Gonzaga University Art Department and Spokane Art School are proud to present Beneath the Surface our 2026 Senior Art Exhibition, a showcase of original work by graduating artists. Featuring a diverse range of media and perspectives, this exhibition highlights the creativity, research, and dedication students have cultivated throughout their studies.
We invite you to celebrate this year’s graduating class at our First Friday reception on May 1st, 5pm to 8pm and closing reception on May 8th, 6pm to 8pm.
First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, May 1st from 5pm to 8pm
Gallery Hours: 10am to 5pm, Monday - Friday
Where's My Mind: Neuroscience Meets Art An Abstract Installation of the Mind by Ava Knap
Exhibit Open: January 12-30, 2026 Opening Reception: January 14, 2026, 3-5 pm
Location: Shoebox Gallery-Jundt Art Museum Jundt Art Museum Hours: Monday through Saturday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Closed on Sundays and university holidays
Demonstration Ceramics Workshop & Artist Talks with Jason Lee Starin & Eliza Weber
October 2, 2025 Ceramics Demonstration: 9:30am to 2:00pm Jundt Art Center Room 001 Artist Talks: 12:30pm to 1:30pm Jundt Art Center Room 001
Kreielsheimer Visiting Artist Series: Artist Talk: Vincent Valdez
October 1, 2025 3:30-4:30 pm Zoom: Jundt Room 108
Join us as acclaimed artist Vincent Valdez shares insight into his practice and creative journey. This talk is part of the Krielsheimer Guest Lecturer Series and will also connect with students in VART 493: Studio Practice. Don’t miss this chance to hear from one of today’s most thought-provoking contemporary artists!
Kreielsheimer Visiting Artist Series: Wolfbat Workshops & Events with Dennis McNett
September 29th - October 3rd: Wolfbat Mask Making Workshop & Talks All Week Workshops -
Daily Workshops Mon, Sept 29 - Wed, Oct 2 | 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Thurs, Oct 3 | 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Fri, Oct 4 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Artist Lecture GU Printmaking Studio (Jundt 101) Tues, Sept 30 | 12:00 pm
Workshop Spark Central Tues, Sept 30 | 5:30 pm
Artist Talk Northwest Museum of Art & Culture (MAC) Wed, Oct 1 | 3:00 pm (Free for members, \$5 public)
Chat with Dennis McNett Spokane Print & Publishing Center, 1921 N Ash Wed, Oct 1 | 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Open to public)
Workshop Spokane Falls Community College Print Room Thurs, Oct 2 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm (Open to public)
Wolfbat Procession Starts at GU Campus (Jundt Art Museum) → Ends at Terrain Flagship (Jensen Byrd building) Fri, Oct 3 | Time 8:30pm (Includes drum circle)
2024-2025 Past Events
Artist Talk & Exhibition: Hiromi Stringer
Hiromi Stringer talks about their solo exhibition "The Exotic WEST: Time Traveler Umeyama's Accident Occidental Discoveries" on view at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center from September 20 until November 9.
Hiromi Stringer is currently a Senior Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Drawing and Painting at the University of San Antonio. She was a 2024 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and at the Vermont Studio Center. Hiromi was also a 2021 resident of Ox-Bow School of Arts and Artist’s Residency. She was awarded the 2019-2020 Daedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, and was again recognized in 2022 by Dedalus Foundation Funds for Past Fellows and Awardees.
Her works are in public, corporate, and private collection in both Japan and the US. For more information about Hiromi Stringer please visit https://www.hiromistringer.com.
Artist Talk: Monday, September 16, 6 pm Talk Location: Jundt Art Museum Room 110
Exhibition Dates: September 20-November 9 Exhibition Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Gen Heywood-The Pledge of Allegiance
This is a solo exhibition featuring photographs by Gen Heywood, a Spokane based photographer and artist.
“Fine Art Photography has become one of the most important of my tools for communicating our common humanity. It is a device to gather people of different ideologies into a shared experience that can reveal how we share more than that which separates us. Watching people experience “The Pledge of Allegiance” exhibit affirms that fine art photography can surprise the viewer. It invites people into conversations with the art and with one another”.
First Friday Reception: Friday, November 1, 4-7 pm Exhibition Dates: Friday, October 25, 2024 through Saturday, November 30, 2024 Hours: The gallery is open to the public: Fridays 4 pm-7 pm and Saturdays 10 am-3 pm. Admission is free. Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Regional Faculty Art Exhibition
The Art Department will be hosting their annual Regional Faculty Art Exhibition at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center (GUUAC). This is a group exhibition featuring faculty art works from: Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, Whitworth University, Spokane Falls Community College and North Idaho College. This show can be enjoyed to Gonzaga community members as well as members of the public through March 7th.
Exhibition Dates: February 7-March 7, 2025 Exhibition Hours:
Friday: 4 pm-7 pm
Saturdays: 10 am-3 pm
Cost: Free
Lecture by Dr. Michael Lobel: Van Gogh and the End of Nature
Please join Gonzaga University's Art Department in welcoming Dr. Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, as he delivers a lecture on his latest publication, Van Gogh and the End of Nature. This insightful talk will explore Van Gogh's work in the context of the industrial age and shed light on his engagement with environmental realities, highlighting the continued relevance of his art today.
Date & Time: March 18, 2025, 7:00 pm Location:Gonzaga University, Jepson Center - Wolff Auditorium Questions? Email mccardell@gonzaga.edu
Cost: Free and open to the public
2023-2024 Past Events
Nexos: Entre Raices Exhibition
This is a group exhibition featuring artworks from 33 printmakers based in the United States and Mexico. A variety of printmaking methods will be presented.
Dates: Friday, March 22-Saturday, April 13, 2024 First Friday Reception: Friday, April 5, 4-7 pm Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Open Hours: Fridays 4-7 pm Saturdays 10 am-3 pm
The Gonzaga University Student Film Festival
The 2023 Gonzaga University Student Film Festival takes place Friday, May 5th at 7:00pm in the Jundt Auditorium. Free and open to the public, the roughly 90-minute program will feature a juried selection of student-made short film and video projects that showcase an array of filmmaking approaches, including documentary, narrative, and experimental. Student-filmmakers will be in attendance and prizes will be awarded!
Date: Friday, May 05, 2023 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Jundt Auditorium room 110 in the Jundt Art Center, Gonzaga University
The 5th Spokane Print Fest presents: The Student Invitational
April 7-14, 2023 at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center.
A selection of works on paper featuring print techniques such as relief, intaglio, screen printing, monotype and lithography by students from the following regional institutions: Spokane Falls Community College, Washington State University, University of Idaho, Gonzaga University, Whitworth University, University of Puget Sound and the University of Montana.
Opening Reception: April 7th, 4-7 pm Closing Reception: April 14th, 4-7 pm
Location: Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, 125 S Stevens, 3rd Floor
Open Hours: Fridays 4-7 p.m. Saturdays 10-3 p.m.
Art by Brigid Dennehy
Kreielsheimer Visiting Art Series Presents Tra Bouscaren
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Artist Talk 12-1 pm
Jundt Auditorium (Jundt 110)
Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary artist focused on American spectacle at the crossroads of waste culture and the surveillance state. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor of Art, Digital Media Area Head, and Co-Director of the Expanded Media Lab at Florida State University.
Bouscaren’s work has been featured at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Museum fur Naturkunde (Berlin), National Museum of Art (Addis Ababa), Victor I Fils (Madrid), The Wrong Biennale, Fort Mason Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Greenleaf Gallery (LA), San Diego Art Institute, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), Orlando Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art (Pittsburgh), and Lincoln Center (NYC).
He has presented and/or published his practice-based research at MOCA Tucson, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Stony Brook University Conference on Art and Philosophy, NPR Radio, Studies In Control Societies Journal, Ildo Lobo Center for Culture in Praia, CAA Conferences in Chicago and Los Angeles, and the Rubin Center for Visual Arts. Bouscaren builds projects with a broad array of visual artists, performers, hackers, musicians, and scholars from other disciplines.
April 28-May 12, 2023 at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center.
Featuring work by current BFA senior candidates Ashley Castleman, Bri Covert, Hayley Nigrelle and Emilie Weaver, and BA senior candidates Fiona Davis, Brigid Dennehy, and Skylar Karman.
Exhibition Opening Date: April 28, 2023 Artist Reception & Talk: May 5, 2023, 4-7 pm Closing Reception: May 12, 2023, 4-7 pm
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Open Hours: Fridays 4-7 p.m. Saturdays 10-3 p.m
Lecture Description: Omar Gonzales and Marco Sanchez are printmaking artists members of the Siete Printers. These artists will be showing an artist lecture and a print demonstration at Jundt 101 right after the presentation. The Siete Printers are a collective of seven printmakers established in the U.S doing collaborative print-based projects around the United States. As part of the annual Spokane Print Fest, the Siete printers are Kreielsheimer visiting artists.
This exhibition showcases paintings made in the first half of Spring Semester 2022. Students were tasked with selecting a famous historical painting and painting a nearly exact copy. They could change 15% of the original subject matter, and they could use modern materials as well as a ground of their choosing. The second part of the assignment entailed painting a personal reaction to the original painting thereby bringing the historical work of art into the present moment.
Kreielsheimer Lecture Series: Pavel Acevedo & Kill Joy
Lecture Description: Pavel Acevedo and Kill Joy are printmaking artists members of the Siete Printers. These artists will be showing an artist lecture and a print demonstration at Jundt 101 right after the presentation. The Siete Printers are a collective of seven printmakers established in the U.S doing collaborative print-based projects around the United States. As part of the annual Spokane Print Fest, the Siete printers are Kreielsheimer visiting artists.
PRINTFEST 2022 - Regional Student Invitational
Kreielsheimer Lecture Series: Benjamin Munoz & Lars Roeder
Benjamin Munoz and Lars Roeder are printmaking artists members of the Siete Printers. These artists will be showing an artist lecture and a print demonstration at Jundt 101 right after the presentation. The Siete Printers are a collective of seven printmakers established in the U.S doing collaborative print-based projects around the United States. As part of the annual Spokane Print Fest, the Siete printers are Kreielsheimer visiting artists.
Kreielsheimer Visiting Artist Lecture Series: "New Ways in an Old Tradition: Subject Matter as Ethical Practice" -Sheila Evans
This lecture will be formatted as a conversation with Lenora Lopez Schindler asking questions to lead the conversation further. Topics will include Sheila’s recent work with enamel, and her chosen subject matter, local flora and fauna. Animal welfare and the environment are two of Sheila’s greatest passions. “I believe that all lives have value, and deserve our kindness and respect. Because of Sheila’s long career as a professional artist we will talk about her experience as an art student at Gonzaga University, her work as a graphic designer and her move to being a studio arts using multiple materials.
Fisher Queen, enamel on steel with copper, 18 x 22.5 x 1
MMIW Art Show: No More Stolen Sisters
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center
In an effort to raise awareness, to the current and ongoing issue of thousands of currently open, unsolved cases of MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Persons) throughout the US and Canada (107 of which are in Washington State and 17 of which are from Spokane and the surrounding area), a united collective of local Native American speakers and artists, gathered by guest curator Jeff Ferguson, will share their works of traditional and contemporary arts and research at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, aka the “GUUAC”, in downtown Spokane located on the third floor of 125 S. Stevens.
Participating speakers include: Donell Barlow Ottawa Tribe/Otter Clan, Margo Hill - Spokane, Paulette Jordan - Coeur d'Alene, Idella King - Northern Arapaho and Patsy Whitefoot Yakama/Dine'
Kreielsheimer Visiting Artist Lecture Series: "New Ways in an Old Tradition: Art of Revealing and Healing" - Roin Morigeau
Jundt Art Center Auditorium
Lecture Description: Roin will be describing a new body of work produced for a solo exhibition in January 2022, at EWU Art Gallery. My studio practice is rooted in investigating the dichotomy between matriarchal and patriarchal space. Using pen, ink, gouche, and sculptural techniques I often produce floating abstract entities and imaged spacescapes that explore themes of buoyancy, arrival, connection, and attachment. Although trained in various mediums, from wood, metal, glass, and vinyl as a set fabricator, a spinal injury forced me to shift to lighter materials. These new works are made in ceremony to serve as a place of respite and retreat for both viewer and artist to find comfort in an otherwise uncomfortable world.
"Home: Imagining the Irrevocable" - Guest Curated by Olivia Evans and Tracy Poindexter-Canton
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center
“Home: Imagining the Irrevocable”, an exhibit featuring the works of local black artists in eastern WA. Guest curators: Olivia Evans and Tracy Poindexter-Canton
This exhibit will engage artists of various disciplines (visual, music, literary, etc.) in a creative and collaborative exploration around the concept of “home.” The exhibit theme draws inspiration from the James Baldwin quote, “Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition (Giovanni’s Room,1956).” Through this theme, the exhibit seeks to examine how “home” has, and continues to be defined by Black Americans amidst the historical and contemporary challenges of displacement, marginalization and otherness.
Kreielsheimer Visiting Artist Lecture Series: "New Ways in an Old Tradition: Shared Identities in Portraiture" - June T. Sanders
Jundt Art Center Auditorium
Lecture Description: June T Sanders will be describing her most recent body of work ‘Easy World,’ as well as her overall artistic practice & portraiture ethos. June T Sanders’ photographic work is an invitation to the limits of visibility: Through careful and collaborative moments combined with unreliable equipment - she constructs a landscape of bodies both shielded and confrontational. Her portraits are instances of endearment and discretion. Of Trans-Poetics. A moment and an identity hinted towards but not fully captured.
About the Speaker: June T Sanders is a trans artist, curator, and educator living in rural Eastern WA. She is an Assistant Professor with the Digital Technology & Culture Department at Washington State University, and a recent recipient of the 2020 Blue Sky Curatorial Prize and the New Hampshire Institute of Art Teti Research Fellowship. She has also taught at Lightwork & the New York State Summer School of the Arts. Her work has been shown at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver), Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn), Tropical Contemporary (Portland), The Bob Mizer Foundation, The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, and Lawrence University — and has appeared in Vice, Paper Journal, Leste Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, Strange Fire Collective, and Physique Pictorial. Her images reflect a world yet to be.
Spokane River Sound Action
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center
Dates: January 7-23
Description: Spokane River Sound Action records and listens to the river from above and below. From above, we hear the spray of water and air, and the flow which brings a sense of collective care, movement, and presence. From below, the underwater microphone (hydrophone) hears things which are surprisingly melodic, suggesting a kind of personality. These recordings will be presented in immersive, quadrophonic sounds and video projections at the GUUAC by the Spokane Laboratory Art + Residency artists, Mill Canyon Sound Actions (Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Jeremy Sherrer) and joined by very special guests in a live streamed performance on Jan 11th.
Kreielsheimer Lecture Series - Music at the Border of Sound (Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney)
Jundt Auditorium
Lecture Description: Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney are musicians who have released 5 albums as a duo, as well as co-creating and performing compositions for orchestras, voices, electronics, video, and non-traditional instrumentations. They describe their work as music on the border of sound, working with sensory substitution “through a poetic lens of sound and image.” Kang and Kenney will share their collaborative and solo works and discuss their process in the Summer Residency at Laboratory, Spokane. Their lecture will also include a presentation on the January 2022 exhibition at Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, as part of Mill Canyon Sound Actions collective.
About the Artists: Eyvind Kang is a Faculty Professor, Co-Director of Composition and Experimental Sound Practices, Performer-Composer, and Experimental Pop at the California Institute of Art. As a violist he has been featured by a wide range of independent musicians including Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, the Sun City Girls, and Secret Chiefs. His ongoing, genre defying collaboration with composer and singer Jessika Kenney has been described as "serious, refined music" (The New York Times), taking the form of sound actions and installations, choral and orchestral works, and minimalist vocal and string arrangement, with two releases on Ideologic Organ (2011, 2013) curated by Stephen O'Malley.
Jessika Kenney is an award-winning vocalist, composer, sound artist, producer, writer and teacher, working for the last 25 years in realms of the subtle melody, with attention to ways of listening, perceiving, and translating experience. Kenney's music can be heard on Ideologic Organ, Black Truffle, Weyrd Son, SIGE, and other labels. She has performed her own compositions and those of many colleagues, as well as music of Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Sarah Davachi, Hossein Omoumi, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Marina Rosenfeld, Jarrad Powell, Trimpin, Tadao Sawai, and many others, informed by the atmospheres and techniques absorbed through the practices and deep study of Javanese sindhenan and Persian radifs. Kenney's ongoing collaborations with Eyvind Kang have been described as "serious, refined music" by the New York Times. Her involvements in noise, metal, electronic music and minimalism arise out of her Spokane punk origins and her insights into trans-disciplinary ways of knowing music and performance. Her 2015 gamelan-based LP "ATRIA" was released by the avant-metal SIGE label, alongside a large-scale, site-specific and interactive sound, calligraphic score, sculpture, and video installation called "Anchor Zero", filling five rooms for a month at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
Digital Art Foundations - Body Sculptures
Shoebox Gallery, Jundt Art Center
The shoebox gallery displayed work from students taking Digital Art Foundations (VART112) with Posie Kalin. This installation was based on a class project titled 'Body Sculptures' inspired by artists Valie Export's photography series "Body Configurations" and Carey Young's photographic series "Body Techniques". Students explored their body as sculpture interacting with their selected environment through photography.
New Faculty Show
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center
The New Faculty Show featured work of new professors and staff joining the Art Departments from Whitworth University, Gonzaga University, and Spokane Falls Community College.
The exhibition displayed a variety of media from sculpture, installation, painting, and works on paper.
Featuring the work of Christopher Wagner, Posie Kalin, Lena Lopez Schindler, Ashley Vaughn, Cozette Phillips, Benjamin Necochea, and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano. We welcome these new faculty members into their new roles in Spokane!
Narrative and Figuration
Shoebox Gallery, Jundt Art Center
Once again the Shoebox Gallery is open for Fall 2021. This is a great opportunity to see what the students have been working on this semester! In early November, the gallery displayed work from students taking Narrative and Figuration (VART323) with Lena Lopez-Schindler.
Mary Farrell. Meditation on Place: Prints & Drawings from the last 25 years.
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center
The Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center exhibited a retrospective of Professor Emerita Mary Farrell’s work between September 3rd and October 22nd, 2021. Meditation on Place: Prints & Drawings From the Last 25 Years highlights the breadth, expertise and influence of Professor Farrell’s work, from large scale installation to intimate moments. Farrell’s work finds meaning in the larger world through both human and plant forms, with geography and topography as an inspiration for her drawing.
