Spring Storm Exhibitions Archive

2021 Spring Storm

Spring Storm is an annual exhibition celebrating the creative work in art and design by senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. The work and practices of our students exemplify the diversity of 21st century approaches, using traditional and new media to address compelling questions in contemporary culture.

Completing their degrees during extraordinary times, the School of Art + Design students were incredibly resourceful, generating remarkable new work this year. They demonstrated great vision and resilience, working independently and continuing to create a dynamic community.

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artwork from the 2021 Spring Storm exhibition

2020 Spring Storm

This year our senior students completed their studies in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic and worldwide protests against racism and police brutality. With purpose and resolve, they continued to evolve their creative ideas, make new work, and connect with their community and audience. Spring Storm 2020 is presented as a print catalog and website—a record and celebration of their remarkable creative journeys, ambitions, and readiness to take on new challenges.

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samples of artwork from 2020 Spring Storm

2019 Spring Storm

Spring Storm is the culminating exhibition for School of Art + Design senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. Synthesizing the work accomplished throughout their studies, each student develops a piece with support from their faculty mentor in the final term. Engaging a broad range of work across art and design, students have not only developed formal, technical, material and critical capabilities, they have also cultivated individual perspectives and practices. The 2019 exhibit featured work by more than 100 students.

Our students are equipped with 21st century approaches—from sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, fibers, and metalsmithing to interactivity, video, animation, visual communications, and emerging technology to designing objects for use across a broad range of scales and purposes—ready to raise questions, shape experience and solve problems through their work. Spring Storm is a celebration of the diversity of those efforts and ideas across Art + Design, and all the catalytic interactions and individual discoveries made during these seniors’ college careers.

View the news story and the 2019 Spring Storm catalog.

Families and friends gathere in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall to honor the work of Art + Design graduates.

Students, faculty, and staff gathered for the annual Spring Storm opening reception in the Lawrence Hall courtyard.

Bike helmets designed by Product Design students in the Senior Studio with Professor Wonhee Arndt.

2018 Spring Storm

The School of Art + Design Spring Storm 2018 was the culminating exhibition for senior students completing degrees in Art, Art & Technology and Product Design. Representing the synthesis of studio work across the last four years, each student developed a piece with support from their faculty mentor in the final term.

Throughout their education, Art + Design students benefit from close relationships with faculty and their peers in studio classes. Engaging a broad range of work across art and design, these students not only developed formal, technical, material and critical capabilities, they also cultivated individual perspectives and practices.

View the news story and the 2018 Spring Storm catalog.

2017 Spring Storm

Work by nearly 100 graduating senior art, digital arts, and product design students was exhibited in Spring Storm 2017 on Friday, June 2, 2017, in Lawrence Hall on the UO campus in Eugene.

The artworks in the exhibition showcased an amazingly diverse range of media and approaches, which reflected the scope of our curriculum in photography, sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing & jewelry, painting, drawing, fibers, and printmaking, as well as in new methods and practices offered by technological innovation and digital media.

View the news story and the 2017 Spring Storm catalog.

2016 Spring Storm

Work by over 100 graduating senior art, digital arts, and product design students were exhibited in 2016 Spring Storm on Friday, May 27, over two floors in Lawrence Hall. A reception for the artists took place during the exhibition, which was free and open to the public.

2016 Spring Storm showcases work from throughout the Department of Art, including the Digital Arts Program, and this year added work by students in the Product Design Program. The annual event is a rare peek inside what students in their senior year have accomplished, including studio art in ceramics, digital arts, fibers, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

View the news story and the 2016 Spring Storm catalog.

people look at artwork at the 2016 Spring Storm exhibit

2015 Spring Storm

yellow raindrop background with black umbrella foreground

Work was exhibited by more than seventy graduating senior students from all media areas within the Department of Art, including ceramics, digital arts, fibers, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The 2015 Spring Storm Department of Art 3rd Annual Senior Show was held on Friday, May 29, in Lawrence Hall. The exhibition was free and open to the public.

For two weeks following Spring Storm, in the Selected Senior Show exhibition, a juried selection of student works was shown from June 1-15 in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall. The Exhibiting Artists for the Selected Senior Show were William Boswick, Derek Chesnut, Indigo Vance Eyebright, Anastazia Koorajian, Xu Peng, Alexandria Scalone, Deandra Stokes, Rachel Troiano, Jillian White, Riley Yandell, and Chi Zhang.

View the news story and the 2015 Spring Storm catalog.