UCO Melton Gallery

UCO Melton Gallery Everyone is welcome at the Melton. Supporting visual art and creativity at the
University of Central Oklahoma. CLOSED for the Summer. We will reopen in August!

The Melton Gallery hosts national, local, and student art exhibitions exploring a range of media and topics. We strive to model current art gallery best practices while offering relevant and engaging programming for our campus and the surrounding community. The Melton Gallery belongs to the College of Fine Art and Design at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Calling all Central Alumni Artists!The Melton Gallery is excited to announce an open call for submissions to our first-e...
06/03/2026

Calling all Central Alumni Artists!

The Melton Gallery is excited to announce an open call for submissions to our first-ever juried alumni exhibition. Graduates from any Central program or degree, from any year, are encouraged to submit artwork for consideration.

Submission Information:

📧 Email no more than three pieces of art for consideration (jpg, png, or pdf) to [email protected].

✍️ Include your First and Last Name and your year graduated from Central.

✅ Attach an image list with artwork titles, dates, mediums, and dimensions (h x w x d) of each piece.

🖼️ Artwork from most mediums is welcome, including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, digital illustration, and more. (Please no AI-generated or assisted work)

🙋 🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Applications will be selected by a committee of guest jurors

🗓️ The deadline to submit is July 24 @ 11:59 p.m

Timeline:

* June 1–July 24 - Applications open
* August 3 - Artists Notified
* August 10–12 - Artwork Drop Off
* August 17–September 25 - Exhibition on view at the Melton Gallery (reception TBD)

Email [email protected] to apply or for more information.

And just like that we are CLOSED for the summer!We want to thank everyone who came to an exhibition, program, or event t...
05/11/2026

And just like that we are CLOSED for the summer!

We want to thank everyone who came to an exhibition, program, or event this academic year. Since August, nearly 6,000 visitors have joined us for receptions, artist talks, movie nights, mariachi band, crafts, ice cream, box truck shows, giant inflatable cat sculptures, and ART.

The gallery will be closed during summer break from May 11 to August 16, but stay tuned! We will be working on exciting things over the break. 😉

We absolutely love hosting art exhibitions and programming, but this is the most important day of each semester! The Mel...
05/09/2026

We absolutely love hosting art exhibitions and programming, but this is the most important day of each semester! The Melton Gallery is honored to host the College of Fine Arts and Design graduation reception every spring and fall.

We cannot wait to see what you dancers, musicians, actors, designers, performers, technicians, artists, educators, and CREATIVES achieve in your futures.

Congratulations to the Spring class of 2026! 💙💛
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This is the LAST week to see "A Shift in Nature" our BFA Art Senior Capstone exhibition!The gallery is open Monday–Thurs...
05/05/2026

This is the LAST week to see "A Shift in Nature" our BFA Art Senior Capstone exhibition!

The gallery is open Monday–Thursdays from noon-5 and Friday from noon-3.

Come see the incredible work our graduating studio art students have worked so hard on!
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Featured Seniors:

Evelyn Warren
Sydney Antkowiak-Jones
Lauren Tarter

THANK YOU to everyone who came out for your first ever Melton on the Move box truck show yesterday! We are blown away by...
05/05/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who came out for your first ever Melton on the Move box truck show yesterday!

We are blown away by the friends, family, and campus community who showed up to support our student artists and organizers.

We are already scheming of ways to continue unique student-led opportunities like this in the future. Stay tuned!

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We are SO excited for the first ever Melton on the Move Box Truck show on Monday, May 4 from 10am-5pm!The truck will be ...
05/01/2026

We are SO excited for the first ever Melton on the Move Box Truck show on Monday, May 4 from 10am-5pm!

The truck will be outside of the gallery all day with coloring activities, ice cream, and of course, artwork. Our curator and organizer, Hutton Coker, will be spinning vinyls inside the gallery.

Join us for the event and kick off summer!

PS Students can check out vinyl records from and we will play them for you! 😉
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Meet our final featured senior in "A Shift in Nature" BFA Art Senior Capstone Exhibition:Sydney Antkowiak-Jones is a pa...
04/30/2026

Meet our final featured senior in "A Shift in Nature" BFA Art Senior Capstone Exhibition:

Sydney Antkowiak-Jones
is a painter and artist born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Her work includes idealised detailed subjects such as nature
and animals. She uses recycled paint, and self made pigements with materials gathered from local environments. Gathering and processing these materials is an important part of her creation process. Antkowiak-Jones has recently been in a group show named Tulipmania in the Oklahoma Myriad Botanical Gardens and engages with the arts locally through her membership at the Edmond Fine Arts.

Sydney's work explores how often-overlooked animals like reptiles and amphibians play an important
role in nature, acting as biological indicators of environmental health.

Our opening reception is TONIGHT, April 30 from 5–7 p.m.

As always, refreshments are provided and complimentary parking is available in UCO Lot 7 (see parking map on last slide!)
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Meet another one of our three featured artists in "A Shift In Nature" BFA Art Senior Capstone Exhibition:Lauren Tarter ...
04/30/2026

Meet another one of our three featured artists in "A Shift In Nature" BFA Art Senior Capstone Exhibition:

Lauren Tarter is an artist and illustrator born, raised, and presently based in Oklahoma City. She has studied traditional art and illustration for 8 years. Tarter uses a variety of two-dimensional media, such as painting, drawing, and printmaking, to craft visual narratives. With a background in comics and creative writing, Tarter uses visual storytelling to explore the emotional ups and downs of life and to connect with others’ experiences through her own. Lauren Tarter also teaches art to elementary and middle school-aged children, sharing her love of stories and multimedia with the next generation.

Her capstone project "Traces of Blue" is displayed in the gallery. Join us for their reception tomorrow, April 30 from 5–7 p.m.!
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Art And Design Building 100 N. University Drive
Edmond, OK
73034

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 5pm
Tuesday 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+14059746358

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