Does It Still Make a Sound?
Space:
White GalleryRunning:
05.20.26 – 09.17.26featuring:
Winter 2026’s Art 261 - Intro to Digital Photography taught by Domenic ToliverArtists:Auvi Beachley
Kit Tonole
Rue Conrad
Dio Flores Chavez
Kat Cramer
Alahn Ek
Noah Cyplik
Marrisa Harrison
Katharine Jansen
Carol Savelieva
Iris Spencer
Reahana Tran
Everett Towsey-French
Christian Vazquez Marin
AnonymousProgram Description:
This exhibition explores what remains after the moment has passed: the echo, the residue, the absence, the unanswered call. Through staged photographs, collage, and mixed media, these artists examine the tension between visibility and invisibility, between impact and recognition.
Is sound only what we hear?
Or is it also memory, witness, proof?
Each body of work offers a different frequency — asking not whether it makes a sound, but are you willing to listen.
We’ve Always Been Here
Space:
White GalleryRunning:
06.01.26 – 09.17.26Collaborators:
psu cultural resource centers
las mujeres de portland stateArtists:
AnonymousProgram Description:
Following our collaboration in the middle of the term with the Cultural Resource Centers and Las Mujeres, we are wanting to showcase some of the work shared with us in our workshops and throughout that week in an archival exhibition.
The community and art that comes along with a space as small as the 2nd floor of Smith spans cultures, backgrounds, and lives with the fundamental similarity being that they’ve always been here. Highlighting the beauty in protest signs to prints of paintings to the everyday photos and moments we capture with our phones and cameras, the work shared with this exhibit is grounded in the everyday.
