Art Bridges

06/17/2026

✨ Let your next exhibition sing!

"Ana María Hernando: Seguir Cantando (Keep Singing)" marks the Argentine-born, Colorado-based artist’s largest solo museum exhibition in a decade. Featuring over 20 works, the exhibition includes new large-scale sculptures in dialogue with pieces from the past 30 years of Hernando's practice.

Through tulle, textiles, paintings, and works on paper, Hernando explores how nature and vibrant color are powerful emblems of strength, persistence, and renewal. Inspired by María Elena Walsh’s “Como La Cigarra” — an anthem of resilience during Argentina’s military dictatorship — the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on collectivity and joy in the face of adversity.

Hernando's multidisciplinary work centers on the feminine, using empathy to make the invisible visible and to challenge how we see one another and the natural world around us.

🌿💫 Interested in bringing this exhibition to your space? Connect with us on our website: https://brnw.ch/21x3qWh

06/16/2026

🎨 Studio Sessions are back—your invitation into the creative worlds of artists in the Art Bridges Collection!

In this session, artist Emmi Whitehorse reflects on how the landscapes of New Mexico shape her practice and worldview. Rooted in her experiences growing up on the Navajo Reservation, Whitehorse’s paintings draw attention to the quiet details of the natural world, inviting viewers to slow down and consider the beauty, fragility, and interconnectedness of the environment.

Like all Studio Sessions, this video is designed to serve as an interpretive resource for artworks in our collection. We invite partners to share these videos in their gallery spaces as a way to deepen audience engagement and enrich the visitor experience.

Curious for more? Explore Whitehorse’s work on our website:
https://brnw.ch/21x3p0i

06/15/2026

How did Ballroom Marfa celebrate the opening of "Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers?" 🍽️🌿 With a free community dinner by Chef Nico Albert Williams.

Hosted this past May 2 at Capri Marfa, the shared meal centered Indigenous ingredients and ancestral practices. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma chef, storyteller, and educator served a seasonal menu rooted in traditional foodways, including juniper blue corn mush, prairie sage and rose-hip brined turkey, and braised venison caddo tamales, alongside strawberry cobbler and blackberry tea.

Made possible with support from our Learning & Engagement team, this public gathering highlighted the power of shared meals to build connection, strengthen community, and foster care.

🔗 Explore this powerful traveling exhibition honoring matriarchal lineages, Caddo traditions, and Indigenous women’s stories at the link on our website: https://brnw.ch/21x3mX9

Credit Line:

Opening weekend images: Photo by Sarah M. Vasquez, courtesy of Ballroom Marfa. Exhibition documentation: Photo by Makenzie Goodman, courtesy of Ballroom Marfa.

06/11/2026

☀️ Summer at Art Bridges just got a lot brighter!

This week, we welcomed 12 interns from across the country for our full-time program running June 8–July 31.

Supporting teams across our foundation—from Curatorial and Traveling Exhibitions to Marketing & Communications, Learning & Engagement, and more—they bring unique perspectives and diverse academic backgrounds spanning art history, studio art, journalism, economics, mathematics, government, and social policy.

We’re excited to be a part of their professional growth and open doors to meaningful connections throughout their time with us.

💫 Interested in launching your career in the arts? Check out our Internships Program on our website: https://brnw.ch/21x3h1R

06/10/2026

From first steps to final goodbyes—how does art hold it all?

Bringing together over 66 works from Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, the Art Museum of South Texas, Ellen Noel Museum of Art and the Art Bridges Collection, "Home, Love, and Loss" traces the milestones and challenges of family and community life—from birth and joy to aging, loss, and everything in between.

Paintings, photographs, works on paper, and video come together to invite visitors to reflect on how relationships are formed, tested by adversity—including illness, poverty, or immigration—and sustained through love, celebration, and resilience.

Developed through the Amon Carter Cohort of the Art Bridges Cohort Program, the exhibition is on view at the Ellen Noël Museum of Art through July 19, 2026.

👉 Learn more about the exhibition here: https://brnw.ch/21x3fmU

06/09/2026

💫 Here's a closer look at Partner Relations—the team connecting museums, programs, and communities across the country!

Through outreach initiatives, program promotion, and the strengthening of relationships with our museum partners nationwide, they ensure our mission reaches far and wide. Diving deep into research on museums and cultural institutions, Partner Relations guides engagement strategies, identify potential partners, and assess alignment with Art Bridges’ values.

From building relationships to guiding strategic growth, they’re the force turning opportunities into impact—opening doors to collaboration, creativity, and meaningful connections across the museum field.

🔗 Want to explore partnership opportunities? They'd love to hear from you at [email protected].

06/05/2026

🌄 What happens when art, land, and community come together?

At the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Utah MoCA), an Art Bridges Learning & Engagement award helped bring The Sacred West to life: a public symposium featuring gallery talks, live music, workshops, and a guided hike. Across the day, artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners spent time thinking about how the landscapes of the West are experienced, interpreted, and understood.

The program included contributions from Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers, Blanca Stacey Villalobos, and Kat Nix, whose work moved between indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the day.

The Sacred West was presented alongside the exhibition "Altered States in the Acid West," currently on view with support from Art Bridges.

🔗 Want to explore more programs like this? Visit our Learning & Engagement Idea Center: https://brnw.ch/21x37Tx

Photo Credits:
Participants of Public Symposium: The Sacred West held by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art May 1-2, 2026. Photos courtesy of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

06/04/2026

🗂️🔍Interested in documentary-style exhibitions that uncover the making of monumental artworks?

Now traveling, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands” offers a behind-the-scenes look at "Surrounded Islands"—the iconic 1983 project in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled eleven islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay with floating pink polypropylene fabric.

Through multimedia collages, drawings, and diagrams, the exhibition traces the evolution of the artists’ vision from concept to realization, highlighting Christo’s signature draftsmanship and the extraordinary planning required to execute the temporary installation.

Also on view are aerial photographs by Wolfgang Volz, captured from a helicopter and offering panoramic, bird’s-eye views of the completed work. Installed by a workforce of 430 people in just three days, Surrounded Islands remained on view for only two weeks in May 1983.

Together, the drawings and photographs illuminate both the monumental scale and ephemeral nature of one of the most ambitious environmental artworks of the twentieth century.

✨Bring this exhibition to your institution. Learn more at the link below:

This selection of drawings by Christo offers a direct representation of his and his wife and artistic partner Jeanne-Claude’s vision for Surrounded Islands, the 11 islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay that they surrounded with pink floating margins in 1983.

06/02/2026

💫 We’re still thinking about all the thoughtful conversations we had at in Philadelphia!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk with our team—we enjoyed learning about your work and exchanging ideas about what’s possible together.

Didn’t get a chance to chat (or want to stay in touch)?
📲 Contact us at the link: https://brnw.ch/21x32tJ

05/28/2026

Buckskin, willow, and artificial turf don’t usually occupy the same visual language. Teresa Baker makes them coexist.

In "From Joy to Joy to Joy," the Mandan/Hidatsa artist blends synthetic materials with natural fibers to explore political, ancestral, and emotional geographies. First shown in 2023 at de boer gallery in Los Angeles, California, the abstract textile work evokes the expansive landscapes of her South Dakota upbringing—shaped as much by openness as by the boundaries drawn across it.

Take a look at Baker’s work and explore a wider collection of Indigenous artists in the Art Bridges Collection on our website: https://brnw.ch/21x2UDQ.

Credit Line:
Teresa Baker (b. 1985), From Joy to Joy to Joy, 2023, acrylic, yarn, buckskin and willow on artificial turf, 95 x 69 1/2 in. Art Bridges.