Vachon Gallery
Dedicated to exhibiting works by advanced students in the Department of Visual Art, as well as resident artists and faculty.
This vast and versatile space located in the Fine Arts Building lends itself to large scale installations and group exhibitions.
Upcoming at Vachon Gallery
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2025 Exhibition in Studio Arts
Seattle University offers Exhibition in Studio Art for students to take a step towards creating a body of work that is uniquely theirs, offering them a chance to go through the process of forming an exhibition. Their work was conceived, created, and installed in 8 weeks.
This show features work by students:
Ella Bisgard
Sam Breno
Lindee Kaitlin Cutler
Erik Gustafson
Gretchen Hinderliter
Drew Irwin
Eleri Laird
Rachel Taylor
Benjimen Whiteaker
Exhibition runs from March 12-April 10 in the Vachon Gallery (Located in the Fine Arts building). Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 am-4:30 pm.
Past Exhibitions
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Through Ashes, A Garden
Featuring work by MFA26 graduate students Amyia Chea-Carroll and Madi Stephens
October 9-November 23, 2025
Grief shifts, gathers, and resurges in unexpected forms. Through Ashes, a Garden traces this movement, grief as fracture and as seed, silence as shadow and ground for becoming.
The work follows two currents: one tending towards nature, to the cycles of decay and return, and the way the earth holds memory and teaches renewal. The other turning toward queerness, lives lived in concealment, grief of oneself, and beginnings that emerge in hidden spaces.
Together, they make a landscape where grief marks what is gone and also clears space for what can arrive.
BFA'25 Photography Exhibition
Featuring work by BFA'25 Photography graduates Fox Robinson, Al Unger, and Emmerson Wheeler.
May 22-June 16, 2025
Layer by Layer
April 24-May 17, 2025
Layer by Layer brings together the 2025 cohort of 18 designers at Seattle University. The exhibition features projects created over the last eight months of ideation, critique, and revision. Each project reflects layers of thought and intention, as well as skills like critical thinking and problem solving. By combining these diverse visual languages, Layer by Layer creates a space where individual perspectives come together in a unified vision.
Exhibition in Studio Arts
Featuring work by Visual Arts students including Sam Breno, Raymond Carr, Jenikka Cruz, Lindee Cutler, Sadie Halvorsen, Phia Lareau, Mia Harmon, Cameron Mundy, Chloe Saito, and Beetle Williams.
March 13-April 11, 2025
In the annual Exhibition in Studio Arts, Visual Arts students present a collection of their most recent work executed within the Exhibition and Practice in Studio Art Course.
From Belize With Love
Featuring work by Danika Hluska and Peiran Liu
Curated by Maria Gotay
October 24, 2024-January 10, 2025
2024 Advanced Studio Exhibition
Featured students include Avery Behnke, Ivy Bennington, Chio Furuya, Augustus Harquail, Avery Jaques, Grace Larkin, Audrey Lovinger, Julia Lugos, Ashley Miya, Cameron Mundy, Olivia Newcomb, Teddy Nguyen, Grace O’Dwyer, Anna Reiger, and Ming Williams.
Taught by Francisco Guerrero
March 7-31, 2024
“For the past twelve years Seattle University has been offering this course, Advanced Studio, as an opportunity for students to develop their creative work in a nine-week pressure cooker. The students start by looking at 21st Century Art and a mere sketch of an idea. We conduct weekly critiques that help develop a body of work. A spark flares off when a student begins to make work of their own design and meter. This exhibition is a bell jar for that effort within Visual Arts here at Seattle University. The students push their efforts forward, without expectation and devise cosmologies within their frame.” - Assistant Professor Francisco Guerrero
Shaped by Nature: Ceramics and Prints in Dialogue with Nature
Featuring work by Arturo Araujo
September 20-October 20, 2023
This show brings together two interconnected worlds of art. The exhibition explores the profound connection between art, nature, and the human experience through low-fire ceramics and multimedia prints.
In the ceramics, driftwood infuses the clay with a sense of wanderlust and the mysteries of the natural world, inviting contemplation of the interconnectedness between art, the elements, and life cycles.
In the printmaking, each piece captures the essence of resilient blooms and the ever-changing landscape through intricate layers of printmaking. The works reflect the duality of turbulence and serenity, chaos and order.
Both mediums share a common thread: the profound influence of nature on art and the human experience. The exhibition is a tribute to the enduring beauty in the delicate dialogue between ink and earth, clay and driftwood.
Born in the Caribbean Sea in Barranquilla, Colombia, Arturo Araujo moved to the United States in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. He teaches art at Seattle University and works in his studio, Inside River Studio. Inspired by nature, Araujo combines etching, relief, and digital media in his work.