond the personal, the exhibition unfolds to showcase the dynamic interplay between queerness and the spaces we inhabit.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with curator, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, to bring this exhibition to life. Gemma Rolls-Bentley has been at the forefront of contemporary art for almost two decades, working passionately to champion diversity in the field. Curating exhibitions and building art collections internationally, her curatorial practice amplifies the work of female and queer artists as well as providing  a platform for art that explores LGBTQ+ identity. Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us will tour for four years, until Fall 2029, and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact Isabelle Baldwin for more information and bookings.

 

Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse

Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse

The Japanese kimono is one of the world’s most admired garments—an instantly recognizable robe with a tall “T” form. Worn in Japan by women and men for well over 1,000 years, the kimono has been a canvas for spectacular woven, dyed, painted, printed, and embroidered designs by Japan’s textile artists. After the late nineteenth century, when Japan opened to foreign diplomacy and trade, kimonos also became beloved in the West, as subjects for painters and inspiration for fashion designers. In recent decades, the influence of the kimono has even reached the work of contemporary artists around the world, who are creating kimono-inspired works in such diverse media as paper, fiber, metal, glass, and ceramic. This exhibition will explore the kimono as a garment in Japanese history and culture, present it as canvas for spectacular design and messaging, and showcase the extraordinary works of ten international contemporary artists whose works of painting, sculpture, and fiber art have all been inspired in fascinating ways by this iconic garment. 

Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse is organized in three sections and and contains a total of 46 art works, including 20 kimonos, woodblocks prints, a woodblock printed book, and photographs, as well as 19 works of contemporary art made of paper, fiber, metal, ceramic and glass.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with curator and long-time partner, Meher McArthur, to bring this exhibition to life. Meher McArthur is an Asian art historian specializing in Japanese art, with degrees from Cambridge University and London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), along with 25 years experience curating exhibitions, publishing, and teaching about Asian art. Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse will tour for four years, until Winter 2029, and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact Nicole Byers for more information and bookings.

 

Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection

GATEWAYS: African American Art from the Key Collection

"Collecting art by African American artists has its conceptual beginning early in my development as a child.It began with the question, “Who am I?” I would always ask this question to myself in high school and as a young adult. This question nagged at me for many years as I gained a better understanding of the world around me and the absence of people with skin color like mine in it. Or, better yet, the negativity about people of color. It was not until later that many of my questions would be answered, and it was the arts, art history, and the history of people of African descent that began to give shape to my question."

- Eric Key, Collector

International Arts & Artists and Eric Key are pleased to present Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection. Eric Key is an arts administrator, curator, investor, and collector who, being immersed in the art world for decades, has closely observed its relationship with African American artists over the years. Key began collecting African American art in the early 90s, long before the arts industry, and society at large, granted it the increased, but still not full, recognition it has today.

Comprising of 88 works, the main focus of this exhibition is to present a robust survey of African American art and to offer a glimpse into the personal stories of the artists and collector. Enlisted to tell this story are some of the most recognizable contemporary black artists: Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, William Artis, Samella Lewis, and Renee Stout. Together, these artists work to dispel the many stereotypes and misunderstandings about African American art and people, but remain a kind of personal narrative. As Key states, the works in his collection are an extension of himself, a black man in a still mostly white art world; they are an extension of the country in which he lives and an extension of the artists who created them.

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its insight into African American art to our partners. Gateways will tour for four years, until late 2027 and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact David Brescia-Weiler for more information and bookings.

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

"The glass art created by American Indian artists not only is a personal expression of each artist but also is imbued with their cultural heritage.  These artists have melded the aesthetics and properties inherent in glass art with their cultural ways of knowing.  The result is the stunning collection of artworks presented here."

– Letitia Chambers, Curator

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking exhibition giving broader and overdue recognition to a wide range of contemporary Native American and indigenous, Pacific-Rim artists working in glass. This powerful, innovative, and majestic exhibition will be toured by International Arts & Artists through 2026.

Clearly Indigenous includes approximately 120 glass art objects created by twenty-nine Native American artists, four Pacific Rim artists from New Zealand and Australia, and leading glass artist Dale Chihuly, who first introduced glass art to Indian country. Dr. Letitia Chambers, former CEO of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, curated the exhibition together with artist and museum consultant Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which originated this seminal exhibition.

 

Please contact David Brescia-Weiler for more information and bookings.