UCO Melton Gallery

06/04/2026

Reminder that we are closed for summer, but working on exhibitions and programs for the upcoming season! This includes an active Call to Artists for a Central Alumni Exhibition that are open now through July 24. Check our website for details and updates!

Visit UCO's Melton Gallery to experience contemporary art exhibitions that inspire creativity and provoke thoughtful dialogue. Free and open to the public, located on the UCO campus.

06/03/2026

Calling all Central Alumni Artists!

The Melton Gallery is excited to announce an open call for submissions to our first-ever juried alumni exhibition. Graduates from any Central program or degree, from any year, are encouraged to submit artwork for consideration.

Submission Information:

📧 Email no more than three pieces of art for consideration (jpg, png, or pdf) to [email protected].

✍️ Include your First and Last Name and your year graduated from Central.

✅ Attach an image list with artwork titles, dates, mediums, and dimensions (h x w x d) of each piece.

🖼️ Artwork from most mediums is welcome, including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, digital illustration, and more. (Please no AI-generated or assisted work)

🙋 🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Applications will be selected by a committee of guest jurors

🗓️ The deadline to submit is July 24 @ 11:59 p.m

Timeline:

* June 1–July 24 - Applications open
* August 3 - Artists Notified
* August 10–12 - Artwork Drop Off
* August 17–September 25 - Exhibition on view at the Melton Gallery (reception TBD)

Email [email protected] to apply or for more information.

05/11/2026

And just like that we are CLOSED for the summer!

We want to thank everyone who came to an exhibition, program, or event this academic year. Since August, nearly 6,000 visitors have joined us for receptions, artist talks, movie nights, mariachi band, crafts, ice cream, box truck shows, giant inflatable cat sculptures, and ART.

The gallery will be closed during summer break from May 11 to August 16, but stay tuned! We will be working on exciting things over the break. 😉

05/09/2026

We absolutely love hosting art exhibitions and programming, but this is the most important day of each semester! The Melton Gallery is honored to host the College of Fine Arts and Design graduation reception every spring and fall.

We cannot wait to see what you dancers, musicians, actors, designers, performers, technicians, artists, educators, and CREATIVES achieve in your futures.

Congratulations to the Spring class of 2026! 💙💛
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05/05/2026

This is the LAST week to see "A Shift in Nature" our BFA Art Senior Capstone exhibition!

The gallery is open Monday–Thursdays from noon-5 and Friday from noon-3.

Come see the incredible work our graduating studio art students have worked so hard on!
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Featured Seniors:

Evelyn Warren
Sydney Antkowiak-Jones
Lauren Tarter

05/05/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who came out for your first ever Melton on the Move box truck show yesterday!

We are blown away by the friends, family, and campus community who showed up to support our student artists and organizers.

We are already scheming of ways to continue unique student-led opportunities like this in the future. Stay tuned!

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05/01/2026

We are SO excited for the first ever Melton on the Move Box Truck show on Monday, May 4 from 10am-5pm!

The truck will be outside of the gallery all day with coloring activities, ice cream, and of course, artwork. Our curator and organizer, Hutton Coker, will be spinning vinyls inside the gallery.

Join us for the event and kick off summer!

PS Students can check out vinyl records from and we will play them for you! 😉
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04/30/2026

Meet our final featured senior in "A Shift in Nature" BFA Art Senior Capstone Exhibition:

Sydney Antkowiak-Jones
is a painter and artist born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Her work includes idealised detailed subjects such as nature
and animals. She uses recycled paint, and self made pigements with materials gathered from local environments. Gathering and processing these materials is an important part of her creation process. Antkowiak-Jones has recently been in a group show named Tulipmania in the Oklahoma Myriad Botanical Gardens and engages with the arts locally through her membership at the Edmond Fine Arts.

Sydney's work explores how often-overlooked animals like reptiles and amphibians play an important
role in nature, acting as biological indicators of environmental health.

Our opening reception is TONIGHT, April 30 from 5–7 p.m.

As always, refreshments are provided and complimentary parking is available in UCO Lot 7 (see parking map on last slide!)
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