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.

Día de los Muertos: Student Exhibition – Krottinger Gallery

This Exhibition is a celebration of Dia de los Muertos and a remembrance of our loved ones. The works displayed have been created by Latinx students from across the University of Central Oklahoma campus. It is the goal of the Melton and Krottinger Galleries to honor cultural and ethnic heritage by promoting the voices of the artists existing within . . .  read more

Shelby Head Exhibition: Am I that Name?

The exhibition features sculpture, painting, mixed media, video and sound installation on the complex and fluid nature of gender and identity in an often discriminatory, binary world. This work is in part a visual representation of the artist’s investigation into Queer theory and their ideas of “self/selves.”

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Fall 2022- Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition

UCO’s Department of Art and School of Design are incredibly fortunate to have to such an accomplished range of professional artists and designers as their faculty and staff. It is an honor for to be hosting an exhibition, with a fraction of their combine artistic prowess, in appreciation of their work as artists and educators. – . . .  read more

Student Spotlight Series: Curating for Equity

A view of the Women's History Month Exhibition

February-April, 2022, Krottinger Family Gallery, Located in Mitchell Education Center

Curating for Equity is a part of a series of three student-curated exhibitions that feature work from BIPOC designers, centering on a different topic each month. The month of February will center on the contributions of Black designers throughout history, March will center on women in design and April will focus . . .  read more

When Worn

Exhibit Dates: March 2—26, 2020

When Worn features the work of emerging and established jewelers and metalsmiths from across the nation.

When Worn highlights the act of adornment. When placed on the body, jewelry, transforms not only the appearance of its wearer, but it inserts itself between the adorned and audience as a signal and an invitation . . .  read more

Poetic Embroidery

Red Dirt Rug - Art Prize

Exhibit Dates: September 6 – 27
Opening Reception: September 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Poetic Embroidery displays two large-scale installations, Tales of Woah by Kelly Rogers and Red Dirt Rug by Rena Detrixhe. Connected by the concept of story, these two artists explore variation in the process of embroidery, presenting . . .  read more