By james art 
The work of three Tallahassee artists will be featured in a major traveling exhibit called “The Spirit in the Land” that will be on display for several months at the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville.
The contemporary art exhibit, which “examines today’s pressing environmental issues from a cultural perspective,” features local artists Alison Yanae Hamilton, Alexa Kleinbard and Jim Roche.
The exhibition also includes works by more than two dozen other artists from the United States, Africa, South America, India and the Caribbean. Runs November 9 through February 9, 2025 at the Cummer Museum, 829 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville.
Roche said in an email that most people don’t realize that multiple Tallahassee artists “are working and showing whenever possible all the time.”
“A lot of contemporary artists are now dealing with climate change and what artists can do about it,” Roche said. “Many artists are making works that suggest that overpopulation on earth is taking away a natural world that is slipping away, and we humans need to stop using the natural world we still have.”
Spirit in the Land was organized by Trevor Schoonmaker, Mary DBT, and James H. Semans, director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The Ford Foundation provided lead support; The Andy Warhol Visual Arts Foundation provided major support.
The exhibition, which began at the Nasher Museum before going to the Perez Art Museum Miami, was also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contact Jeff Burlew at [email protected] or 850-599-2180.
This article originally appeared on the Tallahassee Democrat: Works by three Tallahassee artists featured in Spirit in the Land exhibit