Resistance show PR

Jan 26

RESISTANCE: Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Juried Exhibition at Slocumb Galleries

ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Mid-South

Sculpture Alliance (MSA) with support from Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts,

ETSU SAIC, Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, and Tennessee Arts Commission

proudly present Resistance: MSA National Juried Exhibition featuring fourteen MSA

contemporary sculptors from January 14 to February 13, 2026, with online Curator and

Artists panel on January 28, Wednesday and closing reception on February 12,

Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Juror Michael Dickins stated, “RESISTANCE brings together artists exploring what it

means to push back - physically, politically, and personally. Across the exhibition,

resistance appears as a force in motion: energy applied against pressure, systems

challenged through action, and bodies and materials responding to constraint.” The

works are three dimensional works that “reflect resistance as a basic property of matter,

visible in movement, tension, and kinetic exchange,” while others “address resistance

as a form of survival and refusal through protest, care, endurance, or the fight against

illness and injustice” in innovative display of technical skills and conceptual approach.

Juror reiterates that “RESISTANCE considers opposition not only as conflict, but as a

necessary and generative condition” that aim to provide platform for discourse, solidarity

and critical thought.

We invite the public to hear the virtual Curator and Artists’ Conversations on January

28, Wednesday from 5 to 7 pm, live simulcast via:

In person gallery conversations will be held during the closing reception on February 12.

The artists featured are Jason Brown, Jarod Charzewski, Jack Eubanks, Veronica

Ibargüengoitia, David Marquez, Chelsea Moulder, Janet Orselli, Melissa Sclafani,

Suzanna Scott, Sarah Spillers, Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti, Durant Thompson, Kristen

Tordella-Williams and Luke Warren.

Jack Eubanks

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