The mission of the Schiltkamp Gallery is to enhance the Clark University community with a diverse range of exhibitions, lectures, and discussions.
The gallery was established by a generous gift from Arrien ’78 and Robin Schiltkamp in the honor of Jacob and Alida Hoven Schiltkamp. It supports the teaching of art at Clark University, as part of an interdisciplinary educational experience.
Exhibitions are developed in collaboration with Clark faculty members and courses, with attention to the needs and interests of the larger Worcester and Northeast arts communities.
Clark students work as interns with the gallery directors to develop, install, and maintain each of the exhibits. A schedule of four to five exhibitions during the academic year brings diverse and compelling interdisciplinary artwork to the Clark campus.
The final exhibit of every year is the annual Senior Thesis Show, highlighting the graduating seniors from the Studio Art Program.
April 23 – May 19, 2025
Vanishing Point: Senior Thesis Show
Featured Artists:
Emma Brackett
Sofia Guzman-Farias
Renee Knowles
Dan Gillooly
Wynne Dromey
AJ Orringer
Nora Nederloe
Andrew Ferrari
Liz Cowart
Sandro Colantonio
Brianna Bodner
Past Exhibitions
Spring 2025
YOAV HORESH – THE VILLAGE
Artist Statement:
In 1940, the US Navy hired a contractor to build a new neighborhood in Kittery, Maine called Admiralty Village. The community of naval artisans and craftsmen who worked in the Portsmouth Navy yard was broken down in 225 double units and 150 single homes that were built in one year. The neighborhood was established to support a flourishing maritime endeavor during Wartime. Today, some of its residents are still part of the Naval industry in Kittery, though many units were sold to small families and individuals who make up the contemporary fabric of a humble community on the Maine Seacoast.
In the Spring of 2021, shortly after we became a family of three, we established our home in The Village. The daily routine of walking Raphaela in the stroller was also a way of getting familiar with the new neighborhood. That quickly became an almost daily routine of photographing. Everything.
This selection of 30 photographs is a chronicle of change, growth, amazement, and reflection. In the past two decades I have worked on many projects that have taken place on four continents, concerning mostly foreign societies and communities.
“The Village” is the closest to home I have ever worked.
October 20, 2024 – January 15, 2025
Kappa Pi Fall/Winter Show
Featured Artists:
Paulina Allen
Brianna Bodner
Jayme Brown
Amelia Clark
Liz Cowart
Carson Dobos
Skye Donaldson
Wynne Dromey
Annabelle Edwards-Stoll
Andrew Ferrari
Sam Fuentes
Dan Gillooly
Chelsea Goodman
Abbie Hart
Renée Knowles
Teddy Mitchell
Charlotte Moriarty
AJ Orringer
Annie Overbaugh
Sophia Pastino
Aaron Richmond Crosset
Avery Schwartz
Abby Smith
Biz Zak
APRIL 24TH – MAY 20 2024
STUDIO ART SENIOR THESIS 2024
Featured Artists:
Katie Rich
Bailey Schiering
Nora Rueffer
Kailey Mattus
Ursula Zia
Annabelle Edwards-Stoll
Carter Lee
Ethan Anderson
Isaac York
SEPTEMBER 25TH – NOVEMBER 10TH 2023
14 ARTISTS | CURATORS
| Featured Artists: | Featured Curators: |
| CALEB COLE | NATI BOTERO |
| JAMES MAURELLE | EVE DELEON |
| KATIE COMMODORE | PARKER DOERR |
| VALERIE CLAFF | AMANDA DYE |
| ANTONIO FONSECA | LAURA GILL |
| GEORGE ANNAN | SOPHIE JACOBSON-CARROLL |
| FRANK ARMSTRONG | THU LE |
| HELEN SIEGEL | ANNA LEVY |
| HOWARD JOHNSON | NA’AMA SARFATI-MAGILL |
| BRITTANY SEVERANCE | NICOLE OVERBAUGH |
| YAWAN RAI | GYANI PRADHAN WONG AH SUI |
| TOBY SISSON | KATIE RICH |
| KAT O’CONNOR | NORA RUEFFER |
| HILARY DOYLE | BAILEY SCHIERING |
APRIL 17TH – MAY 9TH 2023
STUDIO ART THESIS SHOW
Featured Artists:
Rachael Inlow
Anh Le
Elaine Nutter-Diaz
Gabriella DiPinto
AJ Simmons
Isaac Perreault
Elizabeth Rozmanith
Margret Lambert
Grace DiCicco
May Bees
Yona Browne
Olivia Dylewski
Martina Villanueva
Erik Burnham
Studio Art Thesis Show – Spring 2023. Studio Art Thesis Professor Stephen DiRado.
MARCH – APRIL 2023
FRANK ARMSTRONG: I SEE ABSTRACTS /
UNFINISHED
Featured Artists:
Frank Armstrong
Scott Boilard
Diane Covert
James Herbst
Patti Kelly
Steven King
Lucy Marcigliano
Vegar Moen
James Tellin
I See Abstracts
The eye sees, but the mind and heart feel. Abstracts are insufficiently factual on purpose.
For me, I value the use of photography to recognize the art in the found object. Photographically speaking, I divide abstracts into two categories: representational, and non-representational. In the first, the emotional values are more important than recognizing the object. In the latter, there is no recognition, they express a quality apart from an object. They exist all around us, but are not noticed by most. – Frank Armstrong
Unfinished
An exhibition in constant flux with work by varied artists who made art with uncertain intentions or conclusions.
SEPTEMBER 16 – NOVEMBER 30, 2022
THE AFFECTED LANDSCAPE
Featured Artists:
David Krooshof
Pete Mauney
Anne Rowland
Seth David Rubin
The Affected Landscape is an exhibition bringing together four artists working within the medium of photography. Each uniquely investigates the landscape through their own kinetic vision, process, and technical invention. David Krooshof, Amsterdam, explores image making through chromophotography, using sound to direct where to place his camera. Much of his subject matter is based on bat and bird patterns. The cadence captured in his photographs are synesthesia like; seeing sound. Pete Mauney, Tivoli, NY, makes photographs mostly in the darkness of night, recording with long exposures subject matter he finds in rural and suburban environments. Some of his favorite subjects are fireflies, stars, and planes in flight. Anne Rowland, Upperville, VA, is inspired by unlimited access to Google satellite maps as a source material. Selecting and manipulating hundreds of images, Anne digitally stitches them together to take on a painterly appearance with immense detail. Seth David Rubin, Kingston, NY, works on location in the woods, city, and suburbs throughout the US Northeast. Carrying with him a variety of fractured mirrors, Rubin strategically places each in front of his camera, reflecting a deconstructed interpretation of the landscape that is recorded by a single frame of his camera.
– Stephen DiRado & students from the Gallery, Culture and Practice Class
Gallery Hours: Monday- Thursday 9-9, Friday 9-4, Saturday 12-5, Sunday 12-7.
APRIL 27 – MAY 22, 2022
THESIS UNMASKED:
STUDIO ART MAJOR SENIOR PROJECTS 2022
Featured Artists:
Mads Graham, Dimitri Koufis,
Charisma Nguyen Lai, Esha Shetty,
Anna-Li St. Martin, Nadia Sostek,
Kasturi Thonagi, Beatrice Winn
Gallery Hours: Monday- Thursday 9-9, Friday 9-4, Saturday and Sunday 12-5.
Limited to only the Clark campus community currently enrolled in the Clark University Covid-19 testing program.
FEBRUARY 23 – APRIL 17, 2022
CELEBRATING VISUAL ARTS AT CLARK (PART III)
Part III Featured Artists:
Katie Commodore, Elli Crocker,
Johnathan Derry, Jon Krasner,
Hugh S. Manon, Suzanne Révy,
Frances Tanzer, Amanda Theinert
clockwise from top:
Suzanne Révy, Fairyland, Concord, MA, 2021, Archival pigment print from scanned color negative, 15×29”,
Hugh S. Manon, Glitchghost, Still from digital loop,
Johnathan Derry, Transference, 2018, MDF Plywood, insulation, plaster, paint, 3x4x4’
Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while also introducing and welcoming those faculty joining us from the Becker School of Design and Technology – now part of Clark University. Each of the three exhibitions will feature about ten artists and offer several opportunities for students, the extended campus community, and off-campus friends to hear them speak about their work, as well as view it. The creative intertwining of teaching, research, and artistic practice at Clark will be surveyed and celebrated!
Professor Elli Crocker, Gallery Director
Sky Deitch ’22, Dimitri Koufis ’22 Anna Svensen ‘ 22, Julianne Dillon ‘24, Lilah Feitner ‘23, Katie Rich ‘24, Gallery Interns
Gallery talks with artists:
Hugh S. Manon
Suzanne Révy
Elli Crocker
Gallery Hours: Monday- Thursday 9-9, Friday 9-4, Saturday and Sunday 12-5.
Limited to only the Clark campus community currently enrolled in the Clark University Covid-19 testing program.
NOVEMBER 15 – FEBRUARY 13
CELEBRATING VISUAL ARTS AT CLARK (PART II)
Part II Featured Artists:
Frank Armstrong, Valerie Claff, Ezra Cove,
Jessie Darrell Jarbadan, Antonio Fonseca, Vazquez,
Jan Johnson, Eric Nichols,
Scott Niemi, Rox Samer
Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while also introducing and welcoming those faculty joining us from the Becker School of Design and Technology – now part of Clark University. Each of the three exhibitions will feature about ten artists and offer several opportunities for students, the extended campus community, and off-campus friends to hear them speak about their work, as well as view it. The creative intertwining of teaching, research, and artistic practice at Clark will be surveyed and celebrated!
Gallery talk with artists: Wednesday, February 2, 12-1:15pm
Limited to only the Clark campus community currently enrolled in the Clark University Covid-19 testing program.
SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 7
CELEBRATING VISUAL ARTS AT CLARK (PART I)
Part I Featured Artists:
Caleb Cole, Stephen DiRado, Sherry Freyermuth,
Cathe Janke, Kirstin Lamb, Kevin McGerigle,
Toby Sisson, Soren Sorensen, Ulm
Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while also introducing and welcoming those faculty joining us from the Becker School of Design and Technology – now part of Clark University. Each of the three exhibitions will feature about ten artists and offer several opportunities for students, the extended campus community, and off-campus friends to hear them speak about their work, as well as view it. The creative intertwining of teaching, research, and artistic practice at Clark will be surveyed and celebrated!
Gallery talk with artists and colleagues CALEB COLE, KRISTIN LAMB, and TOBY SISSON:
Wednesday, October 6, 12-1:15pm (Pizza lunch provided).
Limited to only the Clark campus community currently enrolled in the Clark University Covid-19 testing program.
Evening reception and gallery talks by artists and colleagues SHERRY FREYERMUTH, SOREN SORENSEN,
STEPHEN DIRADO, and ULM: Friday, October 22, 4-6:00pm.
Limited to only the Clark campus community currently enrolled in the Clark University Covid-19 testing program.
MAY 26 – JUNE 20
STUDENT SENIOR THESIS SHOW 2021
Graduating art majors who have undertaken thesis projects display their work:
Zachary Caspersen, Remi Koppel Egierd, Albert Larose, Emily Maynard, Stella Shapiro, Eva Tsimboukis
MARCH 15 – MAY 9, 2021
Latin + American
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Exhibiting Artists:
Tanya Aguiniga, Blanka Amezkua, Felipe Baeza
Lionel Cruet, David Antonio Cruz, Ana de la Cueva
Alexis Duque, Antonio Fonseca Vazquez, Ramiro Gomez
Alicia Grullón, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Rita Crocker Obelleiro
Dante Migone-Ojeda, Natalia Nakazawa, Lina Puerta, Nora Valdez
This exhibition showcases a group of contemporary American artists of Latinx heritage, which in itself includes a diverse group of identities having roots in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Central and South America, and comprising the descendants of Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and enslaved Africans. As the largest growing minority population in this country, these artists, with their diverse perspectives and histories, will have an increasingly important impact on national culture in the United States.
This exhibition includes work by Professor of Practice at Clark University, Antonio Fonseca.
Gratitude is extended to Director Yulia Tikhonova and the Art Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University from which much of this work is on loan.
Above, L to R:
Alexis Duque, El Flautista, (2020), Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12”
Alexis Duque, The Keeper, (2019), Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12”
Antonio Fonseca, Corazon Atormentado, Pencil, watercolor, and acrylic on paper, 10 ¾ x 30”
Antonio Fonseca, Marketa Revisited, Pencil and watercolor on paper, 13 ¾ x30”
SEPTEMBER 14 – NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Bodies
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Exhibiting Artists:
Alaine Becker, Douglas Breault, Megan Christiansen,
Valerie Claff, Michael Costello, Alex Gray,
Yoav Horesh, Howard Johnson, Alex Mancini,
Michael Moore, Kat O’Connor, Josh Ruder
Leslie Schomp, Toby Sisson, Jessica Teckemeyer
Above, L to R:
MICHAEL COSTELLO, Boychick, 2018, Oil on canvas
YOAV HORESH, Mishaki (Burundi), 2018, Photograph
JOSH RUDER, Preparing to Strike, 2018, Marble and Steel
TOBY SISSON, Black Tears (154) [detail], 2014-2020, Ink, beeswax on paper
In conjunction with the 2019-2020 Bodies Symposium sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, artist Geoffrey Chadsey presented his talk The Hysterical Male Body virtually on October 22, 2020, now available to view.
Spring 2020 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 2020
Eric Nichols, Man in the Mirror: Portraits in Masculinity
January 27 – February 28, 2020
One of a Kind
October 7th – November 9, 2019
Built / Broken
March 14 – April 17, 2019
Alfredo Gisholt: Night Studio
January 24 – February 27, 2019
Being
November 7–December 5, 2018
Likeness
September 24–December 4, 2018
Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition 2018
April 25–May 20, 2018
Gregory Thielker: The Wall
November 20, 2017–February 15, 2018
WATER+COLOR: Chris Gill, Jane Goldman, Joel Janowitz, Anne Lilly, Susan Swinand, Richard Yarde
September 18–November 9, 2017
John Garton: On Roman Time
September 13–October 27, 2017
Awkward Other Party
February 2015
Playing With Rules: Drawing on the Spirit of Sol LeWitt
February 2015
Mine: a solo exhibition by Torkwase Dyson
October, 2014
Art After Clark: 2014 Studio Art Alumni Exhibition
February 2014
CONstruct | conSTRUCT: The Organizing Principle
October 2013
Form + Content + Context
February 2013
Love Letters
October 2012
Kindred Spirits
September 2011
Wood Work
February 2011
Incidents and Reflections
September 2010
Alchemy: Art + Science
February 2010
Trajectory
September 2009
Bound
January 2009
Collaborative Studio Showcase
November 2008
Nubar Alexanian
September 2008
Reverie
Curated by Greg Thielker
February 2008
Smaller is Better
A juried exhibition of small works
November 2007
Playtime
Curated by Kirk Jalbert
September 2007