Exhibitions Schedule
2024-25 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
FALL 2024
John M. (Jack) Carney
A Retrospective
John M. “Jack” Carney earned his BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. In 1966, Carney joined the faculty at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo teaching Graphic and Foundation Design. He co-developed WMU’s 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’s unsustainable appetite for carbon-based energy sources, and its impact on the environment and global climate change.
TIERRASKINLAND
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría is a Professor of Printmedia at Western Michigan University'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 Wrocław, an MFA from West Virginia University and a BFA from Louisiana State University.
tierraskinland is a video installation that deals with displacement as it may relate to situations of political unrest, violence, and climate change. This project continues my interest in exploring the meaning of land and our changing relationship to it; similarly, I am interested in our sense of self, and belonging particularly while living within a context of political unrest and drastically changed territories due to climate change. Our ties to a place shift as we move and re-locate, the reasons for those displacements are often tied to globalized economies and the changing territories we inhabit due to ecological disasters. The source material for the works were recorded on site in Nicaragua, Michigan, Hawai'i, Iceland and Japan. Ultimately tierraskinland is a rumination on the confluence between migration, displacement, ecology, and global extractive economies.
Annual Student Exhibition
Please join us for a reception and awards announcement on Friday, March 21 from 5-8pm!