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.
Mid-Atlantic Abstraction Opening Reception
come celebrate the opening reception of our newest exhibition!
The Art of Repair
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Broke your favorite mug or plate? Don’t throw it away. Turn it into art. Join artist Jen Leung Johnson for a workshop on the basics of kintsugi repair. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer and gold, silver or platinum. This art form treats breakage as part of the history of an object rather than something to disguise.
Past Events
When punk rock emerged in Washington DC, it united powerful music, friendships, and clear minds. This film is the first to explore the challenges faced by this subculture in the late 1970s. Featuring Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, and Ian & Alec MacKaye, it delves into the ideas and sounds of this transformative scene.
Join us for an artist talk with, Lucian Perkins, two-time Pulitzer winner and 27-year Washington Post photographer, covered major events in the U.S. and abroad, including Russia, the first Palestinian uprising, and wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He co-founded Moscow's InterFoto festival and published HARD ART DC 1979 and Runway Madness.
Alec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, the Faith, Ignition and the Warmers. Today, he is vocalist in The Hammered Hulls, Chief Preparator at The Phillips Collection, and a writer graduating as a Lannan Fellow at Georgetown University in 2011. Followed by performances by Hammered Hulls as part of the HARD ART DC exhibition.
Join us for an artist talk with, Lely Constantinople, a Washington, DC photo-based artist, has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her work is in the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and private collections. She is also a photo editor, archivist, and teacher.
I FEEL LOVE: A Centennial Disco Dance Party, our fundraiser, is on October 24 at Salisbury University Art Galleries | Downtown, Salisbury, MD. Celebrate Donna Summer and the 70s with music, dancing, art, and community. Join us Friday, October 24, 2025, 7–10 p.m. Tickets: $5 students, $20+ for others.
come celebrate the opening reception of our newest exhibition!
The place we now call Salisbury has always shaped-- and been shaped by-- the Wicomico River. Join our "mobile classroom" to explore the often-overlooked stories and features of Salisbury's downtown and waterfront. Through reflective dialogue and participant observation, we'll connect with the past, present, and future of the river and those who call it home.
join us for multiple artists talks with several of the amazing artists who have helped create Climate Stories the fantastic exhibition it is!
Personal storytelling can help communities take up bold conversations and build more resilience in the face of climate change. Join us for this interactive workshop where you'll listen to personal "climate stories" and begin to tell your own.
This new media exhibition explores urban environments in nature and the role of water in them. Through video projections, installations, and sculptures, Silva's personal experiences and research points to how this electric fluid plays in the fabric of human existence and asks if we are ready to deal with a world shaped by water.
Join our senior artists as they showcase their capstone academic progress as they accept their awards for their achievements.
Using traditional black and white techniques, and alternative 19th century photographic processes with a 21st century spin, Wade attempts to tangibly express the circumstances that both plague and stimulate her.
Join Jayme McLellan, curator and acting Director of University Galleries, for a closing reception and Close, Slow Looking program where the curator unpacks and discusses works from the show, Murie Hasbun: With the Pulse of A Community / Con el pulso de una comunidad. This program is an opportunity to learn, share, and create community.
Join us for an engaging artist talk and reception featuring John Mosher. Mosher will discuss his artistic process, influences, and current exhibition 'Wanderer'. The event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with the artist and gain insights into his creative journey. The reception will follow, allowing for further conversation and connection over refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!
Please Join us at Gallery 128 for a series of individual performances by ART 367 and ENVR 305 for a Site-Specific and Installation at 7pm.
Ober (editor in chief) and Castedo (creative director) of BMore Art Magazine discuss publishing and their most recent and largest publishing effort to date, Baltimore: City of Artists
Washington, DC-based Brazilian visual artist and art educator Silva uses new media to respond to urban development issues in green regions. Silva holds an M.F.A. from Maine College of Art and Design and an M.A.T. from Corcoran College of Art and Design. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and reviewed in The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine and PBS.
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!
The awards reception for Salisbury University’s 70th Senior Exhibition for our graduating Fine Arts and Graphic Design students.
Calcagno Cullen is a social practice artist who proactively collaborates with others to make projects, systems, and organizations…
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 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.