2024/25
Isle Royale: Works by Artists-in-Residence
Artists: Multipe Artists
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2024/25 - Spring 2025
A world of artistic expression inspired by the wilderness of Isle Royale. The artworks
showcased in this exhibition have all been produced by artist in residence on the
beautiful island in Lake Superior.
that thing between my teeth is my foot
Artists: Douglas Degges
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2024/25 - Fall 2024
Since the fall of 2019, Degges has been creating a series of intriguing abstract paintings
based on cell phone photos from his family in Louisiana in a group text. This project
explores shared visual experiences and affirms the concept of home as immaterial and
held within oneself. Alongside these paintings are a series of abstract sculptures
that Degges collaborated on with his wonderful canine companion, Cricket.
2023/24
Simple Machines: Poetry, Letterpress, and the Art of the Little Magazine
Artists: Multiple Artists
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2023/24 - Spring 2024
Simple Machines is a traveling letterpress poetry magazine propelled by the generous support of Michigan
Technological University, founded and edited by M. Bartley Seigel, and features original
poetry from a diverse array of national and international poets. The Rozsa Galleries
proudly shared the art and words of Simple Machines in a multi-media setting featuring audio clips of the poets reading their own work,
a live printing demonstration, and a live performance from visiting Ukrainian poet
and Simple Machines contributor Yuliya Musakovska.
Layered in Between: Prints by Erin Hoffman
Artists: Erin Hoffman
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2023/24 - Fall 2023
Erin Hoffman is an artist and printmaker from Muskegon, Michigan, who deals primarily
with political and social concerns. Through the presentation of mismatched ideas and
assemblages, her art serves as a prompt for critical thought and new conclusions.
2022/23
Snowsports
Artists: Visual and Performing Arts Faculty and Staff
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space and gallery b
Season: 2022/23 - Spring 2023
Visual and Performing Arts faculty and staff art show featuring works by Jared Anderson
(installation), Anne Beffel (contemplative photography), Mary Cyr (fiber arts), Terri
Jo Frew (fiber arts), Lisa Gordillo (sculpture), Kenyon Hansen (ceramics), Lindsey
Heiden (sculpture), Susie Kilpela (sculpture), Mike Maxwell (audio installation),
Libby Meyer (music), Christopher Plummer (photography and sculpture), and Beth Techtmann
(multimedia).
Arabesque
Artists: Clement Yeh and Tomas Co
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2022/23 - Fall 2022
Focused on dance and movement, “Arabesque” brings the works of Canadian artist Clement Yeh and local artist and Michigan Tech
Professor Emeritus Tomas Co.
2018/19
what makes a wall
Artist: jd slack
Location: Rozsa Concourse
Season: 2018/19
jd slack is a pastel artist and professor of communication and cultural studies. Her
paintings integrate brilliant color, provocative imagery, and thoughtful engagement
with physical and imaginative worlds. She lives and works in the Traprock Valley on
the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, but travels the world to gather images and inspiration.
Ancient Coast Series
Artist: Michael Letts
Location: Rozsa Concourse
Season: 2018/19
Michael Letts lives and works in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a practicing artist
and Professor of Art Education at Northern Michigan University. He holds an MFA in
Painting from The Ohio State University. His paintings have been shown in numerous
regional, national, and international exhibitions.
2017/18
Always room for rain
Artists: Raquel Alvizures and Ross Chaney
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2017/18 - Spring 2018
This exhibit featured paintings by artists Raquel Alvizures (Guatemala) and Ross Chaney
(Cherokee and Osage Nations / New Mexico). Both artists combine colors and textures
to develop paintings that express their ties to their cultures and to the stories
that shaped them.
It's nothing personal (space)
Artist: Katie Hargrave
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Fall 2017
Katie Hargrave explores our symbols of landscape, land use, and competing land interests
in this exhibit. “It’s nothing personal (space)” touches on our private, personal,
and public feelings about land. The exhibition includes fiber, audio, video, and drawings,
and was inspired by a road trip to visit the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, which was the
site of militia protests during the winter of 2016.
2016/17
ChickenBus
Artists: Lisa Gordillo
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Spring 2017
“ChickenBus” is the first U.S. exhibit of works inspired by Gordillo’s long-term collaboration
with Guatemalan artists and writers.
Amusement Park Avenue
Artists: Various Artists
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Spring 2017
Visual and Performing Arts Faculty and Staff exhibition of a variety of works of many
different media and concepts, touching upon all five senses and inspiring curiosity,
as if walking down an amusement park avenue. Fifteen artists were represented: Jared
Anderson, Anne Beffel, Mary Cyr, Kent Cyr, M.C. Friedrich, Terri Frew, Lisa Gordillo,
Roger Held, Bethany Jones, Susie Kilpela, Jeremy Littlefield, Josh Loar, Elizabeth
Meyer, Christopher Plummer, and Jess Portfleet.
Being Between
Artists: Lali Khalid
Location: Rozsa Art Galleires, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Fall 2016
Lali Khalid’s photographs of identity, displacement and home. Khalid, a Pakistani-American
artist, holds degrees from The National College of Fine Arts in Lahore, Pakistan,
and The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. “Being Between” is the first exhibit of the Rozsa Art Galleries “Independent Artist Series.”
Flats and Rounds
Artists: Sarah Hewitt and Kathleen McCloud
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Fall 2016
A dynamic exhibit of colors and textures in paper, fiber, and print by two artists
whose work explores gender and mythology.
so not a goddess
Artist: Sarah Hewitt
Location: Rozsa Lobby
Season: 2016/17 - Fall 2016 and Spring 2017
A weaving installation created for the Rozsa lobby during Hewitt's residency.
2015/16
Tipping Points
Artist: R. Kauff
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Spring 2016
Print and installation artist R. Kauff examines art and ecology in this exhibit of
hand-carved tools and drawings.
Senses of Land
Artists: Allen Morris (photography), Sage Dawson (map making), Cathleen Faubert (scent and
memory), and David Ebenbach (poetry).
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 2016/17 - Fall 2015
Three artists and one writer explore different ideas of landscape and our interactions
with it.
Great Lakes Showcase
Artist: Regional Artists
Location: Rozsa Art Galleries, A-Space
Season: 1979-2015
Now in retirement, the Great Lakes Showcase (GLS) was an annual juried exhibition of fine art and craft in our community for over 36 years. The GLS celebrated the vibrant artists who work and visit the Upper Peninsula and the surrounding region. View the last two years of the showcase, 2014 and 2015.
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