We regularly host artist talks, film screenings, live music, performances, and more.
Check out the list of upcoming events below and join us!
Upcoming Events.
71st Senior Exhibition Award Recpetion
Join our senior artists as they showcase their capstone academic progress as they accept their awards for their achievements.
Cara Wade - Faculty Artist Talk
Using traditional black and white techniques, and alternative 19th century photographic processes with a 21st century spin, Wade attempts to tangibly express the circumstances that both plague and stimulate her.
Muriel Hasbun Closing Reception & Close, Slow Looking
Join Jayme McLellan, curator and acting Director of University Galleries, for a closing reception and Close, Slow Looking program where the curator unpacks and discusses works from the show, Murie Hasbun: With the Pulse of A Community / Con el pulso de una comunidad. This program is an opportunity to learn, share, and create community.
Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk
Join us for an engaging artist talk and reception featuring John Mosher. Mosher will discuss his artistic process, influences, and current exhibition 'Wanderer'. The event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with the artist and gain insights into his creative journey. The reception will follow, allowing for further conversation and connection over refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!
Student Sculpture Exhibition and Live Performances
Please Join us at Gallery 128 for a series of individual performances by ART 367 and ENVR 305 for a Site-Specific and Installation at 7pm.
Cara Ober & Raquel Castedo, BMore Art Magazine - Visiting Artist Talk
Ober (editor in chief) and Castedo (creative director) of BMore Art Magazine discuss publishing and their most recent and largest publishing effort to date, Baltimore: City of Artists
Johab Siva Artist Talk
Washington, DC-based Brazilian visual artist and art educator Silva uses new media to respond to urban development issues in green regions. Silva holds an M.F.A. from Maine College of Art and Design and an M.A.T. from Corcoran College of Art and Design. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and reviewed in The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine and PBS.
Philosophy Cafe
Please join Dr. Yujia Song, an Associate Professor with the Philosophy Department at SU for a friendly and mind provoking seminar of philosophical discussions, free and open to the general public!
70th Senior Exhibitions: Fine Arts & Graphic Design Awards Reception
The awards reception for Salisbury University’s 70th Senior Exhibition for our graduating Fine Arts and Graphic Design students.
Artist Talk with Calcagno Cullen
Calcagno Cullen is a social practice artist who proactively collaborates with others to make projects, systems, and organizations…
Artist Talk with Graphic Designer, Hettie Epison
Hettie Epison is a graphic designer at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in the Marketing and Creative Department. Inspiration for her work ranges from the analog methods of pre-digital designers to the intentional chaos of collage artists. As a designer she has worked in product, commercial & brand design. In addition, her continued experimentation with painting, drawing & collage inspires her creative approach both conceptually and technically.
Michel Demache Artist Talk
Michel Demanche defines herself as an artist whose work deals with perception, illusion, and memory. She regularly combines traditional photography, printmaking, painting, drawing and handmade papers in her compositions which are two-dimensional or fully three-dimensional by turn. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally garnering many awards such as 1st place in photography at the Florence Biennial.
Screening of Swamp Creatures byDavid Gladden
Located in Fulton Hall, room 111 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk: Joe Montgomery
Located in Conway Hall, Room 156 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk: Heidi Hodgkinin
Located in Conway Hall, Room 156 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk & Reception: David Gladden
SU New Media professor, David Gladden, shares his recent creative projects. A reception follows the talk.
Artist Talk and Demo: Glass Crane
Experience the work of visionary digital artist, Glass Crane, and learn about how it is made.
Artist Talk with The Guerilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are an internationally-recognized collective of anonymous artists that adopt the names of deceased women artists to obscure their identities and keep the focus on the issues as they fight “for human rights for all people and all genders.” Their talk and exhibition, “The Art of Behaving Badly,” traces the history of their organization through their interventions and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) from 1985-2015.
Join them for an artist talk on March 8th, 2023 starting at 7p.m. at the Guerrieri Academic Commons, 4th floor of the Assembly Hall.
Artist Talk with Brooke Rogers
Learn more about the artist Brooke Rogers and his work in an informal gallery talk on Thursday, March 2 at 5:30pm.
Mura Viva / Living Walls Reception & Jazz Performance
Join us downtown Friday, February 17 from 5:00-7:00pm for an exhibition reception that features the performance of a new experimental jazz composition by Jerry Tabor.
Free refreshments and a cash bar will be available, this event is open to the public and anyone who wishes to attend.
More info regarding Scaffolding, an experimental performance bringing Brooke Rogers's art to life:
Scaffolding (for front line [open], piano, bass, drums, 2023)
By Jerry Tabor (b. 1966)
A hallmark of Jerry Tabor’s experimental compositions, even his computer and crossover music, is a high-resolution foundational structure (deep structure) upon which variable sonic and behavioral interpretations emerge. Jerry has come to consider himself a jazz composer: just as traditional expressions of jazz have a primary melody and repetitive chord progression that musicians improvise on with endless variety, his music’s deep structures repeat while reflective surface music presents various interpretations of the deep structures. An emerging characteristic of Jerry’s music also builds into the deep structure various possible pathways for a composition to unfold as musicians listen to and interact with each other and their own performance. Some of his composition research is based in methods of building ensemble interaction directly into the deep structure.
Scaffolding is an experiment that involves all these traits. There is a primary melodic idea that repeats in various ways throughout the composition. But under that melody, harmonies are continuously reinterpreted to create new improvisational contexts, each of which is made more and more tangible showing how different the melody sounds in these different contexts. Further, the tempo and feel of the music is almost entirely based on new interpretations of the combined ensemble interactions. Thus, every performance of the composition is entirely unique and will never be repeated.
The process of constructing a background structure with an improvised or intuitively created surface is where Jerry finds an exciting connection with Brooke’s work. Both artists seem to work in the same way. The difference, and perhaps where their creative connectivity is most vivid and dynamic, is that Jerry’s process plays out over time during each performance—exposing each underlayer before more and more layers are added, and Brooke’s layers are perceived simultaneously in a static, fixed product. It is as if Jerry’s music demonstrates Brooke’s process as it unfolds over time.
The premiere performance of Scaffolding was made possible by a grant from the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and an ensemble of talented musicians from the Mid-Atlantic region, who have international reputations for their improvisational styles:
Tim Stanley, trumpet
Pat Shook, tenor sax
Savino Palumbo, piano
Amy Shook, bass
Frank Russo, drums
Artist Talk with Carrie Fucile
Baltimore-based artist Carrie Fucile shares her past and current work in sound, sculpture, installation and performance.
67th Biannual Senior Art Exhibition Awards Reception
Once again SU’s graduating art majors show off their work in this capstone exhibition and class. Fine Art and Design will be on display marking the end of these students’ SU careers and the beginning of their professional lives.
Understanding Death While We Keep Living
Come hear the presentations by Profs. Elizabeth Kauffman, Yujia Song, and Elsie Walker, join an open conversation, and socialize with light refreshments and a cash bar. Please consider bringing a memorial photograph of a loved one, or some words that you'd like to share on the grief wall we'll be creating at this event. This event is co-sponsored by the Fulton Public Humanities Committee.
Visiting Artist talk: Greg Martin
Greg Martin is a Cleveland, Ohio based artist and designer who explores the boundaries of the historic medium of wet plate collodion photography, pushing it into the realm of contemporary art and sculpture. He is also the Creative Director of Design at Kichler Lighting.
Conway 156
Artist talk with Jarod Charzewski
Solo exhibition by installation artist, Jarod Charzewski. This site-specific installation references survival through preservation; more specifically the propensity to consciously and unconsciously collect things. As an immigrant to this country, personal belongings have taken on new definitions and classifications for Charzewski as he continues to cross borders.
Visiting Artist Talk: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez
Currently based in Philadelphia, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez (she/her) combines poetry and prose with images, glass objects and neon signage to create layered experiences for the viewer.