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Exhibitions Schedule

FALL 2025

 

Show Me Your Papers / A Ver, Y Tus Papeles?

Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery
August 19 - September 20, 2025
Closing reception on Friday, September 19 from 5-8pm
 
Curated by Eddy López, Associate Professor, Bucknell University and Miguel Aragón, Associate Professor, CUNY Staten Island

Featuring the works of Golnar Adili, Miguel A. Aragon, Carlos Barberena, Adriana Barrios, Tulu Bayar, Pamela Dodds, J. Leigh Garcia, Juana Estrada-Hernandez, Eddy A. López, Emma Nishimura, Patricia Villalobos-Echeverría, and Marco Sanchez.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of people cross borders. At these crossings, governments ask individuals to present papers for verification of migration status, documents that restrict entry to those individuals lucky enough to be verified by proof.

For migrants without papers, the mundane question “Show me your papers/ A ver, y tus papeles?” is not mundane, but rather an impossible interrogation that forces these individuals to risk their lives in an effort to avoid being verified. Having papers, therefore, becomes a matter of life or death.

This exhibition presents artists whose work on paper deals with issues of borders, migration, dual identity, as explored through print media.

 

Richard DePeaux: A Retrospective

Monroe-Brown & Kerr Galleries
August 19 - September 20, 2025
Closing reception on Friday, September 19 from 5-8pm
 
In 1969, Richard DePeaux arrived in the Department of Humanities at Western Michigan University where he taught for twenty years. He later served as Area Coordinator of Painting at what would become the Frostic School of Art, where he taught art history, computer graphics, and drawing.

The work of Richard DePeaux has been exhibited in institutions including the Bavarian National Museum, Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Munich), the British Museum, the Department of Music and Prints (London), the Lincoln Center, the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection (New York City), the Library of Congress (D.C.), as well as the National Museum of Australia (Kamberri/Canberra), Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo), the University of California - Berkeley, Yale University, and Harvard University.

In addition, Richard’s work has been celebrated in numerous exhibitions throughout the world, including Sweden, London, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, as well as the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Walker Art Center, CERN, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. He was featured in the July 1995 issue of the Tokyo Monthly Magazine and was invited to speak on aesthetics and quantum mechanics at the 1998 annual conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, of which he was a certified member, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Richard DePeaux passed away on April 7, 2024, leaving behind an incredible legacy of teaching and art making. This retrospective exhibition features highlights from his impressive career.
 

Faculty & Staff Exhibition

Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery
October 21 - November 22, 2025
 
In a biennial display, the Faculty & Staff of the Frostic School of Art present their work to the students of Western Michigan University and to the Kalamazoo community as a whole.
 

In Our Wildest Dreams

Sara Strong Glupker

Netzorg-Kerr Gallery
October 21 - November 22, 2025
 
"In Our Wildest Dreams" is a celebration of WMU alumni Sara Strong Glupker's 20th year working as an artist since her graduation from WMU in 2005. Glupker uses bold colors, dream-like imagery and representational images within abstracted grounds to invite the viewer into a world full of joy, peace, and optimism. While celebrating her life in an autobiographical nature, Sara encourages viewers to participate in the images with their own interpertrations and dares them to dream of a better world. 
 

 

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