Dearest

Upper Traylor Gallery

My studio practice includes interactive soft sculpture, performance, and works on paper. I create sensory experiences that allude to sensations such as weightiness, pressure, and simple gestures like hugging and hiding. I emphasize tactility to conceptually address a displaced sense of self and a universal search for belonging. Tactility is paramount in my work because [...]

Cross Cultural Exchange

Rogers Gallery

Curated by the students in ARH 263: Introduction to Museum Work along with Meghan C. Doherty, this exhibition explores exchanges of ideas among cultures through the objects they produced.

Overburden: Stripping Away the Mountains and Its People

Upper Traylor Gallery

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 [...]

The Blue Collar

Lower Traylor Gallery

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 [...]

Gifts of Insight: Highlights from the Hanson Collection of West African Art

Rogers Gallery

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.

Division of Labor by Montana Torrey

Upper Traylor Gallery

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 [...]

Borders & Migration: Shifting Geographies by Renee van der Stelt

Rogers Gallery

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 [...]

Those of Us Still Living by James Arendt

Lower Traylor Gallery

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 [...]