McCormick Gallery

McCormick Gallery exhibits a range of design work that speaks to broad themes of design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, sustainability, historic preservation, and technology, and to the BAC’s values of social responsibility, accessibility, and diversity.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public so that the entire community can join together for public opening receptions and exhibition related lectures. Come visit us soon!

People viewing the 2022 Graduate Exhibit in the McCormick Gallery.

Native(s)

Basket Houses from the Native(s) exhibit by Hood Studio. Photos by Clelia Cadamuro and Matteo de Mayda.

From MacArthur Fellow, Walter Hood, Native(s) was originally created in response to Lesley Lokko’s call for the 2023 Venice Biennale to center Africa and the African diaspora in conversations about our constructed environments. It includes wooden artifacts, sectional drawings, and wallpaper depicting perspectives of landscapes and narratives. As the exhibit travels to the United States-first to the BAC and then to the University of Virginia (UVA)-it adapts to each host institution and context.

The exhibit and its complementary programming invites audiences to engage in dialogue with the themes explored by Hood through his landscape design and public art. Additional educational and community programming facilitated by the BAC cultivates a broader discourse about these themes in relation to the urban spaces we inhabit. This exhibit contributes to the emerging scholarship of spatial justice through restored narratives of place.

Native(s) poses critical questions and invites discourse about our emergent collective relationship with public and urban spaces, as well as our unequal ability to influence their creation.

This exhibit will be open from August 21, 2024, through January 20, 2025.

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