Field Studies: Ways of Knowing Place in Southern Appalachia

June 13, 2026 - January 9, 2027 | Fort & Atwell Galleries

Amanda Brazier, Selections from the series The Birds are my Prayer, handmade watercolor on handmade paper, pigments from Chattanooga, TN, and Murphy, NC

Field Studies is a group exhibition that considers how artists develop knowledge through sustained attention to the places they inhabit. Rooted in the landscapes and lived environments of Southern Appalachia and the Mountain South, the exhibition reflects practices shaped by observation, familiarity, and long-term engagement rather than distant survey. Informed by ideas of foraging and finding, multiple ways of knowing, and an expansive documentary impulse, Field Studies frames art-making as a process of looking closely at home—where meaning emerges gradually through presence, repetition, and lived experience.

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