Fall 2025- Spring 2026 Schedule

9/3/2025- 10/4/2025 - SADAH Faculty Exhibition

JMU's Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art will open the 2025-2026 academic year with an exhibition of recent artwork and scholarship by the award-winning faculty of the School of Art, Design, and Art History (SADAH). This year's SADAH Faculty Exhibition explores the themes of social and personal transformation via various media and techniques.

We hope you will join us for this showcase of faculty creativity and diversity. SADAH is known for our dedication to community, experimentation, and navigating the unknown. 

10/29/2025 – 12/03/2025 - m(other)ing

Curators: Feixue Mei, Meaghan Dee, Bree McMahon, Opening reception, October 29, 5-7:30pm

 Reproductive care is universal. Whether you care for a child or not, these experiences are part of human existence. While these events are universal, they are also universally politicized.⁠ Themes related to motherhood, motherly bodies, and reproductive journeys, do not often find a place in design research. The exhibition pushes boundaries between art and design by focusing on individual reproductive journeys and social, revealing that design has a role in shaping individual experiences, improving collective outcomes, and connecting communities.⁠

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2/02/2026 - 03/7/2026- Depth Soundings, Curators, Seth McCormick and Beth Hinderliter 

Opening reception 2/03/2025, 5- 7:30pm

Depth Soundings explores the relationship between sound and emotion in contemporary art. Through immersive installations, sonic sculptures, and experimental compositions, the artists in this show invite viewers to engage not only with the auditory experience but also with the physical and emotional responses that sound can evoke. By embracing the fluid and ephemeral nature of sound, Depth Soundings celebrates its potential to expand the limits of artistic expression and to provoke new feelings and sensations, offering an invitation to listen more deeply to the world around us.

03/31/2026 – 05/02/2026- MFA Exhibitions: Behnaz Ghazempour, Ver Ikash, Liv Luke

Opening reception: 3/31/2025, 5:00-7:30

Three exceptional graduate students showcase their talent and creativity in this dedicated exploration of ideas. The thesis exhibition is the culminating experience of the Master in Fine Arts program in JMU’s School of Art, Design, and Art History.