We regularly host artist talks, film screenings, live music, performances, and more.
Check out the list of upcoming events below and join us!
Upcoming Events.
Events sponsored by SU and its affiliates may permit indoor visitors at most locations as long as they adhere to SU’s COVID-19 policies.
Philosophy Cafe
Please join Dr. Yujia Song, an Associate Professor with the Philosophy Department at SU for a friendly and mind provoking seminar of philosophical discussions, free and open to the general public!
70th Senior Exhibitions: Fine Arts & Graphic Design Awards Reception
The awards reception for Salisbury University’s 70th Senior Exhibition for our graduating Fine Arts and Graphic Design students.
Artist Talk with Calcagno Cullen
Calcagno Cullen is a social practice artist who proactively collaborates with others to make projects, systems, and organizations…
Artist Talk with Graphic Designer, Hettie Epison
Hettie Epison is a graphic designer at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in the Marketing and Creative Department. Inspiration for her work ranges from the analog methods of pre-digital designers to the intentional chaos of collage artists. As a designer she has worked in product, commercial & brand design. In addition, her continued experimentation with painting, drawing & collage inspires her creative approach both conceptually and technically.
Michel Demache Artist Talk
Michel Demanche defines herself as an artist whose work deals with perception, illusion, and memory. She regularly combines traditional photography, printmaking, painting, drawing and handmade papers in her compositions which are two-dimensional or fully three-dimensional by turn. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally garnering many awards such as 1st place in photography at the Florence Biennial.
Screening of Swamp Creatures byDavid Gladden
Located in Fulton Hall, room 111 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk: Joe Montgomery
Located in Conway Hall, Room 156 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk: Heidi Hodgkinin
Located in Conway Hall, Room 156 Salisbury University Campus
Artist Talk & Reception: David Gladden
SU New Media professor, David Gladden, shares his recent creative projects. A reception follows the talk.
Artist Talk and Demo: Glass Crane
Experience the work of visionary digital artist, Glass Crane, and learn about how it is made.
Artist Talk with The Guerilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are an internationally-recognized collective of anonymous artists that adopt the names of deceased women artists to obscure their identities and keep the focus on the issues as they fight “for human rights for all people and all genders.” Their talk and exhibition, “The Art of Behaving Badly,” traces the history of their organization through their interventions and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) from 1985-2015.
Join them for an artist talk on March 8th, 2023 starting at 7p.m. at the Guerrieri Academic Commons, 4th floor of the Assembly Hall.
Artist Talk with Brooke Rogers
Learn more about the artist Brooke Rogers and his work in an informal gallery talk on Thursday, March 2 at 5:30pm.
Mura Viva / Living Walls Reception & Jazz Performance
Join us downtown Friday, February 17 from 5:00-7:00pm for an exhibition reception that features the performance of a new experimental jazz composition by Jerry Tabor.
Free refreshments and a cash bar will be available, this event is open to the public and anyone who wishes to attend.
More info regarding Scaffolding, an experimental performance bringing Brooke Rogers's art to life:
Scaffolding (for front line [open], piano, bass, drums, 2023)
By Jerry Tabor (b. 1966)
A hallmark of Jerry Tabor’s experimental compositions, even his computer and crossover music, is a high-resolution foundational structure (deep structure) upon which variable sonic and behavioral interpretations emerge. Jerry has come to consider himself a jazz composer: just as traditional expressions of jazz have a primary melody and repetitive chord progression that musicians improvise on with endless variety, his music’s deep structures repeat while reflective surface music presents various interpretations of the deep structures. An emerging characteristic of Jerry’s music also builds into the deep structure various possible pathways for a composition to unfold as musicians listen to and interact with each other and their own performance. Some of his composition research is based in methods of building ensemble interaction directly into the deep structure.
Scaffolding is an experiment that involves all these traits. There is a primary melodic idea that repeats in various ways throughout the composition. But under that melody, harmonies are continuously reinterpreted to create new improvisational contexts, each of which is made more and more tangible showing how different the melody sounds in these different contexts. Further, the tempo and feel of the music is almost entirely based on new interpretations of the combined ensemble interactions. Thus, every performance of the composition is entirely unique and will never be repeated.
The process of constructing a background structure with an improvised or intuitively created surface is where Jerry finds an exciting connection with Brooke’s work. Both artists seem to work in the same way. The difference, and perhaps where their creative connectivity is most vivid and dynamic, is that Jerry’s process plays out over time during each performance—exposing each underlayer before more and more layers are added, and Brooke’s layers are perceived simultaneously in a static, fixed product. It is as if Jerry’s music demonstrates Brooke’s process as it unfolds over time.
The premiere performance of Scaffolding was made possible by a grant from the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and an ensemble of talented musicians from the Mid-Atlantic region, who have international reputations for their improvisational styles:
Tim Stanley, trumpet
Pat Shook, tenor sax
Savino Palumbo, piano
Amy Shook, bass
Frank Russo, drums
Artist Talk with Carrie Fucile
Baltimore-based artist Carrie Fucile shares her past and current work in sound, sculpture, installation and performance.
67th Biannual Senior Art Exhibition Awards Reception
Once again SU’s graduating art majors show off their work in this capstone exhibition and class. Fine Art and Design will be on display marking the end of these students’ SU careers and the beginning of their professional lives.
Understanding Death While We Keep Living
Come hear the presentations by Profs. Elizabeth Kauffman, Yujia Song, and Elsie Walker, join an open conversation, and socialize with light refreshments and a cash bar. Please consider bringing a memorial photograph of a loved one, or some words that you'd like to share on the grief wall we'll be creating at this event. This event is co-sponsored by the Fulton Public Humanities Committee.
Visiting Artist talk: Greg Martin
Greg Martin is a Cleveland, Ohio based artist and designer who explores the boundaries of the historic medium of wet plate collodion photography, pushing it into the realm of contemporary art and sculpture. He is also the Creative Director of Design at Kichler Lighting.
Conway 156
Artist talk with Jarod Charzewski
Solo exhibition by installation artist, Jarod Charzewski. This site-specific installation references survival through preservation; more specifically the propensity to consciously and unconsciously collect things. As an immigrant to this country, personal belongings have taken on new definitions and classifications for Charzewski as he continues to cross borders.
Visiting Artist Talk: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez
Currently based in Philadelphia, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez (she/her) combines poetry and prose with images, glass objects and neon signage to create layered experiences for the viewer.
Artist Talk with Sasha de Koninck
The Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology is concerned with the future of fashion and its inevitable collision with technology. Its research is concerned about the technology we seem so eager to put onto our bodies, but know so little about. This immersive installation features “Future Heirlooms” that are designed with the uncertain future in mind.
Artist Talk with Edgar Reyes
The work in this solo exhibition by Graphic Design professor Edgar Reyes, centers around his family’s history and the distinct places they’ve called home. His tactile and multi-dimensional work suggests that our most precious memories play a vital role in helping us cope with loss and displacement.
Artist Talk with David Brame
This solo exhibition features the work of David Brame, a proudly blackity black comics creator, afrofuturist and scholar. His comic work explores issues of race and identity in the context of the American South, Black Gothica, mysticism and the African diaspora. He recently contributed to the book Sanford Biggers: CODESWITCH published by Yale University Press. Dusty Funk is a series of mixed media Art Experiences based on an evolving set of dynamic illustrations that comprise this Psychedelic Afro Future Space Opera.
Graphic Design Awards Reception
Come celebrate the graduating art majors in the graphic design track! This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Located at the SU Art Galleries | University Gallery
Fine Arts Awards Reception
Come celebrate the graduating art majors in the painting, drawing, hot glass, ceramics, sculpture, new media and photography tracks! This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Located at the SU Art Galleries | Downtown
Artist Talk with Eddie Lohmeyer
Join us in Conway Hall 153 on March 31st at 5:30pm to hear from new media artist, Eddie Lohmeyer…
間: Between Heaven and Earth
Did you miss out yesterday? Well, here’s your second chance. This immersive screen-dance performance by Jennnifer Leung Johnson is about the spaces we create and the breaks we rejoin through the process of healing. Join us and immerse yourself between the tangible and intangible.
間: Between Heaven and Earth + Artist Talk
This immersive screen-dance performance by Jennnifer Leung Johnson is about the spaces we create and the breaks we rejoin through the process of healing. Join us and immerse yourself between the tangible and intangible.