Past Exhibitions 2025
All These Growing Things
All These Growing Things presents contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang Museum collection that explore questions of becoming and belonging. It will examine connections to personal, ancestral, and cultural histories; masking as an approach to both reveal and conceal identities; and the possibilities of transformation. How do we grow as individuals, in relationships, and alongside the communities to which we belong? How do we grow with or against the natural world, and what will become of human-animal-plant connections in the future? In a museum, how does a collection of artwork grow in conversation with urgent issues in our communities?
Importantly, the exhibition foregrounds the interdisciplinary teaching and learning that is central to the Tang’s mission, offering the museum as a space for growth and transformation activated by creative thought and provocative discourse.
Accelerate
As part of the museum’s 25th anniversary celebrations in 2025, the Tang is reflecting on its mission as a laboratory for interdisciplinary teaching and learning with art by re-engaging the Accelerate initiative, which aims to enhance academic excellence, build broader and more diverse audiences for museum exhibitions, and strengthen an appreciation of, and facility for, humanistic inquiry.
Beginning in August 2025, the Tang will host three year-long collection exhibitions that offer interdisciplinary teaching and learning opportunities to both our campus and wider audiences. These exhibitions—each organized around a distinct theme—allow visitors to see, experience, and teach with the museum’s diverse collection of 20,000 objects, which includes myriad styles, materials, timeframes, places of origin, and more. In these three years, we will find uncommon connections between artworks and experience the value of art for both its own sake and as a tool to catalyze creativity, promote civil discourse around urgent issues, and initiate new ways of understanding the world around us.
