Exhibitions


July 7, 2026

An Artistic Legacy: Scripps at 100

September 19–December 13, 2026 Claire Campbell Park, Resilience, 2023. Linen. © Claire Campbell Park, courtesy of Goya Contemporary. Presented on the occasion of Scripps College’s centennial, An Artistic Legacy: Scripps at 100 celebrates a century of groundbreaking creative production by the College’s alums and faculty. Curated by alumna Jennie Waldow ’12, curatorial associate and collection […]

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April 9, 2026

Scripps College Senior Art Exhibition: Blink

Eight artists comment on structures that quietly govern daily life, such as gender performance, ecological change, inherited culture, and digital overwhelm.

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January 7, 2026

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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December 17, 2025

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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July 17, 2025

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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April 8, 2025

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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December 17, 2024

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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July 26, 2024

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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July 25, 2024

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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April 10, 2024

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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