My work explores what Wendell Berry calls “the unsettling of America,” namely, the effects, the marks, and the changes that humans make on the land and cultures of a given area. My installations demonstrate my desire to create art that gives viewers time and space to think about the art initiates questions which remind viewers [...]

Kelly and Kyle Phelps are both Associate Professors at private Catholic universities in Ohio. Kelly Phelps is an Associate Professor /Chair at Xavier University (Cincinnati) where he oversees the sculpture department. Kyle is an Associate Professor at University Dayton (Dayton) where he is the head of the ceramic department. Both Kelly and Kyle continue to [...]

Explores the wide variety of African artifacts from the Hanson family who lived in Africa as a branch through the Ford Foundation. The objects selected from the collection are from different parts of the region and tell a remarkable story and offer insight to a large nation.

This exhibition showcases the work of our graduating Art majors.

My artwork employs the landscape as a metaphorical tool to investigate oppositional structures through temporary outdoor installations and interventions. My work explores memory, longing, desire, and absence in contrast to or in connection with my immediate environment to form a phenomenological understanding of place. Division of Labor references the historic rock fences or stonewalls that [...]

Throughout the Middle East, millions of refugees are migrating due to contested territories: some will return home while others will likely resettle in different parts of the world. Global power struggles for oil along with the colonizing impulses of Western governments continue to cause borderlines to shift, forcing communities and families to leave their homes [...]

Art making is a way for me to explore our changing relationship with work. My research focuses on transitions in macroeconomic structures through the lens of their effects on individual lives, communities, and worker’s relationships to the structures of labor itself. I’ve paid witness to the demise of opportunities to engage in meaningful work and [...]

Artist Statement: I began making photographs back home as a way to document mountaintop removal coal mining. Be it naiveté or an honest-to-god belief that I could somehow be part of ending this disastrous practice; I thought I could make photographs that would be convincing enough to grind those wheels to a halt. I came [...]

Artist Statement: In recent studio work I have been constructing a series of storage vessels whose shape and surface imagery explore the concept of fermentation. To “ferment” means to undergo fermentation, to slowly brew, fizz or foam. To “ferment” also means to incite or stir up. I am interested in the dual nature of this [...]

Born in Taiwan and grew up in Thailand with a western education, Eleen Lin is a third culture kid inhabiting in non-places of generic cities.  In the age of cultural cannibalism where everything is brought together and rearranged to formulate new identities, she reiterates folklores and classical literatures into contemporized cross-cultural narratives.  The Pet series [...]