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 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...

McNaughton working with a student in 2003.

“John McNaughton: Artist-Mentor-Friend:” The remarkable life of John McNaughton

Tegan Ruhl, Assistant Lifestyle Editor September 5, 2022

While current students may not know who John McNaughton was, his legacy is hidden everywhere on campus, shaping the atmosphere of USI for years.  His legacy hides in “The Screaming Eagle” sculpture...

This artwork is the first one seen when entering Hannah Evelyn Jones' Love is a Gift that is Surely Handmade art exhibit. It is composed of seven different pieces that come together. They are titled, Split, Vessel, Vein, Joint, Pull, Push, and Strain.

“Love is a Gift that is Surely Handmade:” An inspiring gallery about familial and self-love

Tegan Ruhl, Staff Writer January 25, 2022

Correction: The name of the gallery is “Love is a Gift that is Surely Handmade.” The expression of love in creative outlets has been present for centuries in many cultures.  Students can now see...

Artist Kathrine Watts shows communication professor Lisa Verkamp an installation piece as part of her latest exhibition "-rhiza" Oct. 21, 2021. "-rhiza" is on display in the McCutchan Art Center from now until Dec. 10.

Alumna talks trash and makes mushrooms sing in latest art show

Josh Meredith, Chief photo editor November 4, 2021

  University alumna Katherine Watts spoke in the Performance Center Oct. 21, 2021, on her traveling art show “-rhiza,” an exhibition on the relationship between nature and humans.  “-riza”...

"Lime-Light" by Mike Nichols. This is one of two installation pieces featured by Nichols in the McCutchan Art Gallery's current exhibition.

Gallery: Artists speak on their work in the McCutchan Art Center

Josh Meredith, Chief Photo Editor September 16, 2021

Two artists spoke in The Performance Center on Sept. 9 discussing their recent work now on display in The McCutchan Art Center and Pace Galleries. The current exhibition titled "Present Perfect" shows...

This piece titled “Ophelia” is a part of a series by Efroymson Bridge Year Fellow Livia Alexander called “The Shakespeare Suicides.” Alexander's show Mortal Flesh will be on display through March 15 at the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries.

Exhibit captures mythology, reality

Emma Corry, Features Editor February 25, 2020

It took Livia Alexander her whole life to get to the level of painting she is at now. Alexander curated her “Mortal Flesh” exhibit as part of the Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship which allows a...

The exhibit will run until Feb. 12 in the Pace Galleries.

Paintings and poetry join together in harmony

Susanna Fravell, Staff Writer January 28, 2020

Nancy Raen-Mendez said she credits Katie Waters for making The McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries what it is.  The McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries is hosting its first exhibit of 2020. The event...

The senior seminar exhibit will be open until Dec. 8 in the Pace Galleries.

Senior seminar highlights student inspirations, skills

Jeana Everhart, Staff Writer November 19, 2019

Gabrielle Pyle has worked in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries for three semesters because she loves setting up the art exhibits. The senior studio art major said the current senior seminar exhibit...

"Cobra" by Tonja Torgerson  displayed in the Pace Galleries.

Art exhibit displays scale, human connection to nature and body

Jeana Everhart, Staff Writer August 22, 2019

The green figure poses at ease inside the white canvas as money bleeds from her wrists onto the canvas’s edge, resting on the floor. Behind her figure, in a cursive font, arches the phrase "Only the...

Celebrating work, successes of faculty

Celebrating work, successes of faculty

Emma Corry, Staff Writer January 15, 2019

Emma Corry Director of Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center and Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries Brett Anderson displayed his work at the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries in the lower...

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