Senior Capstone Exhibition Fall 2023

This Exhibition celebrated the Art Department’s graduating Seniors who showcased their final capstone projects Dec. 12-17th, 2023. This exhibition highlighted 12 graduating seniors completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Studio Art. The works showed a wide variety of mediums including ceramics, painting, drawing and Metalsmithing. This event was free and open to the Public.

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-Based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination

An image of the posters installed in the gallery along with a timeline that runs underneath each poster including the history of gender equity

September 16th – November 18th, 2021

“This exhibition features posters created by both men and women to celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens should play in protecting and promoting human rights while actively challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive rights–“.

-Elizabeth Resnick

Charleen Weidell: Meet the Dean

Tiara by Charleen Weidell

Thursday, October 21st, Krottinger Gallery

The Meet the Dean event presented UCO with the opportunity to become more acquainted with the new Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Design, Charleen Weidell. A small retrospective of her work was on view during the duration of the event.

OKCine Latino Film Festival

Film still- Indigenous woman with arms raised smiling at the sky

Presented in partnership with the Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival

The Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival promotes the Latino cultural influence on cinema and has become a showcase for local and international filmmakers with submittals from Mexico, Spain, and South America.

Friday, April 30th at Sunset

Plunkett Park, UCO Campus

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Spring 2021 Senior Capstone Exhibition

Detail of a figurative sculpture by senior sculpture major: Pierson Edwards

On view in Melton Gallery: April 29 -May 6, 2021

The Senior Capstone course prepares students to create a unique body of work and prepares them for life after UCO. The Exhibition will feature Studio Art majors and present their thesis work for the completion of their degree. This work is the culmination of four years of intensive study, creating a unique body of work and . . .  read more

Can’t Touch This: Visualization and Technology

Exhibit Dates: April 10-19, 2018
Closing Reception: April 19, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This unique exhibit, including members from the UCO Design Department, represented digital visualization methods in the form of Augmented and Virtual Reality. There was no physical media, only projected or display driven imagery, ranging in scale from phones and tablets . . .  read more

Momentum: Spotlight Artists

Exhibit Dates: March 13-29, 2018
Opening Reception: March 13, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition supports Oklahoma’s emerging artists, aged 30 and under through their annual exhibition, Momentum. This exhibition, curated by guest curator Katherine Brodbeck and emerging curator Bianca Martucci-Fink, includes a survey of 76 artworks . . .  read more

CONTINUUM

Exhibit Dates: March 1-29, 2018
Opening Reception: March 1, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The Melton Gallery is pleased to host the group exhibit CONTINUUM, showcasing the legacy of past and present UCO ceramics faculty Gayle Singer, Barbara Weidell, and Eric Hoefer, and the work of CFAD’s new Dean, Steve Hansen in March of 2018. This dynamic group of ceramists . . .  read more

Mindscape: The Subjective Realism of Steve Breerwood

Exhibit Dates: February 1-22, 2018
Opening Reception: February 1, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Steve Breerwood’s paintings, while varying in subject, all relate back to the relationship with his inner-self, “the space between my own ears.” His oil paintings, which represent both figurative and imaginative scenes of individuals in solitude, blue-collar . . .  read more

Layered Perspectives

Exhibit Dates: November 2-30, 2017
Opening Reception: November 2, 2017 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

In this multiple exposure photography series, UCO New Media Faculty, David Webber, explores the idea of “making something out of nothing” in his photographs inspired by Alred Stieglitz’s cloud series, Equivalents. These photographs start with images from . . .  read more