"bell hooks' Creative Community & Artistic Legacy Exhibit Opens at Turchin Center for Visual Arts in Boone"

Key facts

• belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks is on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, through October 3, 2026.
• The exhibition is curated by writer E. Gale Greenlee and artist shauna caldwell and presented in partnership with the bell hooks center at Berea College in Berea, KY.
• bell hooks was a scholar, theorist, teacher, Black feminist intellectual, artist, and art collector from the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky.
• The bell hooks center closed in 2021 after hooks’ passing and is set to reopen this year.
• The exhibition includes hooks’ when i remember i see red (date unknown), displayed as 10 framed prints of works on paper on a stark red wall.
• Works by Alison Saar (Razin’ Cane II, 2025) and Elizabeth Catlett (Sharecropper, 1972) are included.
• Textile artists in the show are rosy petri, Stephanie Santana, Megan G. King, and Rebecca-Eili M. Long; sculptors are Joy tabernacle KMT-Battle and Jasmine Best.
• Greenlee and caldwell are releasing a book in summer 2027 expanding on the exhibition’s curatorial aim.