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Carolla Arts Exhibition Center, Fall 2025 Exhibits

December 11, 2025 by Jodi McCoy

Gimme More: The Eras of American Consumption
September 2 – October 3 | First Friday Art Walk: September 5 & October 3, 6-9pm

As a species, we have always been consumers of the resources we need to survive. Up until the Industrial Revolution, we broadly approached our consumption with need-based frugality. But as the 19th century dawned, our relationship with our accoutrements drastically changed as society shifted toward a consumerist culture. Today, we consume more than ever before; from 2016-2021 we globally consumed 75% of what we did for the entire 20th century. We no longer consume what we need; we take what we covet, and then some. Gimme More: The Eras of American Consumption visually reminds us that our habits are neither fixed nor inevitable—they are choices, shaped by the values and stories we tell ourselves about what we need, deserve, and desire.

Carrie Alskar
Brita d’Agostino
Katie Farkas
Camryn Gulledge
Noah Kashiani
Lori Larusso
Elizabeth Morisette
Joshua Newth
Bryan Robertson
Tom Schram
Leah Sutton
Bart Vargas

The United States International Poster Biennial, 2025 edition
October 20 – November 7 | First Friday Art Walk: November 7, 6-9pm

This exhibition is a selection of posters from the United States International Poster Biennial, a global competition highlighting cultural, social, academic, and professional principles. Held every two years, this prestigious event celebrates the most groundbreaking and influential poster designs from around the world.

Transitions/Translation and Design + Image Exhibits on October 29, 2025. Brian Long/Missouri State University

BFA in Design: The Professional Design Practicum
December 1 – 12 | First Friday Art Walk: December 5, 6-9pm

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.

Naijun Chen
Tina Claussen
Dylan Daniels
Jeremy Daniels
Gavin Ichrist
Nadia May-Peraza
Manh Nguyen
Cooper Sago
Megan Sanders

BFA in art & BFA in design exhibits December 4, 2025. Brian Long/Missouri State University

Brick City Gallery, Fall 2025 Exhibitions

December 11, 2025 by Jodi McCoy

Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid
September 2 – October 3 | First Friday Art Walk: September 5 & October 3

The grid is everywhere—a silent architecture underpinning the rhythms of our lives. It orders our cities, traces our maps, illuminates our screens, and segments our days into hours and minutes. On one hand, the grid embodies humanity’s aspiration for control and clarity, a testament to our impulse to tame the unruly. On the other, it is far more than a blueprint or tool of containment. Grids emerge in nature, weaving structure through root systems and neural networks. They shift, stretch, and evolve into webs of connection. As much as grids constrain, they also liberate; as much as they impose order, they harbor chaos. Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid invites artists to engage, unravel, redefine, or reimagine this ubiquitous structure. We call on creators to explore the boundless possibilities of grids—to critique their constraints, celebrate their order, subvert their rigidity, or transform them into something wholly unexpected.

Ben Bradshaw
Carla Fisher Schwartz
Cat Birk
Chad Erpelding
Craig Hartenberg
Garrett Lynch IRL’
Gloria Luca
Jake Lahah
Jason Umfress
Jennifer Lord
Jenny Wu
Joel Swanson
Jose Herrera
Jullian Young
Justin Levesque
Kevin Mathein
Kevin Mercer
Kimberly English
Lauren Krukowski
Leah Crosby
Liz Koerner
Loring Taoka
Mark Rospenda
Meganne Rosen
Michael Hower
Molly Martin
Noushin Mousavi
Paul Beaudoin
Reni Gower
Rick Briggenhorst
Rodrigo Azaola
Sophia Hatzikos
Susie Taylor
Will Chiles

Biennial Design + Image Exhibition
October 20 – November 7 | First Friday Art Walk: November 7

The Biennial Design + Image exhibition is a long-standing tradition, curated from the best works from all design and illustration classes from sophomore to senior levels. Design and Illustration students also gain hands-on experience by installing the exhibit.

BFA in Art Senior Exhibition
November 17 – 21 & December 1 – 5 | First Friday Art Walk: December 5

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.

Izu Boyne
Ellie Edwards
Eli Heckman
Eli Houzenga
Eva Leftridge
Hannah Lipchik
Landon Morse
Duy D. Nguyen
Zack Southard

Convergence, a graduate student group exhibit
November 17 – 21 & December 1 – 5 | First Friday Art Walk: December 5

Graduate students in the MFA program are opening their studio practice to the public gallery. Seeking audience feedback on works in progress, this experimental studio exhibit features works from 14 artists exploring the intersection of purpose and practice.

Mohammed Abdulai
Gideon Agyeman
Violet Austerlitz
Brittany Bilyeu
Kayla Brown
Jacob Chatfield
Kara Coonrod
Joe Duggar
Lillian Fitzpatrick
Haley Gage
Camryn Gulledge
Melinda Montoya
Alec Murrin
Olga Shute

MBB vs. Northeastern State on December 4, 2025. Brian Long/Missouri State University

Summer 2025 at the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center and Brick City Gallery

July 31, 2025 by Jodi McCoy

Carolla Arts Exhibition Center

MFA Thesis Exhibit, a Springfield Art Museum collaboration
May 27 – June 6 | First Friday Art Walk: June 6

This exhibition features the thesis body of work by Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies Candidates Collins Antwi, Andy Corbett, Joy Okokon, and Erin Tyler at Missouri State University. This program promotes advanced study in Visual Arts and Design with emphasis placed on the student’s individual research.Various artistic approaches from students with differing backgrounds and research interests are highlighted. The Springfield Art Museum’s Curatorial Staff has provided guidance in the coordination and installation of the work as a further learning opportunity for the students.

MFA thesis exhibit documentation
on June 3, 2025. Kevin White/Missouri State University

Let me tell you a story
Gathering our roots to find belonging
July 7 – August 1 | First Friday Art Walk: August 1

The traditional art of storytelling is best understood as a tool of communication, often inherited through our ancestors. We are raised to understand the world around us from those who pass down stories of our past, present, and future. The LatinX community currently exists in a state of corporeal disruption and displacement of the soul as a result of the unstable land and identity in which we exist. How do we even begin to find ourselves? Who do we turn to for guidance? Is it our family, peers, authority, ourselves, our community? What even ties us together anymore?

Let Me Tell You a Story explores work from six artists that contribute to the tapestry of our shared identity. Work in this exhibit from Marco Hernandez, Veronica Ibargüengoitia, Xavier Tavera, Tina Tavera, Mariana Ruvalcaba, and Leandra Urrutia contribute to the roots that form the tapestry of our belonging, braiding together the accumulation of lives we’ve all lived. It is the mythology passed down from our ancestors to the skin we inherited. It’s the recipes handed down and who we share those meals with now. It is the traditions we uphold to say we have learned from ancestral guidance, and we are still here.

Historically, how we identify has been forced upon us through boxes to check and categories to contort ourselves into–state census, ID cards, papers, and various racist terms for LatinX people. Yet the secret to authentically grounding ourselves and standing confidently in who we are will always be our stories; they are our heritage and our liberation. Sharing our stories is our path to finding place and identity as a people in this world. Let us tell you who we are.

Curated by Olga Shute, MFA Visual Studies candidate in collaboration with Jodi McCoy, Director of Exhibitions.

Summer 2025 art exhibitions. Taken on July 16, 2025. Jesse Scheve/Missouri State University

Brick City Gallery

The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America
Ron Tarver
July 7 – August 1 | First Friday Art Walk: August 1

The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America deconstructs ideas of Black identity and challenges the whitewashed myth of the all-American cowboy. Simply stated, the exhibition is about the beauty, romance, and majesty of the Black West.

For decades the idea of the cowboy has been romanticized in books, television, and movies as a white hero wearing a white hat. This nostalgic idea is sewn into the national fabric. The Black cowboy, if recognized at all, is represented as an historical side note resigned, to a distant memory. Ron Tarver’s The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America offers a contemporary counterpoint through its insightful photographs of Black people embodying their Western cultural heritage.

Taken between 1993 and 1997, these photographs offer testimony to the lived experiences of thriving communities. Celebrating a wide variety of circumstances, from Black owned ranches to big city riding clubs across the United States, Tarver’s images speak to Black joy, Black freedom, and Black resistance.

Brick City Gallery- Spring 2025 Exhibitions

May 9, 2025 by Jodi McCoy

Annual Foundations Exhibition
January 27 – February 14 | First Friday Art walk: Feb 7

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.

Student Exhibitors, Listed by instructor

Students of Collins Antwi
Patrick Conell, Javen Frehner, Jessica Koenigsfeld, Parri McCroskey, Valerie Reynolds.

Students of Rick Briggenhorst
Avery Adkins, Madison Ashworth, Taylor Bingham, Avery Back, Grace Black, M’Kyiah Burton, Annsley Christy, Aden Collins, Elizabeth Cornish, Autumn Cowgill, Olivia Crall, Kari Crouse, Jd Downing, Lauren Falk, Colby Green, Easton Johnson, Taylor Kapp, Chase Kourik, Emma Lee, Emily Lehman, Xinyi Liu, Lauren Matthews, Cordy Matulewic, Layla Maurer, Bethany McCarley, Paige McCubbin, Madeleine Miller, Audrey Mitchell, Mack Mullen, Patrick Needham, Laura Owens, Kain Parker, Via Parker, Natalie Phipps, Leigha Platter, Cade Rodebush, Mckenzie Rowe, Piper Ruebling, Riley Shelton, Mason Shepherd, Rein Stepien, Alexis Stutte, Claire Taylor, Rose White, Em White, William Garvin, Tyler Windsor, Andrew Worthington, England Yarbro.

Students of Kayla Brown
Aryan Bashunia, Sophie Bryan, Lydia Bush, Keeb Castro, Ali Collins, Taylor Cribbs, Michael Edwards, Kaitlyn Patton, Kyson Quick, Drew Roberts, Cade Rodebush, Sophia Russell, Cole Vest, Abri Wells.

Students of Charles Corbett
Avery Back, Graves Fitzpatrick, Lexi Graham, Katie Hopkins, Madeleine Miller, Willow Morton, Jess Ratermann, Cole Vest, Rose White.

Students of Megan Frauenhoffer
Jena Adams, Emmy Alsup, Emily Benson, Ethan Brown, Alaina Chapman, Hailey Crall, Emma Deaton, Lilly Johnson, Bella Kamler, Erika Lown, Emalie Neise, Jenna Rector, Jules Riddle, Drew Roberts, Jake Shew, Noah Woollard, Andrew Worthington.

Students of Camryn Gulledge
Cadence Carter, Izzy Hindman, Ariana Isayko, Nicole Norman, Via Parker, Jess Ratermann.

Students of Sean Lyman
Avery Fontana, Birdie Hicks, Tom Ireland, Kimmy Korn, Layla Maurer, Piper Ruebling, Jocelyn Schmidt, Kaydee Shumate, Mia Wilson.

Students of Olga Shute
Avery Back, Ava Buckner, Abigail Barr, Tacey Blankenship, Hilary Brown, Melissa Campa, Olivia Crall, Taylor Cribbs, Michael Edwards, Julia Engelhardt, Graves Fitzpatrick, Charlie Floyd, Tiana Gehling, Gabby Glamkowski, Zelda Okeson-Haberman, Madalyn Hackleman, Ted Herrell, Kendall Imsland, Sam Jasinski, Lilly Johnson, Sieara Joiner, Ashley Kleier, Emily Lehman, Eli Nunnally, Lily Palmer, Cade Struthers, Abby Suter, Lilly Troutt, Rose White.

Students of Sarah Stracke
Grace Black, Sophie Bryan, Libby Davis, Loren Halmick, Anne Ikegami, Sam Kottwitz, Kate Lewis, Alexandra Loudermill, Katelyn Morgan.

Students of Kerra Taylor
Linsey Bardwell, Elizabeth Cornish, Tyler Harris, Rylie Hildebrand, Charlee Hunter, Maya Lucero, Renee Sinclair, Erin Stemme, Claire Taylor.

Students of Erin Tyler
Kenzie Allison, Emma Alsup, Sydney Bauer, Abigayle Bayse, Storm Boucher, Cameron Ellens, Maddie Fitchpatrick, Hannah Gibbs, Lexi Graham, Spencer Justice, Evelyn Kerr, Landon Austin, Rylynn Lane, Violet Li, Erika Lown, Kellyn MacDonald, Lauren Matthews, Shelby Michalak, Emily Nuttall, Sophia Russell, Rory Taylor, Ulondra Wilkerson-Hernandez.

Annual Foundations Exhibition at Brick City on February 7, 2025. Jesse Scheve/Missouri State University

All School Exhibition, in partership with the Springfield Art Museum
February 28 – April 6 | First Friday Art Walk: March 7 and April 4

Hosted this year at Missouri State University’s Brick City Gallery, the Springfield Art Museum invites you to experience the vibrant creativity of our community’s young artists at the 2025 All School Exhibition. Since 1932, our longest-running exhibition celebrates the profound impact of arts education, which fosters creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration. Featuring hundreds of works selected by dedicated art educators from Springfield’s public, private, parochial, and homeschool cooperatives, this exhibition highlights the incredible talent of both students and their teachers. Support for the All School Exhibition is generously provided by the George & Linda Deatz Family.

BFA in Art Senior Exhibition
April 21 – May 2 | First Friday Art Walk: May 2

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.

Adrian Pham, computer animation
Alexa Roberts, painting
Aly White, computer animation
Chaise McCollum, photography
Cora Hill, photography
Elisa Peters, painting
Erinayo Oyedeji, new media
Faith Wenzel, 3D studies, ceramics
Gavin Ichrist, photography
Gracie Potter, drawing
Hallie Lueking, photography
Jadyn Frey, drawing
Jeanne Welch-Kurdle, photography
Joshua Riethmeier, computer animation
Megan Aiello, painting
Mikayla Buneta, computer animation
Mindy Welland, photography
Natalie McNeill, computer animation
Olivia Michaelson, photography
Paige Lenahan, drawing
Timothy Pease, 3D Studies, sculpture

Carolla Arts Exhibition Center- Spring 2025 Exhibitions

May 9, 2025 by Jodi McCoy

Radical Jewelry Makeover Project

January 27 – February 21 | First Friday Art Walk, February 7

Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) is Ethical Metalsmiths’ innovative community mining project. It raises awareness of the connection between mining, metalsmithing, activism, collaboration and art. It involves volunteer “miners,” “smelters,” “refiners,” jewelers, and metalsmiths working together to create a new and transparent supply chain. The project is both performance and event, linking recycling, reuse and collaborative work sessions with the creation of unique, innovative, handmade jewelry, concluding with an exhibition and reception. The project was designed and developed by Christina Miller and Susie Ganch and is now directed by Susie Ganch and Kathleen Kennedy.

Radical Jewelry Makeover Exhibition at Brick City on February 7, 2025. Jesse Scheve/Missouri State University

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
March 7 – April 4 | First Friday Art Walk: March 7 and April 4

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features work from the breadth of our department’s undergraduate and graduate students. Juried by St. Louis-based artist, Sage Dawson, 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.

Exhibiting students and award winners
Alexa Roberts, Best Painting
Alexis Henson
Andy Corbett
Aubree Chisam
Chaise McCollum
Charley Bennight
Chloe Gramelspacher, Best Illustration
Cora Hill
Cordy Matulewic
Elisa Alcocer Peters
Em White, Best Freshman
Emery Meadows
Emma Meadors
Emma Souser
Erin Tyler
Gabby Glamkowski, Best Art Education
Grace Black
Gracie Potter
Hallie Osborn
Hannah Lipchik, Best Metals/Jewelry
Jadyn Frey
Jennifer Grace
Joy M. Okokon, Best Graduate
Jules Riddle, Best Undergraduate
Kara Coonrod, Best in Show
Kayla Brown
Laura Owens
Lauren Falk
Leslie Alvarez
Logan Snethen, Best Animation
Madison Ashworth, Best Photography
Madison Brown, Best New Media
Max Koeppe, Best 3D
Megan Aiello
Melissa Marrs
Mikayla Ward
Niki Taylor
Olivia Michaelson, Best Graphic Design
Paige Lenahan
Parri McCroskey, Best Drawing
Savannah O’Brien
Shaylee Rackley
Timothy Pease
Wesley Owens
William Garvin
Zane Wigton

All School & Juried Student Exhibition on March 14, 2025. Mindy Welland/Missouri State University

BFA in Design: The Professional Design Practicum
April 28 – May 9 | First Friday Art Walk: May 2

Abigail Grossner
Aubrey Whitehead
Brock Huse
Cadance Ruth
Caroline Mouton
Chloe Gramelspacher
Desiree-Esther Daos
Emma Unger
Emily Baadsgaard
Gabby Bonasera
Georgia Crawford
Hayley Dennis
Ian Street
Jordyn Chase
Lena Nguyen
Libby Channel
Maddie Sherman
Madeline Curtis
Maggie Svoboda
Makenna Johnson
Morgan Shearhart
Noah Braun
Noah Huettenmeyer
Olivia Michaelson
Rachael Mueller
Redeemer Heath
Sue Stark
Tara Doepke
Taylor Sandridge
Timothy Halcomb
Vaeya Nichols