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    • BFA Senior Exhibition Spring 2025
    • 400 Degreez: The Act of Making Nothing Out of Something
    • Baylor Art Student Exhibition
    • Without Margins
    • William Downs: Truth in Body
    • The Hammer That Shapes Reality
    • CLICKBAIT! A Treasure Trove of Pulp Fiction Cover Art
    • In Pursuit of Light: Women in Photography from the Permanent Collection
    • 2024 Biennial Faculty Exhibition
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    • In the Ring: Goya's La Tauromaquia
    • Coming Home: A Retired Faculty Exhibition
    • Paper Trail: Letterpress and Screenprinted Posters
    • 2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition
    • The Art of the Landscape
    • Revisiting Audubon: An American Naturalist
    • The Floating World
  • Exhibition Publications
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Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity

Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity presents viewers with a journey of humanistic experiences, discovery, and expression through selections from the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection. Form meets content in variations of curated images where connectivity, process, and practice take shape through an array of mediums, each unique to the artist.

Aesthetics pay tribute to culture, identity, and the lived experience in each breathtaking composition within this memorable and notable collection. Portraiture, abstraction, and figurations serve as vessels for themes surrounding race, power, society, and the lived experience. They explore the defining and distinguishing characteristics of individuals and the role of greater communities and artist process in constructing that distinctiveness.

Historical and cultural context reveals itself through each artist’s use of medium, color and subject matter. These works brilliantly share space in perspective and relation to one another in a powerful exhibition that explores the formation and evolution of subject and self, impacted by a variety of internal and external factors including: society, community, race, culture, location, opportunities, appearance, self-expression, life experiences, and material makeup.

-Dr. Valerie Gillespie

A look inside the Museum

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      • Debbie Lee Carlson: Threads of Transformation
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      • BFA Senior Exhibition Spring 2025
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        • Ashley Lillian | Graphic Design
        • Ellie Cerwin | Painting
        • Hayley Koumjian | Graphic Design
        • Katie Bedewi | Graphic Design
        • Madalynne Meeker | Photography
        • Sarah Kate Bond | Painting
        • Sharon Almon | Painting
        • Soph Collins | Graphic Design
      • 400 Degreez: The Act of Making Nothing Out of Something
      • Baylor Art Student Exhibition
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      • Without Margins
      • William Downs: Truth in Body
      • The Hammer That Shapes Reality
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      • CLICKBAIT! A Treasure Trove of Pulp Fiction Cover Art
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        • Curitorial Insights and Student Voices
      • In Pursuit of Light: Women in Photography from the Permanent Collection
      • 2024 Biennial Faculty Exhibition
      • Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity
        Back
        • About the Jessica & Kelvin Beachum Family Collection
        • About the Exhibition Curator
        • Exhibition Events & Programming
        • Press Release and Media Information
        • The Exhibition Publication & Video
        • The Artists of Narrative as Reality
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          • Abi Salami
          • Alexis Peskine
          • Athi-Patra Ruga
          • Brittney Leeanne Williams
          • Derrick Adams
          • Dominic Chambers
          • Kevin Beasley
          • Leyla Faye
          • Marcellina Akpojotor
          • Mario Moore
          • Nelson Makamo
          • Rachel Jones
          • Sonya Clark
          • Teresa Kutala Firmino
          • Tomashi Jackson
          • Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
          • Tyler Mitchell
          • Vaughn Spann
      • Jason Bly: Curriculum for a Better Tomorrow
      • In the Ring: Goya's La Tauromaquia
      • Coming Home: A Retired Faculty Exhibition
      • Paper Trail: Letterpress and Screenprinted Posters
      • 2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition
      • The Art of the Landscape
      • Revisiting Audubon: An American Naturalist
      • The Floating World
    • Exhibition Publications
      Back
      • 2024 Biennial Faculty Exhibition Catalog
      • Narrative as Reality Catalog
      • Baylor Art Student Exhibition Booklets
      • In the Ring: Goya Catalog
      • Audubon Catalog
      • Neoclassical Gaze Catalog
      • Emergence Exhibition Catalog
      • 2020 Faculty Biennial Exhibition Catalog
      • 2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition Catalog
      • The Floating World Booklet
      • Finding Oaxaca Exhibition Booklet
    • Submit an Exhibition Proposal
  • Creative Arts Experience
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    • BFA Important Information
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      • Installation, Evaluation and Grading
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    • Biennial Faculty Exhibition Information
    • Juror Nominations
  • Collections
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