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.”

It has been such an exciting . . .  read more

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

The Midnight Garden

On View: Jan 20–March 3, 2022

Opening Reception & Gallery Talk: Thursday, Jan. 20, 5-7:30 p.m.
Closing Reception: Thursday, March 3, 5-7:30 p.m.

View the gallery talk on our youtube site here: https://youtu.be/FEB9dmY1_Hw

The Midnight Garden is a collection of works by Marium Rana, an American-born Pakistani artist. The exhibitionis inspired by the artist’s . . .  read more

Fall, 2021 Senior Capstone Exhibition

Installation view of the Capstone exhibition

The Senior Capstone Exhibition celebrates our emerging artists through the visual expression of the internal journey and acceptance of self, the memories of childhood and realizing your dreams, and the observations of similarities in nature to journey through life. These topics are explored through the mediums of printmaking and sculpture. -Elizabeth . . .  read more

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.