Exhibitions

TEMA STAUFFER: WONDERLANDS

Reece Museum (ETSU) / 363 Stout Dr., Johnson City, TN January 29 - May 22nd (Reception: February 13 5:00pm - 8:00pm)

Tema Stauffer

The Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University presents WONDERLANDS, an exhibition of photographs and Reece artifacts engaging with the cultural history of the southeastern United States by photographer and ETSU professor Tema Stauffer. The exhibition is on display Jan. 12 through May 22. A reception for WONDERLANDS will be held on Friday, Feb. 13 from 5 to 8 p.m. The reception will include a gallery walkthrough with the artist.

WONDERLANDS explores the intersection of tourism, religion, and folklore with natural beauty, preservation, and decay in southern Appalachia. The title of the series draws inspiration from novelist Charles Baxter’s collection of essays about fiction writing, Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, in which he describes settings that reflect a heightened psychological atmosphere in specific literary works. “Wonderlands are caused by, or are expressive of, emotional instability, estrangement, fantasy, and solitude,” Baxter writes.