2025 - 2026 Exhibition Season

FALL 2025

Emily Legleitner: My Life is the Size of My Room

August 18 – September 26
Reception: September 4, 4 - 6 p.m.

Emily Legleitner is a Detroit area artist with an interdisciplinary practice focused in print media and installation. Her work examines auto-biographical experiences and emotions associated with anxiety, mortality, longing, and the human condition.

Legleitner’s work has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, winning notable awards and grant funding and is part of many permanent collections worldwide. Beyond her art practice Legleitner is an educator and curator; and was recently hired as Assistant Professor of Art at Saginaw Valley State University.

Hannah Duggan: Lost in Translation

October 6 – November 14
Reception: November 6, 4 - 6 p.m.
Artist Presentation: November 6, 7 p.m.

Hannah Duggan’s art practice examines digital experience, new technology and personal reflections. As a young millennial who was part of the first generation to truly grow up with the internet, she considers the mental impact of this access and the encroachment of digital experience into the everyday. Her ceramic practice combines a variety of new technologies with traditional ceramic techniques to translate digital imagery, text, and files into ceramic sculpture and vessels. The work seeks to engage with the errors, mistranslations, and unique qualities these technologies and software exhibit at this current moment instead of trying to obscure these tells.

Fall BFA Exhibition

November 24 - December 13
Reception: December 4, 4 – 6 p.m.

This exhibition features artwork by the Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates and serves as a completion of their undergraduate program. Students are responsible for all aspects of the exhibition process. Exhibiting students include candidates in the disciplines of graphic design, sculpture and painting.

WINTER 2026

21^st Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition

January 5 – January 31
Reception and Awards: January 22, 4 – 6 p.m.

This exhibition will include the work of SVSU art students from all levels created during the past year and will include multiple disciplines taught within the art curriculum including graphic design, photography, video, painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and three-dimensional design. Exceptional work is recognized in an awards presentation during the reception.

Ava Rummler: On Record

February 9 - March 6
Reception: February 26, 4 – 6 p.m.

Rummler is one of SVSU newest faculty members hired as Assistant Professor of Art at Saginaw Valley State University for graphic design starting in the Fall of 25. Her work explores the opportunities for visual communication across a variety of mediums. She invites introspection through the artwork by using these diverse mediums and materials to explore themes of transience and permanence.

Regional High School Art Invitational

March 16 – April 11
Closing Reception: April 11^th, noon - 2 pm

For some, the creative process starts at a very young age but doesn't come into fruition until the high school years. The Art Department at Saginaw Valley State University strongly supports this stage of creative development by high school students. This exhibition honors and celebrates the creative work being done through the efforts of high school teachers and their students. The work in this exhibition consists of a variety of different mediums including digital design, photography, painting, ceramics, and drawings from local and regional high school students. Some of the exhibiting high schools from the area include Bay City Central, Bay City All Saints, Carrollton, Freeland, Hemlock, Heritage, H. H. Dow, Midland, Merrill, North Branch, and St. Charles High schools. The closing reception of this exhibition coincides with Saginaw Valley State University’s April high school open house.

Winter BFA/Art 480 Exhibition

April 20 – May 2
Reception: April 23, 4 – 6 p.m.

These exhibitions feature artwork by the Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates and serve as a completion of their undergraduate program. Exhibiting students include candidates in the disciplines of graphic design, printmaking, photography, and painting.

SPRING/SUMMER 2026

Francis Higer Quint 1907-1994

May 11- August 14^th

Francis “Fran” Quint was a distinguished Michigan artist and illustrator from the Detroit area. She studied art at the Parsons School of Design in New York and later earned her BFA from Wayne State University. She continued to follow her passion for printmaking by traveling to Japan to learn and refine her woodblock printing style later in life. As a friend of the Detroit Children’s Museum, she met writer Mary Dodge and together they published “Maconsquah: Small Bear Woman”. The book is illustrated with Quint’s wood block prints. This exhibition includes paintings, drawings and original prints inspired by her interests in landscape and travel. Her exhibition record ran from 1930 until her death in 1994.