South Gallery Series
The University Libraries Gallery Series began in August 2023 with 6 shows and one gallery. Next year it returns with 8 shows spread across two galleries in the Carlson Library. Beginning in August 2024 the Gallery Series will feature a regular schedule of shows listed below:
2024 - 2025 Series
LOCAL ARTIST EXHIBIT: LIFE AFTER LIFE
Steve Athanas
South Gallery
August 26 - October 18
Athanas has lived a creator’s life since his early teens. Originally a stage and musical performer, he moved into the visual arts, allowing his quirky imagination room to roam across various media such as drawing, watercolor, and sculpture with an eye on the quirkiness of the English language. His work, whether 2D or 3D, attempts to let others into his vision of the world, with all its challenges, darkness and smatterings of beauty.
HINDSIGHT
Ben Morales
North Gallery
September 3 – October 25
Ben Morales is a photographer and art director born and raised in Ohio, and a graduate of Bowling Green State University. Ben’s photography strives to unveil the beauty and meaning in the world around us by capturing the natural and manmade environments that most people take for granted. With a love of history and a curiosity for forgotten and overlooked places, he seeks to connect us with the past and challenge our perceptions of the world we inherited. With a desire to inform and delight, Ben’s work invites us to see things differently, not only how they once were, but also reimagining what they could be. His book, Hindsight: Northwest Ohio Through the Lens of Time, features his well-known photographs of historic Toledo landmarks, seamlessly juxtaposing the past with the present.
UTOLEDO EMPLOYEE ART EXHIBITION
South Gallery
October 28 – December 13
This juried show is open to all faculty and staff at the University of Toledo.
ART STUDENT SHOWCASE
North Gallery
November 4 - December 13
A show from the undergraduate Bachelor or Art (BA) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students at the university.
HUMAN FIGURE TYPEFACE SCULPTURES & OBJECTS
Shin Yeon Jeon
South Gallery
January 13 - February 28, 2025
Since 2021, Jeon has been creating ceramic objects using Korean consonants and vowels, exploring the visual dialogue between English and Korean that reflects her bilingual and bicultural experience living in the United States for decades. She combines this with human figure sculptures that reframe historical figurative ceramics from a contemporary, cross-cultural perspective.
DIGITAL IMAGINATION: A.I. ARTISTRY UNLEASHED
North Gallery
January 20 – March 14, 2025
As a way to explore the world of generative A.I. the University Libraries is hosting an art exhibition with no human artists. Faculty, staff, and student submissions will be entered into a generative platform and the resulting pieces will be displayed in the show.
UNDERGRADUATE FILM FESTIVAL
South Gallery
March 10 – May 2, 2025
Our gallery transforms into a little theatre for a festival of work from our undergraduate Bachelor of Art Film students.
GLAMOUR ROAD: COLOR, FASHION, STYLE, AND THE MIDCENTURY AUTOMOBILE
North Gallery
March 24 – May 2, 2025
As part of the next Canaday Center for Special Collections exhibit the University Libraries will be hosting a companion show looking at the art and design of mid-century automobile advertisements, as well as other types of transportation ads from Northwest Ohio.