Upcoming Exhibitions

Summer 2026

2^nd Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Exhibition

Jundt Galleries, May 30 to August 22, 2026

Reception: Friday, June 5, 2026

This display features quilts produced recently by members of the Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Guild (INMOD).  In 2023, the museum hosted the Inland Northwest Modern Quilt Juried Exhibition featuring 20 quilts selected by the museum staff.  In this exhibition, INMOD, to showcase the work of the guild and its members, has chosen objects based upon artistic quality, merit, and the visual aesthetics of modern quilting.  Founded in January 2016 in Spokane, INMOD exists “to provide an environment of inspiration, education, and charity in our community through fresh-modern quilting.”

Image: Christa Rinne, Respite, 2025. Quilt, 55 x 59”. Courtesy of the artist.

Freedom: Permanent Collection on the 250^th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Arcade Galleries, May 30 to August 22, 2026

In celebration and recognition of the 250^th anniversary, on July 4, 2026, of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the museum has selected objects from its permanent collection where the individual artists connect images to the idea of “freedom,” and its common synonym “liberty.”   The Declaration of Independence lists liberty among inalienable rights; the Constitution declares its purpose to secure liberty’s blessings. 

In the more than twenty works of art in this exhibition, artists deal with the concepts of liberty and freedom, and the meanings of the ideas to different people at different times in U.S. history.  Artists in this small, temporary exhibition include Elizabeth Catlett, Enrique Chagoya, Winslow Homer, Dorothea Lange, Jacob Lawrence, Paul Revere, and Kara Walker, among several others.

Image: Enrique Chagoya (American, b. Mexico, 1953), Codex YTREBIL, 2022; lithograph on paper, 31 x 30”; Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University; Museum purchase with funds provided by Tula and Max Patterson (GU Class of 1977)

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Fall 2026

Highlights from the Bolker Collection

Jundt Galleries, September 12, 2026 to January 9, 2027
Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 2026, 4 to 7pm

Drawn from the founding gift of Dr. Norman and Esther Bolker to the Jundt Art Museum, this exhibition focuses on a selection from the museum’s permanent collection. Beginning in 1964 with the purchase of a color woodcut, Pisa, by Irving Amen, the collectors amassed one of the more important print groupings in this region. The Bolkers gave Gonzaga University more than 750 objects over three generous donations in 1984, 1995, and 2003, and supported the art with an endowment established at Gonzaga in 2015. The collection and this exhibition range from 16th century European prints to late 20th century American works, including art by Rembrandt van Rijn, Käthe Kollwitz, and Pablo Picasso. Given, as the donors desired, “for art students to study and for the community to enjoy,” the Bolker Collection remains at the core of the mission of the Jundt Art Museum.

Permanent Collection: 3D

Arcade Gallery, September 12, 2026 to January 9, 2027

This display presents selections pulled from museum storage of sculpture, ceramic, glass, and other three-dimensional art objects, including two bronzes by Auguste Rodin and recent gifts from donors Les and Carolyn Stephens.

Spring 2027

Two Artists, Minna Citron and Joellyn Duesberry

Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, January 23 to March 25, 2027
Reception: Friday, February 5, 2027, 4 to 7pm

This permanent collection exhibition centers on the images of two important American artists. Citron, with a career that spans much of the 20th century, created prints in the 1930s as a part of the Fourteenth Street School with Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Moses Soyer. By the 1940s, Citron shifted to abstraction, like many artists of her generation. She spent time at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in New York City and began to create experimental prints combining various media.

The works by Citron cover the expanse of her career, and mostly emerge from 30 art objects donated in two gifts in 2020 and 2025 by Christiane H. Citron, granddaughter of the artist. A painter who traveled extensively and split time between studios in Denver, Colorado, and Millbrook, New York, Duesberry earned renown for her landscape paintings of places as distinct as Maine and Montana, New Mexico and New York, California and Tuscany, and Peru and Provence. The paintings and monotypes by Duesberry in this show come from 42 works gifted to Gonzaga University in 2022 and 2024 by the artist’s family and estate.

2027 Senior Art Exhibition

Saturday, April 10 through Saturday, May 8, 2027
Opening reception: Friday, April 9, 2027, 4 to 7pm

Drawing upon traditions dating to the AD Gallery in the basement of College Hall, the Jundt Art Museum once again hosts the exhibition of works created by candidates for graduation in Art from Gonzaga University.