As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Coral Springs Museum of Art is inviting visitors to reflect on the nation through a different lens: the land itself.
Now on view in the museum’s Main Gallery, Across This Land: America at 250 is a contemporary art exhibition presented in commemoration of the nation’s semiquincentennial. Rather than focusing on historical events, political figures, or traditional patriotic imagery, the exhibition explores the American landscape and the places that shape everyday life.
The show features works by a range of artists using different media to examine open horizons, waterways, urban spaces, natural environments, and familiar ground. Together, the pieces encourage visitors to slow down and consider the physical world beneath their feet—the land that connects communities across generations.
For Coral Springs residents, the exhibition offers a meaningful local way to engage with America’s 250th birthday. It asks viewers to think about the country not only as a collection of dates and documents, but as a shared place made up of neighborhoods, roads, parks, coastlines, cities, and quiet corners that help define personal and collective memory.
The exhibition also highlights the power of art to create reflection and conversation. Through close observation, texture, form, color, and material, the artists offer moments of wonder and recognition. Some works may feel expansive and grand, while others may draw attention to ordinary places that are easy to overlook.
Presented alongside Across This Land is Clyde Butcher’s Lifeworks in Photography, a retrospective featuring 45 large-format black-and-white photographs spanning more than 50 years of the renowned photographer’s career. Together, the exhibitions provide a rich look at landscape, place, and the beauty of the natural world.
Across This Land: America at 250 is on view from June 5 through August 1 at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, located at 2855A Coral Springs Drive. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, and admission is free.
