2022-23 Exhibits

Warren Pope

Aug 29 - Oct 15

Reception & talk Sep 7, 5 p.m.

An artist's journey from Kittredge Hall to the present. The evolution of Warren Pope's lifetime of years of abstract work encompasses the use of stretched canvas and wire sculptures to portray the effect on nature and its elements. He has often used his art as a voice and social commentary on racial and political divides throughout the past 50 years. Ultimately the goal has always been to capture beauty in the visual while highlighting the cost of environmental and social constructs.

Warren Pope's Instagram

Mare Hirsch

Oct 24 - Dec 7

Reception and artist talk Oct 26th, 5 pm

Transmorphic machines, machines that facilitate a transformation of information, operate in the dynamic phase where one thing becomes another. These machines render our environments as artifacts and images–scientific data describing a natural phenomenon becomes kinetic light, machine learning algorithms interpret existing landscapes and render novel virtual artifacts, a drawing machine detects the presence of individuals in the gallery, and the sounds of protest generates complex virtual networks that visualize the dynamical relationships between a collective of voices raised as one. Transmorphic machines invite us to reflect upon the relationships between technology and the places, spaces, and scales of experience we inhabit.

Mare Hirsch's website

Reception Jan 23, 5pm

Jan 23 - Feb 25, 2023

See the best work from art classes in the last year. The opening night party and awards (with prizes) on Monday, Jan. 23rd, 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.

Curated by Britt Freda

March 6 - April 15, closed for spring recess March 11 - 19

Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion Thursday, March 23rd, 5-6:30 p.m.
Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion featuring local leaders, professors, and contributing artists from Honor: People & Salmon. This panel discussion is free and open to the public. 

Panelists: Joseph Bogaard, Save Our wild Salmon Executive Director; Britt Freda, Honor: People and Salmon curator and artist; Paige Pettibon, visual artist; Peter Wimberger, Biology Professor and Slater Museum of Natural History Director; Archie Cantrell, Native American Education Liaison for the Puyallup School District; Elise Richman, Art Professor, University of Puget Sound and panel moderator 

Closing Reception Saturday, April 15th, 5-7 p.m.
This reception will be attended by several artists and feature Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest who will recite poetry from her newly released anthology I Sing The Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State.

Honor: People & Salmon is an exhibit featuring thirty Northwest-based artists who have created artwork that evokes the magic and mystique of wild salmon, other fish and wildlife that depend upon them, and the many communities that honor and cherish this emblematic species. Salmon are intrinsic to the cultures and economies of many of the region’s Tribes and an essential food source for the critically endangered Southern Resident orcas.

Participating artists include Israel Shotridge, Josh Udesen, Rachel Teannalach, Amy Gulick, Karen Hackenberg, Jen McLuen, Sue Coccia, Melissa Cole, and Austin Picinich, among others. Visit the exhibition website: https://nwaae.org/happenings/honor-people-and-salmon for the full list of participating artists.

Exhibition website

Curated by Peter Stanley

March 6 - April 15, closed for spring recess March 11 - 19

Women and Railroads Open House March 18th, 11am-3pm
in collaboration with Tacoma Historical Society and Collins Memorial Library

Abby Williams Hill in Place explores Hill’s sense of home through paintings, drawings, writing, and geography. Hill’s physician husband lived and practiced in Tacoma, and their family traveled widely, but Abby Hill was not particularly interested in city life. Instead, she created a series of adventurous camps, homes, and travels where she felt her children (and a few others) could play and learn in nature. Hill’s artwork from that time gives a view into the idealized world that she saw and wanted to see, and how it  deeply informed her art practice throughout her life.

Abby Williams Hill Memorial Collection

Apr 26 - May 14

Opening Reception April 26, 5pm

The thesis show for Studio Art Majors – students spend a year developing a body of work for this show.