38th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition

Outdoor campus

2024 Rosen Sculpture Finalists (clockwise from top left): Bob Doster, Adam Walls, Ben Pierce, Walter Early, David Boyajian, Hanna Jubran, Andrew Light, Richard Pitts, Beau Lyday and Glen ZweygardtThe 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 […]

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  Faculty Artists/Creative Ideas The Department of Art Faculty Biennial, a non-juried exhibition, provides the campus and surrounding communities with a unique opportunity to engage with the ideas and creative practices explored by many of the talented multi-disciplinary visual arts educators working at Appalachian State University. The Department of Art includes […]

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 […]

Congregations: Sarina Angell

Sarina Angell, NutsCuratorial Statement:  So often the events of the world break our hearts. We pay close attention to polarizing news; we confront and carry the grief of losing loved ones—to the pandemic, to other illnesses, to wars, and to other unnecessary violences.  Given the existential dilemma we find ourselves in, what would it mean for […]