ETSU Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Charles Sherrod Library proudly present ‘Founder: Pamela Pecchio’ currently on view at the Third Floor Gallery of Sherrod Library in commemoration of the country’s 250 Celebrations. The exhibition features photography by renowned woman artist Pamela Pecchio curated by Slocumb Galleries curatorial fellow and Appalachian photographer Katie Sheffield.

Founder (2011-2022) began as a look at the US Founding Fathers through the artist’s lens as a new mother and female professor at the University of Virginia. The university was founded by one of the country’s most prominent patriarchs, Thomas Jefferson, whose presence is palpable. Reflecting on the intersection of personal, political, gendered, and geographic histories, Pecchio brought the local landscape (and its traces of the Founding Fathers) into the studio to scan, print, collage, and re-photograph it. The project expanded when the artist relocated in 2015 to the Boston area, the birthplace of the American Revolution.