
2025 Spring Graduating B.F.A. Exhibition
April 18 - May 3
Reception: April 18 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Students in the Department of Art work closely with nationally and internationally known faculty engaged in a broad range of art and design practices. The Graduating B.F.A. Exhibition is an opportunity for students to share the original and innovative discoveries they have made in their artistic journeys, communicating to the public their creative expressions of human experience. At the culmination of each fall and spring semester we celebrate the creative accomplishments of our graduating seniors from each studio art area with this dynamic exhibition.

88th Annual Juried Student Art & Design Exhibition
March 21 – April 4
Reception: March 21 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Lost and Unmade: the films of Bruce Checefsky
Film screening: Wednesday, March 12, 5:30 PM

Crystal Miller | BMH Lecture
February 3, 5:00pm

Julia Betts, The Dams are Broken
McDonough Museum Lecture:
Wednesday, February 5, 5:30 PM
Julia Betts’ work combines sculpture, performance, and installation in her efforts to push a range of materials to the limits of their use while placing herself in unstable circumstances, creating metaphors of emotional and psychic vulnerability and demonstrations of intentional disarray. She is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Anna Chapman, Underworld/Otherworld
Anna Chapman is an artist and educator. Her work aims to create reconciliatory relationships to place, community, materiality, and voice on both the personal and collective levels, influenced by the social sciences, the humanities, ecology, and the healing arts.

Emerging Artist Abby Cipar, Sometime, Somehow, For You
McDonough Museum Lecture:
Wednesday, February 12, 5:30 PM
Abby Cipar is a multidisciplinary artist, arts advocate, and curator from Northeast Ohio. They currently serve as a Community Member on the Artist Resource Committee for Akron’s Summit Artspace.

Sidney Mullis, Caught Skies & Pillowed Pines (Black Forest)
McDonough Museum Lecture:
Wednesday, February 20, 5:30 PM
Sidney Mullis is a sculptor who is currently building a make-believe forest in which our childhood selves retreat to during adulthood. Her other work has focused on puberty, the intimacy of forgetting, and the performance of gender.

Will Hutnick, QUEER HORIZONS
McDonough Museum Lecture:
Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 PM
Will Hutnick, based in Connecticut, has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. He is currently the Director of Artistic programming at the Wassaic Project, a non-profit organization that uses art to foster positive social change.