“The Words He Cannot Say, a graphic memoir by Leo Bird, 2014 Central graduate, is on exhibition in the Mills Gallery from November 4 through December 7. Meet the artist at 6 p.m. Thursday, November 7, in the gallery during the artist’s reception. Bird was diagnosed with autism at age three. He created the memoir […]
Read moreStina Joy Henslee is a mixed media artist and graphic designer, who relocated to Dubuque, Iowa in 2020 from her hometown of Chicago. In 1999 she spent a year in Helsinki attending a fine arts high school and then continued her arts education at Washington University in St. Louis where she studied Printmaking, German and […]
Read moreShe has spent over 50 years creating, exhibiting and teaching art. Her work has been exhibited and is included in both the U.S. and abroad. A reviewer wrote about Elizabeth’s work, “[it] recalls the late post minimalist artist Eva Hesse in its combination of minimalist sensibility with abject items”. She currently lives and works in […]
Read moreThe exhibition, Aviate, featuring the work of Amy Haney is exhibited in the Mills Gallery from March 4 – April 12 with a reception for the artist at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 11. “I incorporate birds, insects and animals into my work. I enjoy the personalities that come across with their postures, gestures, colors […]
Read moreThe works of Paul Andrew Wandless are exhibited in the Mills Gallery from Monday, January 15 until March 1. Wandless has been designated the Allison B. Allen Visiting Artist during Spring 2024. He will conduct a workshop on applying printmaking processes to clay in the ceramics and printmaking classes while in residence at Central, February […]
Read moreThe exhibition, “Kiddin’ Around: Works in Progress” features paintings and collages of Grant William Thye, Class of 1993, in the Mills Gallery from September 25 – October 27. The inspiration for this show came from his children as the artist explores the journey between creating new artwork and having young children in his studio. Some […]
Read moreThe work of Jennifer Drinkwater is exhibited in the Mills Gallery from August 23 – September 22 with an artist’s reception held at noon on Friday, September 22. The exhibition features paintings, prints, and embroidered works from her 168 Hours series and The What’s Good Project. 168 Hours is an embroidered archive of 24 […]
Read moreThe work of Howard Paine is exhibited in the Mills Gallery from January 23 – February 24. His exhibition of woodcut, lithograph, and digital prints is titled Into the Fading. An artist’s reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, February 23 in the Mills Gallery. Paine’s large-scale digital prints are part of a series […]
Read moreThe work of Jody Boyer is exhibited in the Mills Gallery from Nov. 6 to Dec. 9. Her exhibition is titled Ice Works. An artist’s reception will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, in the Mills Gallery.
Read moreThe work of 1992 Central College graduates, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Brian Roberts, Nicola Vruwink, and Lee Wassink, is exhibited in the Mills Gallery through October 26. The exhibition, Thirty Years Later, aligns with their thirty-year class reunion and commemorates twenty-five years since a 1997 exhibition, Five Years Later, showcased the same individuals in […]
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