Exhibitions

RESISTANCE: MID-SOUTH SCULPTURE ALLIANCE (MSA) JURIED EXHIBITION

Slocumb Galleries (ETSU) / 232 Sherrod Dr., Johnson City, TN January 28 - February 13th (Reception: February 12 5:00pm - 7:00pm)

Michael Dickins, Jason Brown, Jarod Charzewski, Jack Eubanks, Veronica Ibargüengoitia, David Marquez, Chelsea Moulder, Janet Orselli, Melissa Sclafani, Suzanna Scott, Sarah Spillers, Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti, Durant Thompson, Kristen Tordella-Williams, Luke Warren

ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Mid-South Sculpture Alliance (MSA) with support from Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts, ETSU SAIC, Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, and Tennessee Arts Commission proudly present Resistance: MSA National Juried Exhibition featuring fourteen MSA contemporary sculptors from January 14 to February 13, 2026, with online Curator and Artists panel on January 28, Wednesday and closing reception on February 12, Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Juror Michael Dickins stated, “RESISTANCE brings together artists exploring what it means to push back - physically, politically, and personally. Across the exhibition, resistance appears as a force in motion: energy applied against pressure, systems challenged through action, and bodies and materials responding to constraint.” The works are three dimensional works that “reflect resistance as a basic property of matter, visible in movement, tension, and kinetic exchange,” while others “address resistance as a form of survival and refusal through protest, care, endurance, or the fight against illness and injustice” in innovative display of technical skills and conceptual approach. Juror reiterates that “RESISTANCE considers opposition not only as conflict, but as a necessary and generative condition” that aim to provide platform for discourse, solidarity and critical thought.

We invite the public to hear the virtual Curator and Artists’ Conversations on January 28, Wednesday from 5 to 7 pm, live simulcast:

In person gallery conversations will be held during the closing reception on February 12.