Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
See All ExhibitionsExhibitions complement art history and studio art coursework taught within the Department of Art and Art History. Temporary and traveling exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists are presented throughout the year.
Study original works from the Martin Museum’s permanent collection up close and personal. Select from some of our most compelling areas of the collection, and give your students access to amazing works of art.
Aquí, Escuchar (Here, Hear) is open May 26th thru November 7th. Visiting artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, a multidisciplinary Latina artist, incorporates fiber art, drawing, installation, painting, and video into her studio practice. The human figure takes center stage in her artwork. Amplifying the voices of women, her work reflects the female experience within a patriarchal society. Socio-cultural issues, gender-based burdens, political agency, and ethnic stereotypes, are explored through an intersectional feminist lens.
Christian Rieben’s work uses the landscape as a vehicle for storytelling, illustrating and embodying a fantastical world that is a bit Lewis Carroll and a bit Carl Jung. The characters and narratives of this world are a combination of contemporary, political and social discourses, and a mirror for personal situations; intermixing, and planted in a moment of subversive, existential awareness. All in the family, the characters in Rieben’s work navigate to an atavistic world that is dark, chaotic, comic, and joyful; a dreamscape of lush imagery and macabre humor.
Permanent Collection
The Permanent Collection at the Martin Museum of Art comprises approximately 1,500 works of art spanning five centuries from Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The Collection has been established through donations and purchases via the generosity of artists, collectors, corporations, institutions, and acquisition funds. The Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University continues to collect works of art to support the academic and artistic scholarship of its students, faculty, community, and collaborative artists, furthering the enjoyment and understanding of the visual arts.