Born in Detroit and raised in Columbus, Ohio during the Jim Crow era, Ming Smith received a multi-institutional homecoming consisting of three exhibits at the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Gund at Kenyon College. Wind Chime at the Wexner Center features nearly thirty black-and-white images from Smith’s “Africa” series

In her first solo museum exhibition in Chicago, vanessa german invites viewers to attune to a heart-forward consciousness, to receive her intent to heal historic and communal traumas. Featuring a new body of semi-precious stone sculptures paired with fragments from a class german co-led with Zachary Cahill as part of her fellowship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the exhibition questions the role of care and creativity in navigating institutional and ideological Eurocentricity.