“more-than-human” opens at Bradbury Art Museum on the A-State campus

Bradbury Art Museum, on the Arkansas State University campus, has opened its newest exhibition: more-than-human. It runs from 20 August to 9 October 2026, and as with every exhibition at the museum, admission is free.

An exhibition that asks you to look beyond yourself

more-than-human brings together art, science, Indigenous worldviews and technology to ask what the world looks like when it is not seen through human senses. Through immersive projections, sound, scent, data and interactive media, the works reveal relationships that are usually invisible to us — the communication of forests and plants, microscopic ecosystems, atmospheric change, and the interconnected lives that surround us.

In the work by Jane Tingley with Hrysovalanti Maheras and Ilze Briede [Kavi], sensor data gathered in a forest is rebuilt as moving projection: light, wind, CO₂, air humidity, rainfall, soil temperature — each reading becomes a layer of colour on the wall.

In another room, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning and Mary Bunch set out a microscope so that visitors can take a drop of water and look for themselves. What appears on the monitor is magnified into a large projection across the gallery wall — a whole ecosystem inside something we treat as clear and empty.

Take it slowly

The museum invites visitors to slow down and move at their own pace. Seating and exhibition catalogues are available throughout the gallery, and a tea station offers a warm cup to enjoy while spending time with the works. Several pieces are interactive and invite you to become part of the experience rather than only look at it.

At its heart, more-than-human asks us to reconsider our place within these systems — not as separate from nature or at its centre, but as participants in a much larger, interconnected world. What might change when we slow down, pay attention, and begin to recognise the lives, perspectives and relationships unfolding beyond our own?

Exhibiting artists

Ursula Biemann, Marko Cindric, Lindsey french, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning + Mary Bunch, Suzanne Morrissette, François Quévillon, Rasa Šmite & Raitis Šmits, and Jane Tingley with Hrysovalanti Maheras and Ilze Briede [Kavi].

Visitor information

• Exhibition: more-than-human, 20 August – 9 October 2026
• Venue: Bradbury Art Museum, Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro, Arkansas — on the Arkansas State University campus
• Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 17:00
• Admission: Always free
• Official information: bradburyartmuseum.org

For international students at A-State, this is one of the easiest campus resources to overlook: a contemporary art museum with a rotating exhibition programme, within walking distance, at no cost.