Air, Earth, Fire, Water: Female Artists in the TMA Collection

Friday, March 27 | Gallery 1

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Experience the Modern and Contemporary galleries one final time before they go off view for a complete reimagining through 2027. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Associate Curator Paige Rozanski leads a tour shaped by the four elements, air, earth, fire, and water, spotlighting works by Vera Liskova, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Teresita Fernández, and Kay WalkingStick from TMA’s collection. Along the way, gain a preview of how Modern and Contemporary art will return in a bold new form with the 2027 reinstallation.

List of Works

AIR, Gallery 07: Vera Liskova, Echo, 1984

EARTH, Gallery 06: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Alalgura-emu country, June 1990

FIRE, Gallery 02A, Wolfe, Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 4, 2017

WATER, Gallery 04, Kay WalkingStick, Seal Rock Storm, 2023

Paige Rozanski is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Toledo Museum of Art. An interdisciplinary scholar focused on art and cultural history from 1945 to the present, she previously spent over a decade at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., contributing to major exhibitions including The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans and Philip Guston Now. Rozanski holds degrees from Vassar College and Columbia University and is a published writer on postwar and contemporary art. She is passionate about working with living artists and advancing innovative curatorial programming at TMA.