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Exhibitions

The Center Art Gallery welcomes all visitors. We are an active space for classes, scholarship, events, and art appreciation as we celebrate our students and exhibiting artists.

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Visiting Artist Series

The Center Art Gallery at Calvin University is thrilled to announce the creation of the Visiting Artist Series. Beginning in the 2025/26 academic year, the program is designed to spark dialogue, promote creativity, and provide insight into the life, work, and process of the professional artist.

Each Fall, the gallery will host a 12-week exhibition featuring one acclaimed artist. To complement and enhance this exhibition, the artist will be hosted for a week-long residency during the exhibition to engage with students and highlight their cross-disciplinary approach to creative practices and art making.

2025–2026 Exhibitions

Visiting Artist Marissa Voytenko.

Visiting Artist Marissa Voytenko

August 25–November 7, 2025

The Center Art Gallery’s inaugural Visiting Artist is Marissa Voytenko, a Michigan-based artist whose encaustic paintings and sculptural works explore the intersection of the physical and spiritual worlds through striking geometric abstraction. Drawing inspiration from Roman arches, Arabic tile work, Japanese gardens, and sacred traditions like the Daily Office, Voytenko fuses ancient aesthetics with a modern sensibility. Her process—layering, scraping, and burnishing encaustic wax— reveals vibrant hues beneath muted surfaces, mirroring her contemplative practice of prayer.

Voytenko’s work invites viewers into a visual rhythm of order, beauty, and transcendence, offering meditative reflections on the unseen. With exhibitions across the U.S. and abroad, Voytenko brings her unique voice in contemporary sacred art to Calvin’s campus this fall.

Join us for this compelling exhibition, interactive events, and experience a visual dialogue that bridges centuries, cultures, and the sacred. Reception, workshop, and other event dates to come.

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Calvin University Architectural History

November 17, 2025–February 21, 2026

Explore Calvin’s architectural history and future through this exhibition tracing Calvin University’s leap in 1956 from cramped city quarters on Franklin Street to Bill Fyfe’s visionary, Prairie-style campus on Knollcrest Farms designed to intentionally create community. From Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced blueprints to today’s master plans for inclusivity and light, discover how Calvin’s evolving spaces mirror its shifting identity — and its enduring invitation: come in, and belong.

An illustration of two fish and a loaf of bread, with three circles intersecting where they cross each other.

Select Works of Scott Erickson

March 2–April 18, 2026

Scott Erickson is a touring painter, performance speaker, and creative curate who mixes autobiography, mythology, and aesthetics to create art and moments that speak to our deepest experiences.

Erickson has been a working artist for over a decade, and has had his work appear on CNN, National Geographic, and more. Now, in partnership with the Festival of Faith and Writing, you can come see his select work is exhibited at the Center Art Gallery.

A brightly lit art gallery with sculptures and pottery on a table, and paintings and photography on the wall.

Senior Show

April 27–May 9, 2026

Come celebrate the graduating BFA & BA artists at this year’s Senior Exhibition! Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Art Education grads will have featured work throughout the Center Art Gallery on view and available to purchase.

Exhibition Proposals

If you are interested in presenting your work at the Center Art Gallery, a proposal must be submitted to and approved of by the Exhibition Committee.

Please contact Brent Williams for requirements and information on exhibition proposals.