The St. Edward's University Fine Arts Gallery serves both the university and Austin community through exhibitions of professional artists, faculty, alumni, and students, as well as sponsored lectures and other programming related to our visiting artist program.
Our goal is to offer a platform for enrichment through contemporary art, exposing the community to a wide range of artistic disciplines and practices, serving our students through direct engagement with professional artists, and offering a space and resources for professional development through student exhibitions.
Both a teaching gallery and exhibition venue, the gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center on the northwest corner of campus. Past visiting artists and guest lecturers have included Justin Favela, David Mack, Robert Hite, Linda Stein, Pato Hebert, Tulu Bayar, Jeff Schmuki + Wendy Deschene, Joe Meiser and Elise Engler.
2026 – 2027 Exhibition Calendar
Fall 2026
Many thanks to Swift Distillery and the Charles and Betti Saunders Foundation for their generous sponsorships, which have made it possible to bring visiting artists to town to share their work and experience with our campus and broader community.
Pay It Forward
November 7 - Dec. 3 (Fine Arts Center)
Opening Events:
Homecoming Weekend!
Saturday, November 7, 3:30-5:30 pm
3:30 - 5:30 pm Reception
Pay It Forward is a collaborative exhibition celebrating the people and relationships that continue to shape our creative community. The exhibition is built on a simple idea: alumni supporting alumni. Pay It Forward features alumni artists who have been selected by their peers-- other alumni artists who have previously exhibited in our annual alumni show. For this show the alumni have been the curators, each choosing one alum whose practice they find meaningful. This could be someone they have learned from, stayed connected with, admired from afar, or believe is making an important contribution to the contemporary creative conversation at-large.
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Special thanks to Liza Manjarrez and the team at Campus Ministry for sponsoring our opening reception! And to and the Charles and Betti Saunders Foundation for their generous sponsorships of the 2026-2027 Fine Arts Gallery programming!
Austin Studio Tour
November 14-15 & 21-22 (Fine Arts Center)
11:00 am - 5:00 pm Daily
A FREE CITYWIDE CELEBRATION OF ART
Over 20 artists will be exhibiting and vending their work in our Visual Studies studios!
From ceramic lamps to landscape paintings to graphic design, we will have a wide variety of work to appreciate (and purchase!) from a talented group of artists, both from the greater Austin creative community and our own faculty, students, and alumni. Work from our Animation students will be on display, too!
This event is open to the general public, and any young artists interested in an education in visual studies are especially encouraged to attend! Come see what our students are making and the spaces they're making in! VISU student clubs will be in attendance to speak to their experiences.
Our Fine Arts Gallery will also be open and showing our exhibit of St. Edward's alumni artists.
Use code AST1 for Weekend 1 (11/14-15), AST2 for Weekend 2 (11/21-22)
Featuring works by:
+St. Edward's faculty, staff, students, and alumni
The Minute Gallery began as an initiative for currently enrolled students to engage in a creative dialogue on campus by submitting work for themed exhibitions or by proposing group or solo exhibitions.
exhibition space is a small wall and shelf that is placed between office 130 and 131 in the Fine Arts Center.
In the summer of 2014 the Minute Gallery opened up an opportunity for alumni from the Visual Studies Department to submit proposals for a full scale exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery. We continue to celebrate these juried alumni exhibitions each summer and early fall in the main gallery.
Alumni Exhibitions
- 2023 John Cobb
- 2022 Mia Carameros
- 2021
- 2020 A call to SEU alumni artists and designers to share words of encouragement and work that matters
- 2019 Payton McGowan (Spring) Jaime Alexis, John Clendenen, Monika Kratochvil, Michelle Leedy, Brandon Maxwell, Jessy Price, and Ryan Slack
- 2018 Kaci Beeler (Five Year Anniversary Year)
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 and (Munday Library) and Ben Osheyak, Jessica Buie, Brit Clapper, Julie Welch, and Gerald Llorence ()
- 2014 Rachelle Diaz, Gerardo Arellano and Aldo Ramos
Summer Alumni Exhibitions
- 2018 Jordan Hamilton
- 2017 Kristin Moore
- 2016 Marge Dye
Parking
Visitor Parking Passes are available by registering your vehicle with campus through a provided link that will be updated closer to individual exhibitions.
Directions
The gallery is located in the on the northwest corner of the campus. Take the South Congress entrance onto the campus. Take the first left. The gallery is located at the entrance of the Fine Arts Building on your right.
Every spring we host a student juried exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery. This exhibition provides a setting where the university community and the public can see the depth and excellence of artwork created by students from the artistic programs at ĢƵ.
Current SEU students (see eligibility requirements) may submit up to three works to be juried into this annual exhibition. An off-campus juror will select the works to be included in this exhibition, as well as choose a “best in show” award, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. Possible prizes to be announced.
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to majors in Art, Graphic Design, Interactive Game Studies, Photocommunications, Theater Arts, Liberal Studies w/ concentrations in Art, and Art Education. Open to minors in Art, Art History, Graphic Design, Photocommunications, and Theater Arts. Also open to MLA students with a concentration in an art related field. Must be a current SEU student enrolled in the Fall 2023 or Spring 2023 semester. Work submitted must have been completed in 2022 or 2023.
MEDIA:
Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including but not limited to: sculpture, video, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, ceramics, photography, design, and digital works.
SELECTION PROCESS:
An external juror(s) will curate this year's student show. Juror: Sterling Allen
DELIVERY AND RETURN OF WORK:
Up to three entries may be submitted to the Fine Arts Gallery during exam week. Make sure each submission has an entry forms attached (entry forms will be available in the gallery at time of drop off) and a digital entry form. All works not accepted for the exhibition must be picked up during the first week of classes in Spring. Accepted work will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition. All exhibited works must be picked up at the end of the exhibition. St. Edward’s will not take responsibility for lost or damaged work not picked up.
Awards will be announced at the opening reception.
2026-2027
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September 30 - October 22, 2026 (Fine Arts Center)
Garland Kirkpatrick is a graphic designer, educator, and curator whose work sits at the intersection of visual communication and social justice.
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September 3 - 24, 2026 (Fine Arts Center)
2025-2026
Gravitation: 2026 Juried Student Exhibition
Jan 15 - Feb 27, 2026
The annual Juried Student Exhibition featuring animations, drawings, prints, ceramics, paintings and more. This year's show has been juried by local esteemed artist, . Join us in celebrating the talented students in our department!
Featured student artists:
Madison Stephens, Renae Friesenhahn, Elijah Mauricio, Aracely Arvizu-Villela, Luna Gónima, Sandra Denise Lopez, Sarina Soto, Elle Gill, Yadira Ramos, Jimena Roman, Kris Garza, Kiriyanna Ross, Jesusita Aldrete, Marie Auriffeuille, Ellis Ware, Caton Puckett, Ana Nino, Gabriela Gonzalez, Natalie Franks, Celina Marie Kuehne, Reece Perez, Valeria Lerma, Kathryn Octaviano, Maite Saravia, Gage Reid, India Price, Lina Alpert
Side Hustle
Nov 15 - Dec 8, 2025
A group show and art market. Curated by St. Edward's alum, '15. Side Hustle celebrates the creative work that people do outside of their 9-to-5 jobs, featuring 17 artists in total, including a range of practices from metalwork to architectural ceramic fixtures to piñata making. It's an impressive array!
ARTISTS: Tim Biery, , , , , , , , , , , , Christine Soules, , , ,
Almost Real Things: Austin Studio Tour
Nov 8 - 9 & 15 - 16, 2025
Add the St. Edward's Fine Arts Center to your Studio Tour! In addition to a different exhibit in the gallery each weekend, our studios will also be filled with work from Visual Studies students, faculty, and staff.
An Unkindness of Ravens
Alumnus Show: '10
Oct 2 - Nov 10, 2025
A solo exhibit featuring the work of St. Edward's alumnus Glenn Twiggs, photographer and bookmaker. Join us during Homecoming weekend for a closing reception as part of the Arts and Humanities Open House!
Hope Lies in the Smoldering
Aug 25 - Sept 25, 2025
A group exhibition, curated by Alexandra Robinson, featuring: , , , , , Anthony Rundblade
2022-2023
Justin Favela
September 1 - October 6, 2022
Mia Carameros
October 13 - November 4, 2022
Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
November 10 - December 8, 2022
Juried Student Exhibition juried by
1st Place Daisy Kallenberg
2nd Nichole Peterson
3rd Clara Rabe
Honorable mentions: Alexis Peeks, Tori Gonzales, Sofia Canestaro, Allyson Augustine,Fifi Roybal
May 21 - June 11, 2022
Walle Conoly: Observing Life
An exhibition celebrating the life, art and impact that Professor Emeritus Walle Conoly
Knowledge, Love, and Service: The Art of The Brothers of Holy Cross
2021 – 2022
: How to Photograph Woman
& : The Peacemakers
Robert Jackson Harrington: Taller de Harrington Spring/Summer Season Collection
Letitia Huckaby: A Tale of Two Greenwoods
2020-2021
Senior Exhibition Series 2021
: Graphic Design Senior Show
: Art & Photography and Media Arts Senior Show
2018-2019
: Perfect Servings For One
: The Bangladesh Project
& : And There Is A Light
Jaime Alexis, John Clendenen, Monika Kratochvil, , , , and : Now or Never
2017-2018
: Adapt, Mend & Repair
a curatorial project by: Fountain: sculptural musings of the readymade
Frank Herrmann, Buoyant
Brian Maclaskey, Sensory Swimming
, Lamella
Donal Haughey, Thin Places, Sacred Sights: Ancient Irish Monastic Sites
Martin Lam Nguyen, C.S.C., Drawing/Painting TIME
Brother Robert Weinmann, C.S.C, Visible to the Invisible
Contact Us
Get in Touch
Alison Rex
arts_gallery@stedwards.edu
(512) 428-1360