As the creator of subversive cult films like Pink Flamingos (1972) and surprise successes such as Hairspray (1988), John Waters has exuberantly embraced camp, surreal tones, and comedy. This retrospective at the recently opened Academy Museum sprawls across the career of the inimitable “Pope of Trash.” It includes costumes, props, handwritten scripts, scrapbooks, and other objects to spotlight his impact on American independent cinema by showing the auteur’s process behind the scenes. academymuseum.org

Preston Singletary has stated that his “work with glass transforms the notion that Native artists are only best when traditional materials are used.” This traveling show demonstrates how he uses glassblowing and media like video and audio to engage with traditions of Pacific Northwest Indigenous art and honor his Tlingit heritage while finding new pathways to storytelling. For this stop at OKCMOA, the First Americans Museum hosted the Native Sound Summit on November 11, featuring Singletary and other creators. okcmoa.com

Visitors who make it out to this clandestine museum built from sharp angles of red sandstone on a former cow pasture will find it is devoted to one artist: Jasper Johns. The private art collection at the foothills of the Roaring Fork Valley is designed to be a place of calm. Its exhibitions that rotate once a year also highlight contemporaries of the American artist, like Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. Seasons of Change, though, concentrates on Johns and how he has grappled with the passage of time. powersartcenter.org