Oakland University Art Gallery

04/24/2026

We're proud of our Graphic Design & Studio Art, Fall 2025 & Winter 2026, graduates! This year was a big group: 17 graphic design and 14 studio artists. Their senior thesis work is on view now. Shout out to the instructors of record Jonathan Cooper (Graphic Design) and Cody VanderKaay (Studio Art). Swing by and check it out through May 17th.

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Congrats to Graphic Design students: Matt Ammons, Arthur Beire, Catherine Bivens, Felix Carbary, Dennis DiMaggio, Maxwell Epperson, AvA Guest, Brooklyn Kayson, Vaughn Kujawksi, Kyndall Leek, Darian “Lynxeau” Mallett, Kristin Nika, Macray O’Brien, Abby Oleski, Jordan Smith, August C. Wicker, and Emily Wyszynski.

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Kudos to Studio Artists: Jaclynn Bracey, Maria Burton, Reese Chammas, Hannah Glarner, Charlie Goss, Thy Hoang, Nicole Houston, Jay Lobsinger, Hannah Muglia, Isabell Owens, Lauren Pease, Henry Tussey, Jeremiah White, and Aidi Yin.

04/13/2026

The Department of Art, Art History and Design & the College of Arts & Sciences at Oakland University is proud to present the work of the department's 17 graphic design and 14 studio art seniors to celebrate the culmination of their Bachelor of Arts degrees! 🎓Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, April 16th, 5-7 PM 🎓

Congratulations to those completing a BA in Graphic Design:

Matt Ammons, Arthur Beire, Catherine Bivens, Felix Carbary, Dennis DiMaggio, Maxwell Epperson, AvA Guest, Brooklyn Kayson, Vaughn Kujawksi, Kyndall Leek, Darian “Lynxeau” Mallett, Kristin Nika, Macray O’Brien, Abby Oleski, Jordan Smith, August C. Wicker, and Emily Wyszynski.

and to those earning a BA in Studio Art:

Jaclynn Bracey, Maria Burton, Reese Chammas, Hannah Glarner, Charlie Goss, Thy Hoang, Nicole Houston, Jay Lobsinger, Hannah Muglia, Isabell Owens, Lauren Pease, Henry Tussey, Jeremiah White, and Aidi Yin.

Kudos to the instructors of record, Senior Thesis in Graphic Design, Jonathan Cooper, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Senior Thesis in Studio Art�
Cody VanderKaay, Associate Professor of Art / Studio Art Program Director.

🎓This exhibition runs through May 17th. 🎓 Open Daily, Noon – 5 PM. Closed Mondays.

Image:
Nicole Huston | Dreaming Machine, 2026 | 36 x 60" | oil and acrylic on canvas

03/19/2026

Join Claude Baillargeon, Professor of Art History and exhibition curator for “Plumbing The Depths of A-Bomb Sufferers’ Trials and Tribulations” | Interdisciplinary Symposium

Friday, March 20, 2026, 9:15 AM–3:45 PM | Oakland University Art Gallery, West Wilson Hall, Room 208

This symposium is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience which runs through April 5, 2026.

Event made possible by the generous support of The College of Arts and Sciences, Cultural Ambassador Faculty Grant, The Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization and The Judd Family Endowed Fund.

QR codes for the event registration and symposium program can be found on the exhibition page here: https://www.ouartgallery.org/exhibitions/memorializing-the-hibakusha-experience/

03/09/2026

The Vow from Hiroshima (56m 38s) tells the story of Setsuko Thurlow, a Japanese-Canadian survivor of the atomic bombing, and her lifelong commitment to ensuring that the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons are never forgotten. Told through an intergenerational friendship, the film traces her journey from Hiroshima to the global movement that led to the Nobel Peace Prize–winning campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, offering a powerful and hopeful reflection on memory, responsibility, and a nuclear–weapons–free world.

Screening, followed by a discussion, will take place in the exhibition space of Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience.

As food will be provided, an RSVP before 5 pm on March 10 would be greatly appreciated. Please use this link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXgKFQoklyLLidN5LiII4W8yBZHBy0DO3Y4C-bhRQdqXf4oQ/viewform?pli=1

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Human Development & Child Studies, SEHS Dean’s Office, Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization, and OU AAPI-ERG.

02/07/2026

Please join us Wednesday, February 11th at noon for a curator's talk, "Barbara Reynolds’s Antinuclear Activism and the Genesis of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection,” by Claude Baillargeon, Professor of Art History, Oakland University. This event is free and open to the public.

01/23/2026

01/20/2026

Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience opens Thursday, January 22th at 5-7:00PM. Curator Claude Baillargeon will host a walkthrough of the exhibition at 5:30 for those in attendance.

Conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of the Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Ohio, established in 1975 and the 80th commemoration of the A-bombing of Japan, this is the first showing of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection outside of its home institution.

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection is comprised of Quaker nuclear abolitionist Barbara L. Reynolds' (1915–1990) archive and contains photographs, publications, and artifacts assembled in support of Reynolds’s advocacy, which strove to eradicate nuclear arms by shining a light on the plight of the hibakusha (A-bombed survivors).

Historical works on view include those by Domon Ken, Dosho Taro, Fukuda Sumako, Fukushima Kikujirō, Itō Takeshi, Iwamiya Takeji, Kimura Gon’ichi, Kita Kazuaki, Kurosaki Haruo, Matsuda Hiroshi, Matsushige Yosh*to, Murasato Sakae, Nagata (Atsushi) Tōzō, Onuka Masami, Sasaki Yuichiro, Tōmatsu Shōmei, and Yamahata Yosuke.

The exhibition also features artwork by five contemporary artists: Kei Ito, Myong Hee Kim, Katy McCormick, Migiwa Orimo, and elin o’Hara slavick.

More info and associated programming is available at www.ouartgallery.org.

Image:
Yamahta Yosuke, Atomic Bombed Nagasaki, Auguat 10, 1945

01/15/2026

Due to the university-wide winter weather closure, we are rescheduling the exhibition opening and reception for Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience to January 22, 2026 from 5 - 7:00 PM.

There will be a walkthrough of the exhibition by the curator at 5:30 pm.

The Artist Panel will be rescheduled for a later date in March.

Image: Barbara Reynolds being interviewed on the day before her departure from Hiroshima, 1969

01/13/2026

Prior to this Thursday's opening of “Past Is Present: Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience”, join us for an artist panel starting at 5:00 PM in West Wilson Hall, Room 124. The talk will feature Kei ITO, Katy McCormick, Migiwa ORIMO, and elin o’Hara slavick.

The exhibition opening immediately follows upstairs in the gallery 6:30-8:00 PM.

Image: Dosho Taro, Barbara Reynolds, Hiroshima, 1969.

01/12/2026

Created in partnership with the Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College, Ohio, and curated by Claude Baillargeon, Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience opens at OUAG, Thursday, January 15th. This exhibition features photographs, publications, artifacts, and other materials of Quaker nuclear abolitionist Barbara L. Reynolds (1915–1990) who strove to eradicate nuclear arms by shining a light on the plight of the hibakusha (A-bombed survivors).

Historical works by Japanese artists Domon Ken, Dosho Taro, Fukuda Sumako, Fukushima Kikujirō, Itō Takeshi, Iwamiya Takeji, Kimura Gon’ichi, Kita Kazuaki, Kurosaki Haruo, Matsuda Hiroshi, Matsushige Yosh*to, Murasato Sakae, Nagata (Atsushi) Tōzō, Onuka Masami, Sasaki Yuichiro, Tōmatsu Shōmei, and Yamahata Yosuke will be on featured. In addition, contemporary artworks by artists Kei Ito, Myong Hee Kim, Katy McCormick, Migiwa Orimo, and elin o’Hara slavick will be on view.

This exhibition runs through April 5th.

Image: Kei Ito, Eye Who Witnessed, 2020–21 (detail)

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