NSU Art Department

06/07/2026

We extend our congratulations to graduate thesis student Chad Nelson. Your compassion and connections with your students past and present shone through on Friday night. This exhibit runs through June 18th. If you have not seen it, there is still time.

05/24/2026

thank you for a great year! congratulations to our seniors + happy break to our students + faculty; more fun to come this summer!
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05/06/2026

This week is the closing reception for our final round of Senior Exhibitions! See Rico Imus’s exhibition “banyuhay” on Friday, April 17 from 6-8p in JFAC Gallery.
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Banyuhay is the Filipino term for “metamorphosis and change.” Rico views transformation as a constant and necessary part of survival, shaped by his early experiences growing up in an orphanage and finding stability in nature, especially through observing insects. These experiences inform his understanding of metamorphosis as both a physical and emotional process, which becomes central to his artistic practice. Rico’s sculptures reflect ongoing states of change, vulnerability, and adaptation, translating personal growth into forms that resist a sense of completion. Using paper as both material and metaphor, they highlight its fragility and strength, mirroring human resilience, and emphasize that transformation is continuous and essential to growth.
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05/06/2026

This week is the closing reception for our last round of Senior Exhibitions! See April Olson’s exhibition “Multiplicity of Her” on Friday, May 8 from 6-8p in Gallery X.
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Multiplicity of Her is about the various forms of self that exist in each woman. April explores this idea through photography, digital collage, and projection. She has been influenced by artists like Frida Kahlo and Nadia Waheed, who also explore the female experience and the ways in which women are multifaceted. April’s own internal struggle with identity throughout her life have deeply influenced her work for this show. Her work exemplifies the beauty that comes from accepting every version of yourself and letting those versions coexist.
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05/05/2026

Strike.26 has been cancelled tonight! Use this time to clean out your spaces!

05/05/2026

05/05/2026

This week is the closing reception for our last round of Senior Exhibitions! See Diane Mamgue-Tassa’s exhibition “Beneath Patterns” on Friday, May 8 from 6-8p in Gallery X.
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Beneath Patterns explores how visual patterns function as a language of identity, memory, and cultural storytelling. Drawing inspiration from African textiles, Diane Mamgue Tassa investigates how patterns move beyond decoration to become systems that shape how identity is seen, expressed, and protected.
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05/05/2026

NSU had a wonderful presence at the 2026 SculptureWalk this past weekend! Thank you for hosting us ✨
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This year, Professor Tim Rickett, Senior Daria Poor, and alumni Darwin Wolf were selected for the 23rd Annual SculptureWalk. The exhibit will be up for the next year. Check it out!
�Tim’s work “How the West was Wonderful” is in front of Fresh Produce and Ipso Gallery, on Sixth and Main. Daria’s work “The Farmer” is on the corner of Eighth and Railroad. Darwin’s work “Faces” in on Phillips and 11th Street.
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05/01/2026

Senior Ksenia Unser is featured in the May/June issue of Aberdeen Magazine!
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Huge shout out to Annie Scott + for their continuous support of the NSU Art Department.

04/30/2026

We’re in the final stretch! Students have been hard at work on their final projects. Next week on Tuesday evening we’ll be hosting our third annual Strike event, the burning of the 3D Design matchbook sculptures! here’s a reminder of year’s past and sneak peeks of what’s to come!

And our next group of Seniors have their thesis exhibitions on display! Join us on Friday, May 8 from 6-8p for their closing reception.
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