Past Exhibitions

2024-2025 Exhibitions

Presence and Absence: The Paintings and Drawings of Ben Frank Moss

Jundt Galleries, May 24 to August 30, 2025 

Artist Ben Frank Moss (1936–2019) graduated from Whitworth University in 1959, and earned his MFA from Boston University. An influential instructor, Moss taught at Gonzaga University, Fort Wright College, the Spokane Studio School, the University of Iowa, and Dartmouth College.  He returned to Eastern Washington every summer to paint.  Ben and his wife, Jean, still lived in New Hampshire when he passed away.  This special display of paintings and drawings borrows from the collection of his family.

Permanent Collection: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Prints

Arcade Gallery, May 24 to August 30, 2025

This temporary display from the museum’s permanent collection features a selection of thirty mid- to late 20th century Japanese prints, from more than 200 in storage, emerging from its founding donation, the Bolker Collection, and from several other donors, including Samuel and Rosemary Selinger, and the museum’s founding director, J. Scott Patnode.

Art U.S.A.: One Hundred American Works on Paper, 1925–1950, from the Permanent Collection of the Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University

Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, January 25 to May 10, 2025

Opening reception, free and open to the public: Friday, January 24, 4 to 7pm.

Exhibition Catalog and Playlist

Major exhibition catalogue available for purchase now.
Complete and fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue for "Art U.S.A.: One Hundred Works on Paper, 1925-1950, from the Collection of the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University." Author: Paul Manoguerra. More than 100 illustrations, Cloth, 240pp.

Listen to the Art U.S.A. Playlist on Spotify
The Art U.S.A. playlist includes 100 songs to accompany the exhibition "Art U.S.A.: One Hundred Works on Paper, 1925-1950, from the Collection of the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University."

Exhibition Details

This special, temporary display features a survey of 100 American works on paper, created during the second quarter of the 20th century, including the era of the Great Depression and World War II. The works on paper in Art U.S.A. represent “The American Scene,” a country-wide affinity among artists for images of everyday urban and rural life and of the regional landscape, and for reflections on the cultural identity of the United States in the 1920s through the 1940s. Most of the artists, counting significant numbers of immigrants or children of immigrants, women, and artists of color, in the exhibition participated in at least one of the many federal government-supported art programs during the Depression.

Art U.S.A. also includes a loan of a painting, connected to the history of post office murals in our region, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Image: Fletcher Martin (American, 1904–1979)
Lantern Test (study for mural in the Kellogg, Idaho, Post Office), ca. 1939
Ink and wash on paper, 19 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches
Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fredrick and Genevieve Schlatter Endowed Print Fund 

2023-2024 Exhibitions

2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition

Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, June 1 to August 24, 2024

Reception and Awards: Friday evening, May 31, 2024

In the summer of 2024, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University presents the 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, organized by the staff of the museum.

This juried display, originally intended to occur at Gonzaga University every third summer but postponed by the pandemic, seeks to present the diversity and dynamism of contemporary artistic activity in the Inland Northwest while celebrating the relationship between art and the local landscape.

The 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition is presented at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74, and in celebration of the legacy of creativity, community, and environmental stewardship that drives Spokane to this day. In 1974, Spokane became the smallest city in history to host the World’s Fair. As an environmentally focused event, the Spokane World’s Fair sparked a transformation in the heart of our city that became the catalyst for sustainable growth in our region. This exhibition is one of the many events during the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74, celebrated May 4 to July 4, 2024.

This juried display, featuring 81 works by 66 different artists. All from the region, seeks to present the diversity and dynamism of contemporary artistic activity in the Inland Northwest while celebrating the relationship between art and the local landscape. The 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition is presented at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74. And in celebration of the legacy of creativity, community, and environmental stewardship that drives Spokane to this day.

Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.

Landscape is a medium of exchange between the human and the natural, the self and the other. …Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture. It is both a represented and presented space, both a signifier and a signified, both a frame and what a frame contains, both a real place and its simulacrum, both a package and the commodity inside the package.

I was born by these waters…the earth here is my mother.

In every dress nature is greatly charming… How gay looks the Spring! how glorious the Summer! how pleasing the Autumn! and how venerable the Winter! – But there is no thinking of these things without breaking out into poetry.

The first Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition was held at the Jundt Art Museum from May 26 to August 11, 2018, and attracted almost 4,000 visitors to campus during the summer months. The award winners for the 2018 show included 1st place winner Amalia Fisch (Spokane, Washington) for her oil on canvas painting Kettle River Patchwork, and 2nd place winner Scott Bailey (East Wenatchee, Washington) for his painting 46˚ 51’ 06” N 121˚ 45’ 28” W (Delaunay Triangulation). Honorable mention awards were given to Owen McAuley (Cheney, Washington), Dennis Smith (Medical Lake, Washington), and Gregg Schlanger (Ellensburg, Washington).

Gonzaga University Art Department Faculty Exhibition

Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, January 20 to May 11, 2024

Reception: Friday, February 2, 2024, 4 pm to 7 pm

Participating Artists:
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
Bradd Skubinna
Harry Mestyanek
Houston Fryer
Jamie Nadherny
Jennifer Seo
Lisa Soranaka
Matt McCormick
Tobe Harvey
Mat Rude

Artwork by Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

Five Critical Decades of Art: The Stephens Collection

Jundt Galleries, September 9, 2023 to January 6, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 4-7 pm

This exhibition will present the “bulk” of art collected by Spokane residents Les and Carolyn Stephens. For more than fifty years, the Stephens have acquired artworks that present a broad survey of regional and national trends and styles. Selections will explore the many directions or “movements” in art such as 60’s pop art, sculpture that uses “assemblage” or “found objects,” environmental art, east coast/west coast, video art, abstraction, photorealism, Chicago imagery and its influence, folk/outsider art, social commentary, and figurative art. Traditional and nontraditional examples of painting, wood carving/sculpture, ceramics/clay art, printmaking, drawing, and photography will be on display.

Image Credit:
Jim Richard (American, b. 1943)
Facing the Garage, 1982
Serigraph on paper, 23 x 24”

Rubén Trejo (American, 1937–2009)
Milagro sculpture, n.d.
Welded steel and railroad spikes

2022-2023 Exhibitions

Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Juried Exhibition

Jundt Galleries, June 3 to August 26, 2023

Reception: Friday evening, June 2, 2023

In the summer of 2023, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University will present the Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Juried Exhibition, organized by Paul Manoguerra, director/curator, Karen Kaiser, curator of education, Britta Arendt, museum registrar/program coordinator, and Robin Dare, preparator/art handler at the museum. The museum will partner with the Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Guild (INMOD) to promote the call for entries and the exhibition guidelines.

INMOD was founded January 2016 in Spokane, Washington to meet the growing need to have a modern quilting community in the region. Its mission is “to provide an environment of inspiration, education, and charity in our community through fresh-modern quilting.” Likewise, borrowing from the “Introduction” to The Modern Quilt Guild’s 2017 publication Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century: “Modern quilts are utilitarian. They are art. They tell stories. They are graphic, improvisational, or minimalist. They break the rules. They make a statement.”

Book cover for Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century, published in 2017.

Drawn to the Wall VIII: Installations

Arcade Gallery, June 3 to August 26, 2023*

Opening Reception: Friday evening, June 2, 2023, 4-7 pm

Every three years the Jundt Art Museum invites artists to participate in a unique project wherein the artists draw directly on to one of the gallery walls (8’ x 11’). This year we have invited four artists, Mariah Boyle, Katie Creyts, Tobi Harvey, and Rob McKirdie to build an installation in one of four Arcade Galley cases. There are no restrictions as to size, shape, or function of the objects employed. We expect lights and sound along with interactive features.

At the end of the exhibit, the artists themselves will remove and paint over any markings on the walls.

Jundt Art Museum Hours*

Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sundays: Closed
*Holidays Closed: June 17-19, July 1-4, 2023
Information: (509) 313-6843

Image: Diagram of Arcade case measurements.

Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West

Jundt Galleries, January 21, 2023 through May 13, 2023

This traveling exhibition is curated by Douglas McCulloh and organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography.

Fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience—these are the subjects explored by the artists of Facing Fire. In the past two decades, West Coast wildfires have exploded in scale and severity. The artists— Noah Berger, Kevin Cooley, Josh Edelson, Samantha Fields, Jeff Frost, Luther Gerlach, Christian Houge, Richard Hutter, Christoph Kapeller, Benoit Malphettes, Anna Mayer, Cody Norris, Stuart Palley, Norma I. Quintana, Justin Sullivan, and Joan Wulf—of Facing Fire bring us incendiary work from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. They face fire, sift its aftermath, and struggle with the implications.

Stuart Palley

El Portal Fire, Yosemite National Park, 2014

Dye sublimation print on aluminum

Courtesy of the artist.

Permanent Collection: Best of Photographs

Arcade Gallery, January 21 through May 13, 2023

Another display in the Jundt Art Museum’s series of exhibitions highlighting the quality of its own permanent collection, this small temporary exhibition features the photographs of Ansel Adams, Robert Doisneau, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, and Andy Warhol, among several others.

Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)

Tree, Stump, and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington, 1976

Gelatin silver print, 15 ½ x 19 ¼ inches

Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Jundt Art Museum Annual Campaign

2014.6

New to You: Permanent Collection Objects on Display for the First Time

Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, August 27, 2022 to January 7, 2023

Museums typically only have a small fraction of the objects they care for on display at any one time, and the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University is no exception. This special exhibition highlights over sixty works of art which have never been on display since the Jundt Art Museum opened in 1995. In some cases, the museum has only recently acquired the object and has yet to place it on exhibition. In other instances, due to the nature of operating as a small museum with rotating shows, the work of art has yet to be featured. New to You includes works of art by both historical and contemporary artists, and introduces visitors to some of the museum’s prints, paintings, ceramics, and sculptures for the very first time.

Viola Patterson (American, 1898–1984)

Malahat Drive, Victoria, BC, 1927

Woodcut on paper, 9 ½ x 7 1/8”

Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University; Gift of Joan Wahlman

2007.41.24

Revisited: A Grand Tour: Images of Italy from the Permanent Collection

January 15 through May 7, 2022

Closed in March 2020, this re-installed exhibition functions as a visual travelogue of the Italian peninsula using works of art from the collection of the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University. A Grand Tour begins with sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century European prints, byproducts of artists’ visits mostly to the urban centers of Rome and Florence, and concludes with twenty-first-century images. Significant portions of the objects in this exhibition result from the Bolker Collection and from the Fredrick and Genevieve Schlatter Endowed Print Fund. A Grand Tour utilizes the Jundt Art Museum’s collection to present artistic imagery of the canals of Venice, the Renaissance architecture of Florence, and the classical remains of Rome, but also sites in Milan, Pisa, Assisi, Naples, and Palermo as well as other cities and towns. We hope that this selection of more than 76 images of Italy will give pleasure as one introduction to a wide-ranging and astonishing topic.

 John Ferguson Weir (American, 1841-1926

Basilica of San Franciso d'Assisi, Italy, 1902

Oil on canvas

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Jundt Art Museum Annual Campaign and

Tula and Max Patterson (Class of 1977)

2018.13

The Bible In Art: Works from the Permanent Collection

January 15 to May 7, 2022

Featuring about 30 works of art, including paintings and works on paper from the permanent collection of the Jundt Art Museum, The Bible in Art presents artists’ interpretations of both Old and New Testament narratives. Featuring art from the 16th century to the 20th century, this Arcade Gallery display contains imagery from the Book of Genesis through to Revelation. Major artists in the small exhibition include Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Corita Kent, Jacob Lawrence, and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, 1635

Etching and engraving on paper

Jundt Art Museum; Gonzaga University; Bolker Collection:Gift of Norman & Esther Bolker

1995.22.97

MATRIX PRESS: 20 YEARS OF COLLABORATION

August 28, 2020 – January 2, 2021, Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery

MATRIX Press was founded in 1998 by Professor of Art James Bailey, at The University of Montana-Missoula, for the purpose of education, development and promotion of printmaking and fine art prints while remaining dedicated to supporting the development of artists working within the printmaking discipline.

As part of its mission MATRIX Press brings in nationally and internationally known artists to produce limited edition prints in collaboration with students and printmaking faculty. Prints produced through MATRIX Press are available for purchase through the Print Studio with all proceeds going to benefit the continuing efforts to produce limited editioned prints and the education of students and the community with regard to printmaking. (from the Matrix Press website)

Richard Mock (American, 1944-2006)
Hemingway in Africa, 1998
Linoleum cut, 19” x 16”
2002.15
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fredrick & Genevieve Schlatter Endowed Print Fund

A Grand Tour: Images of Italy from the Permanent Collection of the Jundt Art Museum (CLOSED)

Both the exhibition and an accompanying book begin with sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century European prints, byproducts of artists’ visits mostly to the urban centers of Rome and Florence, and conclude with twenty-first-century images. Significant portions of the objects in this exhibition result from the Bolker Collection and from the Fredrick and Genevieve Schlatter Endowed Print Fund. A Grand Tour utilizes the Jundt Art Museum’s collection to present artistic imagery of the canals of Venice, the Renaissance architecture of Florence, and the classical remains of Rome, but also sites in Milan, Pisa, Assisi, Naples, and Palermo as well as other cities and towns. We hope that this selection of 76 images of Italy will give pleasure as one introduction to a wide-ranging and astonishing topic and as an opportunity, as James writes, “to linger and remain and return.”

Watch a Virtual Gallery Walk Through of A Grand Tour

From the Collection on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment: Prints by Women (CLOSED)

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the formal ratification by the states of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, guaranteeing and protecting women's right to vote. This historic centennial offers an unparalleled opportunity to commemorate a milestone of democracy and to explore its relevance to the issues of equal rights today. Gonzaga University is embracing the opportunity to honor this milestone, explore relevant issues, and enliven the tenets of Gonzaga’s mission for social justice and care for the whole person. The 19th: For Her, For All is Gonzaga’s Committee to recognize the centennial. The Jundt Art Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with this special exhibition, Prints by Women, featuring 20 images created by American female artists from each decade since 1920. The display includes prints created by several internationally-known artists such as Dorothy Dehner, Corita Kent, Alice Neel, Alison Saar, and Cindy Sherman.

Makoto Fujimura: Silence – Mysterion (CLOSED)

Charis-Kairos (The Tears of Christ)

A solo exhibition of recent works by renowned international artist, Makoto Fujimura. Large-scale paintings from his Silence & Beauty Series, and the Four Holy Gospels frontispieces will be on display. The art, deeply grounded in Fujimura’s faith, explores our common experience with suffering and trauma, healing and beauty. Fujimura’s work combines traditional Japanese materials and techniques with modern abstraction, resulting in layered, prismatic paintings that can only be fully appreciated in person.

From the Collection:Ethnicity and Identity as Themes in Art (CLOSED)

Jason Elliot Clark
(American, b 1967)
The "S" Word in Idaho,
2001,
Protoplate lithograph and relief on paper.

In conjunction with Gonzaga University hosting a conference in Fall 2019 organized by the Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples section of the Latin American Studies Association (ERIP-LASA), the Jundt Art Museum has selected works from its permanent collection centered on the themes of ethnicity and identity. In these images and objects, artists convey information about themselves, their respective personalities, their experiences, and their worldviews. Several of the artists make use of self-portraiture as a traditional vehicle for expressing a sense of identity. This Arcade Gallery display also intentionally features a number of works in the museum’s collection by regional, indigenous artists. Art as self-expression becomes a meeting site where an artist shares personality and meaning with the viewer. Meanwhile, other artists use image making as a way to communicate information about our collective understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

CLOSE IN: "Drawn to the Wall VII"  Exhibition (CLOSED)

Every three years, five artists are invited to spend two weeks at the Jundt Art Museum to create a drawing on one side of an 8-by-11 foot museum wall. The unusual component of this project is that the drawings will be removed and painted over at the end of the exhibit and the walls returned to their normal use as gallery partitions. Artists selected for “Drawn to the Wall VII” were asked to find individual, workable solutions to large-scale drawings and to the constraints of working in a “common” environment.

2019 Drawn to the Wall VII artists:

CLOSE IN: Evolution: Potter Harry Green's 50-Year Journey (CLOSED)

Active in establishing the study and creation of pottery at Gonzaga University several decades ago, potter Harry Green studied at Eastern Washington University, in Japan and Europe, and at UC Berkeley.  Working for several years creating functional pots for Nordstrom, Green joined Pottery Northwest in Seattle.  After almost 50 years, Green continues to throw functional serving pieces, using porcelain clay and china white glaze.  His effort to "showcase a host's culinary skills, beauty of presentation, and hopefully longer visits around the table" will be featured in the Arcade Gallery.

Gonzaga University Art Department Faculty Exhibition (CLOSED)

The Art Faculty Exhibition was well received, with tours and visitors from all over the state and the Inland Northwest.

Download the Art Department Faculty exhibit informational postcard.

• 1st Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition
• Karen Laub-Novak: A Catholic Expressionist in the Age of Vatican II
• Prints of the 19th Century
• Rodin: Truth Form Life / Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections
• From the Collection: European Prints From the Age of Auguste Rodin

• Work by Dale Chihuly from the Coombes Collection and the Permanent Collection
• Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, 2016 - online
• Fifty Masterworks from the Print Collection of the Jundt Art Museum
• Jesuits and the Arts Series - Vivid in my mind: The visionary and landscape images of Father Andrew William Vachon, S.J. and Befriending sacredness: Works by Father Araujo, S.J.

• Work by Dale Chihuly from the Coombes Collection and the Permanent Collection
• CLOSE-IN: Shani Marchant and Marilyn Lysohir
• Senior Art Exhibition
• Ric Gendron: Rattlebone
• "Amen, Amen: Religion & Southern Self-Taught Artists"
• Chinese Printmaker Zhang Guanghui
• CLOSE-IN: Frank Werner, An Art of Deception
• Views of Rome and Andy Warhol: Photographs
• The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts: Photographic Legacy

• Views of Rome: Eighteenth-Century Prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and His Contemporaries & Andy Warhol: Photographs
• Legacy of the Kiln: the Works of Terry Gieber and his Former Students
• Senior Art Exhibit
• Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams
• What Is Art? Visual & Material Culture from The Permanent Collection
• Les LePere
• American Prints from the Permanent Collection
• Drawn to the Wall V
• CLOSE IN: Allie Kurtz Vogt