Nexos: Entre Raices Exhibition
This is a group exhibition featuring artworks from 33 printmakers based in the United States and Mexico. A variety of printmaking methods will be presented.
Dates: Friday, March 22-Saturday, April 13, 2024
First Friday Reception: Friday, April 5, 4-7 pm
Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Open Hours:
Fridays 4-7 pm
Saturdays 10 am-3 pm
Featuring student work from Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, Spokane Falls Community College, North Idaho College, and Whitworth University.
Opening Reception: February 2nd, 4-7 pm
Closing Reception: March 1st, 4-7 pm
Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Open Hours:
Fridays 4-7 pm
Saturdays 10 am-3 pm
The 5th Spokane Print Fest presents:
The Student Invitational
April 7-14, 2023 at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center.
A selection of works on paper featuring print techniques such as relief, intaglio, screen printing, monotype and lithography by students from the following regional institutions: Spokane Falls Community College, Washington State University, University of Idaho, Gonzaga University, Whitworth University, University of Puget Sound and the University of Montana.
Opening Reception: April 7th, 4-7 pm
Closing Reception: April 14th, 4-7 pm
Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Open Hours:
Fridays 4-7 p.m.
Saturdays 10-3 p.m.
For a full list of Spokane Print Fest events please visit spokaneprintfest.org.
Art by Brigid Dennehy
A Piece of Me Senior Art Exhibition
April 28-May 12, 2023 at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center.
Featuring work by current BFA senior candidates Ashley Castleman, Bri Covert, Hayley Nigrelle and Emilie Weaver, and BA senior candidates Fiona Davis, Brigid Dennehy, and Skylar Karman.
Exhibition Opening Date: April 28, 2023
Artist Reception & Talk: May 5, 2023, 4-7 pm
Closing Reception: May 12, 2023, 4-7 pm
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Open Hours:
Fridays 4-7 p.m.
Saturdays 10-3 p.m
Image credit: Ashley Castleman, Bri Covert, Fiona Davis, Brigid Dennehy , Skylar Karman , Hayley Nigrelle, and Emilie Weaver
Land Acknowledgement: an exhibition curated by Charlene Teters
A Contemporary Art Exhibition featuring seventeen contemporary Native American artists
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, Nov. 4-Dec. 3, 2022
At the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, opening November 4, 2022, on the land of the Spokane Tribal people, Charlene Teters (Spokane) will curate an exhibition of local native artists who will create art around this subject and question. Artists will attend the opening November 4, 4:00- 7:00pm.
Land Acknowledgements began as a challenge to audiences about their ignorance of the history about the original people and whose land they occupy. In the early 90’s it was in fact a radical statement seeking to make non-Indian America think and respond to yet another area of failure in education.
In 2022, Land Acknowledgements have become a pro-forma act almost required of US indigenous speakers, whose original intent has been suffocated by the tsunami of historical feel-good fiction about the origins of European empire building in North America. One hardly can hear the begged question Land Acknowledgments asks, “what happened to these people?”
Teters earned an AFA from Institute of American Indian Arts, a BFA from the College of Santa Fe, and an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she was awarded two honorary degrees, a Doctor of Fine Arts from Mitchell College in New London, CT and a Doctorate of Humanities from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. In 2002, she received a New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts from then Governor Gary Johnson.
To arrange an interview with Teters or the artists, please contact: Lenora Lopez Schindler at lopezschindler@gonzaga.edu; office phone: (509) 313-4147 or mobile: (509) 464-9559
Opening Reception:
November 4, 2022, 4-7 p.m.
Gallery Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Land Acknowledgement Panel Discussion:
Featuring Charlene Teters, Tiffanie Irazarry and Joseph Arnoux
November 8, 2022, 3 p.m.
Hemmingson Ballroom, Gonzaga University
Open Hours:
Fridays 4-7 p.m.
Saturdays 10-3 p.m.
The art above is made by Shawn Brigman, PhD. Shawn Brigman, sp’éƛ’m (bitter root), 2022. Photography and root basket made by the artist.
In the Dance: Mexican Masks
En la Danza: Mascaras Mexicanas
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, October 8-22, 2022
In the Dance includes a selection of dance and decorative masks, mostly related to the pastorela danza, from the Lake Paztcuaro region of Michoacan. Within the pastorelas, religious figures and narratives mix and cavort with contemporary celebrities and other characters familiar to contemporary audiences. Through comic mixings and juxtapositions, present-day cultural meanings, experiences, and social issues are dramatized, explored, and presented back to the community in humorous and impactful ways.
Opening Reception:
October 7, 3-7 pm
(Gallery talk by exhibit curator at 4 pm)
Open Hours:
Fridays, 4-7 pm
Saturdays, 10 am-3 pm