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July 02 – 31
Opening Reception: July 02 from 5-7pm
Leu Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library

The 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition features the culminating projects of third-year candidates Elise Drake, Danielle Myers, and Kristin Neufarth. This exhibition highlights the depth of their artistic research, markins the completion of their graduate studies with the Watkins College of Art at Ģ����Ƶ.

August 19 – October 02
Reception: September 03 from 4-6pm
Leu Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library

Peace by Piece is a collaborative textile project led by faculty in Ģ����Ƶ’s O’More College of Architecture and Design, bringing together students, artists, and community members to explore connection, creativity, and the diversity of God’s creation through knitting. Combining traditional craft with digital and flatbed knitting technologies, the exhibit presents communal works assembled from individual contributions alongside process documentation, highlighting the intersections of faith, art, and making as a practice of care and collective belonging.

This project was supported by generous funding from the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life and Faith. 

August 19 – October 23
Reception: September 10 from 4:30-6pm
Gallery 121 in the Leu Center for the Visual Arts

The Architecture of Prayer is an international survey of the contemporary church and its architecture. The exhibition showcases drawings of historic church buildings in dialogue with new projects built in the 21^st century—contributed by over 25 global architecture firms. Collectively, the work demonstrates a rich diversity of design thinking and applied theology from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions. Curation by Amanda Iglesias, Senior Fellow, O’More College of Architecture and Design.

This exhibition is supported by the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life and Faith, O’More College of Architecture and Design, Watkins College of Art, and the Frist Art Museum.

October 19 – December 04
Reception: October 22 from 4-6pm
Leu Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library

Obscuring, Revealing brings together a varied group of Nashville-based photographers who are testing the boundaries of documentary practice. Through personal narrative, formal experimentation, historical allusion, alternative processes, and even the blurring of fact and fiction, these artists offer complex and provocative pictures of contemporary life, ones that prompt reflection on what photography makes visible and what it obscures. In doing so, the exhibition highlights the vital work being made by photographers in and around Nashville while also inviting visitors to rethink the possibilities of documentary photography.

Exhibiting artists include Caroline Allison, Sam Angel, Carolyn Benedict Fraser, Arielle Gray, Allie Horick, Stacey Kranitz, Jack Latham, Armon Means, Vesna Pavlović, Kristine Potter, Tamara Reynolds, and Christine Rogers.

November 02 – December 04
Reception: November 05 from 4:30-6pm
Gallery 121 in the Leu Center for the Visual Arts

The photographs in Year of the Fallen Oak were made in the Cumberland Plateau during a time of grief and transition: the unexpected death of my father-in-law Doug, the birth of Derrick’s first grandchildren, and our move to Arkansas. The making of this work has been a process of saying goodbye to what was, a series of unresolved gestures echoing through time. Loss and vulnerability are topics we explore together as I ask my family members to photograph with me in a spirit of reciprocity and exchange, collaborating in a shared exploration of place and memory.