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 […]