Will Bryant: Artist, Designer & Illustrator
Lecture: December 1, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Sure, i Like Fun
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
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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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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
Senior Graphic Design Exhibition
May 9 – 13, 2022
Reception May 13, 5-7pm
Heuser Gallery
If you’re in the Peoria area, come and enjoy the creativity of todays graphic design seniors, tomorrows graphic design ‘stars’!
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
6th Annual Bradley Sculpture Exhibition
May 6, 2022, 6 – 8pm
Studios on Sheridan at the Sunbeam Building
929 N Sheridan Rd.
Peoria, IL 61606
TRANSCENDING MOMENTS
Heather Ford MFA Thesis Exhibition
APRIL 4 – 29
Heuser Gallery
Heather coordinates and teaches the User Experience Program for the Department of Interactive Media within the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts at Bradley University. Her fine art, digital creative, and UI/UX design spans over 20 years of professional experience both in the commercial and academic sectors. Through visual communication, data visualization, user experience, and illustration, Heather combines consciousness, spirituality, and technology to create immersive experiences. Her design work merges the areas of traditional fine art and technology-driven experience design with science and spirit.
Visual Voices: Carrie Lingscheit
APRIL 7, 2022 – 5:00-6:00PM
GCC, Horowitz Auditorium
Carrie Lingscheit’s original intaglio prints exploit the subtleties of etching and mezzotint technique to explore themes of human behavior, interaction and the malleable nature of remembrance, presenting equivocal narratives that are often characterized by omission, distortion, and hyperbole. Her work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions and in dozens of invitational exchange portfolios. Recent exhibitions include the 2018 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, the 3rd International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia; and the 2017 Washington Printmakers National Small Works Juried Exhibition in Washington DC. Lingscheit holds a BFA from The University of South Dakota (2006) and MFA from Ohio University (2010.) She currently lives in Urbana, IL.