Officials at the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at 野狼社区 University have released the gallery schedule for the upcoming academic year, beginning with a printmaking show titled 鈥淐onnect: Collect鈥� currently on exhibit through Oct. 15. There will be an artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9, including an artist talk and demonstration beginning at 5 p.m.
Admission to the gallery is free to the public during its regular hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The gallery is inside the Norick Art Center at Blackwelder Avenue and NW 26.
鈥淐onnect: Collect鈥� is an annual international print exchange for artists working within traditional processes that seeks to connect them across long distances to create original print editions to be exchanged and exhibited as a collection.
鈥淲ith the proliferation of digital printing, printmaking is an often misunderstood and unfamiliar art form that can be undervalued and confused with digital reproductions,鈥� said Heather Lunsford, OCU School of Visual Arts director. 鈥淭his does a disservice to both artist and audience, as prints represent an accessible way for individuals to collect and appreciate a variety of original artworks. With this project we hope to bring together printmakers from across the country to highlight the growing contemporary art scene in 野狼社区.鈥�
The exhibit includes 鈥淗olding Patterns. Holding. Patterns.鈥� The project asked artists to 鈥渞espond to the moment鈥� and make original prints based on the theme of holding patterns. The 2021 exchange artists drew on pattern and place, movement and migration, repetition and routine to create woodcuts, etching, screenprints, lithographs and linocut.
Other exhibits during the academic year will include:
- Aug. 16 to Oct. 5, Elizabeth Suarez show 鈥淥rgullosa鈥� as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month (in the Art Hall Gallery)
- Oct. 7 to Dec. 10, William Walker Larason show 鈥渇ly your cares to the wind鈥� in honor of National Coming Out Day (in the Art Hall Gallery)
- Oct. 21 to Nov. 5, Carolyn Cardenas show 鈥淪mall World & Contradictions鈥�
- Jan. 4 to Feb. 22, 2022, Calvin Pressley show 鈥淭hrough to the Other Side鈥� as part of Black History Month (in the Art Hall Gallery)
- Feb. 23 to Aug. 12, Sam Charboneau show 鈥淒omestic Inquiries鈥� (in the Art Hall Gallery)
- Jan. 10 to April 1 Jessica Lichtenstien show 鈥溾�o They Make a Sound?鈥�
- April 7 to May 30, 鈥淐reaturealm鈥� group show
