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38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition Opening

38th Bradley International, Heuser Gallery

Please join us Friday, February 3, 2023 starting at 5:00pm for a series of opening events for the 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition! We will also announce winners of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes and one Honorable Mention selected by juror Tyanna Buie at 5:45pm in the Heuser Gallery located at 1400 West Bradley Ave. 

The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition is the second-longest running juried print and drawing competition in the country. Every two years, it features the best contemporary graphic artwork from around the globe. This year’s exhibition will be held on campus at Bradley University at Heuser Gallery and Hartmann Gallery, as well as The Peoria Riverfront Museum and The Peoria Art Guild.

Exhibition Dates: February 3, 2023 – March 31, 2023

Exhibition Opening Receptions:
February 3, 2023
Heuser and Hartmann Galleries (BU Campus): 5-6pm
Peoria Riverfront Museum: 6-7pm
Peoria Art Guild: 7-8pm

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Cut from the Culture

Peoria Guild of Black Artists

Exhibition: October 24-December 4, 2022
Heuser + Hartmann Galleries

Lecture: November 3, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: November 3, 2022 – 6:15pm

Click here to view a recording of the event

Peoria Guild of Black Artists (PGOBA) is a group of Black creatives from within the Peoria, IL community. Their mission is to bring the Black creative community together, uplift one another, advocate and provide a platform for Black folk in the Peoria arts community. They strive to provide resources and educational materials to their community in an accessible manner. Their exhibition and Visual Voices Lecture will showcase recent work by PGOBA members and highlight their history, mission, and future as a collective of contemporary artists.

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Lithospheric Shift

Marion Belanger

Exhibition: August 29-October 7, 2022
Heuser Gallery

Lecture: September 22, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: September 22, 2022 – 6:15pm

Click here for a recording of the event

And here’s a link to a short interview with the artist for BU News

Lithospheric Shift visualizes the geologic landscape and cultural artifacts found along tectonic plate boundaries. The Red Zone of Vesuvius include photographs of Mt. Vesuvius, archeological fragments from Pompeii and Herculaneum.  Rift / Fault is a study of the two land-based edges of the North American Tectonic Plate: the San Andreas Fault in California and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland.  Tectonic plates slide along the fluid mantle of our earth, underneath our oceans, our land, our homes.  Plate edges shift, erupt, and tremble. Their behavior is for the most part unpredictable, and wholly uncontainable. And while boundaries upon the land are often contested, politicized, and fought over, tectonic plate boundaries remain immune to human efforts of control. 

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In the Shadow of the Bloom

John Steck Jr.
(recent instructor of photography at Bradley)

Exhibition: August 16-September 29, 2022
Hartmann Gallery

Lecture: “A Silver Memory” September 29, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: September 29, 2022 – 6:15pm

Click here to view a recording of the event

This exhibition brings together various projects of visual artist John Steck Jr. In the Shadow of the Bloom is an exhibition that uses plants and flowers in order to address larger themes such as time, memory, entropy, natural beauty, and decay. Steck is not a botanist, florist, or gardener, but rather someone who is interested in how we actively reference and work in conjunction with art history. Much of his work draws from the early practitioners of photography, such as Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins, all of whom used the garden as a means for photographic investigation. Steck expands on those traditional processes by pushing their limitations in order to expand the boundaries of photography.

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Magnum Opus: Annual BFA Exhibition

April 25 – May 14, 2022

Reception: May 6, 2022 5 – 8pm

Come see the work of this year’s fantastic seniors graduating with Bachelor of Fine Art degrees!

Featuring Artists:

Celia Compton, Photography
Deicide Huxtable, Painting
Sydney Morr, Graphic Design
Hannah Netherwood, Photography
Gracie Noble, Graphic Design
Benjamin Rodrigues, Graphic Design

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The Mirror with a Memory

May 4 – 27, 2022

Reception May 7, – 2 – 4pm

Peoria Public Library – Downtown – Basement Gallery

2022 Photography Capstone Exhibition

Featured Artists:

Celia Compton
Anna Gerard
Ambrosia Griffin
Hannah Netherwood