Rose-Hulman Art Exhibits

05/15/2026

Ink Magazine Launch, Volume 24!
Please join us TODAY- Friday, May 15th, from 4-7pm in the Mussallem Union’s Shack Lounge, as we release VOLUME 24 of Ink Magazine!

Event includes live readings from this year’s publication, free magazines, a display of art from this year’s issue, and light refreshments.

Ink Magazine is a literary and art publication that celebrates creative writing, visual art, and music, all by Rose-Hulman students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Ink | Rose-Hulman’s Literary and Art Magazine

Sponsored by the Elsie B. Pawley Fund

Questions about the magazine or event: Christy Brinkman-Robertson [email protected], Terence Hartnett: [email protected], Lucas Power: [email protected]

05/07/2026

The International Photo Contest 🌍 hosted by the Rose-Hulman Center for Global Engagement is on display in our Mussallem Student Union, and we have a reception coming up to honor the winners of each category! 🥳
Mark your calendar for next week, Thursday, May 14th at 4:30pm.
⭐️ You can weigh in on one of the awards! Please vote for People’s Choice using the link below or the QR code on the poster. ✅

The International Photo Contest is a collection of photos taken outside the U.S. by Rose-Hulman students, employees and alumni.
Photos from 40+ individuals and taken in 10+ countries were submitted for the 2026 contest.

Voting link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSep8nKtrGHTF1BfoJcBpgmzytP2o3WX7gSHsVi0wr7E8Daydw/viewform

05/02/2026

Amazing group of local artists! 🤩

04/20/2026

One more introduction for the Blue House Creatives! 🕺🏼 These seated and reclining figures were made by Mark Schlicher!

Schlicher is a Nashville,TN-based multimedia artist who explores the human form and human experience through sculpture, drawing, painting and film. A director and cinematographer, his documentary film career spans many decades, with work being shown on the Smithsonian Channel, Lifetime, and on national PBS. He sculpts in terra cotta clay, leaning into the medium’s immediacy, directness and impressionistic possibilities. While he would love to see some of his work enlarged in bronze one day, he embraces creating finished works in ceramic clay that range from sensitive life-size portraits and small figure studies to whimsical vessels such as face pots.

Schlicher says, “Life is rich when approached with openness, curiosity and humor. My process of making embraces this ethos, and I hope it comes through in my work. There is much heaviness in the world, and I have great respect to artists who engage with these deep and difficult themes. That’s not my calling at this time. My figures and portraits aim to celebrate the inherent beauty of each individual. If I elicit a smile or a thoughtful reflection from the viewer, then the piece is successful.”

Mark Schlicher is one of 21 artists featured from Blue House Creatives Nashville
Blue House Creatives is a grassroots community of artists founded by Nadine Shillingford with the vision of creating a welcoming third space where creativity, connection, and shared inspiration can thrive. What began as a simple gathering of friends has blossomed into a monthly meeting ground for makers, thinkers, dreamers, and doers who come together to exchange ideas, explore new art experiences, and support each other’s creative journeys.

✨The Red Rouge Roja show, and all art of the spring art exhibit, remains on display through May, 2026. We hope you can visit Moench Hall at Rose-Hulman to view it!

04/10/2026

Meet Anna Wise! Another artist from the Blue House Creatives. 🌟 .studio
Anna Wise’s practice explores the boundary between internal and external landscapes, opening a portal between nostalgia and possibility. She combines portraits with landscapes based on places she’s both visited and imagined, exploring how the environments we move through shape who we are—and how we, in turn, shape them. Using a mix of watercolor, spray paint, pastels, acrylics, and oil, she builds each painting through many glazes and layers of mark-making, where structure and spontaneity meet to tell a story.

As a child, Anna often sought refuge in the woods where she would spend hours listening to music, praying, and dreaming about the future. Nature became her sanctuary, a place where she could let go of others’ expectations and instead begin to rediscover a sense of adventure, hope, and purpose. That early connection to nature continues to shape her work - not just as inspiration, but as metaphor. Her paintings suggest that the “soulscapes” we carry inside us are just as real, wild, and worth exploring as the ones we stand in. Her ongoing series Wild Cartography is for anyone who’s ever felt lost in the chaos during changing seasons of life.

Wise is one of 21 artists featured from Blue House Creatives Nashville
Blue House Creatives is a grassroots community of artists founded by Nadine Shillingford with the vision of creating a welcoming third space where creativity, connection, and shared inspiration can thrive. What began as a simple gathering of friends has blossomed into a monthly meeting ground for makers, thinkers, dreamers, and doers who come together to exchange ideas, explore new art experiences, and support each other’s creative journeys.

Today, Blue House Creatives includes a vibrant circle of about 30 active members, representing a rich blend of artistic disciplines and perspectives.

✨The Red Rouge Roja show, and all art of the spring art exhibit, remains on display through May, 2026. We hope you can visit Moench Hall at Rose-Hulman to view it!

04/09/2026

🗓️ This event for a local art organization is coming up next week!! Visit their page to learn more about Art Spaces, Inc.

Art Spaces’ Annual Luncheon is more than a gathering—it’s the official announcement and kickoff of our next Cultural Trail honoree and future public sculpture: Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes.

A Terre Haute native and the first Indiana woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Jenckes was a true trailblazer. From managing a 1,300-acre farm to leading flood control efforts along the Wabash River, she turned determination into action, ultimately unseating a long-time incumbent to represent western Indiana in Congress.

Known for her bold leadership and independent spirit, she championed her constituents and made a lasting mark during a pivotal time in our nation’s history. We’re proud to honor her legacy and share her story as the next addition to the Art Spaces Cultural Trail.

Join us for this exciting event - get your tickets for the Luncheon today! https://bit.ly/4e1eXhP

Photo courtesy of the Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives.

04/09/2026

Introducing ✨ Martha Morales Purucker!
One of our featured Blue House Creatives artists. Purucker is the owner of Glassville TN, where she crafts, designs, and teaches fused glass, stained glass, and mosaic. She is passionate about fostering a vibrant glass art community in Nashville.
Originally from Mexico City, her journey of navigating hearing impairment and the transformative power of cochlear implants has profoundly influenced her art, work, and collaborations. For the past 10 years, she has been dedicated to exploring the power of creativity.
Thanks to a Metro Arts Thrive grant, Martha collaborated with Our Place, leading a vibrant art program where she teaches her craft to a new community. In 2014, she began working in the world of fused glass, learning from esteemed art mentors. Her art pieces have been showcased at many venues, including Arts at the Airport and TN Craft Midstate, the Soundwaves Gallery at GEODIS Park, and the John P. Holt Brentwood Library.
Martha also collaborated with four fellow artists on the creation of “Pathway to a Higher Note,” a permanent installation at the Metro Parks Centennial Art Center.
Martha’s artistic journey is a testament to resilience, cultural richness, and the transformative power of creativity.
Martha is one of 21 artists featured from Blue House Creatives Nashville
Blue House Creatives is a grassroots community of artists founded by Nadine Shillingford with the vision of creating a welcoming third space where creativity, connection, and shared inspiration can thrive. What began as a simple gathering of friends has blossomed into a monthly meeting ground for makers, thinkers, dreamers, and doers who come together to exchange ideas, explore new art experiences, and support each other’s creative journeys.

Today, Blue House Creatives includes a vibrant circle of about 30 active members, representing a rich blend of artistic disciplines and perspectives.

✨The Red Rouge Roja show, and all art of the spring art exhibit, remains on display through May, 2026. We hope you can visit Moench Hall at Rose-Hulman to view it!

04/09/2026

One of our current Rose-Hulman artists! 🤩💐

STACKED: The playful art of carefully stacking all your collected treasures.

I love how poetically life seems to play out sometimes. I can’t help but see the symbolism of my “stacked” responsibilities of medical setback in healing and recovery and my literal art series I’ve titled “STACKED”…. The proposal of everything around you is art. The process of accumulation and the random clutter of the little things that make you happy and bring you joy.

There’s treasure and art in everything we do and touch as long as you choose to see it.

The things you collect over time are things that are a reflection of yourself. In a sense, your home decor is symbolic of who you are. YOU are art. Everything in your home that makes you happy, is art.

Every painting you see here is all of my stuff. And it’s art because I say it is.

I will post better pictures of each individual painting soon

You can view my new display at Owensboro Convention center

04/07/2026

We’re introducing Amy Krimsier Sterling today! ⭐️ Sterling is a storyteller who creates visual art in a variety of mediums, capturing life’s many elements through printmaking, ceramics, watercolor, oil, and anything else she can get her hands on. Much of Amy’s work is created in the public sphere, whether documenting strangers’ fleeting moments in her sketchbooks or channeling personal daydreams into physical objects created from assorted materials. Her art seeks to change frequencies, and is often focused on capturing natural phenomena such as the colors of light and the movement of water.
As an arts educator in Nashville, Amy finds great joy in passing her own inspiration to others and seeks to help students see things in a way they had not before. While serving as Art Chair on the Board of Friends of Brentwood Library, and three years on the events and exhibition committee of Tennessee Craft MidState Chapter, Amy enjoys getting to know artists and various spaces in which to showcase the arts currently as Metro Parks Centennial Art Gallery manager.

Amy Krimsier Sterling is one of 21 artists featured from Blue House Creatives Nashville
Blue House Creatives is a grassroots community of artists founded by Nadine Shillingford with the vision of creating a welcoming third space where creativity, connection, and shared inspiration can thrive. What began as a simple gathering of friends has blossomed into a monthly meeting ground for makers, thinkers, dreamers, and doers who come together to exchange ideas, explore new art experiences, and support each other’s creative journeys.

Today, Blue House Creatives includes a vibrant circle of about 30 active members, representing a rich blend of artistic disciplines and perspectives.

📣 Rose-Hulman just hosted the spring art reception late last month, but you still have plenty of time to see it! The show will remain on display in Moench Hall through the end of May, 2026. Hope you will come to see it in person.

04/06/2026

Jennifer C. Pierstorff is our featured artist today from the spring exhibition, Red Rouge Roja! Pierstoff is a mixed media artist whose work celebrates the wild, weird, and wonderfully human. Living with chronic illness since a young age, she has built an art practice rooted in resilience, joy, and transformation. Her Wonky World series emerged from that space of healing and play, where distorted, expressive faces come alive through layers of paint, collage, and mark-making. For this exhibit, Jennifer explores the color red as both a symbol of power and contradiction-love and anger, vitality and warning, strength and fragility. In her portraits, red becomes a heartbeat: bold, unflinching, and full of life. Based in Clarksville, TN, Jennifer is a member of the Downtown Artists Cooperative and the Nashville Artist Guild. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group shows, often inviting viewers to find connection in imperfection and meaning in the beautifully wonky.

Pierstoff is one of 21 artists featured from Blue House Creatives Nashville
Blue House Creatives is a grassroots community of artists founded by Nadine Shillingford with the vision of creating a welcoming third space where creativity, connection, and shared inspiration can thrive. What began as a simple gathering of friends has blossomed into a monthly meeting ground for makers, thinkers, dreamers, and doers who come together to exchange ideas, explore new art experiences, and support each other’s creative journeys.

Today, Blue House Creatives includes a vibrant circle of about 30 active members, representing a rich blend of artistic disciplines and perspectives.

📣 Rose-Hulman just hosted the spring art reception late last month, but you still have plenty of time to see it! The show will remain on display in Moench Hall through the end of May, 2026. Hope you will come to see it in person.