CATALOGS

Navigating Sea and Stars

2025 Exhibition Catalog
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

Ann Holsberry’s work has me thinking about a recent quote by Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Truth and love have been smacked down so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it’s vulnerable. But truth is like gravity, and carbon and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame.’

Ann’s truth is to express the earth’s preciousness and precariousness through her images and words, and her love is embedded in the beautiful organic forms that make up the exhibition, ‘Ann Holsberry: Navigating Sea and Stars.’

Come to the Maier. Think of it as a gym where you can build and flex your empathy muscles. You will likely find pure joy, too. Tend it. Reinforce your reserves to navigate the journey ahead.

— Martha Kjeseth Johnson, Director, Maier Museum of Art

Migration

2014 Exhibition Catalog with Essay by Maria Porges
de Saisset Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

The migration of birds is instinctive; they follow a path set by an inward genetic compass, across borders that are (for them) meaningless. But the word migration and its offspring—immigration, emigration—represent what could be described as the dominant socio political issue of our time. Holsberry has been considering this issue: the way people move from one country to another, and why—in part, because of its meaning to her personally.

— Excerpt from Maria Porges, 2014, from the catalog Migration