Gallery Exhibtis
Dates: January 15 – February 27, 2026
Dovetail Practice: Attention Bridge
Dates: August 27 – October 16, 2025
Past Exhibits
Looking back...
Gallery Exhibits
Gregory Schreck: All Are Welcome
August 28th – October 4th
Details on Schreck Exhibit
Jessica Henderson: "Look, Look. There is something."
October 17th – November 14th
Details on Henderson Exhibit
Cherith Lundin: The Garden, The Wall, The Light
January 30 – February 27th
Details on Lundin Exhibit
Student Gallery Exhibits
Unless otherwise noted, these exhibits will be in the Walford Galleries.
- Fall Graduate Senior Show
Reception: Friday, November 15th, 5:00pm
Open: November 14th – December 13th
Fireside Room, Lower Beamer - 12x12x12x12
Reception: Thursday, December 5th, 4:00pm
Open: December 2nd – January 16th - Senior Shows Round I
Reception: Friday, March 21st, 5:00pm
Open: March 20th – April 1st - Senior Shows Round II
Reception: Friday, April 11th, 5:00pm
Open: April 10 – 22nd - Commencement Show
Reception: May 11th, 5:00pm
Open: May 1st– 11th
HARD EDGES / SOFT FOCUS
Kaye Lee Patton, Melanie Pankau, and Heather Jones
January 11 - February 2, 2024
Curated by Michelle Westmark Wingard, this exhibition featured installation, painting, and textile work by Kaye Lee Patton, Melanie Pankau, and Heather Jones. It explored themes of abstraction as they relate to ideas of identity/belonging, physicality/presence, and matrilineal connections to the history/culture of painting.
The Architecture of Prayer
February 8 – March 1, 2024
Curated by Amanda Iglesias '14, The Architecture of Prayer is an international survey of the contemporary church. The exhibition showcased drawings and travel photography of historic church buildings in dialogue with new projects built between 1999 and the present, contributed by over 20 global and local architecture firms. This exhibition was featured in Walford Galleries and Marj Meade Gallery and included site-specific sketches of Armerding. More about The Architecture of Prayer can be found here, and an interview between Matthew Milliner and Amanda Iglesias ’14 can be found here. Photos are by Marissa Iglesias ’16.
Rainbow Lexicon: Experiments in Light & Color
Mara Baker
August 23 – September 22, 2023
Rainbow Lexicon showcased a new site-specific light installation as well as a selection of paintings, animations, collages, and photographs focused on Baker’s ongoing experiments with light and color. The works in the exhibition highlighted the interplay between synthetic high-contrast colors of the urban environment and the more nuanced color of naturally derived inks made from weeds, wildflowers, bark, and insects. Through Mara Baker's thoughtful and cross-disciplinary interventions, the exhibition highlighted the myriad of ways we experience color.
The Sound of Her Exhale
Justine Chang
September 28 – October 27, 2023
Justine Chang, an artist interested in the gaps between history and memory, showcased her latest project, which began with her grandmother's death and the increase in anti-Asian violence at the height of the pandemic. She sifted through her photographic archive, searching for her grandmother and the women she had overlooked in the past. The work was printed on hanji—Korean paper made from the fibers of the paper mulberry tree.
Unbridled Encounters
Nnenna Okore
November 3 – October 27, 2023
Nnenna Okore's works focused on ecological concerns related to waste, carbon emissions, and energy consumption. Using plant-based materials, she created bioplastics made into large sculptural forms and art installations. Okore’s use of biodegradable materials not only aestheticized ecological issues but also contributed to their solution by producing less waste and posing little risk to the environment.
Hold Your Breath
Joonhee Park
Adams Hall: Walford Galleries
Nov 3 – Dec 9, 2022
Nonword and Upward Juried Student Exhibition
Adams Hall: Walford Galleries
Jan 12–30, 2023
Rituals
Brenton Good, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Marissa Voytenko
Feb 9 – Mar 4, 2022
Winter's Spring: an Ältere Garten
Leslie Iwai
Jan 10 – Feb 2, 2022
What We Do in the Shadows
Alyssa Smith, Cherith Lundin, HwaHyun Kim, Kaye Lee Patton, Leah Samuelson, Maya Shoshani, SoYoung Park
Curated by Kaye Lee Patton
November 22nd – December 16th
Wait. Repeat
Krista Brand and David JP Hooker
September 29th – October 26th
Stranger Fruit
Jon Henry
August 25th – September 23rd
State of the DysUnion II
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
September 30th – October 29th, 2020
VIDEO: State of the DysUnion II Gallery Walkthrough
On Building and Rebuilding
Kelly Kristin Jones
August 26th – September 17th, 2020
Night Desert Garden
Matt Doll
December 12th - January 31st 2020
Blood and Milk
Joonhee Elliot Park
October 3rd - November 1st
Sargasso
Kenneth Steinbach
August 29th - September 26th
How the Light Gets In
Cherith Lundin
January 8th - February 9th
Original Blessing
Greg Halvorsen Schreck
August 29th - September 28th
Art of Protest / Art of Dreams
January 8th - February 9th
Breath/e
Elicia Castle
January 9th - February 9th
Close Contact
Marina Kuchinski
August 21st - September 15th
GAME
Stephen Signa-Avilés
August 21st - September 15th
Land Gap Junction
Leah Samuelson
October 19th - November 17th
Boats and Bridges
Marissa Voytenko
November 20th - December 23rd
Made in Chicago
Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics - Group Show
January 8th - February 11th
Floorplans, Models, Souvenirs
Work by the Weaving Mill
August 22nd - September 23rd
Vigil
David JP Hooker and Joel Sheesley
November 11th - December 21st
The House We ___
Will Carpenter
January 7th - February 12th
Master Printer: Artist and Collaborator
Timothy Sheesley
August 17th - September 24th
Braids & Nails
Sarah Beth Woods
October 12th - November 6th
Bodies in a River - Tracing the Moments of an Iconic Mission
Brad Johnson
November 11th - December 16th
Group Show
Cherith Lundin, Elizabeth R. Curtis, Emily Schroeder Willis
January 13th - February 14th
Ordinary Objects for Ordinary Time: Porcelain Sculpture
Ginger Henry Geyer
August 25th - September 26th
Cola Culture in Tea Time
WangLing Chou
August 25th - September 26th
Uncommon Ground
Joel Sheesley
November 11th - December 18th
Berhampore to Kolkata
Greg Halvorsen Schreck
November 11th - December 18th
Figurative Paintings, 1980 - 2012
Douglas R. Giebel
August 22nd - October 3rd
Bee in Hand
Jeremy Botts
November - December
On the Fly
Judith Raphael
January 25th - February 29th
Self Portrait / Personal Apocalypse
Joel Sheesley
May 9th - June 8th
The Unreality of Objects
David JP Hooker
August - September
Italian Light
Douglas R. Gilbert
October - November
Caught on Tape
Susanna Vagt
November 8th - December 20th
Exposed: undercover
Maggie Meiners
October 20th - November 22nd
Charis: Boundary Crossings
Group Show
August 22nd - September 23rd
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