Topher Lineberry (@very_lineberry) profiles “belonging to place”, an exhibition looking at the creative community and artistic legacy of the influential Black feminist writer, activist, and cultural critic bell hooks at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (@turchincenter), Boone.

“Curated by writer E. Gale Greenlee and artist shauna caldwell, who connected through their research and mutual contacts at the bell hooks center, the exhibition brings hooks’ legacy to western North Carolina in order to foster a dialogue across the broader Appalachian region about art and feminist praxis.” Read more from the review at the link in bio. “belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks” is on view at Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC, through October 3, 2026. — 1-3. Installation view of “belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks” at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone. Photograph by shauna caldwell and courtesy of Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone.