On View

MoFA is thrilled to host the Tallahassee Watercolor Society’s 2026 Tri-State Annual Juried Water Media Exhibition this summer. Enjoy works by local Florida, Georgia, and Alabama artists. This year’s juror is a nationally renowned watercolor artist and past board director of the American Watercolor Society, Don Andrews. His paintings have received numerous awards, including three awards from the American Watercolor Society, and two Best of Show awards from the New England Watercolor Society. 

You can learn more about the exhibition, TaWS membership, and Don Andrews through the Tallahassee Watercolor Society. 

Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father’s Garden brings together sculpture, image, video, performance, and sound to honor the artistic legacy of Ed Love (1936-1999) and the intergenerational creative practice of choreographer and performer nia love (b. 1963). The exhibition extends nia love’s long-term serial projects g1(host) and UNDERcurrents, which explore the enduring histories of the Middle Passage and transatlantic slavery. This newest iteration continues to invite audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and everyday memory, pivoting on the elemental medium of water.

Commencing with the performance program on August 27, 2026, Floating Metal will immerse audiences in dance, live jazz music, and video projection. The exhibition also marks the first museum presentation of Ed Love’s Beloved series (1988) with metal sculptures commemorating black historical figures, completed shortly before his untimely passing in 1999. As a representative yet under-recognized artist of the Black Arts generation, Ed Love is known for welding discarded metal salvaged from scrap yards into powerful totems of global black consciousness. Likewise driven by the social force and weight of blackness, nia love’s multi-modal movement practice aims to breach the propriety of “dance,” refashioning it as gesture–the embodied memory of movement, geographies, and scales of time gathered and shared through black forms of life and culture.