Exhibition Status: Featured Exhibitions

iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa

iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa

“In the face of adversity and resource scarcity, telephone wire artists dared to imagine new possibilities…leaving behind a legacy that inspires us to rethink waste, challenge conventions, and celebrate the ingenuity of the human spirit.”

—Muziwandile Hadebe and Ntuthuko Khuzwayo, Indigenous Knowledge Experts

iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa explores the rich history and cultural significance of a uniquely South African art form. The first major North American museum exhibition to focus on the art of telephone wire weaving, Weaving Meanings traces the journey of wire as an artistic medium from its early use as a symbol of social status in the 16th century to the innovative recycling of telephone wire by Zulu-speaking communities today. Each basket, plate, and sculpture tells a story of heritage, identity, and tradition, embodying the artist’s ability to transform everyday materials into powerful works of art.

Originating from the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA), Weaving Meanings was curated by Dr. Elizabeth Perrill, an expert on Zulu ceramics, and Muziwandile Gigaba, an artist and lecturer at Nelson Mandela University, in close collaboration with South African Indigenous Knowledge Experts. The exhibition is made possible by the generous donation of David Arment and Jim Rimelspach, support from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, International Folk Art Foundation, Friends of Folk Art, a grant from the William H. and Mattie Wattis Harris Foundation, and donors to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation exhibit development fund.

Please contact Nicole Byers for more information and for bookings.

Our Path Forward / Tsi Non:we Entewaha’hara’ne: Paintings by R. G. Miller

Our Path Forward / Tsi Non:we Entewaha’hara’ne: Paintings by R. G. Miller

Whether you are a Survivor of an Indian residential school or are learning about these institutions for the first time, Our Path Forward / Tsi Non:we Entewaha’hara’ne: Paintings by R. G. Miller invites you to learn about artist R.G. Miller's personal experience. Taken from his family at the age of two, Miller spent 11 years at the Mohawk Institute—known to Survivors as the Mush Hole—a residential school in what is now Brantford, Ontario on the Six Nations reserve. The residential school system was a federally funded and church-run network of institutions in both Canada and the US, designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children with the ultimate goal of dismantling Indigenous nations. By removing the children from their families, languages, and cultures, these schools sought to erase Indigenous identities and replace them with Christian and settler values.

Our Path Forward gives form to Miller’s memories of the Mush Hole, revealing not only what was taken from him, but also what survived—his resilience, resistance, and Indigenous sovereignty. Organized by IA&A and curated by Neal B. Keating, the exhibition includes large oil paintings, mixed media sketches, and collages created by Miller from 2003 to 2008. IA&A is honored to bring Our Path Forward to tour, available for bookings from 2027 to 2031.

Please contact Isabelle Baldwin for more information and for bookings.

Modern Movements: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas

Modern Movements: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas

Modern Movements: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas explores the shared histories and regional identities expressed by major artists through their creative practices. The exhibition celebrates work produced between 1937–2001 by a wide range of well-known figures, including Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguay) and Wifredo Lam (Cuba), who pushed the boundaries of painting in their efforts to produce a pan-American visual language. It spotlights avant-garde artists Roberto Matta Echaurren (Chile), Sarah Grilo (Argentine), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), and Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela), who defined foundational movements like surrealism, geometric abstraction, and new figuration. Modern Movements charts the cultural exchanges and creative tensions fostered by Latin American artists, whose experimentations with form, color, and movement created powerful dialogues within and beyond their respective countries.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) and their director, and curator of this exhibition, Adriana Ospina. The AMA played a fundamental role in supporting and shaping the development of these artists’ careers. The AMA collection, formed under the direction of José Gómez Sicre, reflects a vision of Latin American and Caribbean art that is expansive, inclusive, and constantly evolving. The AMA is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art in the United States. It is part of the Organization of American States (OAS), an international public organization whose aim is to promote democracy, peace, justice, and solidarity among its 34 member countries.

 

Please contact Nicole Byers  for more information and for bookings.

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

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

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 originated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, and its tour is organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson will begin touring in Fall 2026, and the exhibition is now available for booking.

Please contact Isabelle Baldwin for more information.

America Abroad: Art as Diplomacy

America Abroad: Art as Diplomacy

In collaboration with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), International Arts & Artists is proud to tour America Abroad: Art as Diplomacy. The exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of the United States and FAPE’s 40th year of operations in 2026. America Abroad showcases approximately 65 works from FAPE's Original Print and Photography Collections. It will invite American audiences to consider how our freedom of expression has evolved since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. The exhibition will prompt visitors to explore how artists have used those rights to share their ideas, inspire others, and build bridges between different communities around the world.

For nearly 40 years, FAPE has been the public-private partnership dedicated to providing permanent works of American art for U.S. embassies worldwide. FAPE enhances our country's diplomatic efforts by contributing artworks that serve as "silent ambassadors," bridging cultures and fostering mutual understanding.

America Abroad: Art as Diplomacy will tour from 2026 to 2030 and is now open for bookings.

 

Please contact Nicole Byers for more information on bookings.

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.

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 Nicole Byers 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.

Consisting 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 from 2025 to 2029 and is now open for bookings.

Please contact Nicole Byers 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 2029.

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 Isabelle Baldwin for more information and bookings.