GVSU represented in ArtPrize through art, venues and sponsorship
Sep 15, 2021
LAKERS TOGETHER: COVID vaccine required by September 30. Face coverings required indoors.
Museum From Home
The GVSU Art Gallery is committed to continuing to deliver content digitally to our community during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to help tell our collective stories through visual literacy to help bring critical thinking and build empathy in our lives, whether in the classroom or within your home virtually.
“Creativity takes courage” - Henri Matisse
We work to encourage appreciation and understanding of art and its role in society through direct engagement with original works of art.
Featured Exhibition
Canal by Canal: Photographs by Jason Reblando
Lake Ontario Hall, Allendale Campus
July 9 - December 10, 2021
In Canal by Canal, photographer Jason Reblando engages the natural and built environments as well as the people that comprise Valencia’s irrigation community in support of research by Dr. Erik Nordman, natural resources management professor at Grand Valley State University. Nordman and Reblando traveled to Valencia to research how today’s farmers are carrying on a one-thousand-year tradition of water resource governance, for Nordman’s book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom (Island Press, 2021). The resulting images are a meditation on how humans continue to shape the natural landscape, as well as a record of a communal agricultural practice that has survived wars, dictatorships, and political winds of change. [Read more.]
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Events
Reception for 'Honest & Unrefined: Art Outside the Academy' | GV Arts Celebration
September 30, 2021 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us on Thursday, September 30th from 5:00pm - 8:00pm to kick-off of the Grand Valley State University Arts Celebration! Enjoy refreshments and opening remarks under a tent on...
On the Wall Artist Talk featuring Donna Ferrato (virtual)
October 5, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Each On the Wall Artist Talk features an artist whose work is currently on view on campus discussing their creative process and how their work is influenced by other fields of study. This...