2026-27 Season

Sept. 14 – Oct 30

Lynne Avadenka is an American artist/printmaker creating multimedia work informed by explorations of text and image. She is compelled to consider the philosophical and physical presence of the book – as a repository of memory and loss, as a vehicle for transmitting transcendent information, and as a singular object binding a multiplicity of ideas. Her work bridges past and present, creates dialogues between and across cultures, and champions women’s roles throughout history.

Avadenka uses the printing press, as an indispensable art-making instrument: traditionally as a text-making tool and experimentally as an image‑making machine, often creating art using tools and materials intended and designed for other uses.

Associated Programming

• Gallery HOP Reception — Sept. 18, 5-8 p.m.
• Artist Lectures in collaboration with the Moosnick Lecture Series
  • Carrick Theater at Transylvania University — Oct. 21, 6-7 p.m.
  • Ohavay Zion Synagogue — Oct. 22

Nov. 9-Jan. 22

The exhibition is organized into three sections, each featuring a photographic series by a contemporary Chinese artist: Qian Haifeng’s Green Trains, Tang Haowu’s Migrant Workers, and Li Ming’s Post–Three Gorges. I have also drafted subtitles for each section:

1. Tracks of Memory: Life on the Green Train;
2. Building Dreams: Migrant Workers and Urban Transformation;
3. Reshaping the Landscape: Water, Memory, and the Three Gorges.

Associated Programming

• Gallery HOP Opening Reception — Nov. 20, 5-8 p.m.
• Gallery HOP Closing Reception — Jan. 15, 5-8 p.m.
• Curator Talk — Jan. 21, 5:30 in Carrick Theater

Exhibition in collaboration with the Creative Intelligence Lecture Series

Feb. 1-March 12

Here We Stand celebrates the life and career of Tom Jones, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation whose photographs are personal expressions steeped in communal responsibility. Following in the tradition of the Ho-Chuck Nation, Jones emphasizes the collective over the individual. His photographic work is his community.

Jones’ foundational body of work, The Ho-Chunk People, utilizes an uncompromisingly realist approach to capture tribal members in everyday activities. By deliberately including contemporary elements, Jones counteracts the romanticized, staged images of historic photographers like Edward S. Curtis. As a university professor and the de facto “in-house” photographer for the Ho-Chunk Nation, his work serves as a unique, ongoing archive of his tribe’s customs. He takes a contemporary approach to photography, at times blending traditional native techniques such as mixed-media beadwork and using historical imagery to confront specific systemic issues, effectively taking control of the narrative and extending his educator role to a broad audience.

Associated Programming

• Artist Talk — Feb. 25, 6 p.m. in Morlan Gallery
• Exhibition Reception — Feb. 26, 5 p.m. in Morlan Gallery

April 1-14

Transylvania University studio art and digital arts and media students showcase their best work in this culminating exhibition.

Associated Programming

• Exhibition Reception — April 9, 5 p.m.

May 6-21

Annual Juried exhibition of student artwork. Transylvania of all majors showcase their artistic talent by contributing works in a wide variety of media for this inventive exploration of creativity.

Associated Programming

• Exhibition Reception — May 6, 5 p.m. in Morlan Gallery