In a city with major universities and a vibrant art scene, Tweed maintains its currency by collecting works from the continually evolving stream of contemporary art from the 1950s and 1960s to the present. The Tweed Museum’s contemporary collection includes a full range of media from paintings, works on paper to sculpture and video installations. The collecting trajectory of the Tweed Museum’s Contemporary Art Collection has been to focus on artists who are addressing social and political issues of our times, such as Emma Amos, Irit Batsry, Max-Carlos Martinez, Julie Mehretu, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Philip Pearlstein, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Preston Singletary, Akio Takamori, and Kara Walker.