Champlain College Art Gallery

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The Champlain College Art Gallery supports innovative and experimental contemporary art in all media. Through a rapid-fire program of exhibitions, events, projects, and residencies, the gallery functions at the intersection of art and technology, acting as a catalyst for interdisciplinary collaboration and learning. It features the work of national and regional artists, as well as faculty and students, confronting the key cultural and artistic issues of our time.

THIS IS NOT A DINOSAUR: New and archived work by Al Larsen opens soon! Join us for the reception and record release of S...
06/17/2026

THIS IS NOT A DINOSAUR: New and archived work by Al Larsen opens soon! Join us for the reception and record release of Some Velvet Sidewalk ‘s new album Critters Encore on Friday, June 26th 5:30-8pm!!!

This Is Not A Dinosaur: Al Larsen June 24- July 26Reception: Friday, June 26, 5:30-8pmMain Gallery, CCM 2nd FloorChampla...
06/02/2026

This Is Not A Dinosaur: Al Larsen
June 24- July 26
Reception: Friday, June 26, 5:30-8pm
Main Gallery, CCM 2nd Floor

Champlain College Art Gallery is pleased to present This is Not a Dinosaur, a solo exhibition of new and archival work by artist, musician and educator Al Larsen, on view June 24 through July 26, 2026. An opening reception will be held Friday, June 26 from 5:30 to 8pm, coinciding with the release of Critters Encore, the first album in 29 years from Larsen’s band, Some Velvet Sidewalk.

The diverse media on display include posters, sketches, plotted line work paintings, and ephemera from a person deeply imbedded in the process and not the perfection of making. At the heart of the exhibition is a body of new pieces created using a pen plotter, made during a recent art residency at the Center for Machine Arts in Peekskill, NY. While the drawings look uncannily hand-made, they are printed by the plotter and then worked further with brush and ink, layering human gestures over machine output.

Larsen’s practice draws on the philosophical and ecological writing of Timothy Morton. Morton’s concept of the “mesh” (in a nutshell) describes the entangled, uncomfortable interdependence of all living things where keeping the boundaries permeable or the overlap visible is itself a form of integrity. The exhibition holds several themes at once: climate anxiety without resolving it, 90’s nostalgia without retreating into it, and how presence in the form of a letter, poster, or song still matters greater than something overly generated, synthetic, and/or inauthentic. Here the artist treats analog media as an active signal; still transmitting and still receivable, still relevant.

In addition to being a musician and artist, Al Larsen is the Chair of Creative Studio at Champlain College.

In a recent online article posted by , Some Velvet Sidewalk was cited as being listed in a journal by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain under the words: bands I like.



05/01/2026

148 students, 10 games.

Game Studio Senior Show starting at 5:30! Tune into the livestream at seniorshow.champlain.edu, then swing by the gallery for the reception afterwards!

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04/24/2026

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Creative Media Capstone Exhibition
Only a couple more hours left to see the show!!
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Selected Project Artist:
Patient Mwibeleca
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04/24/2026

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Creative Media Capstone Senior Exhibition
Last call to see these incredible projects!
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Selected Project Artists:
Aminah Carrington
Jae Badaracco
Taylor Smith
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04/24/2026

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Creative Media Capstone Senior Exhibition
On view until 3pm today!
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Selected projects by artists:
Jacob Dwyer
Mya Duncan
Claudia Derezinski
Gianella Torres
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04/22/2026

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Creative Media Senior Capstone Exhibition
On view until 3pm, Friday April 24th
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Selected projects by artists:
Will Killion
Ella Blanchard
Bailey Pettis
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04/17/2026

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Creative Media Capstone
On view until Friday, April 24th
CCM 2nd floor
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Featured work by artists
Josue Correa
Cielo Barrios
Lillian Anderson

[we] contain multitudesApril 9-24th-Selected featured work by CREM Capstone Artists:Abigail CaronBryce YoukGreta Scheff
04/13/2026

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April 9-24th
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Selected featured work by CREM Capstone Artists:
Abigail Caron
Bryce Youk
Greta Scheff

04/09/2026

[we] contain multitudes reception from 4-6pm TODAY!!
Come support Champlain College’s CREM graduating class. Don’t miss it!

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Burlington, VT
05401

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Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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