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Video: Exhibition documenting six years inside Carver’s JROTC program opens at Columbus Museum ///

October 13, 2026

A wonderful exhibition of documentary photography is now on display at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia. “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver” is an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus. It’s on display until Feb. 14, 2027….

Exhibition showing six years inside Carver’s JROTC program opens at Columbus Museum ///

October 13, 2026

A wonderful exhibition of documentary photography is now on display at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia. “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver” is an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus. It’s on display until Feb. 14, 2027….

Jessica Ingram’s ‘We Are Carver’ returns to Columbus, GA ///

October 9, 2026

The Columbus Museum will present “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver,” an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus, Georgia. On view October 10, 2026–February 14, 2027, the exhibition brings together portraits, candid photographs, conversations, and classroom ephemera that offer…

Portrait of a Marriage ///

October 5, 2026

The Met’s new exhibition, ‘Past Continuous,’ pairs abstract expressionist Lee Krasner with her more celebrated husband, Jackson Pollock. Thankfully, the museum succeeded in not subordinating her to Pollock’s lasting fame.

Stitching Mississippi Stories ///

October 5, 2026

Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art. In a storefront studio on the main street of her small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, Fussell turns donated fabric, photographs from her father, and her kids’ videos of fireworks, lake jumps and pick-up truck hijinks into complex textile works of…

Columbus native Amy Sherald on cover of Time’s first art power list. Where to see her work ///

September 22, 2026

Amy Sherald, the Columbus-born artist who painted former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait, is on the inaugural TIME100 Art list and is the first living painter to appear solo on the magazine’s cover in 50 years. Sherald remembers being one of only several Black students attending a private school in Columbus. According to the National Museum of Women in…