CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom

January 27, 2023 - May 1, 2023

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

January 27, 2023 - May 1, 2023

In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting 

May 26, 2023 - September 4, 2023

Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth

September 22, 2023 - January 8, 2024

Events

March 30	A Sense of Place: Memories of Chattanooga
April 3	Black Professionals @ the Hunter
April 4	Spring Break Art Camp
April 5	Spring Break Art Camp
April 6	Spring Break Art Camp

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It’s finally here! We look forward to seeing Hunter Underground/Above Ground guests this evening in their retro-futuristic fashions 👽

Please note that the museum will close at 2pm today as we prepare for the event. Installation artist Ashley Folkner is transforming the grand lobby into a “future that never was.” Thank you for your hard work and amazing creativity, Ashley!

Don't forget you can bid on the silent auction and enter the raffle from anywhere. The auction closes at 10pm tonight, Friday, March 24th.

Click the link in bio to view the art on auction 🚀

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As Hunter Underground/Above Ground nears, we would like to thank all of the wonderful HUG 2023 sponsors this year!

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The Hunter Underground auction and raffle are now live 🌟

For new and established collectors alike, Hunter Underground's silent art auction features a range of media, styles, and price points -something for everyone!

You don't have to be present to participate, so click the link in bio to join in the fun from anywhere!

Enter the raffle for a chance to win one of two prizes: A Chairman’s Circle Silver Level Membership or a Private Party and Curator-Led Tour at the Hunter Museum! You do NOT have to be present to win.

#HunterUnderground #HUG #HunterMuseum

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Get ready for a night of poetry at this week’s Vision + Verse.

➡️Thursday, March 23, 6-7 PM ⬅️

Inspired by “Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom,” Rhyme N Chatt poets Marsha Mills, Poetess PhenomInal C and Tomodachi will offer a poetic exploration of Delaney’s friendship with James Baldwin alongside a performance by Swayyvo. Free and open to all.
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“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. Support for the exhibition is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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📣Attention local artists:

@artsbuild is looking for 3 artists who live and/or work in the Rossville Blvd Corridor for a year long, paid artist residency!

For more info, visit artsbuild.com/contact-us or contact brianna@artsbuild.com

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We’ve got something new for you 🖼️

The third floor of the Hunter’s historic mansion has been refreshed! The artworks of the Hudson River School have been significantly reinstalled and reinterpreted for the first time since 2005.

Visit us to see these works with a new perspective - and check out a few artworks that are on display for the first time!

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Earth is cancelled! 👽

It’s almost time to show off your intergalactic outfits at Hunter Underground. If you’re in need of ideas, use these retro-futuristic styles to spark your imagination!

#HUG #HunterUnderground #HunterMuseum

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Although Beauford Delaney is best known for his expressive abstracted scenes, he returned to portraiture throughout his life to depict himself, his family, and his friend James Baldwin.

His earlier works reflect the artist’s firm academic foundation and roots in portraiture. Visible in these works are signs of his growing interest in expressive line, arbitrary color, and taking liberties with pictorial space. They also provide glimpses of the earliest awakenings of Delaney’s new adventurous spirit sparked by his exposure to modernist ideas.
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1: Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris), “Self-Portrait,” 1963, charcoal and pastel on newsprint, 14 ¼ x 18 ¾ inches, 28 ¾ x 32 ¼ inches framed, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2014 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve. © The Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

2: Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris), “Untitled (Portrait of a Young Man),” 1928, charcoal on paper, 20 ½ x 13 ½ inches, 35 x 27 inches framed, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2017 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve. © The Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. Support for the exhibition is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Summer art camp registration is open!

Taught by local artists and museum professionals, Hunter summer art camps immerse campers in a hands-on approach to artistic methods, materials, and inspirations. Campers will spend time in the museum galleries, the art studios, and outdoors.

Click the link bio to learn more and register now ☀️

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Learn more about the special exhibition “Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” at Art Wise with exhibit organizer and curator Stephen Wicks.

🔹Thursday, March 16, 6-7 PM 🔹

Wicks, the Barbara A. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator of the Knoxville Museum of Art, will give an in-gallery tour and offer insights into the artist and his works.

“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. Support for the exhibition is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Did you know the art for the Hunter Underground/Above Ground auction is selected by the Hunter's Avant-art Committee?

Chaired this year by Casey Yoshida and Vice Chair Amy Walters, the committee travels together to Chattanooga galleries and to one additional regional city every year to choose art for the silent auction. This year they had a fun-filled trip to Savannah, GA! The art will be hung in the Hunter’s lobby amidst a retro-futuristic atmosphere designed by local installation artist Ashley Folkner.

Remember - you don't have to be present to participate in the auction. You can register and bid from anywhere!

A huge thank you to all members of the Avant-art Committee, especially the 2023 Chair Casey Yoshida and Vice Chair Amy Walters, for all that they do to support the Hunter Museum!

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Get ready for Family Fun Day!

🎨 Sunday, March 12, 2-4 PM 🎨

Enjoy art activities, performances, sweet treats and more inspired by the Hunter’s special exhibitions “Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” and “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe.”

Regular admission applies; members and youth 17 & under are free. Admission to this program is also free with a Chattanooga Public Library card if you’re attending with children. Family programming is generously sponsored by The Mark Hite Team.

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“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art.

“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the High Museum of Art, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Local support for both exhibitions is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Enjoy a performance featuring The Pop-Up Project, Marcus Ellsworth, Janelle Jezebelle and Jordan Scruggs at Art+ Issues: Art Health & Social Justice with CHI Memorial.

➡️ Thursday, March 9, 6-7:30 PM ⬅️

Fostering a space for creation and truth-sharing, local Black and Latinx creatives will perform as inspired by themes in “Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom.” Free and open to all.

In partnership with CHI Memorial’s Art Therapies & Well Being Program, the Hunter is proud to continue this program series featuring local creatives exploring health and social justice in our community.
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“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. Support for the exhibition is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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We need your help!

Our visitors come to us with different needs and values, and we want to understand them so we can best serve you. From how museums (like ours!) can support your wellbeing to how we address challenges our society is facing, we want to hear your thoughts.

Please share your ideas by taking the survey in our bio. As a thank you there will be an opportunity for you to win one of ten $100 Visa gift cards!

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Nellie Mae Rowe did not plan out her work. Instead, she relied on a free form process known as “automatic drawing,” which she called “following her line.”

For inspiration, Rowe tapped into her subconscious in ways that the Surrealists had done decades earlier, copying visions as she remembered them from her dreams. She “followed her line” into mysterious forms, testing whether they could become a tree, an animal, a person, or sometimes all of the above, leading to hybrid beings.
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Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), “Untitled (At Night Things Come to Me),” 1980, crayon and pencil on paper, 18 x 24 inches, High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.226. © 2023 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the High Museum of Art, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Local support is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight’s program has been cancelled.

Throwback Thursday will still take place, with museum galleries open until 8pm.

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Back this year by popular demand, the "Art Heist Gallery" is one of the most unique aspects of Hunter Underground.

Every thirty minutes, all eyes turn to the Heist Gallery to watch Heist ticket purchasers charge into the gallery to claim a work of art donated by local collectors, using only a flashlight to see!

There will be three "Heists" throughout the night with higher priced Heist tickets getting earlier access, but all Art Heist Gallery ticket holders are guaranteed to take home a work of art. Be on the lookout for when the tickets go on sale in mid-March.

Even if you can’t attend HUG/AG and participate in the Art Heist, you can still add to your art collection (and support the Hunter) by bidding on artwork in the silent auction - from anywhere!

#HunterUnderground #HUG #HunterMuseum

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Join us for a conversation on ways we can heal and work together to support one another in community during this week’s Art + Issues with Marie Mott.

🗨️Thursday, March 2, 6-7 PM 💬

Responding to pieces in our special exhibition “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,” community leader Marie Mott will speak about current issues facing Black and Latin American Chattanoogans in a conversation about representing and healing communities. Free and open to all.
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“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the High Museum of Art, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Local support is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Any photography fans out there?

If you haven’t had a chance to see “Dynamic Range: Collecting Black and White Photography,” then make sure you check it out this week before it closes on March 5th.

Explore the work of photography greats Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Paul Caponigro and others from the private collection of Dr. David Dennard, located in Gallery 5 of the mansion.

Select works by Paul Caponigro will remain on display along the ramp of Gallery 15 until April 10th.
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Paul Caponigro (b. 1932), “Running White Deer, County Wicklow, Ireland,” 1967, silver gelatin print. Museum purchase, 1979.43

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Who else is ready for warmer weather and greener scenery? 🤚

In the meantime, enjoy all the lush landscapes on view at the Hunter!

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While following the progression of Delaney’s career and artistic style, “Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” also explores the deep friendship between the artist and writer James Baldwin and how their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped one another’s creative output and worldviews.

The exhibition calls attention to Baldwin’s role as “witness” to the painter’s evolution, which he deemed “one of the most extraordinary personal and artistic journeys of our time.” Baldwin found in Delaney a father figure, muse, and model of perseverance as a gay man of color, who opened for him the transformative possibility that a Black man could become an artist. Delaney found in Baldwin a powerful intellectual and spiritual anchor who inspired some of his finest works, and who provided vital emotional support and creative validation.
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Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris), “Portrait of James Baldwin,” 1944, pastel on paper, 24 x 18 ¾ inches, 36 x 30 ¼ inches framed, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2017 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve. © The Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

“Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom” is organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art. Support is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Celebrate the creative spirit of jazz-age Harlem and Paris at Vision + Verse!

🌟 Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-7pm 🌟

Creatives Kimmie J Soul, Ryan Deshawn Roberts and Erika Roberts will reinterpret the choreography of Cab Calloway, music of Ella Fitzgerald and poetry of James Baldwin, ending in a conversation about the role of community in the work of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin. Free and open to all.

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Did you know arts specialty plates support the Tennessee Arts Commission and local art organizations like the Hunter Museum?

Show your support for the arts by swapping out your old plate for a new one! Click the link in bio to learn more 🚘

#TNArts #TNPlates #ArtsPlate @tnartscommission

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What does the Hunter Museum mean to you?

We want to know how we can support and engage you in 2023 and beyond. Please share your thoughts by taking the survey in our bio.

The survey only takes about 9 minutes to complete, but in those 9 minutes you will help our team make better decisions for the future of the museum and how it can better serve our community. And as a thank you there will be an opportunity for you to win one of ten $100 Visa gift cards!

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Instagram post 18071689774354425 $Back on view! This photograph and four others from the same series by Deborah Luster made their debut at the Hunter last year in “Beyond the Frame: 70 Years of Collecting” and are now featured in the reinstall of our contemporary gallery. Luster, who lives in New Orleans, worked for six years in the prisons of Louisiana to produce an archive of 25,000 portraits of inmates. The series, called “One Big Self,” allowed those inmates to present themselves as they would be seen, bringing what they own, borrow or use: work tools, objects of their making, messages of their choosing, their bodies, themselves. Analyzing repair and healing in fractured communities, these photographs embody the @tennessee_triennial theme of Re-Pair. 🔺Learn more about Luster and other featured contemporary artists during a guided tour of the reinstallation this Saturday, February 18 from 2-2:30pm. 🔺 __________________________ Deborah Luster (b. 1951), “LSP43,” 1999. Silver gelatin print on aluminum, ed. of 25. Museum purchase, 2021.6-10$

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A new sculpture is on its way… what do you think it’ll look like?

Pose like a sculpture, snap a photo, and share your ideas with us. Use #HunterMuseum or tag us @huntermuseum so we can see your works of art!

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Connect world class art to our community during “A Sense of Place: Memories of Chattanooga.” Inspired by the work of Nellie Mae Rowe, this program series explores the municipal changes that have impacted Chattanooga’s African American community.

◾ Thursday, February 16, 6-7:30 PM ◾

Alongside educators and faith leaders David and Carol Meredith, educator, activist and lifelong Westside community member Charlie Newton will share memories with opening and closing performances by local creatives KG and Lamar. Free and open to all.
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“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the High Museum of Art, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Local support is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware. Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.

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Last year’s Hunter Underground was surreal, but this year it will be out-of-this-world! A chic cocktail party, silent auction, and “Art Heist” aimed at introducing collectors and art supporters to the museum, Hunter Underground/Above Ground plays a pivotal role in cultivating the next generation of museum patrons.

Be transported to “a tomorrow that never was” with the theme Retro Futurism. Get creative in your best sci-fi fashion whether that be space-age bubble helmets, crystalized and chromatic fabrics or anything in between.

Tickets for Hunter Underground/Above Ground are now on sale and going fast! You don’t want to wait to get yours. Click the link in bio to secure your spot and get ready to go underground, and beyond.

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The special exhibition “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” chronicles the life and work of contemporary, self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe.

Though she created her first drawings as a child, Rowe only found the time and space to reclaim her artistic practice during the last fifteen years of her life when she made hundreds of colorful drawings and transformed her home into an art environment she called her Playhouse. Come explore these bold pieces and see how the artist developed her style through the years.
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Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), “Untitled (Brown Dog on the Road, Vinings, Georgia,” 1981, crayon and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 30 ¾ inches, High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.145. © 2023 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the High Museum of Art, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Alexander and Henry Alexander. Generous support for the national tour is provided by Art Bridges. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Local support is generously provided by Elder’s Ace Hardware.

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Need plans this Sunday, February 12?

🧘 Stretch your body and mind at Artful Yoga from 1:30-3pm. All levels of yoga experience are welcome - just bring your own mat!

🎨 Channel your inner artist at Sunday Studio from 2-4pm. The whole family can create works of art inspired by the Hunter’s special exhibitions!

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Instagram post 18071556991346790 $In honor of the Tennessee Triennial, the Hunter Museum is reinstalling our contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing and healing—as it applies to fractured bodies, communities and relationships. The works will be on view beginning next Thursday, February 16. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster, Dawoud Bey, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sanford Biggers, Kiki Smith, Shirin Neshat and others. The majority of these are new acquisitions to the collection and forward our mission to support women and artists of color. 🔺Join us for a guided tour of the reinstallation on Saturday, February 18 from 2-2:30pm 🔺$

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