See selections from the Frye’s collection in a new light. For Artists’ choice, we opened the vault to five local creatives working across music, dance, poetry, theater, and beyond—asking which objects resonated with them from their diverse artistic perspectives. Their selections gather around themes of representation and identity, grief and love, solitude and isolation, and even dystopian despair. The resulting juxtapositions are surprising, personal, and occasionally provocative—reminding us that the story of an artwork is never fixed but continually rewritten by all who encounter it.

By inviting artists from different creative disciplines to curate works from the collection, the exhibition proposes new ways of engaging with familiar objects. Each selection reflects an individual perspective, revealing unexpected connections across time, medium and subject matter. The dialogue between artworks and their guest curators highlights the ways personal experience, artistic practice and cultural context shape how collections are interpreted and understood.

Artists’ choice celebrates the museum as a space of ongoing conversation, where artworks continue to generate new meanings through changing audiences and viewpoints. Rather than presenting a definitive reading of the collection, the exhibition embraces multiple interpretations, encouraging visitors to reflect on how art acquires significance through lived experience, emotional response and the ever-evolving relationship between object and observer.