The inaugural Re/Framed rotation celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Carter’s founder, Ruth Carter Stevenson, with a selection of works acquired during her lifetime. On view will be works by Stuart Davis, Laura Gilpin, John Henry Hill, Lewis Hine, Peter Hurd, George Inness, Francis Augustus Silva, Marion Post Wolcott, and more.

The daughter of the Museum’s namesake, Amon G. Carter Sr., Stevenson saw that her father’s wishes for a museum for the city of Fort Worth were realized. The Museum opened in 1961 with his extensive collection of American western art. Under Stevenson’s visionary leadership, the Museum broadened its scope to include the best examples from across the broad spectrum of American creativity. Many of the works included in the installation are featured in the Museum’s recent publication, Carter Handbook. Copies are available for purchase in the Museum Shop, where members enjoy a discount.

Re/Framed gives visitors to the Carter a new way to look at the Carter’s collection. Several times a year, artwork will be rotated allowing guests to see the works through a different lens. Works that are part of Re/Framed are located throughout the Museum’s collection galleries and can be identified by the window icon on their labels.

Sculptor Leonardo Drew is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first floor galleries with a new site-specific commission. Known for his large-scale, multi-dimensional installations, Drew employs organic materials to create topographies that are at once looming in size and stunning in their intricacies. For Number 235T, Drew will anchor sculptural pieces that he refers to as “planets” and surround them with hundreds of smaller objects as he works to identify the interconnectedness of them all.

This commission is the latest in a series initiated by the Carter in 2015 to respond to works in the Museum’s collection through the perspective of American artists working today.

In continuation of the multiyear outdoor sculpture program launched in 2022 to activate the Museum’s grounds, Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction will mark the third installation in this initiative. Turk’s series comprises vertical sound sculptures of bird species that are endangered or are extinct. Each artwork is a sculptural visualization of the call of a bird that has reached, or surpassed, a tipping point. Whether it is a story of loss (the Ivory-billed Woodpecker) or regeneration (Bald Eagle), each sculpture stands as a totemic memorial to a particular species, reminding us of our role in the precious and delicate—and quickly changing—environment. Accompanying each sculpture is a QR code containing the audio files of the bird’s song; many of the species inhabit, or were previously found, in Texas.

North Texas–based artist Darryl Lauster’s Testament (2018–20) will inaugurate a series of outdoor creative projects implemented by the Carter. Through the examination of America’s past and present, Lauster’s bronze obelisk calls for the viewer to be a critical reader of information and to look at the function of text in different contexts. Testament combines pop culture references with quotes from primarily U.S. foundational documents bringing to question what we know about our nation’s history and promises