Willie Cole: All These Growing Things: Tang Teaching Museum

Willie Cole’s Stowage (1997, woodcut print on Kozo-shi paper) is now on view at the Tang Teaching Museum in the exhibition All These Growing Things,through July 19, 2026.

The year-long group exhibition features contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang collection that explore questions of becoming and belonging. Organized around four central ideas—Ancestries, Masks, Transformations, and Hybrids—the exhibition raises questions about how we experience and understand the world, now and in the future. How do individual, familial, and national ancestries present themselves in our daily lives? How does masking conceal and reveal different aspects of our identities? What transformations are happening around us—for ourselves, our communities, and the natural world? How can we be more intentional in connecting to all that surrounds us?

All These Growing Things is curated by Rebecca McNamara, the Frances Young Tang ’61 Associate Curator.