Zuckerman Museum
Upcoming Exhibitions
New Visions 2025
Installation of New Visions 2024
New Visions 2025 will be the 42nd annual juried exhibition for students of the KSU School of Art and Design. This tradition celebrates the unique artistic vision, outstanding talent, and deft creative skill of our students. The juror for this year鈥檚 exhibition is ZMA exhibiting artist Matthew Kirk. Kirk is the fall 2024 Windgate Artist-in-Residence.
If you are a student interested in submitting work for New Visions 2025, please submit an entry form between October 21 and December 3, 2024. The juror鈥檚 selections will be announced to artists on or before December 17.
Each year several prizes are awarded for outstanding creative achievement. The prize winners are selected by the juror, the director of the School of Art and Design, and the director of curatorial affairs of the ZMA.
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About the Juror
(b. 1978, Ganado, AZ) is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A self-taught artist, Kirk has worked for over twelve years in New York City as a professional art handler鈥� a trade that has often influenced his artistic practice in terms of utilizing readily available materials to make his art. His gestural paintings and abstract assemblages are steeped in symbolism and iconography that relate to the visual language of the Navajo, while his use of the grid as compositional armature takes structural inspiration from traditional Navajo weavings and rugs, as well as topographical maps and urban landscapes. Kirk states, 鈥淛ust as family, work, current events, and city life are reflected in the work, my Indian heritage plays an important, but nuanced role.鈥�