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Senior Thesis & Capstone 2023 | School of Visual and Performing Arts
The exhibition includes undergraduate presentations, featuring visual thesis projects by students in Endicott’s art therapy, graphic design, interior design, photography, performing arts, and studio art programs. These culminating projects demonstrate graduates’ accumulated skills in ways that emphasize critical analysis and professional application.
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Kalon Kakon: The Beautiful-Evil Thing Paper Collage by Kris Mortensen
In this new series of works, artist Kris Mortensen utilizes a mixed-media approach to investigate the mythologizing of the female form. Using coloraid, Guasch, ink, and pencil, these artworks present a visual commentary that seeks to deconstruct internalized misogyny surrounding female archetypes in world mythology.
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A Tower of Strength: Black Women of the Suffrage Movement
This exhibit is a celebration of the remarkable black women in history who paved the way for Shirley Chisolm, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Ayanna Pressley and so many more. Pieces featured highlight the contributions Black Suffragettes, such as Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells, made towards the Women’s Suffrage Movement as a…
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Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination
This exhibition features 100 posters by different artists that celebrate and acknowledge protecting and promoting human rights. Ranging in style, these works actively challenge gender inequality and stereotypes, advance sexual and reproductive rights, and promote the protection of women and girls against brutality. In their collective visual voice, these posters promote women’s empowerment and participation…
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What’s Going On? Contemplative Paintings with Joan Hanley
Joan Hanley’s recent paintings explore experiences of intimacy during the Covid pandemic. She makes art of ‘cellphone memories ‘, that is, the snapshots taken on cell phones which circulate between family and friends. These impressions take on new meaning through her practice with oil paint, pencil, ink, and gouache. Hanley’s lifelong studies of Art, East…
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Diane Arbus: 10 Years: Masterworks from the 1960s and 70s
With her incomparable eye for detail, renowned photographer Diane Arbus’s work is notorious for questioning social norms through a compassionate lens. Her work is an investigation of personal happiness, identity and belonging — with special attention to individuals living on the social fringe. During an intense period from 1961-71, Arbus produced some of the most…
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Express Yourself: Wild & Free 2022
Express Yourself Exhibition, WILD & FREE, features set design pieces and artwork from their performance at the Boch Center – Wang Theatre on May 26th, 2022. Comprised of over 350 youth, this performance featured their interpretations of what it means to be ‘Wild & Free’! Visiting artist, Wes Bruce guided the Express Yourself youth creating…
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Senior Thesis 2022
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A Thousand Small Signals: Select Digital Works of Endicott Alumni
The compilation of art and design created by Endicott alumni is an annual summer exhibit hosted at the Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts. Each year a different approach is taken as to what themes, disciplines, or years we display, in order to provide variabilities and mixtures to the recurring series of exhibits. This…
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Portrait of Quiet: Porcelain Plates by Kelly O’Briant
Award winners and nominees highlight this exhibit of the most successful art student creations at Endicott College. Majors represented are Art Therapy, Graphic Design, Interior Design Photography, Studio Art, and Performing Arts. Pieces include ceramics, drawing, digital design, film, painting, photography, and recorded performances. Award categories consist of faculty-awarded first, second, and third place, popular…
