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Brooke Shaden’s life-sized sculpture “Emergence” is displayed in the “Samsara” collection Sept. 24 in Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center Gallery 1. Made from dirt, moss, plaster and resin, this piece represents our inevitable return to earth.

‘Samsara’ is a beautiful, unique showing of death

Kayli McDonald, Staff writer October 16, 2024

Brooke Shaden’s art show “Samsara” will be displayed in the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center Gallery 1 until Oct. 20.  She is one of the most recognized modern photographers because of her exhibition...

Alumni art show ‘Baggy Genes: the Early Days’ returns

Alumni art show ‘Baggy Genes: the Early Days’ returns

Nico Armeanu, Arts Editor October 2, 2024

“Baggy Genes,” an art event created by cousins and USI alumni Ethan Douglass and Christian Schmitz, returned for one night Sept. 28 with “Baggy Genes: The Early Days.”  The pair graduated...

 The 2023 Senior Seminar Exhibition hosts hundreds of pieces of art from this year’s graduating class. The exhibit is open to the public from March 27 to April 28. (Photo by Sydney Lawson)

The unique artists of the 2023 Senior Seminar Exhibition

Sydney Lawson, Lifestyle Editor April 13, 2023

If you were to walk into the Pace Gallery any time between March 27 and April 28, you would be faced with crumbling woodwork, abnormal furniture, uncanny imagery, your favorite film characters, mossy creatures...

A sculpture of a cake featured in “Lost Picnic,” made by Olivia Supper, is on display in Gallery One of the McCutchan and Pace Galleries. The piece is part of the “From Here She Grows” gallery and will be on display from Jan. 9 through Feb. 5.

Olivia Supper’s “From Here She Grows“ exhibit creates commentary on women, nature

Sydney Lawson, Lifestyle Editor January 18, 2023

The “From Here She Grows” art exhibition, created entirely by USI graduate Olivia Supper, opened to the public in the McCutchen Art Center and Pace Galleries Jan. 9. The exhibit will be showcased until...

Freshman named best of show

Gabi Wy, Features Editor April 19, 2017

As the Annual Juried Student Art Show continues its exhibition in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries in the Liberal Arts building, The Shield spoke with best of show winner Bayley Graham about her...

Holli Nelson attends the 47th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition Sunday afternoon. Nelson stopped to admire Livia Alexander's piece titled "My Mother: A Modern Venus." Nelson is the sister of student artist Kerri Nelson. “I love this piece of work,” Nelson said. “It gives attention to a fuller figure that normally only perfect women get.” Kerri Nelson is the artist of the piece “Three Hearts of a Sloth.“

Over 100 awards given at art show

Sarah Rogers, Opinion Editor April 6, 2017

Weaving her way through the sardine-packed bodies at the 47th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Claire Wright exited the awards ceremony. Convinced she would not win any awards on her photo, Wright...

Sporting a shirt that reads “mud-slinging pyromaniac,” senior art major Denise “Mickie” Streets uses the pottery wheel as she works on a ceramic mug Monday in the Dowhie Ceramics Studio. Streets will have two of her ceramic sculptures shown in the Juried Student Art Exhibition April 3-May 1 in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries.

Passion, frustration, motivation

Abigail Suddarth, Staff Writer March 31, 2016
Denise “Mickie” Streets will graduate this April with one of her sons. Streets came from a family of painters, but failed art as a child because she wasn’t good at drawing

Art reception and gallery talk

Rachel Christian August 28, 2014

"Because We Like It: The Art Collections of Lenny and Anne Dowhie” is on display through Sept. 7, in the McCutchan Art Center Pace Galleries. The exhibit, which consists of 118 ceramic, mixed media...

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