Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17th 5 – 8 pm We are pleased to announce our annual BFA show titled “Thread,” which features four senior BFA students Jeanette Chinelli, Ellen Kenston, Mikayla Michelson, and Ian Wagner. These soon to be graduates approach their practices with diverse materials and methods, utilizing mediums from printmaking to textiles to digital works. Please join us for our opening reception May 17th, 5-8pm. Music and refreshments will be provided! Artist details below. Jeanette Chinelli’s multimedia work approaches everyday objects with a touch of whimsy. Playing with depth, her works utilize sharp angles and flat space to...

(Paul Shortt, Reserved for Loitering, South Compton St., St. Louis, MO, 2015)     Join us Thursday March 8th from 5-8pm for the opening of our newest exhibition Making Art / Making Community. This exhibition centers on artists using social bridging strategies in their artmaking through participatory experiments, humorous critiques, and collaborative craft. These artists pull tactics from social science, psychology, education and design thinking. Referred to as “social practice” these artists use human relations as their artistic medium rather than a studio based creative practice. Featured Artists: Liat Berdugo Emmy Bright Stephanie Dinkins Sameer Farooq& Mirjam Linschooten Maria Molteni...

Join us for the last lecture in the Fieldworks Lecture Series with Dr. Scott Montgomery and Jennifer Ghormley this Wednesday 2/14 from 12-1pm!   Dr. Scott Montgomery is currently collaborating with Dan Obarski on a two-hour documentary film on the Family Dog Denver. It tells the colorful tale of interwoven storylines of psychedelic posters, lightshows, rock music, and countercultural identity and conflict in Denver from fall 1967 through summer 1968. Much of the film is comprised of first-hand interview footage – critical primary source material captured specifically for the documentary. The Tale of the Dog, now in the editing phase, is projected for...

Come join us February 8th from 6-7pm for the next lecture in our Fieldworks Lecture Series. This week’s lecture duo is Brandon Siscoe and Kristin Stransky: Brandon Siscoe is a searcher, scavenger, and reverent re-presenter interested in positioning orphaned objects into a new psychological space. Siscoe dismantles the symbolic status of the object, interrupting established hierarchies and perceived relationships to view objects with fresh eyes. Kristin Stransky studies the intersections of craft, gender, social interaction and experience, emotion and technology. Stransky creates wearables, immersive computing environments and prosthetics for simulated interaction. She explores 3-D printing and has created HexWare, a 3D...

Tonight February 1st, we are kicking off our Fieldworks Lecture Series at 6pm in the Vicki Myhren Gallery with Sarah Gjerston and Timothy Weaver!   Sarah Gjertson’s work focuses on historic nostalgia, American expectations of “womanhood”, and the utilization of sculpture to elicit feelings of longing or familiarity. Her research involves visits to historic town sites and mining operations in Colorado. Rather than exploring the“gold rush” aspect of these sites, Gjertson studies the human imprint that remains there.               Timothy Weaver’s creative practice combines biological field research with immersive digital technology to make far-away places tangible...