Reception/Lecture: Thursday, February 15th | Noon

Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art | Art Building

Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 27-31, 2023.

Admission is free

“Beyond the Fence

Ancient men and women tucked inside their secret homes hint at things gone and to come. The snake appears every few years, maybe more frequently now. Lightning speaks. Whatever I try to hide will find its way out. However far I reach inward, there will always be the unknown buried there from the beginning, a star, a seed, a night hallucination.

The selected paintings and prose are abstractions of dreams I’ve had from childhood on. I’ve arranged them to coincide with the seasons, the turning of the Earth, and the cycle of a life. Over many years of dreaming, certain characters, events, and places return. This is one cycle.”

– Ellen Picken

Artist Website & Bio: ellenpicken.com

Ellen Picken lives in Spokane, Washington. She has been painting large scale murals for the last decade and co-directing art films with her partner, Rajah Bose, for FactoryTown.

EWU Art Gallery presents:

2023 Art Faculty Exhibition
November 16th – January 18th

Featuring the work of:

• Annie Cunningham
• Greg DuMonthier
• Jessy Earle
• Nancy Hathaway
• Josh Hobson
• Jenny Hyde
• Marc LaPointe
• Lisa Nappa
• Roger Ralston
• Chris Tyllia

The 2024 Student Research and Creative Works Symposium will be May 7 & 8, 2024

The annual symposium celebrates students as they present their research or creative works in a professional setting. The event includes poster sessions, oral presentations, interactive exhibits, and a variety of creative works.

The Creative Works segment of the Symposium will be the late afternoon on Tuesday, May 7. Every year we have students from all areas present work that varies from paintings, installation piece, music, theatre performances, and more.

If you are interested in showing your work, abstract submissions will open in early 2024; you can see information about them here.

Eastern Washington University’s annual BFA Senior Exhibition features the work of graduating seniors enrolled in EWU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program.

EWU GALLERY OF ART PRESENTS

2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

May 16th, 2024 – June 7th, 2024
Opening Reception: May 16th, 2024
EWU Art Gallery

Admission is free

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9am to 6pm
Closed Weekends, Holidays, and for Spring Break March 25-31, 2024

Sept. 28th, 2023 – Nov. 3rd, 2023

Reception/Lecture/Workshop: The opening reception of Cayla Skillin-Brauchle: A Day For Dreaming, A Day For Doing as well as a lecture/workshop by the artist will be on Thursday, September 28^th, Noon.

Performance: Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, and creative partner Cal Lawton, will be giving a performance titled Our Bodies Know The Way in the EWU Gallery of Art on Thursday, November 2^nd, Noon.

Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is located in the Art Building situated in the center of the fine and performing arts complex on the EWU campus in Cheney, Washington.

Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 27-31, 2023.

Admission is free

Artist Website: Cayla Skillin-Brauchle: https://www.caylaskillin-brauchle.com/

“This work responds to my ever-present feelings of grief, despair, and fear around political

collapse, social despondence, and the rapidly deteriorating climate. To combat panic, I find

myself conjuring situations and images that allow for a transformation of mind, body, and spirit. Many of my “solutions” rely on absurdism to bend our minds and consider different ways of living. It’s important to me that these solutions are makeshift—temporary bridges fashioned out of the resources at hand. Studio experiments, performances, and drawings on paper and cloth are designed to help us think about different ways of living and approaching our intimate and societal relationships through care.” – Cayla Skillin-Brauchle

Artist Bio:

Cayla Skillin-Brauchle believes art has the capacity to allow us to envision and practice life meaningfully.  Her artwork and performance art pieces have been in over 100 exhibitions across the world. Skillin-Brauchle is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to India, the Cress Award for Excellence in Faculty Research from Willamette University, and her art/activism initiative ‘Reproductive Media’ won an inaugural Steelcase Equity in Education Fellowship in 2021. Awarded residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, PLAYA, The Hambidge Center for the Arts, and Hannahers Print Center at The Plains Art Museum, amongst others.

Cayla Skillin-Brauchle earned a BA in Studio Art from Beloit College and was awarded an MFA from Ohio University. Skillin-Brauchle lives, works, and gardens with her family in Salem, Oregon where she teaches at Willamette University.