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Exhibitions

The Center Art Gallery welcomes all visitors. We are an active space for classes, scholarship, events, and art appreciation as we celebrate our students and exhibiting artists.

The Center Art Gallery is open during the academic year:

Monday–Thursday: 10:00 am–8:00 pmÌý
Friday: 10:00 am–5:00 pm

Saturday-Sunday: Closed

Summer Hours
The gallery follows the academic calendar, and is closed to the general public during the summer. Please call (616) 526-6271 if you have questions.

Upcoming Exhibitions

"Visiting Artist Series" logo against painting background

The Center Art Gallery at ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ is thrilled to announce the creation of the Visiting Artist Series. Beginning in the 2025/26 academic year, the program is designed to spark dialogue, promote creativity, and provide insight into the life, work, and process of the professional artist.

Each Fall, the gallery will host a 12-week exhibition featuring one acclaimed artist. To complement and enhance this exhibition, the artist will be hosted for a week-long residency during the exhibition to engage with students and highlight their cross-disciplinary approach to creative practices and art making.

Marissa Voytenko against painting background

The Center Art Gallery’s inaugural Visiting Artist is Marissa Voytenko, a Michigan-based artist whose encaustic paintings and sculptural works explore the intersection of the physical and spiritual worlds through striking geometric abstraction. Drawing inspiration from Roman arches, Arabic tile work, Japanese gardens, and sacred traditions like the Daily Office, Voytenko fuses ancient aesthetics with a modern sensibility. Her process—layering, scraping, and burnishing encaustic wax— reveals vibrant hues beneath muted surfaces, mirroring her contemplative practice of prayer.

Voytenko’s work invites viewers into a visual rhythm of order, beauty, and transcendence, offering meditative reflections on the unseen. With exhibitions across the U.S. and abroad, Voytenko brings her unique voice in contemporary sacred art to Calvin’s campus this fall.

Join us this fall (Aug. 25-Nov. 7) for this compelling exhibition, interactive events, and experience a visual dialogue that bridges centuries, cultures, and the sacred.
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Reception, workshop, and other event dates to come.

Past Exhibitions

Gallery walls with "BFA & BA Senior Exhibition: May 9. 5:30-7:30pm"

BFA & BA Senior ExhibitionÌý

Reception Date: May 9, 5:30-7:30pm

Come celebrate the work of our more than twenty graduating senior BFA & BA majors! Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Art Education grads will have featured work throughout the Center Art Gallery on view, and also available to purchase. Visit during their show window, or visit on their drop-in style reception on May 9, from 5:30-7:30pm.

On view: April 25 - May 10Ìý

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Donna Spaan Gallery Exhibition

Light: Donna Spaan's Contemporary Art Collection

What is light? Where does it come from? What can it reveal?

The works in the Donna Spaan Contemporary Art Collection are varied in their approach, aesthetic, medium, and conceptual, light-driven underpinnings. Yet together, they weave a journey of discovery.

On view: December 4 - April 21Ìý

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Tiffany Krampe's exhibition, with copper bowl and linen artwork

"How Long, O Lord?" A Reflection on the Psalms of Lament by Tiffany Krampe

Through her exhibition "How Long, O Lord," Tiffany Krampe invites viewers to bring their sorrows and longings to the Lord. Her multimedia paintings with wood ash on unfinished canvas are physical reminders of beauty coming from ashes; they reflect both the honest sorrow and the promised hope we find modeled in the psalms of lament. This collection is an invitation to worship our faithful God who knows us and hears our cries.

On view: February 17 - April 21

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Otto Selles' large scale landscape photograph of sky and field.

Roselle Park: Reclaimed Beauty by Otto Selles

Join Professor Otto Selles and look through his camera lens. Watch as the seasons change in Roselle Park, a historic meat-factory-turned-park in Ada, Michigan.

Through four years of careful observation, shadows become soft blankets on the snowy ground, single flowers become expansive landscapes, and fence posts become elements of composition. Together, Selles’s research and photographs become a poignant narrative on the possibility of reclaiming beauty in all things.

On view: February 17 - April 21

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Japanese print by Sadao Watanabe hung on the gallery wall

Sadao Watanabe

Noah’s Ark is filled with tigers, oxen, and crickets; the Last Supper features sake wine and sea bream. When Jesus welcomes the children to him, they come wearing yukata kimono. Through Sadao Watanabe’s eyes, the Bible is reimagined in a Japan-shaped vision. A master of kappazuri, Watanabe’s meditative prints invite viewers to see Christ and the uniting story that leads to him anew.

On view: December 4 - February 14Ìý

These past exhibits are available for you to enjoy with a virtual, interactive 3D walkthrough. (See a list of other past exhibits here.)

  • TypographyÌýFall 2023Ìý
  • The Architecture of Prayer February 06–April 07, 2023Ìý
    An international survey of the contemporary church and its architecture.Ìý

Past Senior BFA and BA Virtual Exhibitions

The ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ Department of Visual and Performing Arts is honored to present the work and talent of Calvin's Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts graduates.

  • 2025 Show ||
  • 2024 Show ||
  • 2023 Show ||
  • 2022 Show ||
  • 2021 Show ||
  • 2020 Show ||

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