Wonder-Making
June 1 - June 25, 2026
This exhibition shines a light on the artworks and ideas of our youngest learners and makers: the current Hollingworth Preschool children and recent alumni. Hollingworth educators and children will collaboratively curate this show, inspired by the connecting thread of wonder and inquiry that is woven throughout every “discipline” they explore together. The selected works reflect the wonder-ful and the wonder-ing that is part of every child’s artistic development and process.
Student Teachers
May 4 - May 20, 2026
This exhibition launches a series of shows that feature children’s artwork. The graduating class of Master’s with initial teaching certification students will present work from their own lessons. On display will be art in a range of media from their P-12 students, alongside examples of their own artistic practice.
Conversations Across Cultures
March 30 - April 16, 2026
This exhibition is produced in collaboration with the 2026 Conversations Across Cultures Symposium. This show explores the theme of “Conversations” – those we have with ourselves as makers, critics, and thinkers, and those we have across art forms and with others across time and space.
Mothers
March 30 - April 16, 2026
“Mothers” is an exhibition developed by artist and doctoral candidate Erika Vogt, whose creative and academic investigations explore the structure of conversations, and the encounter — with one another, with material, with art. On display is work that is emerging from their interdisciplinary drawing and sculpture practice, through which they pose the question: “What shapes, haunts, and forms the current landscape?”.
Studio Works Part II: Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture + Creative Technologies
February 17 - March 11, 2026
The second of two shows, this exhibition also highlights the art created by students from across the college and community programs here at Teachers College who are working in the Art & Art Education studio courses. The photography, printmaking, sculpture and creative technology instructors curate the work on display.
Studio Works Part I: Painting, Drawing, Ceramics, and Video Arts
January 20 - February 5, 2026
This exhibition is the first of two shows featuring works created in the Art & Art Education Program’s studio courses. Instructors from painting, drawing, and ceramics curate a collection of work to showcase the artistic explorations of students from across the college and community programs.
The Myers Prize Exhibition – Of now…?
December 1, 2025 - January 8, 2026
This annual exhibition features artwork by students in the Art & Art Education Program that have been selected for the Myers Art Prize and which will join the Program’s permanent collection. The works chosen are provocative and insightful responses to the prompt and title of the show. “Of now…?” is an invitation to reflect on the questions we face today as artists, the challenges these pose for our practice, and how we respond to them. This theme invites the exploration of possibilities that emerge through practices of making in today’s challenging world.
A Celebration of Inspirational Visual Artist Professors
October 27 - November 20, 2025
This exhibition honors Black men who have made significant contributions to the art world, both as artists and professors at art colleges and historically White colleges and universities across the United States. Doctoral candidate and visual artist Ligel Lambert celebrates these influential figures through symbolic portraits created in his signature Fauvist-inspired style.
September Primer
September 2 - October 17, 2025
This show launches our gallery schedule and the start of the Fall semester every year! The open call exhibition is an opportunity to share the recent work from the artistic practices, creative explorations, and mindful wonderings of our master’s and doctoral students. .
MA in Studio Practice Capstone Exhibition: Extended Play
July 28 - August 14, 2025
This capstone exhibition is the culmination of a 2-year journey for the 2025 Art & Art Education Hybrid Masters in Studio Practice cohort. A dynamic, student-led show, the work ranges in media and artistic approach.