2026-27 Season
Kittredge Hall
Sculpture and installation work made by students Roy Kersten-Hellikson, Irene Harris-Odum, Sarah Burer, Ruby Moon Hodapp, as part of summer research. The Summer Research Program in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) is designed to encourage and support independent research projects. This exhibit seeks to fully share the work created by these students.
Bringing together artwork connected to Puget Sound, this exhibition explores recent ceramics history. Craft and irreverence shape the selections from the University of Puget Sound Collection.
October 21–December 11
Reception Oct 22, 5 p.m.
Modern Lovers explores love and contraband as ways of living along border sites, showing how limits shape movements, desires, risks, and losses in everyday life. Crossing the border, these artists trace ways in which people, objects, stories, and beliefs traverse liminal spaces not only physically, but also emotionally, conceptually, and sometimes even paranormally.
In Sweet Dreams Vol. 2, Luis Alonso Sánchez creates a space without traced pathways. Burned wood, sound darkness, and intermittent flashes of light produce an uncanny space. The spectator, as protagonist, moves through sensations of unbounded nightmares and unarticulated memories, evoking the feeling of a body trapped within a dream, unable to fully awaken. Suspended within this memoryscape, the artworks reveal presences whose sources remain unseen and spectral.
See the best work from art classes in the last year. The opening night party and awards (with prizes) on Monday, Jan. 26th, 5 p.m. is the first view of the show. The Art Students Annual show is a Puget Sound tradition. Students enter work from art classes, and a juror selects artwork for the show, which will be in Kittredge Gallery for four weeks.
Exhibition on view: Mar. 1–Apr. 10
Closed for Spring Break Mar. 6 - 13
Reception TBD
Elise Richman’s High Lonesome paintings and drawings serve as encounters with the habitats and landscapes on tributaries of the Snake River that provide pristine habitat for salmon imperiled in large part by four dams on the lower Snake River.
Exhibition on view: Mar. 1–Apr. 10
Closed for Spring Break Mar. 6–13
Reception TBD, week of March 17
Invisible Currents grows out of observation, wandering, collecting, and the slow act of paying attention. Bernstein’s work moves through weather systems, wing movement, shifting water, migration patterns, turbulence, and the strange rhythms connecting living things across air, land, and sea.
Opening Reception: Apr. 21, 5 p.m.
This annual event showcases our graduating seniors' talent and creativity, offering a glimpse into their artistic journeys throughout their time here at the University of Puget Sound.
Through gallery exhibitions and artist lectures focused on expanding students exposure to core issues in contemporary art, Kittredge Gallery serves as a teaching tool for the Puget Sound Art & Art History Department and supports the liberal arts curriculum of the university as a whole. With its history of strong exhibitions by regional and nationally recognized artists, Kittredge Gallery also contributes to the broader cultural community of the Pacific Northwest.