Join the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History virtually on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 6pmMT (5pmPST, 7pmCST and 8pmEST) as artists Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds discuss their creative collaboration and how the traveling exhibition “Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon” grew out of their two individual photo essays on defensive and offensive Cold War architecture. They will also discuss how the work became a unique photography book through design decisions based on United States nuclear policy.

Advance registration is required, cost $10 to attend virtually, museum members are free to attend.

The publication “COUNTDOWN” has officially been printed by Wilco Art Books and Yoffy Press. You can pre-order a copy at Yoffy Press. The books have been bound and are currently on their way stateside with an expected arrival date in mid-November.

RECENT ACQUISITION: The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee has acquired two prints from Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.

RECENT ACQUISITION: As part of the Artist Residency program in the Florida Everglades and AIRIE.org an image from The Four Moments of the Sun: Hidden Lands of Florida’s Maroon Communities is now a part of the permanent collection at Everglades National Park.

In conjunction with the exhibition The Four Moments of the Sun: Hidden Lands of Florida’s Maroon Communities AIRIE (Artist in Residence in Everglades) presents an artist reception and talk entitled Everglades as Sanctuary: Past and Present.

Sundays in the Park presents 2018 AIRIE Fellow Jeanine Michna-Bales in conversation with environmental and public lands advocate Audrey Peterman. The talk is to be followed by a nature hike at Anhinga Trail.

As part of the debut of the landmark group exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, artist Jeanine Michna-Bales participated in the public symposium Public Memory in the New South on January 12, 2019 at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

A limited edition Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad portfolio is now part of The Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection at UT Dallas.

The collection is marked by both its diversity and high quality and contains 704 photographs dating from 1940 to the present, as well as 664 books and 531 periodicals relating to modern and contemporary art and photography, and 2014 aviation photographs. The archive includes a number of strengths, including notable representation of the work of women artists, socially conscious photographers, and photographers from Texas. Numerous images documenting American history, including several from the Civil Rights movement, comprise a central highlight.

Another acquisition by a teaching museum that will hopefully continue to spark conversations about our country’s shared history. Princeton University Art Museum acquired two limited edition prints of Through Darkness to Light for their permanent collection.

The University of North Texas has acquired a limited edition portfolio of Through Darkness to Light for their permanent collection.

I am honored to have four limited edition prints from Through Darkness to Light become a part of the permanent collection at the Lehigh University Art Galleries in Bethlehem, PA, especially since it is a teaching museum. Their mission is to inspire, develop, and promote visual literacy and cultural understanding through educational opportunities that transform the traditional classroom experience. The galleries are seen as an educational laboratory for the whole community. In keeping with their goal, Decision to Leave was a part of their exhibition Photographs are Ideas: Selections from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Museum Collection in the fall of 2018.

Arnika Dawkins Gallery had Through Darkness to Light on view at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD at Pier 94 in New York City from April 5 - 8, 2018. Booth 710. 

PDNB Gallery, booth 523, also had several images on display from Through Darkness to Light.

I am honored to have three limited edition prints and a portfolio from Through Darkness to Light become a part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Thank you to curator Malcolm Daniel, Joan Morgenstern, Carola and John Herrin and Joe Aker for appreciating the work and for making these acquisitions possible.

Through Darkness to Light was the visual component of The Toronto North Star Festival August 8-13th, 2017. The Festival featured The Harriet Tubman Institute, The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Ballet Creole, and the Yale Alumni Chorus. 

Through Darkness to Light was selected to be a part of the 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia. An exhibition of the series opened at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center with an Artist Talk and Book Signing and was on view through June 30, 2017. Michna-Bales also participated in a panel discussion with Colin Rafferty author of Hallow this Ground and was a visiting artist at two area high schools.

Princeton Architectural Press released Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad in April 2017. The book and various exhibitions of the series have received extensive media coverage including articles from In Sight from The Washington Post, The New York Times Lens Blog, The Los Angeles Times, O Magazine and others.

Through Darkness to Light was selected for the 2016 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award: Documentarians of The American South from Duke University. Forty images from the series are part of the permanent collection of the David M. Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Jeanine Michna-Bales was named to the 2014 Critical Mass Top 50 for the project Through Darkness to Light from Photolucida.