Reception: Thursday, Feb. 12, 4-7 p.m.
“A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back” features artworks drawn from — and created in response to — the 2022 anthology edited by former School of Art Professor gloria j. wilson, Dr. Amelia (Amy) Kraehe and Dr. Joni B. Acuff, published by the University of Arizona Press.
The exhibition, co-curated by wilson, Acuff and Gallery Director lydia see, is on view until Feb. 20 in the School of Art’s Joseph Gross Gallery, honors the groundbreaking 1981 feminist anthology edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga — “This Bridge Called My Back” — and invites visitors to immerse themselves in text, audio, video, installation and visual art.
In addition to Wilson and Acuff, artists in the exhibition are Sama Alshaibi , Charlene Carruthers, Keya Crenshaw , Lizz Denneau, Michelle Bae Dimitriadis, Dionne Custer Edwards, Pamela Harris Lawton, Vanessa López, Sonia Mañjon, Tyiesha Radford Shorts, Olivia Richardson, Aram Han Sifuentes and Lisa Whittington.
A reception and a Q&A panel with the artists and curators will be held Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, from 4 to 7 p.m. In the nearby Lionel Rombach Gallery, there will be a selection of solo and group shows including undergraduate, graduate and cross-campus collaborators.
Wilson is now undergraduate studies chair and an associate professor of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University.
Images below: Two installation views of the exhibition … and Dr. Carissa DiCindio‘s Arts-Based Research class sitting in the “sitting room” area of the exhibition. Guests are invited to read related texts and hang out in the sitting room during open gallery hours, Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
