Featuring new work across media, including a bat video and a watch collection, the First-Year MFA Showcase celebrates incoming students in the Master of Fine Arts program.

The annual exhibition will have its closing reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8. The show features:

Arshia Amin: “The Sun Will Rise,” 2021, 2024, Vinyl

Aubrey Behrens: “displaced,” 2023, Coaxial cable and steel wire

Andres Caballero: “Los Danzantes,” 2023, Risograph prints on black paper, staples

Molly Etchberger: “Untitled weavings 1-3,” 2023, Risograph

Alexis Joy Hagestad: “32.3446389, -110.7166217,” 2023, Video, 59 seconds, personal recordings of bat echolocation

Dylan Hawkinson: “Grandma’s Memory Skirt,” 2023, Butcher paper, synthetic interface, ballpoint pen, acrylic, found object, thread

Matthew Ryan Kennedy: “Untitled (My Mother’s Watch Collection 1972-2016),” 2023, watches

Maya Quinn Jackson: “Thrise reprise, Angels reprise, Offering reprise,” 2023-24, lumen and digital on ProCoat

2024 Gallery Schedule

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