Exhibitions
Building the Nation: Children of Edo and Meiji Japan
Children are society’s most impressionable and vulnerable group. How do we raise them? How do we educate them? How do we give them power? Building the Nation: Children of Edo and Meiji Japan explores how children symbolize collective Japanese identity in woodblock prints from feudal Edo (1603–1868) through the modern Meiji era (1868–1912). Spanning over […]
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81st Scripps College Ceramic Annual:
Works selected by guest curator and ceramic artist Reniel Del Rosario challenge conventional ideas about the utility and limitations of clay and demonstrate its unique dynamism.
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Pintor de Poemas: Unseen Works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez
25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Alfredo Ramos Martínez—most never or rarely exhibited—shed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles.
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Scripps College Senior Art Exhibition: Whiplash
Whiplash brings together twelve artists across various media who explore the interplay between control and chaos and reflect on how they navigate intense moments. The exhibition invites audiences to embrace the discomfort of change, using art to understand and reframe the complexities of an ever-evolving reality.
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80th Scripps College
Ceramic Annual
Guest curated by ceramic historian, author, and educator Nancy Servis, the Annual features over one hundred works by more than sixty artists. The exhibition explores how Marer and Merrill’s collections document a shift from vessels to sculptural forms and demonstrate key moments in West Coast ceramics.
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Decompositions: Photography by Nancy Macko
Artist and Scripps College professor Nancy Macko’s new body of work transports viewers through art history and the cycles of life.
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Evolving Ideas: The Ceramics of Ruenell Foy Temps
The first exhibition dedicated to Ruenell Foy Temps in more than thirty years presents over forty works that trace her progression from expressive functional ceramics to adorned vessels and sculpture.
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Scripps College Senior Art Show: Double Take
Apr. 26–May 11, 2024 Double Take, this year’s senior art exhibition—featuring digital illustration, drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, mixed media and more—further explores the themes and methodologies of the Fall 2023 senior art theses at Scripps College. The resulting artworks therefore comprise a double take: an opportunity to pause, look carefully, and observe what one might […]
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Just the Two of Us: Discovered Duos and Predestined Pairs
From siblings to soulmates to strangers, this exhibition explores the power of human connection. Often, intangible forces seem to unite a pair. These one-on-one ties are the building blocks of love, community, and humanity. Ten photographs from the Scripps College collection showcase a rich spectrum of relationships that complicate and enhance our worlds every day. […]
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79th Scripps College Ceramic Annual: The Idea of Feeling Brown
January 27–April 7, 2024 The Scripps College Ceramic Annual, the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the nation, enters its 79th year with The Idea of Feeling Brown. Curated by Jasmine Baetz, Lincoln Visiting Artist in Ceramics at Scripps, the exhibition features new and recent ceramic works by 13 artists from the United States and Canada: […]
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