Current Exhibitions
Coulter Fussell, Girls Trip, 2023
Donated textiles, upholstery foam, and batting
HOT WATER
September 2nd - December 6th, 2025
HOT WATER is the first comprehensive survey of Coulter Fussell’s years-long, evolving series
of hand sewn quilted sculptures called “River Raft Quilts.” The works are sewn entirely
from donated clothing and textiles. The series draws directly from her childhood growing
up in Columbus, Georgia and uses the Lower Chattahoochee Valley as the narrative setting.
The quilted wall works and sculptures of the exhibition act as open-ended narrative
vessels for stories of personal escape and tales of dream-seeking. She sews her personal
odysseys as outfitted rafts and guide-maps. They are set to journey on a river rolling
through valleys past bank-side mills, foundries and army bases -- amidst the Southern
economic fallout’s reign upon the natural world. The fantastical works are outfitted
with suggestions of fish nets to store catch, secret money bags, navigational stars,
helicopter landing pads, submarine periscopes, children’s velvet pillows, lures, jigs,
slot-machines and escape hatches leading to the bottom of the river.
Having these works shown at The Bo Bartlett Center, in view of the very stretch of
river that inspired their making, lends a singularity to the exhibition that could
not exist at any other institution.
HOT WATER Exhibition Catalog
(PDF)
Thank you to our sponsors:
Helen & Comer Hobbs
Carol & Bob Nace
View Installation Photos for Coulter Fussell - HOT WATER, 2025
Installation Photos by Travis Dodd
Charles Clary, South Carolina State Fellow
Memento Morididdle, 2024, Hand cut paper and found frames
2024 South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts
September 2nd - December 6th, 2025
Launched in 2017, the South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts project supports some of the best contemporary art in the American South. This exhibition
presents work from the nine 2024 fellowships recipients, one each from Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,
the South Arts region.
The South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellows for Visual Arts exhibition is generously
supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation and Southern First Bank. Learn more about
South Arts by visiting southarts.org.
2024 Southern Prize Exhibition Catalog
(PDF)
Thank you to our sponsors:
George & Ann Swift Family Foundation
View Installation Photos for South Arts 2024
Installation Photos by Travis Dodd
Works from the Bartlett Center's Permanent Collection
Works from the Sandy Bartlett Scarborough Collection of historically important paintings by Bo Bartlett features paintings and drawings
executed by the artist between 1977-2019, currently on view in the Scarborough Gallery.
Below are videos discussing some of the larger works that are a part of the center's
permanent collection:
- Civil War, 1994, Oil on linen, 134 x 204 in.
- Damascus Road, 1988, Oil on linen, 120 x 168 in.
- Good Old Days, 2000, Oil on linen, 94 x 98 in.
- Habeas Corpus, 2006, Oil on linen, 82 x 128 in.
- Hiroshima, 1994, Oil on linen, 134 x 204 in.
- Leviathan, 2000, Oil on linen, 188 x 138 in.
- Object Permanence, 1986, Oil on linen, 120 x 168 in.
- Parents, 1988, Oil on linen, 88 x 112 in.
- Tarmac, 1986, Oil on linen, 88 x 176 in.
- The Last Correspondence of Ray Johnson, 2006, Oil on linen, 88 x 67.5 in.
Bo's Brain
Curated by Bo Bartlett, Bo's Brain is currently installed in the Cheves Archival Gallery with a time-lapse video by Matt Hanner and two channel audio by Man Bartlett.
Watch The Brain with Bo Bartlett