Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, September 12, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Creative Currents: Recent Works by Faculty in the School of Art + Design

Corrientes creativas: trabajos recientes del personal académico de la escuela de arte y diseño

August 26–September 13 | Campus Commons Gallery 

See the latest artwork in a variety of mediums by our art and design faculty!

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Oddments by Elnaz Javani

Curiosidades

September 9–October 10 | Mariani Gallery

Artist Talk: September 19, 5-6 p.m. | Guggenheim 001

This exhibition features the latest body of work of artist and educator Elnaz Javani, who works in a variety of fiber materials and installations, drawing inspiration from the body, narratives of identity, place and belonging.

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The Essence of Self: Identity in Clay by Nathan Murray

September 9–October 10 | Oak Room Gallery

Visiting artist Nathan Murray presents an evocative series of clay busts that delve into the complex theme of identity as related to the individual’s experience.

Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, October 24, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Caminos Por Andar: Latinx Futurism & Expanded Realities

September 23–November 7 | Campus Commons Gallery 

Artist Lecture with Kaelyn Rodriguez: October 23, 5-6 p.m. | Guggenheim 001

Caminos Por Andar (Paths to Be Taken) explores Latinx and Chicanx futurism in contemporary art through the lens of speculative fiction, magical realism and anti-colonial traditions. Featured artists engage with a liberated heritage to envision joyful and equitable futures through a variety of artistic mediums. Given the fluidity of human identity and blurred lines between culture and heritage, artists create freely from a place of diasporic understanding, drawing on their own ancestry and traditions to center Latinx and Chicanx experiences in imagined and alternate realities.

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How to Earn Your Big Girl Panties by Moe Gram

Cómo conseguir tus calzones de niña grande

October 16–November 22 | Mariani Gallery

Artist Talk: October 15, 5-6 p.m. | Guggenheim 001

Artist Workshop: October 25, Time & Location TBD

How To Earn Your Big Girl Panties is a nuanced tale of introspection that attempts to describe the challenges of learning to access self-love. Collage, projection and site-specific installation works illustrate the ever-wavering experience of growing up. Themes of play, frustration, empathy and self-compassion compete against each other in fields of color and found objects. Ultimately, we learn that the journey never ends—it just evolves.

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Terran Last Gun

October 16–November 2 | Oak Room Gallery

From the artist: My work explores the relationships between color, shape, land, cosmos, cultural narratives and experiences. As a Piikani visual artist, I am deeply influenced by Blackfoot painted lodges, hides, war shirts and archaeology throughout Montana and Alberta. Other sources of inspiration include ancient sites, petroglyphs, pictographs, pictorial imagery, rocks, rock formations and glacial erratics. My work bridges the ancient to the contemporary in the Indigenous North American narrative, all while creating visual color stimulation in my varied approaches to creating art.

Reception: Thursday, November 21, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Annual Student Juried Exhibition

Exposición anual del jurado de estu-diantes

November 11–December 6 | Campus Commons Gallery 

Check out works by UNC students selected by an external juror!

UNC Student Holiday Sale

Venta Navideña de estudiantes de UNC

December 4 & 5 | Mariani Gallery 

A variety of artwork by UNC art and design students will be on sale during gallery hours! Come find the perfect handmade holiday gift and support our local artists.

Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, February 20, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Satellite: New Realities in Clay

Satélite: nuevas realidades en barro

January 20–March 1 | Campus Commons Gallery 

Curated by Bri Murphy & Belle-Pilar Fleming

Using a blend of traditional ceramic techniques and new media technologies, Satellite considers clay as a conduit for new realities. The artists in this exhibition explore futurist narratives, temporal boundaries, and hidden worlds, challenging our expectations of works in clay through collaborations with emerging technologies.

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Folds by Laura Larson & Suzanne Silver

Pliegues

January 21–February 27 | Mariani Gallery

Organized by artists Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver, Folds brings together twenty-eight artists and writers, working in a range of media. Unfolding is key to its curatorial premise: each participant creates a work and sends it to the next as an inspiration for theirs, setting into motion a collaborative constellation. With inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems and Harry Smith’s paper airplanes, each artist is prompted to activate the fold as form and concept and consider the mailed object’s potential to expand and collapse, travel and collect.

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What Almost Was by Adam Chau

January 27–March 12 | Oak Room Gallery

What Almost Was showcases Adam Chau’s ceramic plate series that uses artificial intelligence to create imagined scenarios of queer love. A large installation of stacked porcelain plates (inspired by celebratory champagne towers) layers rhetorical stories and asks the question: what would our lives look like if homosexuality was accepted throughout history? This exhibition serves as a platform for dialogue, inviting audiences to engage with the profound connections between craft, digital innovation and LGBTQ+ narratives in history.

Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, March 27, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Black and White in Black and White: Images of Dignity, Hope, and Diversity in America

Blanco y negro en blanco y negro: imágenes de dignidad, esperanza, y diversidad en Estados Unidos

March 10–April 16 | Campus Commons Gallery 

This Smithsonian collection of photographs by celebrated African American photographer John Johnson transports you back to the beginning of the twentieth century during the “New Negro Movement,” a time of great promise and hope for race relations in America. Johnson primarily used his neighborhood in Lincoln, Nebraska, as his canvas to craft powerful portraits of dignity and hope from 1910 to 1925.

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Foundations Show

Exposiciones de la Fundación

March 5–April 3 | Mariani Gallery

Works by students in art and design Foundations courses is on view in Mariani Gallery!

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Oak Room Student Shows

Exposiciones de la estudiantes

March 25–April 3 | Oak Room Gallery

Individual student artists propose, create, curate and install their own exhibitions.

Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, April 10, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Mariani & Oak Room Student Shows

April 8-17 | Mariani & Oak Room Galleries 

Individual student artists propose, create, curate and install their own exhibitions.

Art Walk & Reception: Thursday, May 1, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Graphic Design Senior Show

Exposición de último año de Diseño Gráfico

April 22–May 2 | Campus Commons Gallery 

See the senior portfolio exhibition from UNC Graphic Design students.

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Mariani & Oak Room Student Shows

April 22–May 1 | Mariani & Oak Room Galleries 

Individual student artists propose, create, curate and install their own exhibitions.