In 2025, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in partnership with the Art Bridges Texas Cohort, will launch Home, Love, and Loss, an exhibition that travels across Texas, examining the intimate and universal cycles of family, connection, and change. This poignant collection of 66 works, drawn from the holdings of Art Bridges, the Carter, and several Texas museums, offers a textured exploration of domesticity, relationships, and the inevitable fractures of time.
The exhibition opened on February 14, 2025, at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, before the show travels to the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa (March 11–June 16, 2026), and the Amarillo Museum of Art (May 31–September 14, 2025). As the third major exhibition spearheaded by the Carter’s Art Bridges Texas Cohort, Home, Love, and Loss underscores the cohort’s ongoing mission to expand public access to American art and cultivate collaborative exhibition models that transcend geographical boundaries.
Structured as a meditation on the evolving nature of human relationships, Home, Love, and Loss presents a range of artistic media, including painting, photography, video, and works on paper. The thematic scope is broad yet deeply personal, encompassing ancestral histories, domestic rituals, and chosen families while also grappling with the disintegration of these bonds through separation, grief, and resilience.
“This exhibition examines many layers of living, depicting a wide variety of lives and what connects us through human experiences,” notes Deborah Fullerton, curator of exhibitions at the Art Museum of South Texas. “These selections of art provide ways to connect to a broader appreciation for human connection through compassion, resilience, and the power of memories.”
Among the featured works are emotionally charged depictions of family life, intimate portrayals of solitude, and striking visual narratives that address displacement and loss. Whether through a tenderly rendered domestic scene or an abstracted representation of personal upheaval, these pieces collectively reframe the idea of home as a dynamic, shifting construct rather than a static refuge.
Funded by the Art Bridges Foundation, the Home, Love, and Loss exhibition is part of a broader initiative to make American art more widely accessible through strategic museum partnerships. Since 2017, Art Bridges, founded by philanthropist Alice Walton, has facilitated over 900 projects across 240 institutions nationwide, emphasizing the power of collaborative curation and collection-sharing. The Art Bridges Cohort Program, launched in 2022, has generated over 100 exhibitions designed to foster deeper engagement with communities and new interpretive approaches to American art.
For the Carter, this initiative represents both a natural extension of its mission and a commitment to training emerging curatorial professionals. “Through this partnership, the Carter continues to build on its long history of collaborating with communities and other institutions to provide opportunities for people to explore the wonder of American art in their own lives and spaces,” says Andrew J. Walker, the museum’s executive director.
By weaving together disparate visual narratives, Home, Love, and Loss presents a complex portrait of human experience. It invites viewers to consider their own histories—what is inherited, what is lost, and what is redefined. In its cross-state journey, the exhibition not only brings significant works of art into new contexts but also fosters dialogue on the evolving meaning of home in contemporary life.
As the exhibition circulates through Texas, it reinforces the notion that while home may be a place, it is ultimately shaped by the people, emotions, and stories that define it.