Sama Alshaibi
Aug. 30 - Oct. 16, 2021
Reception & talk 5 p.m. Oct. 13
Grainlines
Alshaibi’s show “Grainlines” includes work from several of Alshaibi’s projects. In “Carry Over”, Alshaibi alludes to the ‘Oriental’ portrait photographs of the region’s women made by Western photographers in the late 19th and early 20th century. Produced through historic printing processes of the era, albumen and photogravure, the images depict the female subject carrying sculptural vessels over her head.
“Silsila”, Arabic for ‘chain’ or ‘link’, is a multi-media installation depicting Alshaibi’s three-year cyclic journey through the significant deserts and endangered water sources of the Middle East and North African region and across to the bountiful waters of the Maldives.
Grainlines by Sama Alshaibi: Aug. 30 - Oct. 16, 2021. Reception and Talk at Kittredge Gallery at 5 p.m. on October 13, 2021
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Beneath Stilled Waters
Elise Richman
Oct. 25 - Dec. 8, 2021
Reception and artist talk Nov. 17, 5 p.m.
Beneath Stilled Waters is an exploration of sites around the Columbia River Basin with relevance to debates over salmon, dams, and how we view and manage our rivers. These landscapes represent stories, cultures, and lenses on history that will determine the future of the inland Northwest's rivers, salmon, and the ecosystems they support. Landscape painting can help highlight sources of tension between human values/beliefs and natural systems, as well as suggesting how this tension might be lessened. Richman’s ongoing series of paintings, drawings, and videos engage with this tradition. Beneath Stilled Waters represents places at the heart of political, economic, and cultural debates and decisions that are grounded in the past, unfolding in the present, and that will ripple into the future.
Processual Abstraction
Print Portfolio
Oct. 25 - Dec. 8, 2021
Abstract works in this portfolio will showcase how printmaking allows for materiality and invention. Some works may be self-reflexive, while others have an external subject, material, or philosophical force. The ways of working in print, with its limitation and potential, are catalytic in the works. The artists represented here have various approaches within their own framework of abstraction, yet have a commonality in that they explore rich possibilities within the boundaries of contemporary print arts. With active imagery ranging from the geometric to the autographic, this portfolio of prints aims to offer a range of optical and sensorial experience.
Participants include Susan Belau, Virginia Hungate-Hawk, Travis Janssen, Kamla Kakaria, Janet Marcavage, Kathleen Schroeder, Sarah Smelser, Mike Sonnichsen, Jon Swindler, Takizawa Taro, Jon Vogt, Erin Wheary, and John Willis.
- Gallery Texts (PDF)
- Object Labels (PDF)
Art Students Annual
Jan 31 - Feb 26, 2021
See the best work from art classes in the last year. The opening night party and awards (with prizes) on Monday, Jan. 24th, is the first view of the show. The Art Students Annual show is a Puget Sound tradition. Students enter work from art classes, and a juror selects artwork for the show, which will be in Kittredge Gallery for five weeks.
This year’s juror is Silong Chhun. Silong is a multimedia artist disciplined in videography, photography, audio production, graphic design, and social media strategy.
As the Digital Communications Manager at Pacific Lutheran University, Silong serves as one of the leading digital storytellers, communications strategists, and social media curators. Prior to PLU, Silong was the communications associate at Tacoma Community House, a nationally respected, community-based service center for immigrants and refugees.
He is also the co-founder of the Khmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group, a community effort that advocates, supports, and provides resources for community members.
Realized
Kellie Richardson
Mar 7 - Apr 16, 2021
Reception with artist talk March 30, 5 p.m.
Kellie Richardson is a writer, artist and educator born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. Her work primarily explores themes of love, loss and longing to communicate the unshakable hope, tenacity, and imagination of Black Americans.
Despite the onslaught of racial justice statements and persistent promises of support and solidarity, America remains a dangerous place for Black people. America’s wealth and national identity is predicated on the systemic silencing, oppression, and dehumanization of Black people. But reality is subjective, precarious and wholly dependent on our participation in it, whether past, present or future. Realized, a collection of mixed media collage and graphic poetry by Kellie Richardson, explores the question: what is Blackness uninterrupted? More specifically, how might legacy, family, wealth, and power look, taste, move and advance when Black people are in full control of their narrative? Radically imagined through the birthright of agency, Realized centers the healing power of disruption, reclamation, and joy as well as the criticality of rage, grief, and chaos.
Rooted in Place: Trees from the Puget Sound Collection
Mar 7 - Apr 16, 2022
- Reception and panel talk: Trees as Place Makers - Mar. 23, 6 p.m.
Panelists: Elise Richman, Carrie Woods, Lowell Wyse, and Bill Boggs - Tree Walk on the Puget Sound campus, led by Tacoma Tree Foundation's Sarah Low - Apr. 2, 10 a.m.
An exhibition celebrating the tallest plants and investigating their artistic representations.
Artwork is from the University of Puget Sound collection
Curated by Peter Stanley
Senior Show
Apr 27 - May 15
Opening Reception Apr 27, 5 p.m.
The thesis show for Studio Art Majors – students spend a year developing a body of work for this show.
