SVSU Art Department

09/12/2024

Friday Fun!

08/15/2024

New UAG photography exhibition.

05/23/2023

Royal Oak Live!
Dates: Saturday, June 24 & Sunday, June 25 from 2 PM-8 PM

If you're part of the first 50 fine artists to apply, you will be granted free booth space to sell your artworks!

The application page is here:
https://royaloakmi.seamlessdocs.com/f/ROLiveArtistApp

APPLICATIONS CLOSE JUNE 2ND AT 12:00 PM (NOON)

As part of the Royal Oak Live! event by the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce, artist vendors are being sought to participate!

01/11/2023

Winners in the Art 260 Craft Beer Label Competition were announced on Tuesday January 11th, 2023!

The Theodore Roethke Festival will be using the #1 design, by Austin Hlinka. But the judges also recognized #2 and #3 label designs presented as very close in caliber!

The Judges for this competition were Carlos Ramet, Assistant Dean of ABS, and Cody Smith, partner owner of Oracle Beer in Old Town Saginaw, as well as Professor Josh Kirby.

#1 - Hlinka, Austin
#2 - Johnson, DeQuandre
#3 - Kasper, Karsyn

Congratulations SVSU Art students!

08/22/2022

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Zivich! The Muskegon Museum of Art has accepted one of his most recent drawings, Die Mörder, 2022, oil crayons on photocopy paper, 45" x 60", for the 93rd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, October 6 to November 30, 2022.

07/06/2022

Looking for something to do Saturday? BFA candidate Emily Davis is hosting a workshop a Soul Sister Studios in Bay City

06/16/2022

Congratulations to Joanna Nauman, Sydney Peck, and Jessica Berlin for winning YMCA Riverside Art Festival!

08/23/2021

CURRENT EXHIBITION:
POST(AL) PANDEMIC Mail Art Exhibition
August 23 - September 15, 2021
Reception: September 9th 4 - 6 p.m.
Is there life—or an artistic vision of it—after gloomy 2020 & 2021? Is the infection demon Rona (Covid-19 & variants) now defeated, battling us...or simply lying in wait to spring again? Artists were invited to submit their artistic reflections of disease & melancholy, recent lifestyle, decorative optimism & future brightness, plus appreciation of the world's postal systems that kept/keep us together while socially isolated. Mail art is since the 1960s, a reflection of artists from around the world relying on the postal system as an alternative means of producing, distributing, and receiving art. Mail art (aka “correspondence art” or “postal art”) has become a form of artistic practice in which an international network of participants use the mail to make art and share it with others. With letters, postcards, and packages—as well as material that tests the limits of what can be posted—mail artists circumvent traditional elite modes of display and distribution (such as museums and commercial galleries) in favor of the more accessible spaces of the modern post. What better place than a public university like SVSU to share voices from around the world regarding a universal phenomenon. This exhibition creatively sidesteps the art market and political censors to gage the pulse of society.

37 Artists submitted work from across the United States and also from Germany, Japan, Brasil, Poland, Austria and Romania. Visit the gallery webpage for a list of entrants. www.svsu.edu/artgallery/currentexhibitions/

All gallery exhibitions, lectures and receptions are free and open to the public. Click the following link for open gallery hours or call (989) 964-2291. The University Art Gallery is located in the Arbury Fine Arts Center on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University, svsu.edu/go/visit/maps/.

Maps and virtual tour of SVSU

08/13/2021

DEADLINE: Wed. August 18th - CALL FOR ARTISTS!!

SPECIAL CALL FOR ARTISTS!
Special Call with Deadlines:
Call for Mail Art: “POST(AL) PANDEMIC”
Deadline: August 18, 2021
Is there life—or an artistic vision of it—after gloomy 2020 & 2021? Is the infection demon Rona (Covid-19 & variants) now defeated, battling us...or simply lying in wait to spring again?
We welcome your artistic reflections of disease & melancholy, recent lifestyle, decorative optimism & future brightness, plus appreciation of the world's postal systems that keep us together while socially isolated.
All expressions, precise or abstract, are appreciated for this exhibition to be assembled for the education of our campus & community.
Mail to:
University Art Gallery
Saginaw Valley State University
7400 Bay Road
University Center, MI 48710 USA
To be exhibited August 23 —September 15th, 2021, with a reception on September 9 (TBD).
All artwork becomes property of Saginaw Valley State University Art Department. No returns.
GENERAL GALLERY CALL:
At the University Art Gallery, we accept exhibition proposals year-round: we consider all submissions for current and future exhibition seasons, and plan our schedules up to two years in advance. Out-of-state and International artists applying to exhibit will/may need to provide your own funding support. You will receive notification via e-mail when your application has been received and given a timeline as to when to expect a response about your submission.
Entry packages that do not follow the submission guidelines will not be considered. You will be notified via mail, e-mail or phone once a decision has been made about your submission.
GALLERY WEBSITE: https://www.svsu.edu/artgallery/
University Art Department Gallery - Saginaw Valley State University

University Art Gallery Arbury Fine Arts Center Contact Us: To be added or removed on postal mail or email: [email protected]