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This weekend at the GUUAC!

📅Save the Date📅 Artists of Color Expo & Symposium (ACES) will be happening at Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center May 20-21 from 11:00-6:00. ACES is a BIPOC-led, community-curated program featuring art exhibits, live performances, presentations, workshops, film screenings, artist talks, and artist opportunity tables. In partnership with we are bringing this two-day expo to Spokane!

MMIW/P or the phenomenon of missing & murdered indigenous women and people is not just something happening elsewhere, but in our backyard. 4 News Now stopped by the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center to speak with curator and GU grad, Jeff Ferguson. Learn more http://ow.ly/etco50Ic53O

'This is in our backyard': New art show highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women - KXLY SPOKANE, Wash– There are 650 missing people in Washington right now. More than 100 are Indigenous people and 14 are from our area. House Bill 7215 is making its way through the Washington Legislature. If it passes, it would create a voluntary alert system for missing native people. The first of it...

OPENING RECEPTION NEXT FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 5-9PM.
Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center

In an effort to raise awareness of 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.
More info: https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/events/2022/3/4/mmiw
Co-sponsored by: Gonzaga University Native American Studies, Eastern Washington University, End the Violence Coalition, Counting Coup Media

Tomorrow evening - please join us for this Black History Month group show curated by Olivia Evans and Tracy Poindexter Canon. See you there!

Opening reception tomorrow! 4-7pm.

Save the date for these special events held at the GUUAC in conjunction with this exhibit:

Feb 16, Poetry reading with Stephen Pitters. 6-7pm
Feb 18, Open mic night. 5-7pm
Feb 23, Book discussion of Toni Morrison's novel "Home" with Dr. Jessica Maucione and GU Alumnus Tracy Poindexter-Canton ('06). 6-8pm

More info to follow!

https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/events/2022/2/4/black-history-month-group-exhibit

Masks required at the GUUAC.

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center is pleased to present sound and video installation works by the current Laboratory Art + Residency artists Mill Canyon Sound Actions (Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney & Jeremy Sherrer) with special guests SPKYY, Kite (Oglala Lakota) & Robbie Wing (Cherokee).

Check details below for more info!

Home | Mill Canyon Sound Ac

Don't forget about this amazing show - hours on Fridays and Saturdays in graphic below!

Gallery Hours for New Faculty Show at GU Urban Arts Center:

Fridays, 4-7pm
Saturdays, 10am-3pm

The show will run from Nov 5 until December 11.

If you would like to visit the show outside of gallery hours, please contact Art Dept. Program Assistant Steph Doe at [email protected].

This Friday, join new art faculty from across Spokane for the New Faculty Show at the GUUAC. Doors open 4-7 pm. See you then!

First Friday Opening Reception - Nov 5, 4-7pm!

Stop by Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center this Friday for the opening reception of the New Faculty Show.

The exhibition will display a variety of media from sculpture, installation, painting, and works on paper.

Location: 125 S. Stevens Street, Spokane WA 99204

More info can be found here: https://www.gonzaga.edu/college-of-arts-sciences/departments/art/events

Dear friends of the GUUAC - we're excited to announce the following about our hours:

At the moment we have gallery hours on Fridays 4-7pm and Saturdays 10am-3pm. The First Friday Opening hours usually differ and tend to be between 5-8pm.

It's possible to book an appointment outside of these hours if you contact [email protected] or call Steph Doe at 509-313-6686 to arrange an appointment.

Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you in the gallery soon!

Thanks, The Gonzaga Bulletin for highlighting Mary's work at the GUUAC!

You can view 25 years' worth of Mary's artwork through the 22nd of October. See you there!

GUUAC features Mary Farrell in “Meditation on Place" exhibit GU's Urban Arts Center highlights retired faculty member Mary Farrell's printmaking abilities in the newest exhibit.

Don't miss tonight's opening reception for Mary Farrell's Meditation on Place. Doors open at 5 pm.

Please be sure to mask up. See you then!

Jenny Hyde is a multi-disciplinary artist from Washington State. Her work explores cultural geography through study of landscape and the body. She works with sound, video, digital print and multi-media installation. Jenny currently teaches digital art at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA.

She holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from Alfred University (2006) and BFA with a focus in painting from Cornish College of the Arts (1998). Her work has been part of media festivals and exhibitions nationally and abroad. She has been recognized with awards such as the Artist Trust Fellowship and the Faculty Scholarly & Creative Excellence Award at EWU. In addition to making and exhibiting work, she is an active advocate for the arts in Spokane.

https://youtu.be/AqBcbLUQghM

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Jenny Hyde Jenny Hyde is a multi-disciplinary artist from Washington State. Her work explores cultural geography through study of landscape and the body. She works with...

Ginelle Hustrulid is an Associate Professor in the Visual Communication Design department at Eastern Washington University. She holds a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR, and an MFA in Intermedia art from Mills College, Oakland, CA.

The philosophy behind her work gathers inspiration formed around human phenomena and the human condition. Her work has been shown/screened nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards including the Jay DeFeo Award in Art; Eklind Fellowship; Festival Award for Video at the SFAI International Film Festival; and the MFA Graduate Fellowship Award for the Headlands Center for the Arts.

https://youtu.be/tkHWX9otw6k

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Ginelle Hustrulid Ginelle Hustrulid is an Associate Professor in the Visual Communication Design department at Eastern Washington University. She holds a BFA in Painting from ...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Lisa Soranaka’s work.

Lisa Soranaka is a ceramic artist living in the Inland Northwest. She received her BFA in ceramics from Central Washington University in 2009, and her MFA in ceramics at Washington State University in 2013. Lisa currently teaches for Gonzaga University and the Community Colleges of Spokane. For more updates and information you can go to www.lisasoranaka.com

https://youtu.be/qWupHZQI13s

Lisa Soranaka Lisa Soranaka is a ceramic artist living in the Inland Northwest. She received her BFA in ceramics from Central Washington University in 2009, and her MFA in...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Nancy Hathaway’s work.

Nancy Hathaway is a studio artist whose practice focuses on conceptually driven works in drawing and sculpture. Her current body of work explores the intersection of rational inquiry and intuitive thought. Drawing on her fascination with science and human behavior, Hathaway’s intuitive musings on the nature of existence, reason, thought, memory and time are made manifest in paper, pigment, and at times remnants and remains of the natural and built environment. Hathaway has exhibited her work in over seventy-five solo and group exhibitions throughout the US from Seattle to New York City. She is a longtime resident of the Pacific Northwest and is a Professor of Art at Eastern Washington University.

https://youtu.be/zsnq09ImTiw

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Nancy Hathaway Nancy Hathaway is a studio artist whose practice focuses on conceptually driven works in drawing and sculpture. Her current body of work explores the interse...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Rob McKirdie’s work.

Rob joined the fine arts faculty at SFCC in 2015. He teaches classes in drawing, 3D Design, and sculpture. In his artistic practice, he primarily works with wood and metal, which he integrates with found and fabricated objects. Rob also focuses on mold making, fabrication, as well as Aluminum, Bronze, and Iron casting.

He earned a BS in Sculpture and a BFA in Studio Practices from Portland State University and an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. Rob's work explores the intersection of technology and material culture. It has been shown nationally in galleries and museums.

https://youtu.be/L_r-Q_2najE

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Rob McKirdie Rob joined the fine arts faculty at SFCC in 2015. He teaches classes in drawing, 3D Design, and sculpture. In his artistic practice, he primarily works with ...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Michael Horswill’s work.

Michael Horswill collects, combines, and unites the materials of life to make visible the image floating in his mind’s eye. In paintings, drawings, and wall-hung sculptures, he layers colors in encaustic, collaged archival images, wood, metal, and mixed media. Through misty aged glass in framed windows, ghostly images appear. Deeply-textured surfaces and fluid steel moves viewers’ eyes to points where tiny machines are suspended as if ready to make music.

Horswill has worked in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene region since 1995, with an Art B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.F.A. from the University of Idaho. He has exhibited his work extensively and has received awards and public art commissions. He has volunteered for local arts organizations and teaches studio art and art history at North Idaho College, where the intense exchange of ideas in the creative process inspires both teaching and art-making.

https://youtu.be/MftqhpaeHuc

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Michael Horswill Michael Horswill collects, combines, and unites the materials of life to make visible theimage floating in his mind’s eye. In paintings, drawings, and wall-h...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Tobe Harvey’s work.

Tobe Harvey works as an artist, and adjunct instructor at Spokane Falls Community College and Gonzaga University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University in 2001 with an emphasis in painting. In addition, Tobe Harvey holds degrees in art from Montana State University-Bozeman and Northwest College in Powell, Wy. He has been featured in the Spokesman-Review, Rock and Sling, 10x10x10xTieton, and Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Living Magazine.

https://youtu.be/6jvFsHVytFo

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Tobe Harvey Tobe Harvey works as an artist, and adjunct instructor at Spokane Falls Community College and Gonzaga University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from ...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Jessica Earle’s work.

Jessica Earle (b.1986) is an emerging video and sound artist currently living in Spokane, WA. Raised in the mountains of California, Idaho, Montana, and Washington; the impact of these places vibrates through her practice. She has shown and performed nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Fine Art, Boston and Museum of Art, Zhangzhou China.

She received her BFA from Eastern Washington University, where she focused on digital media and sculpture, and went on to graduate from Alfred University with an MFA in Electronic and Integrated Art. While in Washington, she ran Lacuna, a pop-up gallery that utilized abandoned storefronts in an effort to revitalize the downtown area of Spokane. She held the position of Research Associate for the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University for a year following receiving her MFA. There she interacted with internationally recognized artists and researchers and implemented new technologies for the Institute’s residency program. She currently teaches at several universities in Eastern Washington.

https://youtu.be/XxYAxYeGXkg

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Jessica Earle Jessica Earle (b.1986) is an emerging video and sound artist currently living in Spokane, WA. Raised in the mountains of California, Idaho, Montana, and Wash...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Shawn Trail’s work.

https://youtu.be/hEiw6FlbWiA

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Shawn Trail

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Elisa Nappa’s work.

Elisa Nappa is a ceramic sculptor and mixed media artist. Her work varies in scale, from intimate handheld objects to large wall and window installations. For the last decade, her work has been inspired by the beauty and underlying politics of water. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally as well as participates in residencies throughout the world. She is a Professor of Art at Eastern Washington University where she teaches and heads the area of Ceramics in the Art Department. Though she will never completely shed her New York City upbringing, she loves her current life surrounded by the mountains, skies, and scablands of the Inland Northwest.

https://youtu.be/gu4blMIvydk

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Elisa Nappa Elisa Nappa is a ceramic sculptor and mixed media artist. Her work varies in scale, from intimate handheld objects to large wall and window installations. Fo...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Garric Simonson’s work.

https://youtu.be/91k-a7w1X64

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center - Garric Simonsen

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Katie Creyts work.

Katie Creyts is an artist and Professor of Art at Whitworth University. Her work explores landscape and human and animal interactions. She is an animal empath. Creyts has exhibited her work nationally and has received grants for artist projects and research. She has an MFA from Illinois State University, a BFA from Tyler School of Art, and has received scholarship for study at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Pilchuck Glass School, and The Studio at the Corning Museum.

https://youtu.be/MEpLaRZuZug

Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Regional Faculty Invitational - Katie Creyts Katie Creyts is an artist and Professor of Art at Whitworth University. Her work explores landscape and human and animal interactions. She is an animal empat...

Welcome to this year’s GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational featuring art faculty from across the Inland Northwest. Here’s Tybre Newcomer’s work.

Tybre Newcomer received his BFA from Missouri State University and his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology-School for American Crafts in Ceramics and Ceramic Sculpture. He has taught at several institutions before joining Spokane Falls Community College in 2016. Previously, he was an Artist in Residence at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan and at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. In addition to teaching, he maintains an active studio and exhibits his work nationally.

https://youtu.be/Z9UkCIEz63o

GUUAC Regional Faculty Invitational - Tybre Newcomer Tybre Newcomer received his BFA from Missouri State University and his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology-School for American Crafts in Ceramics ...

An hour to go until we drop our videos of the regional faculty invitational show up at the GUUAC - stay tuned!

Image: Joshua Hobson

Welcome to Gonzaga, the College, and the Art department, Reinaldo!

Reinaldo Gil Zambrano Joins Art Department | Gonzaga University

For those who missed our virtual event, you can now view artist videos on our YouTube. https://bit.ly/3affOXJ

Tyler Newcomber's Art at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center Artist Statement: The mechanism for my artistic research and technical explorations of form are the materials that inherently hold memory. The physical actio...

Roin Morigeau puts out a First Friday top picks and has for the past few months. They've got great taste!

We're honored to be included in this month's list. Visit tonight for Faculty Free for All, featuring artwork by local arts educators (5-8 pm). Eastern Washington Art instructor, Posie Kalin with electrified violin in tow, will perform around 6:30.