Creighton University Studio Art

10/06/2026

We were so lucky to have MK Czerwiec (the comic nurse) come in last month and work with our students in conjunction with her exhibition "Graphic Medicine: Comics, Care and the Work of Justice". MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse, cartoonist, and educator who uses comics to reflect on the complexities of illness and caregiving. The show is on view now at our Lied Art Gallery through November 15. More pics to come!

09/22/2026

What to do when your visiting artist is a plein air painter and it is constantly raining all week? Do the demo by a large window! Thanks you Debra Joy Groesser for sharing your wisdom and painting strategies with our Painting 1 and Painting 2 students this week!

09/17/2026

Congratulations to our two CU studio art majors on their Creighton CURAS Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship grants. Fred Mindrup ('29) was awarded a Kingfisher Institute Fellowship with his work "The Artist's Proof: A Conversation on the State of Women's Healthcare" with his mentor professor Emily Stokes and Liv Brusatti ('27) earned a CCAS Dean's Fellowship with her work, "Vessels: An Exploration of Objectification of the Human Body" with her mentor Professor Amy Nelson. Congratulations to them both!

08/30/2026

We love having Professor Littleton Alston as our sculpture faculty! Here is his latest piece!

08/25/2026

07/31/2026

Another amazing sculpture by our very own Littleton Alston!

07/24/2026

Next Wednesday is the exhibition celebration of "What Does Rare Disease Mean to You?" at Positive Exposure in NYC. Take a look at Isabella Taddeini's piece, In the Dark. She notes that, "The portrait on the left represents my perspective as someone trying to understand, while the portrait on the right represents a person experiencing psychosis, which is present in many rare diseases. The abstract pattern represents a complexity and intensity of an experience that cannot be fully seen or explained from the outside. To me, rare disease means learning from others while recognizing that I can never completely understand what they are going through. This piece expresses the unknown and the emotional distance between witnessing an illness and truly experiencing it." We look forward to seeing you in NYC at the gallery next Wednesday from 5-8pm!

07/12/2026

Check out this detail view of our studio art major Jade Varguez's painting! We zoomed in so you can see the braille catching the overhead light. The braille fill up the entire background on this 40" x 30" oil painting. Here is just a little snippet of the text about Jade's piece, "Having a rare disease feels like being in a constant state uncertainty, as one never knows to what extent their disease will affect them. For the most part, rare diseases are incurable, which means that one must accept that they will never live a life without worrying about the fate their chronic illness has in store for them. The rare disease that is represented in this piece is Alport Syndrome, a genetic disorder that exhibits mutations in collagen genes. This disease affects the kidneys, eyes, and ears, causing kidney disease and the possibility of kidney failure, as well as possible hearing loss and vision loss." If you are in NYC this month...go check out the exhibition at Positive Exposure's gallery and then you'll be able see this amazing piece in person!

05/15/2026

It is almost graduation day! Looking at this beautiful ceramic piece that Nia-Victoria Gathers created reminds us that she, along with all of our studio art graduates, will soon be starting new chapters in their lives. We certainly hope they all continue to create and inspire us just as they did while here at Creighton!