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<\/p>\nEach season, FGCU Art Galleries makes space to welcome its graduates back as exhibiting artists. This year, three exhibitions carry that tradition forward: alumni in dialogue through clay; a shared road trip in pencil and verse; and a window installation woven into the front of the Arts Complex. They can be seen in the Wasmer Gallery and Gallery 101 in the Arts Complex.<\/p>\n
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‘Reflections in Clay’ features work by Jordan Blankenship (2017, Art), Kel Campbell (2013, Art), and Maria Emilia Steiner (2015, Art). <\/p>\n
\u201cReflections in Clay\u201d features work by Jordan Blankenship (2017, Art), Kel Campbell (2013, Art), and Maria Emilia Steiner (2015, Art). Blankenship\u2019s functional ceramics and domestic structures consider how objects shape daily routines. Campbell\u2019s wall-mounted ceramic quilt uses repetition and assembly to connect personal memory with shared histories. Steiner\u2019s sculptural forms engage space, restraint and light to create moments of pause and attention.<\/p>\n
Across the exhibition, clay becomes a shared material language while serving distinct purposes. These works demonstrate clay\u2019s capacity to hold memory, shape behavior and mark our presence over time.<\/p>\n
\u201cReflections in Clay\u201d can be seen through Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
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Colored pencil drawing by FGCU alumna Donne Hutcheson<\/p>\n
\u201cRoad Trip: It\u2019s the Journal Not the Destination\u201d is a collaborative exhibition by FGCU alumna Donne Hutcheson (2018, Art) and writer Monica Sloan. Through colored pencil drawings and poetry, the artists reflect on a journey from Florida to North Carolina and back. What might have been an ordinary vacation slideshow becomes a lively exchange between words and images.<\/p>\n
Hutcheson\u2019s drawings shaped Sloan\u2019s poetry, while Sloan\u2019s writing influenced Hutcheson\u2019s imagery. Although they traveled individually, their perspectives converged to create a shared visual, intellectual and emotional record of the journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoad Trip\u201d is on view through Oct. 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween Creation & Concrete\u201d is a collaborative window installation by FGCU alumnae Breah Fyffe (2022, Art) and Marcela Pulgarin (2022, Art). Using freehand drawing and vinyl, the artists transform imagery inspired by Florida\u2019s ecosystems into playful organic forms that explore connection, growth and coexistence.<\/p>\n
The installation continues FGCU\u2019s efforts to develop innovative bird-safe window solutions. Fyffe\u2019s multidisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, ceramics and printmaking. Using line, pattern and subtle variation to create tactile, contemplative compositions, Pulgarin explores relationships between natural forms, materials and the self.<\/p>\n
FGCU\u2019s bird-safe window initiative was launched in November 2024 through a collaboration between FGCU Art Galleries and the FGCU Ornithology Club led by Professor Oscar Johnson. The project promotes bird-safe design across campus buildings, both existing and future.<\/p>\n
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Peter Massing (American, 1956),\u00a0Untitled, c. 2015, Etching, Gift of Peter Massing, Collection of FGCU Art Galleries<\/p>\n
Also on view<\/p>\n
Works from the permanent collection are on display on the third floor of the Wilson G. Bradshaw Library, behind University Archives & Special Collections. This selection features a variety of works, as well as a focus on artist and professor emeritus of printmaking (Marshall University), Peter Massing, born 1956 in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n
With a natural acuity for draftsmanship, Massing\u2019s drawing transitions intuitively into the various methods associated with lithography and intaglio printmaking. With print, the results can be replicated allowing for multiples of the same image, or unique and integrate varied printing processes to create hybrid prints where the drawing or key image has the ability to change radically.<\/p>\n
Massing\u2019s prints show a penchant for detail and a devotion to the draftsman\u2019s art. He says, \u201cI focus on printmaking, and it\u2019s a pleasure, because I like to draw.\u201d Words matter, too. \u201cWords evoke images,\u201d he explains. \u201cEven if they don\u2019t make sense.\u201d His artworks are visual sonnets: compact, carefully composed and bearing many nuances.<\/p>\n
This exhibition is on view through Dec. 4.<\/p>\n
For full disclosure, FGCU holds the broadcast license for WGCU. WGCU is a member-supported service of FGCU.<\/p>\n
Support for WGCU\u2019s arts & culture reporting comes from the Estate of Myra Janco Daniels, the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation, and Naomi Bloom in loving memory of her husband, Ron Wallace.<\/p>\n
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