Past Exhibitions -

Carolla Arts Exhibition Center- Fall 2024 Exhibitions

December 9, 2024 by Jodi McCoy

This Land
August 19 – September 13 | First Friday Art Walk: September 6

Featuring work from Stacey Holloway and Steve Snell, This Land visual mines the relationship and interplay between the natural world and the lifeforms that inhabit it, exploring what stories they tell about our history, who we are, and who we could become.

This Land and Artifact Exhibition on September 6, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

Legacy: Celebrating the Art + Design Department
October 4 – November 1 | First Friday Art Walk: October 4 and November 1

Legacy: Celebrating the Art + Design Department, is a tribute to all the people who are responsible for where we are today, with a representative group of works from 25 studio faculty who retired from service at Missouri State University over the last 50 years.

20241007 Legacy, Faculty Show & Poster Exhibition on October 9, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

BFA in Design: The Professional Design Practicum
December 2 – 13 | First Friday Art Walk: December 6

Every semester, the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center is pleased to host an exhibition of work by graduating students from the Department of Art and Design. The fall exhibition showcases the talent and skill of students who have spent years developing a design practice that will carry them into their professional careers.

Brick City Gallery- Fall 2024 Exhibitions

December 9, 2024 by Jodi McCoy

Artifact
August 26 – September 20 | First Friday Art Walk: September 6

Featuring work from Matt Moyer, Artifact mines the artists interest in exploring the creativity, ingenuity and complicated history found in mechanical things. Moyer believes well-used mechanical artifacts contain inherent beauty, creativity and humility that connect them to the people who have worked with them over the years. In this exhibition, that interest has taken the shape of fictitious abstracted pipe systems, abstracted pumps, tanks, and both real and fictitious catastrophic industrial artifacts.

Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Brick City Gallery East
October 4 – November 1 | First Friday Art Walk: October 4 and November 1
The Biennial Faculty Exhibition showcases the creative work of our department’s faculty who exhibit nationally and internationally and represents work from all studio areas within the department.

Exhibiting faculty: Josh Albers, Deidre Argyle, Dr. Fatih Benzer, Rick Briggenhorst, Megan Frauenhoffer, Maria Gerasimchuk-Djordjevic, Tahsin Hyder, Kevin Hughes, Sean Lyman, Jina Seo, Kerra Taylor, Gwen Walstrand, Sarah Williams, and Dr. Steve Willis

International Poster Exhibition from 4th Block , Brick City Gallery West
October 4 – November 1 | First Friday Art Walk: October 4 and November 1
A selection of winning posters from the 4th Block Triennale showcased at Missouri State University in collaboration with Poster Territory.

BFA in Art Senior Exhibition
November 18 – 22 & December 2-6 | First Friday Art Walk: December 6

Every semester, the Brick City Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of work by graduating students from the Department of Art and Design. The fall exhibition showcases the talent and skill of students who have spent years developing an artistic practice that will carry them into their professional careers.

Exhibiting Students: Andre Cotton, Amber Dudenhoeffer, Reece Gerber, Mikayla Humble, Dylan Kirk, and Wendy Smith

Summer 2024 at the Brick City Gallery and the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center

September 3, 2024 by Jodi McCoy

Summer 2024 at the University Galleries featured work from Professor Emeritus Jerry Hatch and his partner, Hing Wah Hatch as well as another successful MFA Co-Curatorial collaborative exhibit with Erin Tyler.

Brick City Gallery

Boomerangs, Butterflies and Then Some
July 1 – August 2 | FFAW: August 2, 6-8 pm

Featuring work from Jerry and Hing Wah Hatch, Boomerangs, Butterflies and Then Some has images from their past and present interests made with various media including cast plaster, carved wood, various drawing media, watercolor, oil, collages, papercuts and mixed media.

Jerry Hatch

Hing Wah Hatch

Carolla Arts Exhibition Center

Current State, a co-curatorial project with Jodi McCoy and Erin Tyler
July 1 – August 2 | First Friday Art Walk: August 2, 6-8 PM

As inherently transient beings, we collect connections to the places we inhabit throughout our lives. But are we ever really in a single place? And how do we mark a place when things are in constant flux? We can be physically rooted in Missouri but digitally omnipresent, here for a season – longing to be elsewhere, or even feeling utterly displaced. The artists in this exhibition all have a unique tether to this land that we call Missouri. Geography binds us together; where we are informs who we are and what we make.

We asked thirteen contemporary artists from Springfield, Kansas City, and St Louis to offer works of art that respond to their current state – geographical, physical, virtual, and or spiritual. Sarah Williams’ Nightscapes captures intimate markers of neo-regionalism, dwellings often at the center of what we physically call home. Mikey Yates’ Watching Winter Turn to Spring documents the artist’s view from his studio in Kansas City, a view familiar to many artists. Finally, St Louis’ Emily Mueller works at the intersection of meditative mark-making and the investigation of intuitive form and color-in her Leaf Silhouette series, Mueller combines physical materials and process to explore her current state.

These responses present only a sample of Missouri’s creative footprint; outside of it is a larger and wider echo. Land and our place on it is often understood as a resource or a mere pin on a map. But what if we started to think about our current state in conversation with our identity: How does place show up in our ideas and the work we make? How does our current state intertwine with and enrich our life story? And, how does our occupation of this current state also tell the story of this place?

Exhibiting artists: Stella Blackmon, Rick Briggenhorst, Madeline Brice, Will Chiles, Sage Dawson, Josh Johnson, Cesar Lopez, Emily Mueller, Shauna Le Ann Smith, Amanda Smith, Mikey Yates, Kellen Wright, and Sarah Williams.

Greta Cross for the Springfield News Leader

Rick Briggenhorst and Cesar Lopez

Shauna Le Ann Smith and Sage Dawson

Brick City Gallery-Spring 2024 Exhibitions

May 31, 2024 by Jodi McCoy

The Brick City Gallery exhibited work from our foundations students, new work from four American landscape photographers, and closed out the spring 2024 semester with our annual BFA in Art Senior Exhibition.

Annual Foundations Exhibition
January 29 – February 16 | First Friday Art Walk: February 2

The Annual Foundations Exhibition features work from the department’s foundations courses. Works in this exhibition demonstrate students’ understanding of various artistic concepts in two- and three-dimensional design, drawing, as well as the development of artistic skills through classroom instruction.

Exhibiting Students:

Feather A. Isenhour, Kenzie Allison, Cooper Alonso-Yague, Maddie Bailey, Merry Barnett, Siera Barnwell, Aryan Bashunia, Maleah Bays, Abigayle Bayse, Roxane Beeson, Emma Benson, Taylor Bingham, Jay Bittick, Alaina Bledsoe, Storm Boucher, Lydia Bush, Owen Byun, Janet Canales-Rueda, Nick Casterline, Yuxin Cheng, Aubree Chisam, Annsley Christy, Jake Deterding, Ashton Diercks, Krystal E. Reid, Milo Etz, Lauren Falk, Cody Faucett, Caitlin Fitzpatrick, Sydney Frankenbery, Ashley Fronick, William Garvin, Claire George, Gabby Glamkowski, Lauren Gramley , Jessica Greenland, Cassidy Hale, Anna Hanson, Jona Harders, Cara Henderson, Hannah Herbst, Cora Hill, Katelyn I. Kimmel, Abi Inskeep, Jenna Johnson, Lucy K. Schoemehl, Bella Kamler, Eddie Kelley Alex Kirk, Megan Kolotyuk, Chase Kourik, Hallie Kroner, Emily Lawrence, Ethan Lindblom, Cheyenne M. Guzman, Rhianna M. Sweeney, Nikoletta M. Taylor, Megan Macchi, Lauren Matthew, Cordelia Matulewic, Makayla McClenahan, Chaise McCollum, Max McKenna, Robert McMahon, Natalie Mitchell, Maggie Molitor, Duy Nguyen, Derrick Nolan, Emily Oltmans, Lizbeth Orta, Lillian Palmer, Michelle Palumbo Lins, Via Parker, Kaitlyn Patton, Olivia Peetoom, Addison Peoples, Issac Perkins, Natalie Phipps, Aidan Plank, Jillian Plymell, Graice Potter, Nick Proctor, M’kyiah R. Burton, Faith Rice, Brenna Richards, Emily Rocca, Rebecca Rudowshe, Jayden Rushing, Deja Sandaval, Kadence Schaecher, Logan Shethen, Olivia Shipleg, Chloe Sisk, LeAnn Skidmore, Meagan Smith, Jocelyn Smith, Britney Spangenberg, Audrey Spencer, Alexis Stutte, Claire Underhill, Quin Vo, Jay Vo, Morgan Walczak, Brooke Walker, Kenzie Wallsmith, Ren Weist, Summer White, Betty Sue Wiles, Mollie Williams

202401 Entanglements and Foundations Exhibition on February 6, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

Homeland: Photographs from the Anthropocene, curated by Gwen Walstrand
March 1 – April 5 | First Friday Art Walk: March 1 and April 5

Homeland: Photographs from the Anthropocene explores contemporary approaches to ideas about place and landscape. Featuring work from Ian Campbell, Terra Fondriest, Dana Fritz, and Drew Nikonowicz, the curated works in this exhibition consider different approaches to a central subject and represent a small view of contemporary landscape photography concerns.

Homeland Photography Exhibit on March 5, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

BFA in Art Senior Exhibition
April 22 – May 3 | First Friday Art Walk: May 3

Every semester, the Brick City Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of work by graduating students from the Department of Art and Design. The spring exhibition showcases the talent and skill of students who have spent years developing an artistic practice that will carry them into their professional careers.

Exhibiting Students: Abby Baechle, Ashley Brake, Malayna Bryan, Anna Butler, Dayton Chambers, Destiny Drake, Rebecca Dugan, Christopher Elkins, Erin Hainline, Sydni Harkins, Roman Herries, Ethan Holman, Justin Mayhew, Alexandra Miller, Hannah Vancour and Elliot Wheat.

Spring BFA in Art & Design Senior Show on May 2, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

Carolla Arts Exhibition Center- Spring 2024 Exhibitions

May 31, 2024 by Jodi McCoy

The Carolla Arts Exhibition Center featured an exciting range of new works from professional artists and students during the Spring 2024 semester. We connected with our queer community with the help of Aaron McIntosh, showcased a selection of our best student work curated by Steve Snell, and closed out the year with our annual BFA in Design: The Professional Design Practicum exhibition.

Entanglements: Aaron McIntosh
January 25 – March 1 | First Friday Art Walk: February 2 and March 1

Aaron McIntosh interrogates the intertwined relationships between humans and plants—our interdependence, our co-evolution, and our history of hierarchies—across many artistic mediums. In Entanglements, the artist takes up the metaphoric potential of plant life where he finds speculative roots to scaffold and explore queer ecologies. McIntosh rejects colonialist and heteronormative paradigms that dominate botany in its perpetual “othering” of queer- ness. Instead, he asks how might we imagine queerness through the sexual and gender-variant dynamisms present in the plant world.

A fourth generation quiltmaker from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, McIntosh’s practice is deeply rooted in fibers. He employs this legacy as a language, form, and tool as it offers him both material comfort and a tactile trace of kinship. The quilts, sculptures, and collages on view in the exhibition draw upon images, objects, and stories from McIntosh’s own geographical, cultural, and familiar background, as well as his research in botanical and LGBTQIATS+ archives. Through participatory art making methods, he also draws in queer communities from the places he’s called home.

By embedding queerness into representations of nature, McIntosh envisions a world where diverse queer bodies across time and space are enmeshed with plant life —and where their quilted display envisions new futures for queer and botanical kinship.

Organized by Juliana Rowen Barton, Director of the Center for the Arts, with Madeline Camplese (’24), Gallery360 Manager and Curatorial Assistant (Spring 2023)

2024 Annual Juried Student Exhibition, juried by Steve Snell
March 25 – April 12 | First Friday Art Walk: April 5

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features work from the breadth of our department’s undergraduate and graduate students. Juried by Kansas City-based artist, Steve Snell, we are also excited continue the legacy of Mark J Hall with the Mark J Hall Best in Show Award, in addition to many other monetary awards.

Mark J. Hall Best in Show
Ellen Aulbach, “The Kitchen Before I Go to Bed,” 2023, oil on wood panels.

Best Graduate
Joy Okokon, “Shuku,” 2023, stoneware clay, overglaze, clay beads, brass beads electric firing.

Best Undergraduate
Ellen Aulbach, “The Kitchen Before I Go to Bed,” 2023, oil on wood panels.

Best Freshman
Gabby Glamkowski, “Princess and the Me,” 2023, Mixed Media (watercolor, colored pencil, pen).

Best 3D
Ann Danis, “Fall Blow,” 2023, steel.

Best Painting
Ellen Aulbach, “The Kitchen Before I Go to Bed,” 2023, oil on wood panels.

Best Drawing
Vaeya Nichols, “Grandpa’s Hostas,” 2023, graphite.

Best Photography
Emery Wilcoxon, “Wander and Wonder,” 2023, chromogenic prints.

Best Metals/Jewelry
Julia McKlin, “Protection,” 2023, cast bronze.

Best Animation
Elliot Wheat, “Glip and Geoffrey Take a Pet to the Vet,” 2023, 2D animation.

Best New Media
Anton Pleshka, “Tholus,” 2022, multimedia installation.

Best Illustration
Taylor Sandridge, “Pop! Illustrations For Graphic Terms,” 2023, digital.

Best Graphic
Sage Winkler, “Sage,” 2023, digital illustration.

Best Art Education
Brianna Conyers, “Visual Verses,” 2023, acrylic.

20240401-5 Juried Student Exhibition on April 4, 2024. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

BFA in Design: The Professional Design Practicum
April 29 – May 10 | First Friday Art Walk: May 3

Every semester, the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center is pleased to host an exhibition of work by graduating students from the Department of Art and Design. The spring exhibition showcases the talent and skill of students who have spent years developing a design practice that will carry them into their professional careers.

Exhibiting Students: Parker Bensyl, Maria Biondo, Andrea Collazos, Amber Dudenhoeffer, Dorottya Faa, Savannah Hayton, Melissa Hendrickson, Ethan Holman, Abigail McClure, Caroline Mouton, Emmagyn Parton, Madison Raushel, Siera Richardson, Trinity Riecker, Lauren Rose, Natalie Ross, Alissa Roth, Lora Spinabella, Taylor Stafford, Samantha Stoltz, Olivia Stone, Katelyn Thornton, Allison Waddle, Katie Wemhoener and Paris Wilken.