🌿 Sponsored By

Joyce & Brian Olson
Michael Neste & Kirrily Woodmore

📅 Key Dates

On View: Friday, March 6–Friday, April 3, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6:30pm–9:00pm

Juried By: Laura Grossett

A lecture will be given by Laura Grossett during the First Friday opening. She will discuss her work and her selections.

🖼️ About the Exhibition

The annual CMU Student Show features work by CMU Art & Design students exhibiting a variety of mediums, including printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing, photography, painting, animation, film, and more. Come get a glimpse into the studios at CMU to see what students are learning and creating in the Art & Design program as they develop their techniques and stretch their abilities.

This year we are honored to have Laura Grossett as the juror for this exhibition.

👤 About the Juror: Laura Grossett

Grossett works as an Adjunct Instructor and Printmaking Studio Coordinator for Drawing at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, CO, and is the Studio Coordinator for The Beet Printmaking Studio in Loveland, CO. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the nation.

Her work combines themes of nature, wildlife, human experience, and bookmaking. Her creative displays oscillate between flatness of space and dimensionality. Her work is transitory, without the need for a frame. It traverses the wall as an installation or stands statuesque, with volume crafted by dense layers of folded paper in repetition. Grossett’s work is simultaneously elegant and intriguing.

In her series Unfolding, Growing, she states, “When necessary, it can fold in on itself and compress into a tight, small cylinder, but the viewer can see only some information when the book is presented this way. Tiny cut windows provide a glimpse of what is inside, but it isn't until given the space it needs that it can unfurl…”