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People sitting at a table that has plates with oranges and donuts will writing on a table covered with brownish paper Queer Crip Craft Library Opening Event including Performance
Thursday, November 3, 2022, 4:15 pm est

Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts GalleryCome to Peeler to watch a performance of “The Spoon Factory” by Professor Sarah Cowan’s Histories of Performance Art class and stay for a long table discussion hosted by the artist, Betsy Redelman Díaz, on the queer crip craft library exhibition as it relates to disability, queerness, intersectionality, and craft more broadly. A democratic spin on a panel discussion, the long table is an experimental public forum that co-opts the atmosphere of a dinner party to facilitate casual and intimate conversation on complex topics, blurring the line between audience and performer. This is a participatory, discussion-based event and we look forward to hearing your experiences, questions and impressions.

Accessibility: ASL interpretation will be provided for this event. Touch tour and braille artwork labels included throughout the exhibition The venue is wheelchair accessible, and seating will be available for all attendees. There are no strobe lighting effects present in the show. A low sensory space and stem toys will be available during the event and audience members are welcome to exit and reenter. Masks required.

"The Spoon Factory" Performance Dates:

Thurs. Nov. 3, 4:15 pm (opening)
Thurs. Nov. 10, 11:45 am
Thurs. Nov. 17, 4:15 pm (ceramics spoon workshop to follow)
Tues. Nov. 22, 11:45 am
Thurs. Dec. 1, 4:15 pm
Orange background with yellow, blue, black, and green shapes Community Spoon Making Workshop and Performance
November 17, 4:15-5:15pm
Visual Arts Gallery and the Ceramics Studio (Peeler 106)

Join us in the gallery for a performance of “The Spoon Factory” by Professor Sarah Cowan’s Histories of Performance Art class. Then we will move to the ceramics studio for a community spoon making workshop! Come get your snack on and enjoy some casual conversation about spoon theory as we make clay spoons together in support of the Queer Crip Craft Library exhibition. No previous experience necessary! All are welcome.
Orange background with yellow, blue, black, and green shapes
Queer Crip Craft Library Nap-In
November 15, 4:15-4:45 pm est

Join us in the gallery for a nap-in. A crip spin on the civil disobedience tactic, sit-in, made famous during the civil rights movement, the nap-in is an anti-capitalist crip occupation of the gallery space. The nap-in calls on museums, galleries, and arts institutions everywhere to provide more places for rest in their spaces and make accessibility a priority, not an after-thought. Pushing back against capitalism, a system with which the art world is inextricably tied and that views our bodies as machines for production and labor, the nap-in asks you to occupy the gallery with your resting body, to revel in rest as an act of resistance.

Poofs, blankets, and sleepy snacks will be provided. Feel free to wear comfy clothes, bring a pillow, and pack headphones if you'd like to listen to music or a guided meditation, or watch a tv show during the communal nap. The venue is wheelchair accessible and there will be a few furniture options for resting. All are welcome.

Multiple miniature carts including a disney, donuts, Barbie and Clover x Barbie

Lene Dragon and Robin Gee
The Cart Project, 2021
Mixed media
Various dimensions
A Gallery Within A Gallery: Peeler Miniature Art Exhibition
Co-Curated By Christie Anderson and Jerry Bates

Saturday, November 5, 2022, 1:00 to
3:00 pm est
Peeler Art Center, lobby

Come and paint miniature canvases, which will be displayed on the second floor in the miniature exhibition A Gallery Within A Gallery: Peeler Miniature Art Exhibition Co-Curators Christie Anderson and Jerry Bates. 
Multiple miniature carts including a disney, donuts, Barbie and Clover x Barbie

Lene Dragon and Robin Gee
The Cart Project, 2021
Mixed media
Various dimensions
A Gallery Within A Gallery: Peeler Miniature Art Exhibition
Co-Curated By Christie Anderson and
Jerry Bates

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 11:30am est
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium

Co-Curators Christie Anderson and Jerry Bates will be joined by Betty Allen and Nadia Michaux, via zoom, to talk about their miniatures in the exhibition. 
Muted colors like yellow, green, red, beige etc. of figures with eagle heads, people and other creatures

Frank Trankina
Lech, 2018
Oil on linen
20 x 32 inches
Yesterday We Said Tomorrow: Painting and Sculpture by Lora Fosberg,
Dan Oliver and Frank Trankina
Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:00 pm est
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium

Frank Trankina, Lora Fosberg, and Dan Oliver will give a talk about their work.
Iwami Reika (born 1927) Winter Composition No. 2, 1959 Woodblock print on paper 17-5/16 x 12-1/4 inches DePauw Art Collection: 2016.5.3 Gift of David T. Prosser, Jr. '65

Iwami Reika (born 1927)
Winter Composition No. 2, 1959
Woodblock print on paper
17-5/16 x 12-1/4 inches
DePauw Art Collection: 2016.5.3
Gift of David T. Prosser, Jr. '65
Abstract Traditions: Postwar Japanese Prints From The DePauw University Permanent Art Collection
Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 4:15 pm
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium

Dr. Helen Nagata, Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University, will give a talk related to the exhibition.
Collage and acrylic on canvas with men talking, in football outfits, military outfits etc. Ralph Arnold: Curatorial talk
Monday, September 26, 2022, 4:15 pm
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level)

Ralph Arnold made photo collages that appropriated and commented upon mass media portrayals of gender, sexuality, race and politics. Greg Foster-Rice, Associate Professor at Columbia College, will have a curatorial talk about the exhibition.

To view the exhibition virtually, go here
painted green leaf with a puddle of water towards the tip Many Pastorals: Opening Reception
Saturday, June 4, 2022, 2 -5 pm
Peeler Art Center 

The pastoral is an idea; a landscape that lives in the mind, in memory, and in the utopian impulse. Please come and celebrate with us in person!
Graduating Senior artwork samples Senior Art Exhibition: Artist Talks and Opening Reception
Friday, April 22, 2022, 5 pm
Peeler Art Center Auditorium

An annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors.
bright colors including pink, green and purple

Cecily Kahn
Laughter and Forgetting, 2017
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Percussion @ Peeler
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 6:30 pm to 
to 8:30 pm EDT
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery
(lower level)

The DePauw Percussion Ensemble presents its annual program of contemporary solo and chamber works for percussion, composed and improvised, in a non-traditional concert setting. Directed by Dr. Ming-Hui Kuo, the two-hour performance fuses contemporary art and music in the galleries at Peeler. Refreshments will be served following the event.
a painting of legs standing on a multi coloring rug and/or carpet with a city in the distance

Kate Kretz
The Appetites of Oligarchs
(Image Detail), 2015-2018
oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
72 x 50-1/4
Evidential Truths
Monday, March 21, 2022, 4:15 pm (EDT)
Peeler Art Center, Peeler Auditorium

Evidential Truths 
confronts how ‘evidence’ and ‘truth’ have been appropriated to obfuscate our society’s understanding of the issues that threaten our democracy from gun control, public health, and equal rights. Working across media, Kretz deftly creates incredibly poignant work that unpacks our society’s obsession with conformity, power, and wealth. The work included in Evidential Truths spans two decades of work by Kretz demonstrating her ability to combine concept with materials and process infusing the work with powerful intensity.

This artist lecture will be open to the public on Monday, March 21, 2022 at  4:15pm (EDT) pm in the Peeler Art Center Auditorium.

Link to artist talk given by Kate Kretz on March 21, 2022 in Peeler Art Center Auditorium.
collage of photos in warm tones like light blue beige etc

Skip Brea
Complete Metamorphosis, 2021
Digital Collage
A Nifty Environment
Solo Exhibition by Skip Brea

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 11:45am - 12:45pm (EDT)
Peeler Art Center, Peeler Auditorium

Artist and Visiting Professor of Digital Media at DePauw University Skip Brea, will lecture on his artworks in A Nifty Environment. Using the Metaverse as a playground of possibilities and site of commentary, Brea is transforming narratives and mediums with contemporary innovations in image research and data analysis.

This artist lecture will be open to the public on Wednesday March 9, 2022 at  11:45am - 12:45pm (EDT) in the Peeler Art Center Auditorium.
Yellow flyer that advertises the 2022 DePauw Juried Student Exhibit Juried Show: Awards Presentation
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:15 pm
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery

The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2022 exhibition is juried by Tom LeGoff, Professor at the School of Creative & Performing Arts.