Zuckerman Museum
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Spring 2026 Exhibitions
Don Russell Clayton Gallery & Malinda Jolley Mortin Gallery
The Art of Paper: Selections of Handmade Paper Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
January 20 - May 1, 2026
Curated by Brett Littman, and Co-curators Susan Gosin and Cynthia Nourse Thompson
The Art of Paper: Selections of Handmade Paper Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, features approximately 65 works that chronicle the pioneering achievements within the discipline of hand papermaking. This selection of works reveals how the field of handmade paper art was a natural advancement of and response to the historic relationship between print and paper. As an example of how innovations in printmaking occurred in tandem with developments in hand papermaking, the exhibition features early prints on handmade paper by artists such as Jasper Johns alongside examples of handmade paper art by artists like Mark Bradford and Glenn Ligon. The exhibition also focuses on the critical role of collaboration between artists and master papermakers in professional studios. Significant collaborations from participating publishers such as Tyler Graphics, Pace Editions, Mixografia, The Brodsky Center, and Island Press are represented alongside seminal works produced at Dieu Donné. Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the field, Dieu Donné remains instrumental in creating new handmade paper art with leading contemporary artists. The exhibition debuts at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, which simultaneously marks the 50th Anniversary of Dieu Donné.
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About the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
At age 14, Jordan D. Schnitzer bought his first work of art from his mother’s Portland, Oregon contemporary art gallery, evolving into a lifelong avocation as collector. He began collecting contemporary prints and multiples in earnest in 1988. Today, the collection exceeds 190,000 works and includes many of today’s most important contemporary artists. It has grown to be one of the country’s largest private print collections. He generously lends work from his collection to qualified institutions. The Foundation has organized over 110 exhibitions and has had art exhibited at over 150 museums. Mr. Schnitzer is also President of Harsch Investment Properties, a privately owned real estate investment company based in Portland, Oregon, owning and managing office, multi-tenant industrial, multi-family and retail properties in six western states. For more information about the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, please visit jordanschnitzer.org.
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About Dieu Donné
Dieu Donné was founded in 1976 by Susan Gosin and Bruce Wineberg to explore the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art medium. We introduce artists from a wide variety of practices to the creative possibilities in hand papermaking, fostering experimentation and creating innovative works of art. Our work is realized through extensive collaborations with artists. We strive to teach a new visual language, providing a transformative experience that often leads to artistic breakthroughs. We share this work with the community through our gallery, public and educational programs.
Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation © Willie Cole. Photography by Aaron Wessling.
Ruth V. Zuckerman Collection: Inside Out
Long-term display located in the Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion
Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves
For the preservation of artwork, museums must often hold their permanent collections in storage rather than in public view. "Visible storage," maintains the necessary safe-keeping of the objects while allowing museum visitors to see and study work that would otherwise be unavailable. This installation employs visible storage to showcase a substantial number of Ruth Zuckerman's sculptures and drawings from the KSU Permanent Collection, while making aspects of a collection's care transparent for the public.
Project Walls
Image credit: Learning by Osmosis II, 2024. Monoprint (woodcut, linocut, screenprint, cut paper).
Project Wall North: Stephanie Smith
August 26, 2025 - July 24, 2026
The ZMA is pleased to present the work of printmaker Stephanie Smith. Smith is an Atlanta-based artist, printmaker, and educator who makes expressive hand-pulled prints and artist books. Her works, composed of both narrative and symbolic images, explore themes of memory, loss, time, chance, and change. Smith earned a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the University of Georgia. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West Georgia where she teaches printmaking in the School of Visual and Performing Arts and is the current manager of the UWG Vault Gallery in Newnan.
Project Wall West: Vadis Turner
August 26, 2025 - July 23, 2027
The ZMA is pleased to present a newly commissioned artwork, Crosscurrent Grid, by artist Vadis Turner. Turner has had solo exhibitions at the Frist Art Museum, the Huntsville Museum of Art, and the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2016, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her work is included in numerous permanent collections such as the Museum of Arts and Design, Brooklyn Museum and 21C Museum Hotels among others. She teaches at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, TN.
Image credit: Crosscurrent Grid, 2025. 80 x 295 inches. Satin ribbon, gold leaf, and acrylic resin.
Image credit: For Maude, 2019. Pigmented acaba fiber.
Project Wall East: Melissa Harshman
August 26, 2025 - July 24, 2026
The ZMA is pleased to present the work of Athens, Georgia based artist Melissa Harshman. For Maude, composed of numerous components of handmade paper floral forms, will be on view through July 24, 2026. She has taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. She was awarded a University of Georgia Senior Faculty Research Grant in 2019 titled Explorations in Papermaking. She was one of the inaugural Arts Lab Fellowship recipients from the University of Georgia for 2022/23, focusing on papermaking wall installations.