Gallery
Administration & Curation
Select Projects
Founded and developed SēD Gallery & Lab as a self-funded placemaking and experiential learning project that served as a bridge between local artists and their communities. The project grew into a social enterprise, and the space moved from an unknown initiative to a well-recognized and respected hub for creativity and community in rural Ohio.
Key Achievements:
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Established and maintained a community-facing gallery without initial external funding
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Increased average attendance to the gallery's maximum capacity
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Facilitated continuous revolving exhibitions featuring local and regional artists
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Secured multiple grants to support gallery programming and grants to support artists exhibiting in the space directly
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Promoted rural arts access and creative placemaking through programming, workshops, and collaborative events
The Registrar Assistant Internship at the Kennedy Museum involved collaborating with staff and assisting in the management of the museum’s collection, which comprises over 9,000 unique pieces.
Key Achievements:
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Supported the Tablertown People of Color Museum with a 3-year action plan and digitization strategy that contributed to the museum securing multimillion-dollar funding for digitization and a new facility to house its growing collection
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Worked hands-on in museum operations, curatorial planning, and digitization using RE:DISCOVERY Collections Management Software
Registrar Assistant & Preparator:
September 20, 2024 - March 23, 2025
Kennedy Museum of Art
A group exhibition curated by Sarah Irvin and Tracy Stonestreet, Self Adjacent examines the transforming experience of parenthood by artists as they navigate their many identities alongside and within the field of caregiving. Through photography, performance, painting, printmaking, video, textile, and sculpture, Self Adjacent features diverse viewpoints from 20 artists from across the United States.
Visual Literacy Gallery
Preparator: 2024
The objects in this gallery are rotated on an annual basis
and have been explicitly selected by Registrar Lisa Quinn and Curator of Education Sally Delgado to stimulate conversations about visual literacy and how we create meaning, both individually and collectively, from visual images. Visitors are invited to slow down, look closely, and consider how they process and interpret visual information. This slowing of visual processing – whether alone or in conversation with others – has the potential to deepen our understanding of cultural differences, raise awareness of bias, and encourage empathy. Facilitated Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) sessions for classes can be scheduled through KMA’s education department.
Registrar Assistant & Preparator:
June 1, 2024
Kennedy Museum of Art
This exhibition highlights work from the Kennedy Museum of Art’s collection that visualizes a human ecology, a water-aware vision of the land around us. The work invites reflection on how people affect rivers and the impact these bodies have on our lives.
May 2025, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
A solo fashion photo exhibition by Olivia Lutz, A first for the Gallery & Lab.
April 2025, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
Frock Logic: Directional behaviors of an annotated body, a thesis show by HTC sculptor and performance artist Zelda Thayer-Hansen, offers a glimpse into their latest research practices. By questioning the relationship between habitual binary performativity and daily social interactions, they work to document the vulnerabilities and intimacies of queer existence through artifacts of ephemeral performance.
December 2024, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
Ohio University's Digital Art + Technology Seniors took part in an exhibition workshop and showed an exhibition of their final projects they have collectively titled the "Spectrum of Self".
Student Artists in the Exhibit: Addie Smith, Belle Rice, Kyrah Grant, Sarah Shockey, and Faun Winthrop
May 2024, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
Emily Van Meter and Jailei Maas would like to extend an invitation requesting your attendance at their dual Honors Tutorial College Thesis Exhibition at SēD Alternative Gallery. This exhibition is titled The Duality of Knowing and will feature the paintings they have created for their respective art history and studio art theses.
April 2024, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
With artists:
Angeliki Blessios
Bean Backauskas
KIKO Crumpler
Meadow Bailey
Samantha Fowler
An exhibit of works by BA and BFA seniors in the School of Art + Design
February 2024, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
Retro-spective is an artistic exploration that invites the audience to wander the creative evolution of these talented artists before they launched onto their academic journey in Graduate School. This is a unique showcase of the earlier works of these accomplished individuals, providing a glimpse into the roots that have shaped their current artistic expressions.
The term "Retro-spective" encapsulates the essence of this exhibition, inviting viewers to reflect on the past while embracing the present. By featuring one or two pieces from each artist's pre-graduate school era, we create a visual timeline that illuminates the growth, influences, and transformations that have occurred over the years.
December 2023, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
The "FunnyART" Show- Artist/ Instructor Brooke Ripley's Description and Drawing course created an experimental exhibition for Ohio University Art Foundations Students. This humorous "ExHAHAbtion" is the Finals assignment for the course meant to be absurd, ironic, realistic, and drawn in multiple different medium, as long as it is "funny".
May 2023, Chauncey, Ohio, The SēD Gallery
“Remedies of the Future.”
Creative solutions to the environmental crisis and its consequences organized by artist Brooke Ripley, courtesy of the Original Works Grant from the Graduate College at Ohio University.
Public exhibitions supporting our local artists and communities is a form of stewardship. Whether for one another or for our environment, stewardship is a remedy of the future.
