Exhibitions Schedule
2024-25 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
FALL 2024
John M. (Jack) Carney
A Retrospective
John M. 鈥淛ack鈥 Carney earned his BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. In 1966, Carney joined the faculty at 澳门六合彩官网直播 in Kalamazoo teaching Graphic and Foundation Design. He co-developed 澳门六合彩官网直播鈥檚 graphic design degree program, and co-created the Design Center at Western. In the late 60s he created the first photography course in the Department of Art. Carney retired from the University as Professor Emeritus of Art in 2000 to pursue the practice of art full time.
Showcasing a lifetime of work, this retrospective exhibition takes place in both the Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery and the Netzorg-Kerr Gallery. The works consist entirely of black and white photography taken across time and space during the artist's travels.
SPRING 2025
Tipping Point
Tom Rice
Tom Rice is an artist working primarily in drawing, painting, and installation. Tom received a BFA from Tyler school of art and an MFA from the University of Georgia. He is the Jo-Ann & Robert Stewart Professor of Art at Kalamazoo College. His work has been exhibited widely across the United States and Canada. In 2019 Tom was awarded a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Alberta to research and make art focused on North America鈥檚 unsustainable appetite for carbon-based energy sources, and its impact on the environment and global climate change.
TIERRASKINLAND
Patricia Villalobos Echeverr铆a
Patricia Villalobos Echeverr铆a is a Professor of Printmedia at 澳门六合彩官网直播's Gwen Frostic School of Art. She has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, video, installations and participatory projects that pivot around issues of migration, navigation, displacement and transformation. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. She received a Doctor of Arts (D.Arts) degree from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroc艂aw, an MFA from West Virginia University and a BFA from Louisiana State University.
Her projects have been exhibited in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. She is the recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Artist Grant, the Oregon Arts Council Fellowship, PA Council for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Heights Residency Fellowship from the Heinz Endowment and has been an artist in residence at Ox-Bow, Artist Image Resource, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and the MacDowell Arts Colony.
Annual Student Exhibition