Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Welcome! Spectacle & Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy is an exhibition that explores the underlying power structures that we live with daily, but which often seem invisible. Five renowned photographers -- Mark Curran, LaToya Ruby Frazier, elin o'Hara slavick, Trevor Paglen, and Greta Pratt -- together consider power differentials in the United States and beyond from the human faces of workers and workings of the market economy to technologies of stealth surveillance, the relationship of health to the environment, and symbols of patriotism and nationalism. Spectacle & Scaffolding brings these together for each of our considerations as viewers and participants in systems of hierarchy.

The traveling exhibition will be available over two academic/fiscal years, from Fall 2018 to Spring 2020, in both full and concentrated forms of 85 and 40 linear feet. A full-color digital catalog and educational materials for classroom, student, and community use will be made available to exhibiting institutions. Speaking engagements are also possible.

Please review more detailed information in the exhibit prospectus on the right and feel free to contact us!

Ann Pegelow Kaplan
Curator and Assistant Professor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies 
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Art
Appalachian State University
Member of the University of North Carolina System of Higher Education