Past Exhibitions
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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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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Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary
October 28–December 15, 2023 Curated by interdisciplinary artist and Scripps College Fletcher Jones Chair in Art Ken Gonzales-Day, Queer-ish showcases almost 100 historic vernacular photographs highlighting moments of same-sex affection alongside almost 40 contemporary photographs by LGBTQ+ artists. These images encourage viewers to consider the link between photography, representation, and LGBTQ+ communities, as well as […]
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Gettin’ It Done: A Selection of Work by Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Betye Saar, Emma Amos, Alison Saar, Letitia Huckaby, LaToya Hobbs, and Kenturah Davis
August 26–October 15, 2023 Visitors to the Williamson Gallery at Scripps College can experience the power of visionary Black art spanning three generations. Gettin’ It Done: A Selection of Work by Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Betye Saar, Emma Amos, Alison Saar, Letitia Huckaby, LaToya Hobbs, and Kenturah Davis features works by celebrated artists from the twentieth and […]
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Scripps College Senior Art Show: Reflect/Refract
Apr. 28–May 13, 2023 What waits beneath the surface of unknown histories, rabbit holes, and suppressed selves? Five artists—through video, animation, interactive fiction, sculpture, fiber, and digital painting—find answers by creating alternate worlds. We reflect and refract: mirrors aiding a self portrait, shiny metal you can’t help but catch a glimpse of yourself in, projections […]
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78th Scripps College Ceramic Annual: Handle Carefully: The Power of Words and Clay
Jan. 21–Apr. 2, 2023 Binding the visual with the conceptual, the works in Handle Carefully: The Power of Words and Clay—Scripps College’s 78th Ceramic Annual Exhibition—explore the possibilities born from pairing text with image. Handle Carefully is another chapter in the college’s storied history of showcasing ceramic artistry, as the Annual is the longest […]
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Gods & Guardians in Asian Arts
Oct. 29 – Dec. 18, 2022 Gods and Guardians in Asian Arts illuminates the celestial and the divine, the sacred and the spiritual, in a rich array of works from Scripps College’s permanent collection. The exhibition features 40 sculptures, paintings, and hallowed objects—from Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Tibet—many on display for the first […]
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