Events

Sep 29 - Oct 28 2023

Still
Sept. 29 - Oct. 28

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 29, 5-7pm
Artists Panel with Tharsing & Larusso: Friday, Oct. 13, noon-1pm

During the last three years, our homes have represented our refuge and fortress. They have protected us and provided us comfort. In this time at home, we have also increasingly acquainted ourselves with the objects and people that surround us. The parts of our daily lives that we…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Sep 29 - Oct 28 2023

Disordered Creatures
Sept 29 – Oct 28 

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 29, 5 – 7pm 
Artist Panel with Crimson Duvall, Laurie Hogin, and Kelli Scott Kelley: Friday, Sept 29, noon

From Surrealist artists utilizing "exquisite corpses" to address the unconscious effects of post-war trauma to present-day artists who use "disordered companions" to grapple with mental health, artists have long created external…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Sep 29 2023 | 5 - 7pm

Disordered Creatures
Sept 29 – Oct 28 

From Surrealist artists utilizing "exquisite corpses" to address the unconscious effects of post-war trauma to present-day artists who use "disordered companions" to grapple with mental health, artists have long created external imaginary characters to embody their emotional and psychological struggles. The artists in this exhibition craft metaphorical narratives with Disordered…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Oct 5 2023 | 2 - 3pm

Humanity in Deep Space

An Anthropologist in Outer Space

Human space exploration and colonization continues to present unique challenges with each new venture. Some of these challenges are scientific and technological but many more are cultural and ethical. Throughout her research, Space Anthropologist Savannah Mandel draws from cultural studies to confront a wide range of social, political, and moral debates surrounding deep…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Oct 6 2023 | 12 - 1pm

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

Time McClendon is an international Artist and Jewelry Designer. His studio and gallery is located in Canoga Park, California. Time is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.

Art & Visual Studies Building
Art and Visual Studies Building Room 136
Free
Oct 13 2023 | 12 - 1pm

Still
Artists Panel moderated by Josh Porter with Lina Tharsing & Lori Larusso

During the last three years, our homes have represented our refuge and fortress. They have protected us and provided us comfort. In this time at home, we have also increasingly acquainted ourselves with the objects and people that surround us. The parts of our daily lives that we might ignore or quickly gloss over emerged as everyday reminders of…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Oct 19 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30pm

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

Pete Lee grew up in Taiwan during the golden era of Asian cinema. But, due to his strict religious upbringing, secular culture was banished from his house. Instead, Lee spent his childhood making up stories in his head while watching his preacher father politely exorcize demons.

Art & Visual Studies Building
Art and Visual Studies Building Room 222
Free
Nov 1 2023 | 10:30 - 11:30am

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

Through the breakdown and rebuilding of the in between, my work mimics the everyday navigation of these realms. Temporary moments of clarity come together and fall apart creating a self in motion, evolving through experience, place, failures and successes. My work is a surface where this dialogue becomes visible explorations of my surroundings and my identity, a surrogate self with limitless…

Art & Visual Studies Building
Art and Visual Studies Building Room 222
Free
Nov 2 - 11 2023

Join us to celebrate the work of our BFA students. More details to come.

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Nov 13 2023 | 5 - 6pm

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

Paulina’s research investigates the dynamics of collectivity as a conduit through which we can better understand the generative possibilities and aesthetic forms of intergenerational everyday intersections of relationality. This approach to collectivity is rooted in love as articulated by Audre Lorde (1984) and Chela Sandoval (2000), and built from a desire to transform unjust structures. This…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Nov 16 - 21 2023

Join us to celebrate the work of the SA/VS' BFA and BA students. More details to come.

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Dec 1 - 7 2023

Join us to end the semester with the SA/VS' juried Carey Ellis exhibition and the work of digital media design students.

Carey Ellis Awards Ceremony: Friday, December 1, 5-7pmJuror: Melissa Vandenberg

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Dec 1 2023 | 5 - 7pm

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

Much of the work is made with ordinary supplies like matches, quilts, stickers, popsicles, temporary tattoos and other domicile goods. I am partial towards the “familiar,” in hopes of making the challenging subjects addressed in the work more accessible. There is not one mode or material that is preferred over another, but I often find myself gravitating towards sculpture in addition to working with…

Bolivar Art Gallery
Free