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An education in art goes beyond building knowledge and technical skills, it’s about finding one’s voice, igniting curiosity, connecting with others, making meaning of the present and discovering a place in the world. It is important to celebrate successes together because the experiences and relationships one creates here will inform the rest of their life.
ASU Events
Exhibitions
A Thread of Everything | Senior BFA Exhibition
March 23 – 26 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | March 24 | 5 – 7 p.m.
Presented in Gallery 100, “A Thread of Everything” is a BFA exhibition representing a threading convergence of cultural experiences, emotions, societal issues and familial memories. Each artist focuses on various artistic media that help convey the ideas or topics significant to their personal lives, especially derived from their own experiences. By recognizing and conveying these experiences, these artists bring a vivid and emotionally intense perspective of not only their artistic process, but of how they envision their worlds.
Artists Annabella Abrams, Jacklyn Desmarais, Cynthia Galarza, Julissa Galdamez, Arin Kalu, Morgan Kerrigan, Yiyang Pu, Ailani Rodriguez and Rhiannon Sullivan present their variety of works based on personal interests, familial experiences and unprecedented struggles. Recurring themes in this exhibition include reflections on identity, hometown and cultural representation, mental and physical health struggles and abstractions of reality. Consisting mainly of paintings, drawings and sculptures, these reflections of emotional and physical worlds reveal what is most often taken for granted and, more so, how significant and long-lasting these impacts are.
Image courtesy the artists.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 12 – 5 p.m.
Friday | 12 – 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
Aggregate Bodies | MFA Thesis Exhibtion
March 19 to 27 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | March 20 | 6 to 9 p.m.
“Aggregate Bodies” presents large-scale sculptural installations formed from reclaimed ceramic waste. Clay is used both as a medium and an archive, creating terrazzo-speckled bodies from discarded ceramic, paper, drywall and other community remains. Embedded fragments are visible within the surfaces, holding traces of their past lives and revealing layered material histories.
The work emerges through labor-intensive cycles of breaking down, drying, pulverizing and reforming waste into new clay bodies. Each mixture produces a unique material composition, allowing fragments to persist within the surface like scars. The sculptures develop through intuitive movement as clay is layered and folded across growing volumes, leaving seams, bulges and raw textures as records of the process. During firing, heat further transforms each work as reclaimed materials fuse and shift.
The unapologetic forms occupy the gallery with weight and presence, echoing bodily and geological systems through swelling volumes and accumulated surfaces. A wall display of collected ceramic fragments functions as an open material archive, revealing the scale of accumulation and the ongoing cycles of breaking, memory and transformation embedded within the work.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
To Wilt | MFA Thesis exhibition
March 20 to 28 | Northlight Gallery
Opening reception | March 20 | 6 to 9 p.m.
This is not a romance. It is an inquiry into what love becomes under observation: image, transcript, measurement, replay. In translating intimacy into visual data, whether through artificial generation or camera-based capture, the work exposes the instability of emotion when subjected to analysis. The individual's tragedy is structural; each act of capture confirms the disappearance of love.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays of the month | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Image: Danyal Khorami.
In the Making: Craft, Community & Art Education in the Valley of the Sun
April 6 to 23 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | April 7 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Community sewing circle | April 11 | 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"In the Making: Craft, Community & Art Education in the Valley of the Sun" presents individual and collaborative textile works by artists and educators directly connected to the ASU Art Education program. The exhibition asks how teaching and artmaking inform one another, and how shared craft practices and values can deepen both.
Developed over the course of a year through sewing circles and writing workshops, the project frames craft as a mode of research, pedagogy and knowledge-making. It aims to recognize, amplify and strengthen intergenerational exchange among ASU art education students, faculty, new teachers and mentor teachers, creating a place and platform to acknowledge the depth and value of the creative work taking place in K-12 art classrooms across the greater Valley.
Image: Carolyn Hazel Drake.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
