Multi-layered research project, “Woven Wind”, – to open at Vanderbilt University Museum of Art February 14, 2026
The Vanderbilt University Museum of Art presents Woven Wind on display in the Cohen Hall Atrium.
Woven Wind
02.14.26–05.10.26 (in the Cohen Hall atrium)
Woven Wind is a multi-layered research project drawing from artistic translations of the Lovell Quitman archive, which includes extensive Quitman Plantation records and photographs of the Civil War era. In a time of social and racial reckoning and division in the U.S., Woven Wind constructs an artistic platform for education, conversation, empathy, and healing. Its artistic team includes artists Vesna Pavlović, Courtney Adair Johnson, Marlos E’van, community advocate Mélisande Short-Colomb, musician/artist Rod McGaha, genealogist Jan Hillegas, and historian Woody Register, director of the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation at the University of the South. Archival research studio and field work, community engagement, genealogical findings, and conversations with the descendants inform the project.
This project has had several exhibitions and public events and among the project team members are Vanderbilt University Faculty – Vesna Pavlović (Department of Art) and Rod McGaha (Blair School of Music).