2025 - 2026 Season
Calligraphy: A Journey Without Destination
Works by John Chang
On View: Aug. 29 – Nov. 15, 2025
John Chang dreams in many worlds and brings back remnants. In his recent works, figures come and go—yet no one is seen. Migrators leave only shadows in the air and faint marks on the sidewalks. Their words and echoes drift through storms of sharp, black fragments flying in all directions. Drawing from his East/West identity, Chang explores memory and displacement, conjuring flashbacks from lives lived across many landscapes.
River of Earth: Meaning and Material in Self-Taught Art from Appalachia
On View: Sept. 5 – Dec. 13, 2025
Parallel to the stream of millions of tons of coal that have flowed from the coalfields of central Appalachia to the Coal Piers of Lambert’s Point just south of ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ, this exhibition follows a metaphorical river of earth comprised of stone, clay, wood, fiber, plants, and animals that make up the landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. Featuring works by Minnie Adkins, Bessie Harvey, S.L. Jones, Georgia Blizzard, Leroy Almon Jr., and over thirty other artists, the exhibition tells diverse and intersecting stories of the relationship between meaning-making and materials drawn from the mountain landscape.
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Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition
On View: December 5-13, 2025
The exhibition featured artwork by Fall 2025 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art graduates: Saisha Boone, Cee-Cee Bowles, Noah Marano, Jalina Montoya, and Jordan Rivera.
Queer’D: Works by Contemporary LGBTQ Graphic Designers
On View: Jan. 23 – Feb. 21, 2026
Samuel Kahn, Ph.D. + Friends
On View: Jan. 30 - May 16, 2026
An in-depth exploration of the art, methods, and inspiration behind the work of Connecticut based self-taught artist Samuel Kahn (1927-2007). Kahn’s playful drawings, sculptures, and plaques tell the story of his connection to the New England landscape, his close study of environments and wildlife, and art as a conduit for feeling and emotion.
2026 Juried Student Exhibition
On View: Mar. 13 - April 18, 2026
The exhibition featured produced by students in ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Department of Art studio classes, juried by Anita Patel (YELLOW).
Waypoint
Spring 2026 Senior Exhibition
On View: May 7- 16, 2026
The exhibition featured artwork by Spring 2026 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art graduates: Mohammad Aslam, Wilmesha Griffin, Kathleen Grimes, Odelia Handy, Laché, Theodore Mayberry, Heather Nguyen, Audrey Redford, Colten Taylor, and Christina White.
Calligraphy: A Journey Without Destination
Works by John Chang
On View: Aug. 29 – Nov. 15, 2025
John Chang dreams in many worlds and brings back remnants. In his recent works, figures come and go—yet no one is seen. Migrators leave only shadows in the air and faint marks on the sidewalks. Their words and echoes drift through storms of sharp, black fragments flying in all directions. Drawing from his East/West identity, Chang explores memory and displacement, conjuring flashbacks from lives lived across many landscapes.
River of Earth: Meaning and Material in Self-Taught Art from Appalachia
On View: Sept. 5 – Dec. 13, 2025
Parallel to the stream of millions of tons of coal that have flowed from the coalfields of central Appalachia to the Coal Piers of Lambert’s Point just south of ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ, this exhibition follows a metaphorical river of earth comprised of stone, clay, wood, fiber, plants, and animals that make up the landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. Featuring works by Minnie Adkins, Bessie Harvey, S.L. Jones, Georgia Blizzard, Leroy Almon Jr., and over thirty other artists, the exhibition tells diverse and intersecting stories of the relationship between meaning-making and materials drawn from the mountain landscape.
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Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition
On View: December 5-13, 2025
The exhibition featured artwork by Fall 2025 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art graduates: Saisha Boone, Cee-Cee Bowles, Noah Marano, Jalina Montoya, and Jordan Rivera.
Queer’D: Works by Contemporary LGBTQ Graphic Designers
On View: Jan. 23 – Feb. 21, 2026
Samuel Kahn, Ph.D. + Friends
On View: Jan. 30 - May 16, 2026
An in-depth exploration of the art, methods, and inspiration behind the work of Connecticut based self-taught artist Samuel Kahn (1927-2007). Kahn’s playful drawings, sculptures, and plaques tell the story of his connection to the New England landscape, his close study of environments and wildlife, and art as a conduit for feeling and emotion.
2026 Juried Student Exhibition
On View: Mar. 13 - April 18, 2026
The exhibition featured produced by students in ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Department of Art studio classes, juried by Anita Patel (YELLOW).
Waypoint
Spring 2026 Senior Exhibition
On View: May 7- 16, 2026
The exhibition featured artwork by Spring 2026 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art graduates: Mohammad Aslam, Wilmesha Griffin, Kathleen Grimes, Odelia Handy, Laché, Theodore Mayberry, Heather Nguyen, Audrey Redford, Colten Taylor, and Christina White.
- The Hum
- MAMA-Girl!
- Fall 2024 Senior Exhibition: The Prologue
- Hibernation | Incubation | Innovation
- 2025 Juried Student Exhibition
- Graphic Design Graduates Gala
- Spring 2025 Senior Exhibition: Sincerely,
- Vague Appliances and Utilities
- Solomon Enos: Papahanaumoku
- Fall 2023 Senior Exhibition: Preservation
- Concrete Ocean: Works by Leigh Merrill
- 2024 Juried Student Exhibition
- Paintings from the Porch: Works by Jake McCord
- 2024 Spring Senior Exhibition: It’s My Party
- ALLiGATER HELLHOUND
- DesignHer: Works by Contemporary Women Graphic Designers
- Nothing to See Here
- Sam Bartlett: Low Stakes, Plywood Cutouts & Everyday Comix
- 2023 Juried Student Exhibition
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Spring 2023 Senior Exhibition: Liminality
- Life and Limb: Works by Matt Sesow
- Betwixt Intermixed / Luminescent Effervescant Iridescent / Tandem and ‘tween
- Sauce: The 2021 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Arts Alumni Exhibition
- OTW IRL: The Fall 2021 Senior Exhibition
- Art from Guantanamo Bay
- TGIF2F: The 2022 ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art Department Faculty Exhibition
- 2022 Juried Student Exhibition
- Best If Used By: The Spring 2022 Senior Exhibition
- Jennifer Little: Divided States of America
- Alone|Together: Fall 2020 Senior Exhibition
- Andy Harris: Bikes, Brands, Words, and Wheels
- 2021 Juried Student Exhibition
- Sanguine: Spring 2021 Senior Exhibition
- Geometric AljamÃa: A Cultural Transliteration
- Recent Acquisitions: Works by Yuki Hiyama
- The 22nd Annual Banjo Gathering
- Let Them Eat Cake: A Second Helping
- Eye to Eye: ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Portraits by Glen McClure
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- To Life! Works by Lorraine Fink
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Art Department Faculty Exhibition
- Black Gods of the Metropolis: The Drawings of J. Alan Cumbey
- Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods: Levester Williams
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- Drifter History: Works by Chris Mahonski
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Artmobile
- Banksy's Haight Street Rat
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Antiquary: Works by Morgan Herrin
- The Art of Trains
- Transit: The Art of Revelation in the Paintings of Susanna Coffey
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- Flux: Works by Colleen Toledano
- The Jules Olitski Project
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Encore: Alumni Exhibition
- PRESSing Matters: Cross-Collaborations and Explorations in Literature, Art, and Politics, in conjunction with the 39th Annual Literary Festival: Strange Bedfellow: Politics and Literature
- Landscapes of the Collector: The Best of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Collection of Self-Taught Art
- Affairs of State: Photography by Tim Davis and Michael Mergen
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- Continuum: Works by Anne Smith, Melissa Hill, and Sarah Irvin
- Broken Land | Still Lives: Eliot Dudik
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Glass &
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Faculty Exhibition
- Canvas of My Soul: Paño Drawings by Chicano Prisoners
- House not a Home: An Installation by John W. Ford
- The Orthodox Icon: A Variety of Ways to Depict a Sacred Image
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound - Paintings by Anne Neely, Soundscape by Halsey Burgund
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Shakespeare and the Americas: A Look Back to the World of "The Tempest"
- The Art of Derek Webster: Selections from the Marilyn Houlberg Collection
- Graphic Design Exit Review
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Slavocracy
- Borderland: Works by Kent Michael Smith
- Food, Family, and Feelings in the Book of Sarah: The Visual Autobiography of Sarah Lightman, in conjunction with the 37th Annual Literary Festival: The Hungry Heart is Telling You
- Out of the Vault: Seldom-Seen and Unseen Treasures from the Self-Taught Collection
- Shaped Polarities: Works by Fiona Ross and Alan Rosenbaum
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- The World Outside
- Visions of the Sacred and the Profane
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Passerby: An A.B. Jackson Retrospective
- Summer Senior Exhibition
2013 - 2014
- The Big Story: The Art of Levent Isik, Ronald Sloan and Derek Webster
- Kindred Spirits: ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art Faculty in collaboration with the Chrysler Museum of Art
- Fall Senior Exhibition
- Between Lagan and Derelict: Sculpture by David McQueen
- Fire and the Resurrection of Mr. Imagination
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Spring Senior Exhibition
- Adjunct Faculty Exhibition
- Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show
- Summer Senior Exhibition
2012 - 2013
- The Combat Paper Project
- Mother, Maiden, Courtesan: Woman and Her Image in Art
- Photographs With Teeth, in conjunction with the 35th Annual Literary Festival: Words With Teeth
- East/West: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking
- Fall Senior Exhibition: XVI
- David Page: God and Lunchmeat
- Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
- The Big Story: Work by Levent Isik, Ronald Sloan, and Derek Webster
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Mount
- Spring Senior Exhibition: Amalgamation
- Making and Meaning: ÑÇÉ«ÊÓƵ Art Department and Chrysler Museum Collaboration
2011 - 2012
- Into the Mainstream: Chrysler Museum Collaboration
- Lebende Bilder: New Photography by Yola Monakhov
- Faculty Exhibtion
- Katie Hudnall: The Texture of Imperfection
- Issues of Style in Self-Taught Art
- Fall Senior Exhibition: Spectrum
- Juried Student Exhibition
- 30 Americans
- The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures of Jewish Photographers from Lodz Ghetto 1940 - 1944
- Andrew Breitenberg: SELAH
2010 - 2011
- Robert McCullough: A Retrospective Exhibition
- Lori Nix: The City and Other Stories
- War: Armed Conflict and its Legacy in Contemporary Self-Taught Art
- The Green Canvas: The Artist as an Environmental Activist - Posters by Hoseob Yoon
- "Magic Dirt" National Juried Exhibition
- Big Print Show
- Self-Taught Artist in Context: Influences of American Culture
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Beyond the Veil: New Work by Domenica Arcuri Webb
- Now and Zen: Recent Work by Lorraine Fink and Janet Shaughnessy
2009 - 2010
- Michel Ryan: On the Road at the Water's Edge
- Faculty Exhibition
- Wild Things: The Outrageous, Wonderful, Hilarious, and Untamed
- Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers
- Recent Acquisitions
- String Monuments: An Installation by Annette Lawrence
- Margo Blank
- Repurposes
- Book of Daniel
- Juried Student Exhibition
- One Hundred Birds in Homage to the Phoenix: Chinese Screen
2008 - 2009
- Stories from the Earth: Voices of Contemporary Ceramic Artists
- Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
- Uncommon Power: The Eye of the Self-Taught Artist
- Stefan Sagmeister
- Graduate Student Thesis Exhibition
- Tannaz Farsi: Echomaker
- Nikki Blair: Recent Works
- In-Depth: The Hand of the Self-Taught Artist
- World War II International Posters
- Juried Student Exhibition
- Jogakbo: Traditional Korean Patchwork
- Vetri//Alt: Glass Alternatives
2007 - 2008
- Faculty Exhibition
- Collective Wisdom
- Stephen Cartwright: Perigree
- Greta Pratt: American Identity
- Kenneth FitzGerald: The Kenneth FitzGerald Album (Extended Play)
- First Annual Juried Student Exhibition
- Virginia Governor's School Exhibition
- Origins: Select Paintings by Fay Zetlin