Art at WSU Vancouver

Assembled Inheritance

Cuong Lam & Kacy McKinney 9/14/26 – 12/18/26 The Dengerink Gallery (VDEN) Assembled Inheritance brings together the work of Cuong Lam and Kacy McKinney, tracing the ways memory, loss, ritual, and material carry what is inherited and what is left behind. Through conversations and studio visits, the artists developed an exhibition that reveals resonances between their […]

The Fact That We’re Here

Cuong Lam 9/14/26 – 12/18/26 The Library Building (VLIB) The Fact That We’re Here re-examines objects and their meaning from two sources: my upbringing in a Vietnamese community transplanted to America, and the gorintō, a Buddhist stupa I first encountered in Koyasan, Japan. My work excavates objects and imagery buried in layers of memory. Simultaneously […]

Cut/Score/Engrave

Printmaking Students 8/24/26 – 9/4/26 Dengerink Gallery, VDEN This pop-up show is comprised of student work from ART 370 Introduction to Printmaking. Printmaking is one of eight studio areas offered on this campus by Vancouver’s Art department. The prints seen here are from class projects. Analog printmaking is one of the oldest forms of art, […]

Sightings: Bird Journals 2021-2026

Kacy McKinney 8/24/26 – 12/18/26 1st & 2nd Floor Gallery, Science & Engineering Building (VSCI) This collection of twenty works in pencil, watercolor, pastel, pen & ink, and charcoal offers a sampling of my drawings and paintings of birds from 2021 to 2026. During that time I was learning not only to identify birds, but also […]

Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability

Kacy McKinney 6/22/26 – 12/11/26 Overlook Gallery, Multimedia Classroom Building (VMMC) Changing the Narrative is a community-based collaborative research project and comics series led by Dr. Kacy McKinney that seeks to change how we talk, think, and teach about homelessness and poverty by building empathy and understanding. This series brings together ten professional artists, ten […]

The 30th Annual Student Art Exhibition & Alumni Showcase

4/13/26 – 8/14/26 The Dengerink Gallery (VDEN), 1st & 2nd Floor Galleries (VSCI), and the Library Gallery (VLIB) The 30th Annual Student Art Exhibition and the Alumni Showcase highlight the art program’s legacy and future, featuring reflections and artwork from alumni alongside work from current students. For students, the annual exhibition represents the culmination of […]

Making History

Making History Mary e Clark 2/2/26 – 4/9/26 1st Floor Gallery, VSCI I am enamored with old materials, their previous life is interesting to me. There’s satisfaction in re-using an object, pushing back obsolescence, if only a little. Each object carries a secret history, partly known, partly imagined, as evidenced by the physical marks left […]

See You on the Other Side

Anya Roberts-Toney 1/26/26 – 4/9/26 Dengerink Gallery, VDEN See You on the Other Side is a new series of oil paintings on stretched linen that feature bursts of light, luminous skies, butterflies, and figures or apparitions, all grounded in the recognizable while drifting towards abstraction. I’m interested in capturing the feeling that something is about […]

Enter the Void

Cassie Ferguson 8/18/25 – 12/12/25 1st & 2nd Floor Galleries, Science & Engineering Building (VSCI) Skateboarding has been a major part of my life for over twenty years. It’s where I first learned how to quiet the mind, not by slowing down, but through focusing solely on the motion or the act. The rhythm, repetition, […]

New Earth Anatomy

Briar Pine and Jack Snell-Ryan 8/18/25 – 12/12/25 Dengerink Gallery (VDEN) Listen to or read the description of this exhibition below New Earth Anatomy brings together the work of Briar M. Pine and Jack Snell-Ryan, exploring our ever-changing relationship with materiality, identity, technology, and the environment. The exhibition examines the concept of bodies, whether they […]