2025-2026

All exhibitions are held in the Department of Art and Art History's Gallery, located in the Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building, 775 Franklin St, Santa Clara, CA. Exhibitions, artist talks, and receptions are free and open to the public. Gallery Hours are M-F, 9am-4pm, except during University closure dates and holidays. 

We all navigate social, political, and physical landscapes everyday. Here, "Landscape" refers to the physical and/or digital spaces, environments, or settings that are transformed or reimagined through the use of technology. This could include natural landscapes, urban environments, virtual spaces, or digital representations of physical places. Curated by SCU Art and Art History Department faculty members Danielle Heitmuller and Qiuwen Li in collaboration with Adobe Creative Director Brian Yap; the artwork in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth and depth of talent among current and former Adobe artists.

Jonathan Calm
To Wherever, Forever: Archives of Absence & Sites of Passage
Joint exhibition - de Saisset Museum and Department of Art and Art History

Exhibition Dates: Jan 5 - Feb 20, 2026
Closure dates: Jan 19 and Feb 16, 2026

Reception Date: Feb 5, 2026
4pm-5pm Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building
5pm-5:45pm Artist Talk de Saisset Museum
5:45-7pm Reception at de Saisset Museum

Jonathan Calm is an assistant professor in Photography at Stanford University.

In his recent work, he has focused his critical eye toward the representation of Black (auto) mobility, which includes the Underground Railroad, mass migration due to forced displacement or in search of better life opportunities, socioeconomic upward mobility and the freedom of leisure travel, and the mobilization of activism through various branches of the Civil Rights Movement. Across these intersecting dynamics, Calm exposes how the mythical promise of a boundless journey across the land often masks a more compromised reality for African Americans.

Influenced by the toys and cartoons from their childhoods, each artist revisits the role these items had, and continue to have, in developing lasting points of view and engrained social constructs. Through this exhibition, Escalante and O’Connor-Korb create a space where viewers can experience sculpture that extends a playful invitation to peer behind the curtain and reconsider these systems of meaning.

Senior Art Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: May 13 - June 12, 2026
Closure dates: May 25, 2026

Reception: May 15, 2026, 5 pm, Dowd Lobby

Graduating seniors in the studio art program participate in a senior show where they learn the process of installation and presentation of their senior exhibit. Students work directly with an exhibition advisor to design and edit their exhibit, write up an artist statement, and host an opening reception in a professional manner.

In compliance with the ADA/504, please direct your accommodation request to mfgrieb@scu.edu at least 72 hours prior to your visit.