KU Visual Art

Get @reshare_app • @seuil_chung Please join us on Saturday, May 16th from 5 PM to 7 PM for the opening reception of Almost a Body: Not Quite a Thing, an exhibition presented by the current ICRC residents at the University of Kansas, Sunyoung Park and Seuil Chung.🙌 Almost a Body: Not Quite a Thing brings together work from two studio courses, Botanical Form in Clay and Abstract Forms, led by Sunyoung Park and Seuil Chung. Each course approaches form through distinct processes and lines of inquiry rooted in clay-based practice. While the works emerge from different contexts, they share an interest in shapes that resist fixed definition, hovering between body, object, and other states of becoming. The exhibition proposes a space where objects approach bodies without fully arriving, and where meaning emerges through relation, proximity, and difference. Almost a Body: Not Quite a Thing will be on view from Saturday, May 16th through Saturday, May 23rd. #kuvisualart #kuceramics

Salami Sam sez: Good Luck on Finals! * * * #kuvisualart #universityofkansas #notai #campussquirrels #finalsweek Image courtesy @lucentbuffalo * (Image features campus squirrel eating a piece of salami outside Chalmers Hall with cartoon text bubble and comic book elements)

Final Weekend for Senior Shows at @offsiteartspace with another at the Lawrence Rotary Arboretum. Off-Site will feature three Senior Shows: Grace Billman | "Naturally Adorned", Xochitlh Vargas | "For Those Who Taught Me", and Cheyenne Eckstein (not pictured) Exhibition: MAY 7 - MAY 9, 4-8PM Reception: MAY 8, 5-7PM ---------- At Lawrence Rotary Arboretum, located at 5100 W 27th St, Lawrence, KS, Samantha Bradbury will show "testimony through textiles" with a reception on FRI, MAY 8 from 6-8PM ------ Don't forget to join us for the annual Scholarship Show this SUN, MAY 10 from 2-4PM in Chalmers Hall. Come see what our Visual Art students have been working on this year and enjoy light refreshments on a beautiful day. 💐 * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #seniorshows #lawrenceks #ku #universityofkansas #textiles #metalsmithing #jewelry @kucollege @explorelawrence @exploring_lawrence @xxochi_v @fattailkat @billman.metals @sami.bradbury

Three Senior Show receptions at @offsiteartspace this week! Join us for: Claire Nolte | Possible Side Effects Include: Seraphina Lyne | The Doctrine of Her Marissa Warrell | The Edge of This World * Reception: FRI, MAY 1 | 5-7PM Exhibition: THU, APR 30 - SAT, MAY 2 | 4-8PM Off-Site Art Space is located at 924 Delaware St * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #ceramics #interdisciplinary #kubfa #ku #universityofkansas #seniorshow #undergraduateexhibition @slvr_ceramics @handcraftedbyclaire_

⚡ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT⚡Alicia Kelly, BFA: Printmaking | Minor: Art History, '10 * Q: What would you like to share with current and future Visual Art students? A: "Get excited about what you create. Studio time is a pleasure, enjoy those moments getting to know yourself and do it often. Don't save your good ideas for later, do them now. Travel if you can and learn as many new skills as possible. Find your communities and show up. It's hard to live straight off selling your work (if that's your goal), develop multiple revenue streams (gigs, commissions, grants, teaching etc.), no matter how small the income- if one revenue stream disappears you are still standing." * Read more of our insightful Q & A with Alicia via link in bio (Stories found linked at bottom of Alumni Spotlight page). @aliciakelly / * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #alumni #kualumni #art #paperart #alumnistories #installationart @kucollege @kualumni University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to the Third Place Winner of our 31st Annual Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition, Nina Katz, with her video Strings of time! From her statement: "For my work ‘String in Time’ I wanted to explore how who we are shapes the world around us and how who is in our world shapes us. I was also inspired by the East Asian folklore called the Red Thread of Fate (also known as Red String Theory). It’s believed that an invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet and influence each other’s lives. It represents deep love, friendship and familial connections. My footage spanned from old pictures of my mom before she came to America, pictures of my parents together before they had children, video footage of my friends and I from when we were kids, and footage of my friends and I together now. I wanted to string together all these meetings and moments in time to explore how all of these people and decisions have led to who I am today. The mixed media process was challenging and chaotic at times, but also incredibly rewarding. I took pieces of the footage I had collected from my family and friends, exported it at 5 frames per second. I then printed out each frame and painted, stamped and drew over the frames (essentially editing them by hand) and scanned them back in. I also created animated overlays to put over parts of the video by stamping over blank frames on paper and scanning them back in as well. One of my favorite parts of the process was getting to physically interact with my own memories and find new ways to play with them through the ‘hand edited process’." Katz recieved a scholarship from The Leigh Rosenberg Earnest Memorial Fund. Special thanks to Jessica Hong, Chief Curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, for Juring this year!

📆Mark your calendars!📆 It's time to celebrate our 2026 graduating Visual Art students! * The Visual Art Graduation Show is a tradition within the KU Visual Art Department. We wish to honor our Seniors and celebrate the breadth of the wonderful work being made in our department. This is a great opportunity for your family to see your work, and the work of your friends and peers. ------------ Exhibition dates: SUN, MAY 10 during the Scholarship Show | 2-4PM MON, MAY 4 – FRI, MAY 15, 2026 * Reception: FRI, MAY 15, 7:30 - 9PM (immediately following the SOTA Recognition Ceremony at Murphy Hall) Join us in the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery in Chalmers Hall for light refreshments and to view the work of our graduating Seniors. (image depicts a series of vertical black and white photographs of eyes, text featured above, and off-set color blocks) * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #ku #art #universityofkansas #ku #2026graduation @kucollege @universityofkansas

Please join us this FRI, APR 17 for the opening and closing receptions of senior thesis exhibitions. 💐 * Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery | Chalmers Hall | 5 - 7PM Sam Avila, Kyer Fox, Charlie Gelhausen, Lauren Lemay, Abigail Sawyer, Eliska Williams, Jared Zimmerman ---------------------------------- Off Site Art Space | 924 Delaware St | 6 - 8PM @offsiteartspace Dawn Reppond, Path to Purpose: A Squatters Guide to Self-Fulfillment Evan Hoffman, Creatures and Stars: Beginning and End (images depict vinyl lettering on gallery wall for Chalmers Hall show and an image of part of the exhibit featuring multiple artworks. third and fourth images depict the show cards for the two students showing at Off-Site) * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #seniorshows #kubfa #bfaexhibition #artexhibition #ku #universityofkansas #chalmershall #art #artshow #lawrenceks

**UPDATE** 📢 We have added another Open Drawing date for April! Join us on SAT, APR 25 from 1PM - 4PM for open figure drawing. As always, these workshops are FREE and open to anyone who wants to draw the figure. * Drawing the human figure in its various shapes and positions is an important activity for all visual artists. Figure drawing, the process of drawing the human body from observation of a live model, is arguably the most difficult subject an artist commonly encounters. * One of the most enduring themes in the visual arts, figure drawing is important practice for the genres of portraiture, cartooning, graphic illustration, sculpture, medical illustration, and other fields that use depictions of the human form. Figure drawing can be done very simply, as in gesture drawing, or in more detail, using charcoal, pencil, or other drawing tools. (image depicts a person sketching a live model in sepia-tone and a blind contour graphic with the date, time, place information in text) * * * #kuvisualart #opendrawing #community #sketching #lifedrawing #drawing

Busy weekend with #kuvisualart Senior Shows at @offsiteartspace & Chalmers Hall! ---- Both shows will have a reception this FRI, APR 17. * (first three images) Seniors Dawn Reppond & Evan Hoffman will be showing their work at Off-Site Art Space (924 Delaware) from Th-Sat 4pm-8pm with a reception Friday 6-8pm * (rest of images) BFA Seniors will hold a concurrent exhibition in the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery in Chalmers Hall. Open now, M-F 9a-5p with a reception also on Friday from 5-7pm * Stay tuned for more Senior Shows and other exhibitions showcasing our 2026 undergrads! 🎉 * * #visualart #kubfa #art #universityofkansas

🎉🙌🎉CONGRATULATIONS to Brian Hawkins (KU Printmaking MFA 2014) for receiving the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship‼️‼️ Brian Hawkins is a visual artist whose work is concerned with the patchwork of memories, historical narratives, and fiction that help us form a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. He has produced a series of intricate, cut-paper animations which draw inspiration from the music, folklore, and history of his native state. Since 2016, Brian has been collaborating with the people of Old Mines, Missouri, folklorists, and linguists to produce animations based on Missouri French folklore. With the Guggenheim Fellowship, Brian will create a short animation titled “It Was a Hell of a Mix-up” that will weave together non-fiction stories gleaned from hundreds of interviews recorded in Missouri French in Old Mines, Missouri, by psycho-sociolinguist Rosemary Hyde from 1977 to 1983. The film is meant to reflect the shared experiences of the last generation of native speakers of Missouri French and show the humor, beauty, and harsh realities of life in this community caught between two languages and two cultures at the beginning of the 20th century.  Link in bio to watch Brian’s animations! @kuvisualart @universityofkansas @kucollege @kualumni

FALL 2026: EXM 307/577: Installation Art | Professor: María Velasco T/Th 11:30a-2:20p | Chalmers 423 & 406 | Non-Majors welcome | Questions: [email protected] ---- WHAT WE DO We explore multiple approaches to artmaking with an emphasis on: • transformation of space • the sensorial experience • viewer’s role in the work • the space as a collaborator OUR GOALS We will investigate materials, methods, and concepts for creating and visualizing your ideas in relation to its site: • process • context • problem-solving • craftsmanship Individually and in teams, students will produce temporary installations in an atmosphere of redefinition, interdisciplinarity and experimentation. Our weekly activities consist of making, viewing, writing, critiquing, and discussing, all of which are important skills for you as an aspiring artist in this field. ---- INSTALLATION ART IS ART IN CONTEXT Topics include time/space specificity; the collaborative process; body/space relationships, and art-making as part of a sociocultural dynamic. Additional readings and discussions, will connect you with the theory and practice of contemporary installation art. Engaging in installation art is like having an extended conversation with the world around you. What are you curious about? What are you fighting for? (images: top, Wangechi Mutu, Exhuming Gluttony: A Lover's Requiem, 2013; bottom, Alex Da Corte, Free Roses, MASS MoCA, 2017) * * * #kuvisualart #visualart #art #expandedmedia #exm #installation #installationart #interdisciplinaryarts