exhibitions.

Black and Blue: A Spring 2023 Exhibition

Black and Blue: A Spring 2023 Exhibition

April 17 - May 31, 2023 FI 2nd floor – 202 Exhibition Space This show is a collaborative effort of both the ART 370 Black and White Photography 1 class and the ART 373 Alternative Photography Process class. The results are a collection of both black and white prints...

Western Gallery Exhibition: Teacher/Scholar/Artist Showcase

Western Gallery Exhibition: Teacher/Scholar/Artist Showcase

March 28th – May 6th Western Gallery Join us in celebrating the works of our professors at the Western Gallery, where Garth Amundson, Pierre Gour, Nathan Cranston and Dana Ollestad have showcased their photography work! Every two years the Western Gallery shows recent...

2022 Spring WWU Portfolio Book

2022 Spring WWU Portfolio Book

The WWU Photography Concentration portfolio book began in collaboration with Professor Garth Amundson as a collection of images responding to being a photography student during the Covid-19 pandemic- a way to build community within the photography concentration, to...

BIG HEADS: Winter 2023 Exhibition

BIG HEADS: Winter 2023 Exhibition

February 8 - March 1, 2023 Carver Gym Exhibition Space Ava WellerBrittany StillingsGage WhiteJude KlemmeckKeely B. SandozPriya ShalautaJada KleinmanJana HarderLillie Brown The ART 371 class worked on the “Big Heads” project, where they worked in teams to create self...

Vancouver Art Gallery: Jin-me Yoon: About Time

Vancouver Art Gallery: Jin-me Yoon: About Time

OCTOBER 15, 2022 - MARCH 5, 2023 Vancouver Art Gallery Jin-me Yoon, Long View, 2017, chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund The Vancouver Art Gallery is hosting Jin-me Yoon's exhibition About Time, where she explores what it means...

Seattle Art Museum: Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

Seattle Art Museum: Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

NOV 17, 2022 – JAN 22, 2023SEATTLE ART MUSEUM FIRST SELF PORTRAIT, 1975, CARRIE MAE WEEMS A YOUNG MAN RESTING ON AN EXERCISE BIKE, AMITYVILLE, NY, 1988, DAWOUD BEY The Seattle Art Museum is showing Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue, an exhibition of two...

Big Heads! The Fall 2022 Exhibition

Big Heads! The Fall 2022 Exhibition

November 18th - December 2nd FI 2nd Floor Hallway Display Brooklyn MillerAnnika WiebeDanny BrownCory DixonLillie BrownKristjana HarderLily Rudolph - "Lily in Spoon"Sage HartmanIndigo LahtinenShawna Lingrey This fall quarter, students worked on the "Big Heads" project,...

Holga Fall 2022 Showcase

Holga Fall 2022 Showcase

October 28th to December 2nd FI 2nd Floor Hallway Display Will BoatrightDanny Brown - "Walk"Cory Dixon - "Walk Home Whenever"Kristjana HarderSage HartmanIndigo Lahtinen Shawna Lingrey - "Obscure"Brooklyn MillerLily Rudolph - "Not at Triptych"Annika Wiebe This quarter...

Mira Rani’s Dreamstate

Mira Rani’s Dreamstate

A new exhibition is up at the fine arts building on WWU campus! Check out Dreamstate at the FI 2nd floor - 202 Exhibition Space between November 7th to December 9th, 2022! An interview with Mira Rani explores her exhibition, background and the Skipping Stone...

Holga, Holga, Holga! Exhibition, Spring 2022

Holga, Holga, Holga! Exhibition, Spring 2022

May 4th - June 1st, 2022 Photo Hall Exhibition Space Daniel FurryGabe Hopper-ManoleJourney Rain-King HowdenKeely SandozBrittany StillingsBrad TaddonioEmma ToscaniDylan WillisAnnabel StewartMaddi MillerJada Kleinman Using the Holga toy camera to explore, students...

Polaroid Exhibition, Spring 2022

Polaroid Exhibition, Spring 2022

May 4th - June 1st, 2022 FI First Floor Exhibition Space Lilly AllisonMeg BurrisRachel CorrellMegan DaviesMira FogelsongerAshlee GravesBrooklyn MillerMads Hall This quarter students from the Art 372 Color Photography class investigated the world of polaroids....

Field Trip: A Blast of Color in the Tulip Fields

Field Trip: A Blast of Color in the Tulip Fields

For nearly twenty years, Western’s photography classes have been visiting the tulip fields. From notions of “recontextualizing the tulip” to the fundamentals of color photography, this adventure to the Skagit Valley is always rewarding. Enjoy!

Big Heads Exhibition, Winter 2022

Big Heads Exhibition, Winter 2022

Megan DaviesMira FogelsongerNathan Wilkinson February 9 – March 24, 2022 Fine Arts Second Floor Hallway Exhibition Space (Rm 202) Contact: Garth.Amundson@wwu.edu The WWU Photography Department is very excited to introduce another BIG HEADS exhibition on display...

Fall 2021 Holga Showcase

Fall 2021 Holga Showcase

This project invites students to explore any theme using the Holga toy camera and allows the opportunity to utilize the larger format 2¼ negative. As noted in the Holga instruction manual, every Holga is different, and each image created with the Holga is unique....

“Murmurs”, An Exhibition by Yan Wang

“Murmurs”, An Exhibition by Yan Wang

Yan Wang is a current student double majoring in the Art Studio and Design program at Western Washington University. Studying and exploring different fields help shape her visual language. Her focus is to document what we are experiencing at present as a photographer...

Thematic Project: Lumens

Thematic Project: Lumens

THEMATIC PROJECT: BIGGER LUMENS PRINTS   This project utilizes light-sensitive RC paper sent to students as part of the materials for the class. Using the 8x10 sheets of paper, students are asked to make photogram Lumens prints. Collecting objects that are lacy,...

The Object Inventory Project

The Object Inventory Project

The Object Inventory Project was designed to challenge students to reconsider what surrounds them. Asking them to document 20 of their favorite objects, this assignment asks the maker: “What is the significance of things?” As a culture we are surrounded by things that...

Cyanotype Sun Print Project

Cyanotype Sun Print Project

You may have tried out cyanotype paper when you were younger, a cyan-blue paper that produces a print when exposed to sunlight while covered in objects or negatives for a prolonged time.  Photography classes are dealing with a unique problem in a creative way, that...

Alone Together: A Look Inside

Alone Together: A Look Inside

ALONE TOGETHER as a portfolio addresses the current state of our world, a world currently caught in the midst of great political strife and the first global pandemic of any of our lifetimes. It includes work from all three photo classes taught during the spring term...

Alone Together

Alone Together

ALONE TOGETHER Considering the unique situation that we’re in and the strange times that we’re living through together, this project addresses some aspect of being ”ALONE TOGETHER” during the pandemic. It includes all three photo classes taught during the spring term...

Self-As-Subject Exhibition

Self-As-Subject Exhibition

Self-as-Subject Exhibition Winter 2019 This is a team-thematic project investigating the rich history behind and the physical construction of self-portraiture. It is inspired by the examples of photographers including: Richard Avedon, Vivian Maier, Cecil Beaton,...

Windows Serenade Art 372 Exhibition

Windows Serenade Art 372 Exhibition

Windows Serenade Exhibition The Windows Serenade Project was created by Rebekah Modrak, in which students are tasked with choosing a public-facing window in their home and treating it in some way so that it serves as a missive long-term portal to your neighbors and...

Windows Serenade Art 370 Exhibition

Windows Serenade Art 370 Exhibition

Windows Serenade Exhibition The Windows Serenade Project was created by Rebekah Modrak, in which students are tasked with choosing a public-facing window in their home and treating it in some way so that it serves as a missive long-term portal to your neighbors and...