Congratulations to the artists from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation’s collection featured in this month’s artnet article “These 18 Artists Are Having the Biggest Moment at U.S. Museums Right Now.” Our foundation is honored to bring their voices and vision to audiences across the United States and the world! Read below what Artnet’s Ben Davis had to say about these featured artists: -Jeffrey Gibson: “But the first half of 2026 has also seen him honored by an exhibition titled “They Teach Love” at the Boise Art Museum, featuring more than 50 of his works from the Jordan D. Schnitzer collection, explicitly timed to the America 250 celebrations.” -Kara Walker: “The most widely shown artist at the moment, given the huge scope of her group-show appearances.” -Marie Watt: “Watt’s long-touring, four-decade survey “Storywork,” now in Salt Lake City, has made her an enduring presence (like Gibson’s show in Boise, it is from the Jordan D. Schnitzer collection).” -Betye Saar: “Not many artists achieve this unique level of creative influence.” -Kaye WalkingStick: “The Cherokee artist’s paintings, which layer Native designs with landscape imagery, are touring in “Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School,” which juxtaposes her work with that of Hudson River School canvasses from the 19th century.” -Carrie Mae Weems: “The ICA Boston has picked Weems’s work Blues and Pinks 3, an appropriation of classic Civil Rights photos, to respond to America 250.” -Emmi Whitehorse: “Whitehorse’s exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum is extremely unusual, unfolding over the course of a year in two parts, the first closing in mid-June, quickly succeeded by a Part II focused on a different aspect of this Diné painter’s work.” -Jasper Johns: “ … Also seems to get a little bump from the America 250 festivities. He is, at this point, basically part of U.S. history himself.” -Rashid Johnson: “Johnson’s large-scale show, touring from the Guggenheim to Fort Worth, Texas, keeps him in the news.” -Catherine Opie: “Known most of all for her work documenting queer communities, the Los Angeles–based Opie is another figure this month who registers purely via group shows, among them SFMoMA’s current tribute to the legacy of the now-defunct San Francisco Art Institute.” -Martin Puryear: “The beloved 85-year-old master of wood sculpture’s retrospective was co-organized with the MFA Boston, and is currently in -Cleveland, before heading on to Atlanta’s High Museum in the fall.” -vanessa german: “It’s nice to see german have a moment. Based in Pittsburgh, she’s known for mixed-media figures that are giddy with color and energy, evoking ritual power figures.” -Odili Donald Odita: “Through next spring, visitors to MoMA can see this artist’s colorful mural in the lobby, its abstract patterns inspired by different songs.” #JordanSchnitzerFamilyFoundation #Artnet #JeffreyGibson #MarieWatt #BetyeSaar #MuseumExhibitions #ContemporaryArt #TheyTeachLove
