DATES: April 1-21, 2025 
OPENING RECEPTION: April 2, 5-7 p.m. Juror remarks at 6 p.m.

The 2025 AACC Juried Student Art Exhibition features nearly 50 pieces of art created by AACC students working in photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, digital design, ceramics, sculpture and more. Representing the diversity of artistic practices taught at AACC, the artwork on view in the exhibition were selected from more than 200 pieces of art submitted by current students. Our annual juried exhibition provides an opportunity for students to go through a selection process by an outside juror, often a prominent artist and professor from a regional or national transfer institution. This year's juror, Carrie Fucile, is a lecturer in digital art and design at Towson University.

ABOUT THE JUROR: Carrie Fucile is a sound artist who creates installation, sculpture, performance, and experimental music. Her research investigates how memories embodied in objects, architecture and landscapes have sustained cultural resonance. The creative efforts that result interpret the effects of political power, technological shifts and global economics on the human condition. Ultimately her work seeks to expose how traces of the past continue to live with us in the present.

Fucile has presented her work at venues including The Walters Art Museum in  Baltimore; Rhizome DC in Washington, D.C.; Vox Populi in Philadelphia; Casa Contemporânea in São Paulo, Brazil; and the Director's Lounge in Berlin, Germany. Among other honors, she is a three-time recipient of the Maryland State Art Council’s Individual Artist Award. She lives and works in Baltimore, and is a lecturer in the Department of Art at Towson University.

Image Identifications:

Gabriel Galloway, "The Eye of Tyrannosaurus Rex," 2024, Acrylic and Cardboard on Canvas.

Catherine White, "Untitled," 2024, Photograph.

Alexander Thomas, "Unwilling Transformation (a watering bell)," 2024, Ceramic.

VISIT THE GALLERY: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

DATES: Jan. 30-Feb. 28

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, Feb., 5, 5-7 p.m.

ARTIST'S TALK: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 4–7 p.m.

ARTIST'S WORKSHOP: Friday, Feb. 21, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

In “Hopespeak and the Griot,” Baltimore-based sculptor and ceramics artist Wayman Scott engages in lyrical storytelling through large-scale, figurative ceramic works. Borrowing from the West African tradition of the Griot, a storyteller and the keeper of histories, Scott uses the expressive surfaces of modeled clay to create sculptural representations of prominent African Americans. Included in “Hopespeak and the Griot” are such well-known individuals as Frederick Douglass, Congressman Elijah Cummings, mathematician Benjamin Banneker, Crispus Attucks (the first American to die during the American Revolution) and Mother Lange, who founded the oldest historically Black order of nuns. Through his large- and small-scale figures, Scott keeps these stories and contributions to history alive.

Artist's Statement

In an era where American history is under threat from the banning of books and narratives that highlight the struggles faced by African Americans, this exhibition embraces the theme of the Griot as a form of resistance. The Griot, a storyteller with roots in West Africa dating back to the 12th century, serves as a keeper of stories, histories and the essence of a people. This show honors the lives and contributions of African Americans who have shaped our state and nation, drawing inspiration from the Griot's legacy.

"Hopespeak and the Griot" aims to celebrate individuals who have fought for freedom and equity using biographical sculptures of people like Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Banneker to tell stories of perseverance, alongside “The Baltimore Pietà,” which underscores the need to continue this journey. Some pieces embody themes of self-determination and freedom of expression, such as “Dancing on Vulcan” and “The Girl Who Plays in the Rain.” Common threads throughout the exhibition are freedom and storytelling, while collectively embodying the spirit of the Griot.

Sept. 6–Oct. 8: Exhibit

Sept. 12, 5–7 p.m.: Reception

Visit AACC’s Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit 2024 in the Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery at our Arnold campus from Sept. 6 to Oct. 8. The works on display encompass the range of visual disciplines taught by the faculty of AACC, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphic and digital design, printmaking, video and mixed media pieces. 

Join us for a reception celebrating the Visual Arts faculty and the creative community at the Cade Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Image Identifications:

Edward Pease, "Embrace The Sky," photograph, 12 x 18.”
Sara Prigodich, “Crank,” porcelain, concrete, 18 x 13.5 x 2.”
Chris Mona, “Ur Barrow,” lithograph on Rives BFK, 24 x 18.”

Richard Niewerth: Places and Spaces

Oct. 17-Dec. 10: Exhibit
Oct. 23, 5-7 p.m.: Reception

APRIL 24-MAY 22, 2024
Reception and Juror's talk:  May 1, 5-7 pm in the gallery

View works by 25 artists in “Art of Accumulation,” a national juried show, April 24 through May 22 at AACC's Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery. The show is juried by Tara Gladden, cultural affairs and engagement specialist for Salisbury University.

Join us for a reception and juror’s talk on May 1 from 5 to 7 pm.
 
Gladden chose works that engage with the concept of accumulation through the combination and exploration of nontraditional materials, repetitive processes, and/or relationships among material, time, memory and experience.  
 
Briana Babani of Red Hook, N.Y., created “Cukoo,” a found chair obsessively wrapped in spaghetti, where the chair’s utilitarian function for sitting has been humorously usurped into nonutilitarian “art-for-art’s sake.” Jamie Speck of College Station, Texas, transforms used fabric softener sheets into tactile fiber modules that reference elegant home furnishings and, on a more intimate scale, the process art of Eva Hesse. In Erik Jon Olson of Plymouth, Minnesota’s, aptly-titled “You Can Never Have Enough of What You Don’t Really Want,” the artist threads plastic waste into a commanding and scintillating quilt grid. In Artemis Herber of Owings Mills Maryland’s assemblage, “Phlegeton,” references to the infernal river of Hell are played out in cautionary nuclear waste graphics and the faint echo of human presence. Chris Combs of Washington, D.C., uses outmoded digital displays of countdowns that never quite reach their completion, and references to Fritz Lang’s 1927 film “Metropolis” to comment on contemporary fears of AI takeover.
 
Juror Tara Gladden is a cultural producer, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and educator.  From 2019-2023 she served as Gallery Director and Curator for the Kohl Gallery at Washington College and is currently serving as cultural affairs and engagement specialist for Salisbury University. She holds an MFA in performance and interactive media arts from Brooklyn College. 

Dates: March 27-April 17, 2024

Exhibit Reception: March 28, 5-7 p.m.

View 90 student artworks juried by Steven Pearson of McDaniel College and selected from 300 artworks submitted by students. The works on display encompass the range of visual disciplines at AACC, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphic and digital design, video and mixed media pieces. 
 
Pearson, the Joan Develin Coley chair in Creative Expressions and the Arts at McDaniel College, also chose nine pieces to enter AACC’s Student Art Collection.  Pearson chose two photographs by Reed Talada; one is a cyanotype and the other a digital print entitled “Wash Away,” a close-up of a sudsy cleaning sponge with a miniature plastic figure perched aboard. Joshua Able-Curter’s documentary style photograph “Street Dreams,” shot in downtown Baltimore, was also chosen. Christopher J. Pipkin’s cyanotype entering the Student Art Collection “Beware the Gibbon” contrasts beautifully with Talada’s cyanotype in its atmospheric effects. Other works entering the Student Collection include Mark Lindley’s pen and ink piece “Clowns and Geese;” Louise Wallendorf’s large-scale lithograph based on a sculpted Hellenic horse head in the Walters Museum collection; John Doran’s striking figural/abstract lithograph; and Sarah Evans’ pastoral color linocut “Summer II.” Pearson also chose Elaine Storm’s iridescently-glazed green ceramic piece “Raku Box."

For information contact Chris Mona at cpmona@aacc.edu or 410-777-7028.