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Shelby Shadwell – EMERGENCY BLANKETS
January 18 – February 16, 2024
Reception: Thursday, January 18, 4:30-6:00

Shelby is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Wyoming. Born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, Shelby received his BFA in 2003 from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in 2006 from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

A two-time recipient of the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council, Shelby actively exhibits across the nation. His more recent exhibitions include LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!, a solo show at the South Bend Museum of Art, DRAWN at Manifest Creative Research Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, and Drawing Discourse at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Shelby was awarded a solo exhibition at the APEX Space at the Portland Art Museum their Gallery and collaborating on educational opportunities at their Drawing Center in Cincinnati, OH.

Shelby was recently honored with the Stone & Deguire Contemporary Art Award in the amount of $25,000 from his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Current and upcoming 2023 solo exhibition venues include Artworks Contemporary Art Center in Loveland, CO, STRATA Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, CO, and the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Liz Ensz - Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes
January 16 – February 8, 2024
Reception: Thursday, February 8, 4:30-6:00

LIZ ENSZ was born in Minnesota (unceded Dakota, Chippewa, Ojibwe land) to a resourceful family of penny-savers, metal scrappers, and curators of cast-offs. Liz received a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005), and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013).

Ensz has exhibited their textiles, installation and sculptural work internationally, including The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; Frontviews Gallery, Berlin, Germany; HTW University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Culture, Berlin, Germany; Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; and Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL.

Their work has been supported by The John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Franconia Sculpture Park, City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant, The Creative Baltimore Fund, and The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Fellowship, among others. They currently live and work in Baltimore, Maryland (unceded Piscataway Conoy and Susquahannock land).

Fred Jones - Saving the Planet
February 27 - March 29, 2024
Reception: Saturday, March 2, 4:30-6:00

This exhibition is a presentation of "A Journal of The Spiritual and the Sublime in Nature", a collection of art reproductions, essays, quotations, and statements.

Jones earned a National Diploma in design in 1961 from Cardiff College of Art in Wales, U.K. plus an Art Teachers Diploma from the University of Wales in 1962. In 1965 he earned a Master of Education degree from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1970-71, Jones attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing a Master of Fine Art in printmaking. In 1979, he attended Atelier 17 Paris. In 1987, he returned to the University of Wisconsin as an Honorary Fellow to study Computer Mediated Art.

Jones joined the @ 2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ art faculty in 1968 as an instructor in Art Education, Design, and Drawing after teaching for two years at Chester College of Art in England. Jones developed the Silkscreen and Computer Mediated Art programs. Jones is the recipient of five Faculty Excellence Awards, four Summer Stipend Research Awards and the Distinguished Faculty Lecture award.

Perry Pollock & Jason Peot - Considerations
February 20 – March 21, 2024
Reception: Thursday, March 21, 4:30-6:00

Jason Peot and Perry Pollock have been faculty colleagues for over twenty years in the Art and Design Department at Harper College in Palatine, IL—one of the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Peot oversees the design and sculpture curriculum and Pollock, the drawing and painting curriculum. Both artists work in a non-representational mode and emphasize meticulous attention to design and craft. There is an austerity and geometry that binds their work, but their conceptual intentions offer very different considerations.

The works in this exhibition are juxtaposed to highlight both artists' shared and contrasting approaches to art making. Pollock's minimalist objects are designed independent of their surroundings. In contrast, Peot's work directly references it's environment or location. The work in this two-person exhibition focuses on these similarities and differences to offer viewers a unique experience.

Kyla Culberson - Suspended Moments
ANNEX GALLERY
March 19 - April 11, 2024
Reception: Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6:00

Kyla Culbertson is a ceramic artist from Canton, Illinois who is currently residing in Tempe, Arizona. In 2017, she graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from @ 2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. In 2019, she was a post-baccalaureate student at the University of Iowa and was awarded Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist. She attended a residency at James May Gallery in Wisconsin. She has exhibited her work regionally and nationally in exhibitions such as Art of Clay National Juried Exhibition in North Carolina, Conroe Art League 4th National International Exhibition in Texas, The Akar Yunomi Invitational in Iowa City, and The Almighty Cup Exhibition in New York City. Culberston completed an MFA in ceramics at Arizona State University in the Fall of 2023.

Juried Student Exhibition
Juror: Samantha Haring
April 9 – May 3, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, April 9, 4:30-6:00

Molly Borth – FED UP
BFA Exhibition / Mavigliano Brabec Senior Prize
April 8 - April 17, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, April 16, 4:30-6:00

Grace Lessen – Whimsical Observations
BFA Exhibition
April 22 - April 29, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, April 23, 4:30-6:00

Rivers Ashton – To Be Changed
BFA Exhibition
May 2 – May 10, 2024
RReception: Thursday, May 2, 4:30-6:00

Molly Paccione - Thinking It Through
BA Exhibition
April 16 - April 25 2024
Reception: Thursday, April 18, 4:30-6:00

Emily Sharon - Older But Not Yet Wiser
BA Exhibition
April 30 - May 10 2024
Reception: Tuesday, May 7, 4:30-6:00