Augusta Savage Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday & Tuesday 1-7pm, and Wednesday through Friday 1-5pm while the University is in session.

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My Journey Through Line:paintings and drawings by Carolyn Mae Lassiter Opening Reception: September 14, 5-7pm Monday, September 14 - Friday, October 2   Carolyn Mae Lassiter was raised in Ahoskie, North Carolina where her family worked as sharecroppers until she was twelve years old. Picking cotton, tobacco and peanuts alongside her family, she spent little time in school. Carolyn developed her interest in art during the early 1970's when she lived in Mexico with a family of indigenous artists. A self-taught artist, she began drawing in 1989. Her artwork is critically acclaimed at shows internationally. Carolyn's work includes various types of multi-media art inspired by dreams, spirituality, life in the country, family, and animals.

POP: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood; Featuring photography by Carol Ross Opening Reception: October 7, 5-7pm Wednesday, October 7 - Wednesday, October 28   As both a photographer and former actor Carol Ross has always maintained a position in front of and behind the camera. Based on her first book entitled POP: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood, this exhibit features photographs of devoted fathers. Since its unveiling her book POP has been featured in Essence, Heart & Soul, O Magazine, Baby Talk, ABC Chicago, Oprah & Friends Radio and countless publications. Ross says: “In my work I seek to challenge angles and break conventional technical rules, always searching for new ways to view and interpret the world--sometimes with humor, always with compassion.”

Inside the Outside/Paintings by Three Outsider Artists: Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, & Floyd Nelson Opening Reception: November 2, 5-7pm Monday, November 2 - Friday, November 20   These three outsider artists from New Mexico live with developmental disabilities, have experienced confinement in an institution, and have come into their own individual artistic paths later in life. Like many Outsider Artists, Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, and Floyd Nelson have developed artistically without any preconceived notions or limitations regarding art. Collectively, their work illustrates the triumph and strength of the human spirit.

It's a Flea Market World: New Works by Kelly Moore Opening Reception: February 11, 5-7pm Thursday, February 11 - Tuesday, March 9   Fully-engaged and totally original, Santa Fe artist Kelly Moore paints on canvas and paper, as well as on other more unlikely surfaces such as used tubes of paint, discarded paint brushes, wooden boxes, and electrical wiring. His dolls, hung along the sides of his flea market vendor’s booth, pop up between paintings of faces, crows, hillsides, and a range of references, marks and gestures that emerge from deep places inside him. His works have a poetic quality, giving back to us what we bring to them.

Untouchable Reaches Out: The Dalit Art of Savi Savarkar Opening Reception: March 22, 5-7pm Monday, March 22 - Thursday, April 8   In this exhibition, curator and art historian Gary Tartokov introduces Indian artist Savi Savarkar to our community in a thoughtfully organized exhibition. Savi Savarkar’s art is most remarkable for the expression of his social situation in South Asian culture as a Dalit, and for the immediacy, depth and power with which he expresses the meaning of that situation to us.

Clean Slate: New Paintings by Anne LaPrade Seuthe Opening Reception: April 12, 5-7pm Monday, April 12 - Friday, April 30   Beginning with discarded maps, LaPrade Seuthe carefully color matches the hues in the existing maps and applies these opaque paint mixtures to eradicate names, symbols and other location identifiers. Once the clean slate has been established, she adds drawings of images culled from encyclopedias, dictionaries, travel guides and assorted manuals. For her, this process is parallel to an internal process of creating a clean slate or starting over. Her painting is complete when connections between seemingly random images are revealed.