Fall is a busy time on our campuses, not just for our students, but for our galleries and museums as well! An exhibit on alternative American comics at Boston College, a collection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien at Marquette University, and an El Greco painting at Fairfield University are among the exciting works on display at our schools this semester. Click on the links below to learn more!
Above (L-R): El Greco, The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, ca. 1595-1600, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1959.9.4 (Fairfield University)
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 (Gonzaga University)
Luciana Abait, “Black Water (The Exquisite Edge of the Precipice),” 2022, photograph with acrylic on canvas, 56 in. diameter, Courtesy of the artist and Laband Art Gallery (Loyola Marymount University)
(Please note: This list will be updated regularly throughout the fall. Please send any additional content to AJCU’s Vice President of Communications, Deanna Howes Spiro: dhowes@ajcunet.edu.)
Loyola Marymount University: Laband Art Gallery
Marquette University: Haggerty Museum of Art
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript
Rockhurst University: Greenlease Gallery and Panacea Project Space
This Land is My Land/Your Land
Saint Louis University: Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
This Road Is the Heart Opening
Lesley Dill: Dream World of the Forest
Jordan Eagles: VIRAL \ VALUE (artist link; SLU MOCRA link TBD)
Santa Clara University: de Saisset Museum
We Are All Sacred: Student Acquisitions on Identity, Community, and Enduring Existence
Great Wave (Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building)
University of San Francisco: Thacher Gallery
SOFT POWER: Recent Projects by Alexander Hernandez
Lost Keys: Recent Works by Mercy Hawkins (Rooftop Sculpture Terrace)
Boston College: McMullen Museum of Art
American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond
Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
Afterimage: Visual Arts Faculty 2022
Fairfield University: Fairfield University Art Museum
Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting
Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment Beyond Exile
Specimens and Reflections
Georgetown University: Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future (de la Cruz Gallery)
Adela Babanova: Projected Trilogy (Spagnuolo Gallery)
Gonzaga University: Jundt Art Museum
New to You: Permanent Collection Objects on Display for the First Time
Le Moyne College: Wilson Art Gallery
Marc Safran: “Bravo/Brava: Performers Offstage and In Studio”