Campus Arts Corridor

Outdoor campus

The Campus Arts Corridor, looking back towards the Turchin Center Sculpture has long been a dynamic element on the campus of Appalachian State University and in August 2022, a new collection of seven sculptures has been installed as phase one of a Campus Arts Corridor. They originate at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts […]

37th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition

Outdoor campus

David Sheldon, Orion, 2020- 37th Rosen Sculpture Competition First Place WinnerThe Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition is a national juried competition presented annually by An Appalachian Summer Festival and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Since its establishment by Martin and Doris Rosen in 1987, the Rosen Competition continues a tradition of showcasing contemporary American sculpture […]

Considering Carbon: Kathleen Thum

Gallery A and Petti/Peiser Galleries GA

Artist’s Statement:  The exhibition, Considering Carbon, consists of a series of drawings and cut-paper wall installations which explore the theme of fossil fuels, specifically oil and coal. In the exhibition, I use different visual and conceptual approaches to examine the physical, material qualities of coal and oil, as I aim to heighten an awareness of […]

Revelation: Michael O’Neill

Mayer Gallery

Michael O'Neill, Untitled, 2023Curatorial Statement: More commonly associated with the literary arts, particularly notable writers like Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, and Salman Rushdie, Magical Realism reveals the hidden undercurrents of magic and fantasy in the worlds we create and occupy. Distinct from, but related to Surrealism, Magical Realism was first applied to the visual […]

Trophic Cascade: April Flanders

Hodges Gallery

April Flanders, Didemnum Vexillium April Flanders, Teredo Navalis  The web of life under the surface of aquatic ecosystems is exceedingly complex and devastatingly beautiful. In a place where species interactions begin at a microscopic level, small changes have huge impacts and huge changes wreak havoc. Remove a key predator, and prey takes over; add another predator, […]

The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project: Shayla Blatchford

Community Gallery

Shayla Blatchford, One mile lies between the Red Water Pond Road Community and the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Uranium MillThe Anti-Uranium Mapping Project is an interactive audio/visual storytelling exhibition and website designed to create an efficient way to educate audiences about the environmental issues of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation and surrounding lands. […]

21st Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition

Bickers Family Gallery

Jax Gaglianese-Woody, Not a Sea AnemoneExhibition StatementRoots. Ground. Water. Seed. Appalachia. A region. An idea. An imaginative and geopolitical landscape with real land(s) and real people(s)--those living, those who have passed on, and those to come. These mountains, valleys and streams, hollers and cities, dirt roads and railroad tracks texture our lives and craft our […]

38th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition

Outdoor campus

2023 Rosen Sculpture Finalists (clockwise from top left): Adam Walls, Paris Alexander, Bob Doster, Wesley Stewart,  David Sheldon, Hanna Jubran, Sophia Dominici, Beau Lyday, Glen Zwegardt, Carl Billingsley and David Boyajian.The Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition is a national juried competition presented annually by An Appalachian Summer Festival and the Turchin Center for the Visual […]

Flowstones: Corinne Jones

Mayer Gallery

Corinne Jones, Allegory of the Unnamed Cave, 2020A flowstone is created by mineral deposits laid down by water, slowly, quietly, in one place, over time. Flowstone grows approximately one inch every one hundred years. In one hundred years, how many societal changes have occurred in one place? Flowstones is a site-specific installation consisting of sound, […]

2024 Art Department Faculty Biennial

Gallery A and Petti/Peiser Galleries GA

Joshua White, Further WestART Department Faculty Biennial  The Department of Art Faculty Biennial showcases the work of Appalachian State University’s talented multidisciplinary faculty working across art and design. Providing direct engagement with current creative and scholarly research, the exhibition initiates critical dialogue about the nature of contemporary art. This non-juried exhibition offers student interaction with […]

Looming in the Shadows of Lodz: Leslie Starobin, Tamar Segev, and Ori Segev

Hodges Gallery

Tamar Segev, Limanowskiego 48, Lodz, Poland, June 2, 2019, Number 5Exhibition Statement: On the seventy-fifth anniversary of their relatives’ deportation from the Lodz Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a family of artists travels to Poland to uncover their roots. Through their respective mediums—photography, painting, and filmmaking, the three image-makers respond to the experiences of the first and […]

A Long and Slow Surrender: Wendy Young

Bickers Family Gallery

Wendy Young, Portraits of Lee and Jackson Hamburg AR Curatorial Statement Wendy Young never met a stranger; not only does she have the ability to talk to anyone anywhere about anything, most of the people she meets open up to her as soon as she introduces herself, inviting her into their homes, studios, storefronts, and […]