Through These Hands: Crafting Material Visions

Through These Hands: Crafting Material Visions features the work of four Tennessee-based artists whose innovative creative practices engage with Black craft traditions: Brittney Boyd Bullock, Samuel Dunson, Desmond Lewis, and Althea Murphy-Price. Together, they formulate material languages that integrate personal narratives with cultural memory to express distinctive visions. The exhibition consists of more than 20 works, including sculptures, textile assemblages, 3D-printed forms, repurposed furniture, and more.

As part of the Crafting Blackness research initiative, led by Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Through These Hands seeks to expand the ways in which craft and Black creative labor are understood within American art history. By foregrounding innovative craft practices and the artists who sustain them, this exhibition repositions craft as a vital and evolving field within contemporary art.