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This week, we got to talk to Dr. Laurian Bowles for our second installment of "Profs Talk Art," the series where Davidson professors talk about works in the collection of Van Every/Smith Galleries through the lens of their discipline. Dr. Bowles is the Chair of the Anthropology department. Her work in Africana Studies and Cultural Anthropology focuses on visual storytelling, women’s activism, and the visual economies of women’s labor in Ghana and the African Diaspora. She talked about the Nigerian-Swedish-American artist, Mikael Owunna, and his photograph titled 4 Queer African Women in the Snow, from Limitless Africans. Watch the video here...

Irina Ionesco (Nu à la fourrure, ca. 1970Gelatin silver print11.75 x 8.25 in.Gift of Bradly M. Olson EXPOSURE: UNCOVERING THE PRIVATE SPACE is a new exhibition that will be on display in the Spencer Lobby of the Chambers Academic Building starting March 13th, 2023. The exhibition thinks through questions like: What does it mean to be hidden from the light or the public? To be exposed? It focuses on bodies in space: naked bodies, sexual bodies, sexualized bodies, embracing bodies, bodies off-guard, bodies on-guard, gendered bodies. Through the medium of black and white photography, these artists challenge normative ideas surrounding...

Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006)Lying in Colors, no date21.5 x 29.5 inLithograph on PaperGift of Carol Quillen, 18th President of Davidson College, and George McLendon Lying in Colors by Karel Appel is a vibrant and captivating piece that immediately draws the viewer's attention. The painting is bursting with bold colors, shapes, and textures, creating a sense of movement and energy. The first thing that stands out to me is the use of color, they almost feel alive. The use of various hues and tones gives the painting depth and dimension, as if the colors are flowing and shifting in front of...