The Sublime vs. Manifest Destiny
November 22, 2024 - June 30, 2025
Peeler Art Center, Second floor Display Case
This exhibit illustrates how late nineteenth-century American culture romanticized the unexplored western territories while simultaneously promoting the religious conviction known as Manifest Destiny. Ultimately, Manifest Destiny became the dominant ideology, leading to the tragic and widespread genocide of American indigenous peoples. The development of American society as we know it today is inseparable from the violence and murder of thousands of indigenous peoples.
Curated by Elizabeth Dugan, 花季传媒 Class of 2024, currently attending Indiana University Bloomington and seeking a degree in Art Administration with a concentration in Museum Studies.
Jane's Sandwich, 2023
Oil and acrylic on linen
Miranda Holmes: Bright Bones
October 28 - December 8, 2024
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery
Miranda Holmes (b. 1994) embraces expansive notions of identity and intimacy in her paintings, drawings, and installations. Her work speculates on how we shape one another and the places we inhabit. Using transparent films of paint, Holmes layers the shapes of everyday objects and experiences within figures, entangling them with the cups they hold, the drawers they open, and the shoulders they lean on.
Bright Bones features work created by the artist over the last two years, including during her time in Berlin, Germany under a DAAD Fellowship in the Arts. Each work attends to thresholds of interaction that mark a relationship in flux. Holmes paints the edges between subject matter as active and buzzing. Subjects and objects seep into one another, destabilizing the Self/Other binary for a fluid vision of experience. Gestures of care and conflict lodge within bodies like memory calcifying into bone. The show underlines painting as a site for textures of intimacy to spark, wrestle, grow, or diminish within a single moment.
Artist Talk: Monday, October 28, 2024, 4:30pm EDT in the Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
Theda Sandiford
Blackity Black Blanket Drape
on Library Ladders, 2023
Recycled commercial fishing
net, zip tie blanket and
antique library ladders
Image credit: April Tracy
Beyond: Tapestry Expanded
August 26 - December 8, 2024
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level)
Beyond: Tapestry Expanded is a curated and juried exhibition that features work from artists exploring the expansive properties of tapestry. Using the definition of tapestry as a nonfunctional, handwoven pictorial structure, artists combine both hand and digital processes, using non-traditional materials, creating three-dimensional forms, or incorporating multi-media components, including sound and video. The exhibition is organized by the American Tapestry Alliance, curated by Erica Warren, art consultant, scholar, and former curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, and juried by Jade Yumang, Associate Professor of Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Alexa Griffith Winton, art historian and curator at the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Tapestry Workshop: Saturday, September 28, 2024, 1 - 4pm EDT at the Peeler Art Center, Lobby
To view the exhibition virtually, go
Hiroyuki Tajima
Popox, 1964
Woodcut|
Gift of David T. Prosser Jr.
2016.5.5
From the Prosser Collection
Collection Connections: Chaos, Culture, & Contours
August 26 - December 8, 2024
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (upper level)
Featured in this student curated exhibition, Collection Connections: Chaos, Culture, & Contours, is a small portion of a print collection donated by David Prosser, class of '65. The curators saw the themes listed in the exhibition title as prevalent in the pieces of art, as well as having connections with Prosser's life.To view the exhibition virtually, go
Unknown Artist
President Mao's thinking shall
always shine (Cultural Revolution
Propaganda Poster), 1973
Offset Lithograph
Purchased by 花季传媒
2013.1.30
Art as Propaganda
August 26 - November 15, 2024
Peeler Art Center, Second floor Display Case
For centuries, art has been used as propaganda, spreading political messages through vibrant colors and cultural iconography. From as early as 515 B.C.E., with the creation of Persia’s Behistun Inscription, to now, propaganda has helped nations win wars, supported dictators and democracies, and spurred political agendas. The propaganda posters in this case are from Russia, China, and the United States, and they show how art has been used to promote agendas and how different governments implement this centuries-old tool. Curated by 花季传媒 student Abigail Fathauer class of 2025.
