Upcoming Exhibitions

Jess T. Dugan. Zach and Oskar at sunset, 2020. Archival pigment print. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Knight Purchase Fund for Photographic Media 2024.22.1 © Jess T. Dugan

Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story

January 31 – July 12, 2026 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Jess T. Dugan (born 1986, Biloxi, Mississippi; lives St. Louis, Missouri) creates photographic portraiture and self-portraiture with technical skill and forthright personal engagement, exploring kinship, community, and identity. Dugan embraces natural light, slow working methods, and collaboration with their subjects to create images that capture both individual personality and universal humanity. Drawing from their own experiences as a queer and nonbinary person, Dugan also works to advance the visual representation of queer people. The artist summarizes their entire creative approach this way: “For me, it’s all about energy and love.”

Tiffany Studios. Transfiguration (lancet detail), 1917. Leaded Favrile and painted glass. Loan courtesy of KDT Charitable Trust.

Transfiguration: Rachel Libeskind and the Tiffany Window

January 31– July 5, 2026 | The Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Transfiguration: Rachel Libeskind and the Tiffany Window is an exhibition offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience a restored historic Tiffany stained glass window depicting the Transfiguration of Christ, alongside new work by contemporary artist Rachel Libeskind, created specifically for the occasion. Together, the window and Libeskind’s response to it explore how the unimaginable and unseen are depicted across religious iconography, early cinema, and natural transformation.