Kipp Gallery and the Kipp Gallery Annex, located in Sprowls Hall, offer a variety of art exhibits throughout the year, including touring exhibits, invitationals, and works by advanced students in the Department of Art and Design.
Other exhibits and art events are offered by the University Museum.
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Kipp Gallery Hours, Fall 2025
Monday, Wednesday: 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Fall 2025 Exhibitions
Wake
Tianxing Xu
Tianxing Xu’s work transforms fragmented memories and imagined narratives into ordered chaos, using overexposed, diary-like imagery to explore regret, absence, and the blurred boundaries between reality, symbolism, and simulation.
Wake will be on view in Kipp Gallery from September 2 through October 16, 2025.
An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 10, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Tianxing Xu
Coney Island(Draft), 2024
Marker, graphite, and watercolor on paper
9 x 12 inches
R.P.G. Illustrations by Peter Mullen
Peter Mullen
Peter Mullen is a Pennsylvania-based fantasy and sci-fi illustrator whose work has appeared in numerous tabletop role-playing games, including Dungeon Crawl Classics, Swords and Wizardry, and Old School Essentials. Drawing inspiration from 1970s–80s comics and illustrators like Frank Frazetta and Michael Whelan, Mullen combines traditional pen-and-ink techniques with a dynamic, narrative style that evokes the imaginative worlds of his childhood.
R.P.G. Illustrations by Peter Mullen will be on view in the Annex Gallery from October 7 through October 27, 2025.
Artwork image pictured above by Peter Mullen
Threadlines
Mark Mcleod
Mark Mcleod’s work employs modular 3D-printed forms that interlock like quilted fabrics, evoking personal and familial histories while exploring the fragility and ever-shifting nature of memory across personal, historical, and collective experience.
Threadlines will be on view in Kipp Gallery from October 21 through December 5, 2025.
A closing reception will be held on Friday, December 5, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Mark Mcleod
Parallel Playthings, 2025
3D Printed Polylactic Acid, Acrylic, 3D Printed Resin, and Paint
15 x 15 x 60 inches
A Contemporary Case for Myth
Sandra Cavanagh
Sandra Cavanagh’s artwork delves into narrative responses to sociopolitical upheaval, weaving myth, memory, and visceral imagery to confront patriarchy, mortality, and collective trauma, while using series-based storytelling to process, understand, and unburden personal and cultural histories.
A Contemporary Case for Myth will be on view in the Annex Gallery from November 5 through December 4, 2025.
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 6, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Sandra Cavanagh
Las Amazonas, 2022
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 in.
Spring 2026 Exhibitions
a small collection of memories
Cheryl Cappezzuti
Cheryl Cappezzuti transforms everyday discards, particularly dryer lint, into sculptural works that explore domesticity, memory, love, loss, and the human condition, often engaging communities in collaborative projects that blend humor, intimacy, and social reflection.
a small collection of memories will be on view in Kipp Gallery from January 20 through March 5, 2026.
An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, January 20, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Cheryl Cappezzuti
Bipedal, Heroic IX (Namesakes), 2024
Residential Dryer Lint
96 x 23 x 19 in.
Stories from the Squiggleverse
Monika Malewska
Monika Malewska’s artwork playfully reimagines still life through fragmented depictions of food and consumer objects, critiquing material desire and late capitalism while creating vibrant, shifting visual worlds between illusion and flatness.
Stories from the Squiggleverse will be on view in the Annex Gallery from February 23 through March 26, 2026.
An opening reception is TBA. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Monika Malewska
White Deer and Red Anthurium Swirl Composition, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
33 x 43 in.
Orientation
Britny Wainwright
Britny Wainwright’s work merges ceramics and fiber to explore phenomenology, queerness, and feminism, transforming domestic forms into sculptural objects that challenge modernist hierarchies, blur boundaries between art and craft, and reorient the viewer’s sense of place and identity.
Orientation will be on view in Kipp Gallery from March 16 to April 30, 2026.
An opening reception is TBA. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Britny Wainwright
Embedded Relationships, 2024
Ceramic, mixed fiber, wood, house paint, sand
44 x 40 x 16 in.
Tender Tangle
Martyna Martusiak
Martyna Martusiak’s work examines the body as both shield and battleground, using printmaking, drawing, and sculptural forms to explore how control, tension, and manipulation leave lasting marks on body and mind, highlighting resilience, vulnerability, and the persistence of self-expression under pressure.
Tender Tangle will be on view in the Annex Gallery from March 31 to April 30, 2026.
An opening reception is TBA. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Martyna Martusiak
Entangled