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, Spring 2026
Monday/Wednesday: Noon–2:00 p.m.
Tuesday/Thursday: 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Spring 2026 Exhibitions
a small collection of memories
Cheryl Capezzuti
Cheryl Capezzuti 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.
An Artist Talk will be held on Wednesday, February 4, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.
Artwork image pictured above:
Cheryl Capezzuti
Bipedal, Heroic IX (Namesakes), 2024
Residential Dryer Lint
96 x 23 x 19 in.
10 @ 15 x 15: Variations on a Theme
Fall 2025 Advanced Woodworking Class:
Arielle Golden
Brenna Nutter
Cathaline Saylor
Clarissa Marshall
Faith Gill
Grace Aikens
Joshua Clark
Kai Southard
Ma’kaylah Goldwire-Thomas
Sharon Boykiw
This exhibition highlights ten unique tables, each responding to a shared set of parameters while showcasing individual approaches to design, material, craftsmanship, and problem-solving. Together, the works reveal how variation, experimentation, and personal voice emerge within the framework of a common utilitarian form.
10 @ 15 x 15: Variations on a Theme will be on view in the Annex Gallery from January 23 through February 5, 2026.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 23, 2026. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
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 will be held on Thursday, February 24, 2026. 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 will be held on Thursday, March 19, 2026. 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