Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Carolina Alamilla
Working through the weight of identity, Carolina Alamilla uses colors and a sense of playfulness to engage with the viewer. Alamilla steps away from the real and creates objects that lose their functionality but are a metaphor for hope, memory, and the environment. Using hand building and mold-making ceramic skills, Alamilla produces multiples that lead…
Patrick Schmidt and Doug McGlumphy: A Faculty Exhibition
Patrick Schmidt and Doug McGlumphy, studio art faculty at Washington & Jefferson College, work in different media to convey diverse artistic visions. Schmidt’s work explores pattern as metaphor, exploring cultural, social, and personal identities, whereas McGlumphy transforms the authentic material culture of rural America into critiques of modern American values, beliefs, and social structures. Schmidt…
Summerlee Rusilko – Senior Art Show
All are welcome to the opening of Summerlee Rusilko’s Senior Art Show! She exhibits her work in painting and drawing in this annual senior capstone event. The Reception will be held in Room 221 in Olin from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday, December 2. The artist talk will begin promptly at 6:15 p.m. Her work will…
W&J Arts Series: The Jazz Conspiracy
The last time these Pittsburgh-based musicians were here, they blew the house down! We are so happy to bring back former Music Dept. Professor Kyle Simpson along with this band of skilled musicians. They specialize in Big Band music, but we told them to play whatever they like, so we are in for one delightful…
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Micaela de Vivero
Using soft, malleable, porous materials, Micaela de Vivero creates large-scale sculptures and installations that consider political and social issues connected to feminist and post-colonialist concerns. As a woman of color and first-generation immigrant to the United States of America, de Vivero responds to these associations as well as the misunderstandings that unbalanced relationships between hegemonic…
Micaela de Vivero Exhibit
Using soft, malleable, porous materials, Micaela de Vivero creates large-scale sculptures and installations that consider political and social issues connected to feminist and post-colonial concerns. As a woman of color and first-generation immigrant to the United States of America, Vivero responds to these associations as well as the misunderstandings that unbalanced relationships between hegemonic and…
W&J Senior Show 2022 – Opening Reception & Artist Talks
W&J College art and art education majors graduating in Spring 2022 exhibit their work across a variety of media in this annual senior capstone event.
Melissa Haviland Exhibit
Melissa Haviland uses domestic objects as a cultural lens to explore relationships: personal and economic. The home is a platform for interaction from conversation to negotiation. Examining the power of objects in our lives as totems and commodities, Haviland pushes the boundaries of printmaking, multiples, and play to reference the reiteration of objects and ideas…
Carolina Alamilla Exhibit
Working through the weight of identity, Carolina Alamilla uses colors and a sense of playfulness to engage with the viewer. Alamilla steps away from the real and creates objects that lose their functionality but are a metaphor for hope, memory, and the environment. Using hand building and mold-making ceramic skills, Alamilla produces multiples that lead…
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Micaela Vivero
Using soft, malleable, porous materials, Micaela Vivero creates large-scale sculptures and installations that consider political and social issues connected to feminist and post-colonialist concerns. As a woman of color and first-generation immigrant to the United States of America, Vivero responds to these associations as well as the misunderstandings that unbalanced relationships between hegemonic and colonized…
