The University Museum

Past Exhibits

Spring 2008

• On Form: Sculptural Glass by Rick Beck - Rick Beck is a glass artist who has made an impression on his discipline and on the public through his large-scale sculptures of mechanical objects like screws, bolts, scissors, forks, etc., done in cast glass.   Beck is also a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he earned his M.F.A. in glass under Bill Boysen in 1989.  He has enjoyed great success with major museum shows such as the Mint Museum of Craft and Design as well as in commercial exhibitions for the McDonald's Corporation and the XL Screw Corporation.
• From Block to Print: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the University Museum's Permanent Collection, Curated by Dr. Stacey Sloboda - One of the treasures of the Museum's art collection is a small collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Many of these were given to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moe in the late 1960s and by the Rickert family.
• The Federal Arts Projects of the 1930s, Curated by George Mavigliano - A feature of the exhibit is the inclusion of four sculptures which are on loan from the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. Another aspect of the exhibit shows photographic reproductions of some of the WPA murals that graced SIUC's Wheeler Hall when it served as the University's Library.
• High School Visual Art Institute, Organized by Bob Dehoet, University Museum & Sally Gradle, School of Art & Design - Teams of area art educators from four Southern Illinois towns worked with SIUC staff to create art workshops for high school students. The results of their collaborations are shown in this exhibit. The exhibit was sponsored in part through a grant to the University Museum from Carbondale Community Arts.
• Two Prints by Margaret Burroughs: "Harriet Tubman" and "Two Worlds" - Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs, now 91, has made her mark on the art world and on society in many ways since she moved to Chicago to earn her teaching certificate in 1917. Burroughs has worked in a variety of arts forms. She has exhibited in shows at such prestigious museums as the Corcoran Art Galleries in Washington, D.C. and the Studio Museum in New York. In 1975 she received the President's Humanitarian Award and February 1, 1986 was declared "Dr. Margaret Burroughs' Day" in Chicago.
• Hold Everything: Containers Across Six Continents, Curated by Lori Huffman's Art & Design 447 class - Museum Curator Lori Huffman challenged her Fall 2007 class (Art & Design 447, Introduction to Museology) to consider the variety of containers human kind has created over the centuries. The students explored the Museum Archive. From the 118,000+ objects, the students selected some twenty objects from six continents. They went far afield in their selections, eschewing the obvious and selecting the unusual: a coffin and a ceramic rabbit bank, among others.
• Yumi Ohira (Ceramics)
• Benilda Berretta (Photography)
• Dave Trusdale (Ceramics)
• Manabu Akiyoshi (Glass)
• Cortney Boyd (Glass)
• Kelly McKibben (Ceramics)
• Adam Hawk (Metals)
• Yoshi Fujii (Ceramics)
• Kyounghwa Oh (Ceramics)
• Molly Groom Alter (Metals)
• Architecture 442 Students

Fall 2007

• [A]esthesia, Curated by Shai Yechayahu-Sharabi - "The ability to feel and perceive - Aesthesia" is the idea behind SIUC Architecture's Shai Yeshayahu's group exhibit and symposium. Working in a multi disciplinary forum with the ideas of John Dewey, R. Buckminster Fuller and John McHale and the ideas of invited scholars from many disciplines, the exhibit will feature original works that respond to physical needs and relationships in building and living. For additional information, contact Shai Yeshayahu at shaiy@siu.edu.
• Joan Skiver-Levy: Paintings - Paintings included acrylic and mixed medium paintings, along with oil and watercolor.
• Selections from the University Museum's world famous Morton May Collection - The St. Louis department store magnet, Morton May, amassed an outstanding collection of work by the people of Papua New Guinea.  Nearly half of his collection came to the University Museum through then Professor of Anthropology Dr. Philip Dark.
• Preston Jackson, Sculptor: Fresh from Julieanne's Garden - Preston Jackson is one of the country's foremost sculptors.  Selections from his series, Julieanne's Garden, look at the relationship between slaves and their white owners.
• Quixotic: Photographs by Bob Hageman
• Museum Patrons' Choices: Selections from the Museum Collections
• Guatemalan Textiles, Curated by Lori Huffman - The huipil, corte, camisa, pantalones and faja or the blouse, skirt, shirt, pants and belt of the highland cultural groups of Guatemala are featured in this exhibit. These items were hand-woven on the backstrap loom or treadle loom and decorated using supplementary weft patterning and embroidery. Collected in the summer of 1969, by then University fiber art instructor Ruth Ginsberg (Place), these textiles exhibit both traditional and modern weaving techniques and embellishments.
• Mapping Southern Illinois - Geography, Geology, the Map Collection of Morris Library and the University Museum have joined together to present a picture of our region through maps. From some of the earliest maps of our region to statew of the art geophysics, come learn about your surroundings.
• New Deal Holiday Greeting Cards, Curated by John. J. Lustig, Indiana State University, Terre Haute - During the Depression years, a number of artists worked for the government. One of their projects was to create a set of cards for publication. These cards were never published, but the signed cards by such major artists as Diego Rivera, Rockwell Kent, and John Curry will take you back to the 1930s.
• Combined Faculty Art Exhibition - Each year faculty from the Art and Design, Cinema and Photography, Architecture and other SIUC departments present their latest works.
• MFA Preview - An annual event, this exhibition presents one work each from those M.F.A. students who will be graduating in 2008.

Summer 2007


• Neher Collection of African Arts - This collection, gathered by missionaries in Nigeria, includes musical instruments, clothing, metal work and everyday objects representing a number of tribes in Nigeria as well as a leopard pelt.
• Art Fusion: Works by Secondary Students - These students from local area school and their art teachers visited the Museum and learned through in-class workshops given by Museum Education Director Bob DeHoet.



Spring 2007


• The Cranbrook Connection: Larry Bernstein, Brent Kington, Aldon Addington, Harris Deller, Jerry Montieth
• Sue Spurlock: Fiber Art
• John Dewey
• Rocio Romero: Architect
• Paul Buxman: Open Air Painter
• Roy Abrahamson: A Retrospective
• Jose Guajardo: MFA Thesis Exhibit

• Ben Cowden: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• Mark Salsbury: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• Kevin Blomenkamp: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• The Architectural and Textile Heritage of India
• Mitch Martin: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• Patty Rutter: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• Architecture 457 Undergraduate Student Exhibit
• Dan Randall: MFA Thesis Exhibit
• Bethany Benson: MFA Thesis Exhibit

Fall 2006


• Animal Symbolism in Asian Art
• The Human Form: Abstract Nudes in the Art of the Twentieth Century
• Community Collects II: Family Treasures
• Student Life at SIU: From the G.I.s to Generation X
• The Illinois Indians - Relationships
• Jaime Pelissier: Dichotomy & Fusion
• Looking at Southern Illinois, 10th CCA Biennial
• Ira Sherman: Impenetrable Devices
• Southern Illinois Metalsmith Society, metal work by SIUC Students
• Native American Everyday Objects
• Combined Faculty Art Show
• MFA Preview Show
• Bill Price: MFA Thesis Show

Spring 2006

• Michael Onken: Then and Now
• Hand-Tufted Coverlets
• The Eye of the Beholder: Visitors' Responses to Modern Sculpture in the Museum's Permanent Collection
• Celebration of Women Artist in Fiber & Clay
• Daniel Overturf, The Illinois River
• James Warfield's Stone Poems
• Theater Designs: Mordechai Gorelik & Darwin Reid Payne
• Inspirations from the Forest
• Matthew Clay Robison: Irish Woodcuts
• Thumpers & Thunder: The Story of Motorcycles in Southern Illinois
• 5,199 Miles Journey: Korean Art Glass

Fall 2005


• Michael Peven's Good Dog, Bon Chien
• A Diva Triumphs: Marjorie Lawrence
• MFA Preview
• Combined Faculty
• Behind the Masks: Art, History, Culture
• Contemporary Mask Makers
• Hidden Talents: A Mask Competition for Southern Illinois 8th & 9th Graders
• Southern Illinois Photographic Society
• Trail of Tear Across Southern Illinois
• Illinois' Heritage: Collection Highlights
• American Limner Portraits: 1820 - 1900

Spring 2005

• Blown Away, Southern Glass Works' Show & Sale
• 10 Illinois Artists: A Watercolor Invitational
• Bill Boysen & Marilyn Boysen: Related Artistry
• Stewart Wessel: Conceptual Carpentry
• Fern Logan: Images of Contemporary African American Artists
• Joel Feldman: A Rerospective
• Immigrant Soldiers, American Heroes: The Contribution of German Immigrants from Southern Illinois during the Civil War
• 10th Clay Cup
• Rickert-Ziebold Trust Winners
• Master of Fine Arts Candidates' Exhibits
• Architecture Senior Student Finals Projects

Fall 2004

• Once Upon A Frame: Wildlife Photographs by Tom Ulrich
• Wood: A Second Life
• Combined Faculty Art Exhibit
• Hindu Art and Trova Sculpture
• Gene Moehring: Nature: Intimate Exposures
• The Birds of America by John J. Audubon
• Carbondale Community Arts' 9th Biennial Art Exhibit
• Master of Fine Arts Candidates' Preview Exhibit
• Words, Wood & Wire: A HIstory of Southern Illinois as told through Folk Songs and Musical Instruments
• Elsa Kula: The Others Among Us: Portraits of the Homeless
• Working in the Black Gold: Photographs From Four Coal Regions
• Treasures from the Scientific Collection
• Taxidermied Birds
• Architecture & Landscape: The Photography of Thomas A. Heintz

Spring 2004

• Formal Continuity: Al Loving
• Stephan Way, MFA Exhibit
• Rickert-Ziebold Trust Winners
• Working Out the Seams: The People of Ziegler 11 Mine: Photography by Lee Buchsbaum
• Andrew Hairstans, MFA Exhibit
• Contemporary Artists from Ghana
• Na Rosa: Ethnophotography from the Rugged Land of Donegal: Photography by Richard Deutsch
• Recent Acquisitions to the University Mmuseum Collections
• Christopher Tinnen, MFA Exhibit
• Phil Davis, MFA Exhibit
• A Women's Sampler of the Arts
• Women In Clay: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia
• The Carbondale Jug (1884)/W.P.A. Models restored by Paul McRoy
• Scientific Treasures: Life Through Time & Prehistoric People of Illinois
• Treasures from the Permanent Collection of Art

Fall 2003

• They Still Draw Pictures: Children's Art in Wartime from Spain to Kosovo
• Stephan Way, MFA Exhibit
• Kenneth Holder: Paintings from the Lewis and Clark Trail
• Combined Faculty Art Show
• Hindu Art from the University Museum Collection
• Richard Lawson: Parts of a World: Images from a Lerger Work
• Peter b. Smith: Fragments and Memories: Architectural Photograph, SIUC
• MFA Preview
• Digging Into the Past
• Preview of Southern Illinois Artists' Works for Auction
• Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Marguerite Taylor Doll Collection
• William H. Thielen: "With Feeling - With Substance: Paintings on Paper"
• Talking Turkey: Handcrafted Calls by Master Carvers
• Dae Won Yi, MFA Thesis Exhibit

Spring 2002

• Sculpture: Aldon Addington
• Rickert-Ziebold Trust Winners
• A Community Collects
• Glass Exhibit, Southern Glass Works
• Remembrance Quilt
• A Sampler of Women in the Arts
• A Community Creates: Southern Illinois Artists
• The Human Connection: A HIstory of Medicine in Southern Illinois
• Digging Into the Past
• Basler, Craig, and Tanner: Southern Illinois Folk Artists
• Recent Illinois Acquisitions
• 9th Clay Cup
• Recent Works: Mary Pachikara

Fall 2002

• Conversation
• Works by Ernest Trova, Thomas Walsh and others from the Museum's collection
• Empty Bowls: A Benefit Exhibition for Good Samaritan House
• Architectural Studies
• Contemporary Heartland Quilts of Illinois
• 8th Biennial Exhibit - Carbondale Community Arts
• Rescue of the Danish Jews
• MFA Preview
• A Modern Istitution: Design at SIU During the Delyte Morris Era: 1948 - 1970
• Devonian Seas
• The Lands of the Cache: The Vanishing Human Presence in the Cache River Basin
• Newly Reinstalled Pioneer Dioramas
• Young Earth Scientists - Discovering A Prehistoric World