2012           

Master Artist Tribute IX: Richard McLean

April 22 - June 17

Begun in 1990, the Master Artist Tribute series is designed to showcase artists whose significance as teachers of art is nearly as profound as their estimable bodies of work. Past recipients have been Wayne Thiebaud, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri, Ruth Bernhard, Frank Lobdell, Stephen de Staebler and Carlos Villa. The exhibition will present several of McLean’s major equine oils and watercolors as well as landscapes and still lifes plus a series of never before exhibited watercolor portraits of friends and artists. It will be McLean’s first retrospective.

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River of Words

April 22 – June 10

River of Words, now a part of Saint Mary's new Center for Environmental Literacy, is a pioneer in the field of place-based education, using the child's own ecosystem and community as the context for learning in a hands-on and investigative manner.

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The Epperson Collection

July 8 - September 16

Roger Epperson (d. 2008) was an East Bay Regional Parks Ranger, who had a passion for California’s environment and a deep love of art.  Epperson was a self taught collector of early California art, wood block prints and lithographs.  He scoured auction houses, antique stores, garage sales and the internet to accumulate an impressive collection of hundreds of works. The collection he amassed over the years is worthy of a museum exhibition as it includes works by Maurice Braun, Maynard Dixon, Albrecht Durer, Frances Gearhart, Percy Gray, Utagawa, Hiroshige, Karsushika, Hokusai, Lorenzo Palmer Latimer, Bertha Lum, Roi Partridge, William Rice, Carl Sammons, Hiroshi Yoshida and many other noted artists.

Cross/Purpose

October 6 – December 16

Figurative, abstract, realist, expressionist and three-dimensional imagery of the Cross by such masters as Emile Bernard, Hans Burkhardt, Jacques Callot, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoshka, Tiepolo, and Sadeo Watanabe.  The exhibition is on loan from Christians in the Visual Arts (civa.org), supplemented by works from the Saint Mary's College collection.                                         

2013

Carnival/ Carnaval!

February 3 – April 14

Toured by NEH on the Road, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.  Just in time for Mardi Gras: Pre-Lenten celebrations and practices from Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean are on display.  See elaborate masks and costumes, musical instruments and jewelery, view videos of performances and parades from each region.

150th Anniversary of Saint Mary's College: the Best of the Permanent Collection

May 5 - July 14

Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art                              

August 4 - September 29

Self-Portraits by Late 20th c. Masters: the Syracuse University Collection

October 20 - December 15