Student Awards Show 2024
MARCH 12 - APRIL 5, 2024
Featuring selected work by current graduate and undergraduate students in the Studio Arts porgram. Guest juried by Jodi Connelly and Faith McKinnie.
ABOUT THE JURORS
Jodi Connelly’s work investigates the complexities of the human relationship to nature and the environment. She completed her MFA in Art Studio at the University of California, Davis in 2018, where she received the Keister and Allen Purchase Award for her project An Intervention in Space and Time, a year- long environmental intervention at the UC Davis McLaughlin Reserve. In 2019, she was awarded the Ali Youssefi Artist Residency at Verge Center for the Arts in 2019, where she had a solo exhibition. In 2022 she was included in the Coordinates Exhibition- an art “happening” in the PAC SAT building prior to its demolition. Four local curators invited artists from the community to transform a space in the building to address the temporal nature of urban environments, land ownership and a sense of place. Mrs. Connelly was a 2022-2023 recipient of the NEA funded Seeding Creativity grant which supports artists in the development of new artwork through research and community engagement. She has also been an artist in Residence at The Montello Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Residency 108, and Cill Rialaig in Ballinskelligs, Ireland, among others. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis, CA, the Greenville Museum of Art, and the Durham Art Guild in North Carolina. Connelly currently resides in Sacramento, California. She teaches Ceramics and Drawing at Sierra College, where she is also the Director of the Ridley Gallery.
Faith J. McKinnie is a curator practicing on the unceded land of the Nisenan. Her practice is multidimensional but remains rooted in the prioritization and care of artists who find their work outside the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal margins of the art historical canon. Through curatorial intervention and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture and its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.
She has lectured on curatorial activism at the University of Chicago, the University of California Davis, Sierra College, the University of Nevada Reno, and both California State Universities, Sacramento and Stanislaus. she serves as a curatorial mentor for the City of Sacramento's inaugural Emerging Curator's Program and Community Consultant for the Sacramento Public Library's Parks and Tranquility Project, she is the founder of the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, served as the DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and was a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. She holds a B.A. in Art History.
Reception and Awards Ceremony Thursday, March 28, 5-7PM
About Robert Else Gallery
Else Gallery Spring 2024 Exhibits
Metamorphosis: 2024 Alumni Art Show
January 29 - February 23, 2024
Student Awards Show 2024
March 12 - April 5, 2024
Senior Show
April 23 - May 10, 2024
About the Robert Else Gallery
The Else Gallery is named after emeritus art professor Robert Else and serves as a space for professional art exhibits, the work of Art Department graduate students, and student group exhibitions.
Exhibitions hosted in the gallery include the:
- Annual Student Awards Show
- Annual Senior Show
- Advancement to Candidacy exhibits by the Department of Art graduate art students.
Gallery Info
The Robert Else Gallery is located in Kadema Hall. The gallery is open Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 4PM.
Information for Exhibitors
Proposals for the Else Gallery are accepted by the Gallery & Events Committee each spring for consideration for the following academic year.
Please email Kelly Lindner, Galleries Curator at kelly.lindner@csus.edu.