Anderson Gallery, Drake University

05/17/2026

We had a wonderful closing reception for Kunstkammer on Friday! Congrats to Berkeley Coyne, Sophie Ernst, Ava Hess, Adalee Miller and Jordan Wyer on their BFA thesis exhibition. And a happy Drake graduation to all Bulldogs!

05/08/2026

The Closing Reception for “Kunstkammer” the senior show is ONE WEEK AWAY! Come and celebrate with the seniors as they wrap up their final year and enjoy some light refreshments.

04/30/2026

“Kunstkammer” the BFA Senior Exhibition is OPEN! Walk through and see the work of five graduating senior students.

04/24/2026

“Kunstkammer”, the senior show for graduating BFA designers and BA artists opens next week! The show will run until May 16, with a closing ceremony Friday, May 17th 7-8:30 PM. Be sure to stop by and check out these talented students’ work!

04/16/2026

Last chance to see the 55th Annual Juried Student Exhibition! The show closes THIS SUNDAY! Come and see these student works between 12-4 this weekend.

04/08/2026

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03/31/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening reception and award ceremony of the 55th Annual Juried Student Exhibition! It was a lively and joyful event, and congratulations to all the students in the show!

The exhibition is on display until April 19th, be sure to stop be and see the amazing work done by Drake students.

03/26/2026

The Opening Reception for the 55th Annual Juried Student Exhibition is THIS SUNDAY 1-3 PM!! Awards will be presented at 1:30. Enjoy some light refreshments and view the excellent work of Drake students.

03/12/2026

Throughout the run of Transformative Impressions we’ll be featuring the artists included in this juried exhibition.

April Zhu

April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer whose work in Nairobi focused on the geography of violence and the Chinese diaspora in Kenya. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at the University of Iowa, during which she joined the Iowa City Press Co-Op and began working with acrylic monotypes. In 2016, while she was a part of the Nairobi-based artist collective Kuona Trust, she exhibited a solo show of oil paintings, “Young Woman, Welcome to the Holocene,” at Shifteye Gallery in October 2016. She was a Senior Editor at Guernica Magazine, a 2023 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, a 2020 Blakemore Freeman Foundation Fellow, as well as the producer of Until Everyone Is Free, a Sheng podcast on the life and work of Kenyan socialist and freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto.

Pine Dream, acrylic monotype, acrylic paint, grease pencil, 30 x 22 in, 2025