Spring Semester 2024
ART DEPARTMENT SENIOR THESIS SHOW
Join us for a celebration of the 2024 Art Department graduates.The Senior Thesis Show is a culminating undergraduate experience(CUE) for Art majors that provides the students with an opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the subject and to reflect on accumulated content and experiences while looking ahead at new paths for the future.
Exhibition: April 29 - May 11, 2024 in Martin Art Gallery
Opening reception: May 1, 2024 from 5-7PM in CA lobby
SUMMER 2024
JAMES F. L. CARROLL: New Works 2020-2023
For over fifty years, Carroll has focused on the process and, most important, asking questions but not looking for answers. The selected works in this exhibition include both the harder surfaces of stretched raw canvas with acrylic markers and the softer buttery surface of carbon papers that literally float like a butterfly.
Exhibition: May 20 - August 15, 2024
Opening reception: Thursday, May 23 from 3-5PM
Martin Art Gallery
MARTIN ART GALLERY: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Enjoy highlights from MAG's permanent collection including Judy Chicago's Birth Certificate, Robert Rauschenberg's Mock Pollen, Imogen Cunningham's Magnolia Blossom, and six large-scale Andy Warhol screenprints which were a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Exhibition: May 20 - November 22, 2024
Baker Center for the Arts Galleria
MICHAEL VAN HUFFEL: Body Shadows
In 2008, Michael Van Huffel was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis, a debilitating yet poorly-understood neuromuscular disease. What followed were eight years of isolation and many experimental treatments. Among other issues, he struggled with feeling distorted, as if his body was betraying him. What was once a healthy, active lifestyle for the artist had become a constant flow of pain and sickness. Van Huffel’s therapist suggested photography as a means of self-examination, allowing Van Huffel the opportunity to contend with and accept how his body was changing. The artist began photographing his shadow as a metaphor for the bodily distortion he was experiencing but as he continued the process, he also found himself more willing to look at and accept the body he was living in. Michael Van Huffel is an award-winning photographer, animator and musician. After attending Berklee College of Music, his creative career began when working for the musician Prince as an in-house graphic artist at Paisley Park, and later as Art Director. He went on to work in Hollywood as a Creative Director, also designing motion art for movie titles and trailers. He is now an artist whose ongoing creative work is informed by living with chronic illness.
Exhibition: January 15 - August 9, 2024
Baker Center for the Arts
Throughout the year the Martin Art Gallery rotates permanent collection works that are on display in the Center for the Arts. These large works are hung throughout the common spaces, and extend into areas outside of the Baker Theater building [aka the Fishbowl].
The Martin Art Gallery is open during the fall and spring semesters Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm and Saturdays 12 - 4pm (and closed for all college holidays).
MODIFIED SUMMER HOURS: May 20-August 15, Monday-Thursday, 10am-2pm.
All of our exhibitions and programming are free and open to the public. For further information, please call us at 484 664 3467.