Fall 2025
ATLAS: Historical Works & Recent Journeys of Alberto Rey
September 5 through November 21, 2025
Reception: Friday, September 5, 6 to 9
Visiting Artist Program Lecture: Friday, September 26, 4 pm, McEwen Hall 209
Gallery Talk: Saturday, October 25, 1 pm
This exhibition includes illustrated journal entries from Rey's recent five-month expedition to fourteen countries and twenty-two UNESCO World Heritage sites and a new collection of paintings, drawings, and ceramic works inspired by the voyage, as well as a few important works from his past series. In the exhibition catalog Rey writes, "I am one of the countless artists who have been inspired by Alexander von Humboldt and the Hudson River School artists. I am intrigued by how explorers, scientists, and artists have made the world more accessible to the general public."
Senior Show: Entirely Human
December 5 through 11, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, December 5, 6 to 9 pm
This biannual exhibition includes artist books, ceramics, graphic design (inc. book covers, tarot cards, cat café branding campaign), illustrations, installations, photographs, mixed media paintings, and a pitch bible for an animation series by 17 graduating seniors from the Department of Visual Arts and New Media: Zack Buckner, Chandler Cotter, Jakob Cullen, Gallagher, Brianna Gasper, Adam Giel, Julia Gorman, Jonah Grace, AJ Hanrahan, Madeleine Lasher, Vanessa Lotito, Sam Mackey, Blake Neville, Piper Ridge, Ella Silivestro, Jason Skiff, and Mel Vazquez Correa.
Spring 2026
Department of Visual Arts and New Media Faculty Exhibition
January 27 through February 15, 2026
Reception: Friday, January 30, 6 to 9 pm
Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry
February 24 through April 19, 2026
Reception: Friday, February 27, 6 to 9 pm
Visiting Artist Program Lecture by B.A. Van Sise: Friday, March 27, 4 pm, McEwen Hall 209
Joy Harjo: Drowning Horses, archival pigment print, 16 x 24 inches, © 2017 B.A. Van Sise
Displayed alongside the poems by new and established contemporary poets, B.A. Van Sise's Children of Grass presents an anthology of photographic portraits paying tribute to the poets of today. These magical, inspired, and sometimes subversive photographs, created in collaboration with the subjects and designed as visual riffs on their poetry, not only epitomize the intriguing symbiosis between the two mediums but also ground us in the humanity of storytelling and self-expression.
Many of the most renowned poets working today are included in the exhibition. Literary revolutionaries like Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Nikki Giovanni, Joy Harjo, X.J. Kennedy, Patricia Smith, Ted Kooser, and Joyce Carol Oates are featured as well as the current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon and other new artists including Joseph O. Legaspi, Meg Day, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Nicole Sealey, Danez Smith, Joan Navivuk Kane, and Javier Zamora.
Danez Smith: king the color of space / tower of molasses & marrow, archival pigment print, 16 x 24 inches, © 2017 B.A. Van Sise
"Children of Grass" is toured by Curatorial Exhibitions, Pasadena, California
Senior Show
May 1 through May 10, 2026
Reception: Friday, May 1, 6 to 9 pm
Animatics, animated short film, photography, graphic design, drawing, painting, illustration, and sculpture by graduating seniors in the Department of Visual Arts and New Media
ATLAS: Historical Works & Recent Journeys of Alberto Rey
September 5 through November 21, 2025
Reception: Friday, September 5, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Visiting Artist Program Lecture: Friday, September 26, 4 p.m., McEwen Hall 209
Gallery Talk: Saturday, October 25, 1 p.m.
This exhibition includes illustrated journal entries from Rey's recent five-month expedition to fourteen countries and twenty-two UNESCO World Heritage sites, and a new collection of paintings, drawings, and ceramic works inspired by the voyage, as well as a few important works from his past series. In the exhibition catalog Rey writes, "I am one of the countless artists who have been inspired by Alexander von Humboldt and the Hudson River School artists. I am intrigued by how explorers, scientists, and artists have made the world more accessible to the general public."
Department of Visual Arts and New Media Faculty Exhibition
January 27 through February 15, 2026
Reception: Friday, January 30, 6 to 9 pm
Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry
February 24 through April 19, 2026
Reception: Friday, February 27, 6 to 9 pm
Visiting Artist Program Lecture by B.A. Van Sise: Friday, March 27, 4 pm, McEwen Hall 209
Displayed alongside the poems by new and established contemporary poets, B.A. Van Sise's Children of Grass presents an anthology of photographic portraits paying tribute to the poets of today. These magical, inspired, and sometimes subversive photographs, created in collaboration with the subjects and designed as visual riffs on their poetry, not only epitomize the intriguing symbiosis between the two mediums but also ground us in the humanity of storytelling and self-expression. Children of Grass is toured by Curatorial Exhibitions, Pasadena, California.