Enrich your summer travel plans with these destinations, each offering an art-immersive experience:

Until Nov. 30, Dusti Bongé Art Foundation, founded in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1995, presents Dusti Bongé: Modernist of the South. Noted as one of the most influential modernist painters to emerge from the South during the 20^th century, Bongé’s work explores modern movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition is on view at Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and includes 24 works created on paper, canvas and Masonite.

From Aug. 15 to 24, the 2025 Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts will be in full swing in the iconic mountain resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. This year’s festival marks the public premiere of SPARK, the creation of the Dutch Studio Roosegaarde. Evoking fireflies, this light performance can be enjoyed after 9:30 p.m. on evenings from Aug. 15 to 17, when thousands of luminous sparks populate the air, shifting in response to the movements of viewers. This memorable performance helps celebrate Breckenridge’s DarkSky initiative, with the goal of enhancing human and environmental health through the reduction of light pollution.

At Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, visitors can immerse themselves in four centuries of artistic, economic, political, diplomatic, culinary and technological endeavor as part of the Venice and the Ottoman Empire exhibition, on view through Sept. 1. More than 150 works are included, ranging from painting and prints to glass, metalwork and textiles. A highlight of this experience is a collection of objects salvaged from the wreck of the Gagliana Grossa, a Venetian merchant vessel that sank while voyaging from Venice to Istanbul in1583.

Quilt enthusiasts will enjoy exploring outstanding examples of the art in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, also at Frist Art Museum (organized by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts), and on view until Oct. 12. Around 50 quilts and coverlets are part of the exhibit, displayed in thematic groups such as “Unseen Hands, Modern Myths and Making a Difference. Visual narrative includes ways in which this art has been used to express the stories of Black and Indigenous Americans, augmented by presenting them in comparison with examples from Mexico, India, France and Great Britain.