Quarter Gallery

The Department of Art proudly presents YEARNING CHARGE, an exhibition honoring the 2025-26 undergraduate scholarship recipients curated by Gallery Preparator interns Bryn Cashen-Smart and Taylor Wald. $62,700 in scholarships were awarded across this talented group of students including Nicole Jaworski, Iris Leung, Rob McClain, Scout Ober, Cora Park, Moss Reinboldt, Marina Rodriguez Yado, Juniper Scheife, Corrie Steckelberg, and Taylor Wald. We would like to recognize the continued financial support for undergraduate students provided by the Diane Katsiaficas Undergraduate Art Scholarship, the Joyce Lyon Scholarship, the Kutzik Family Scholarship, the Gay M. Grossman Memorial Scholarship, the Wayne Potratz Scholarship, the Trenton Evans Scholarship, the Gary Fink Scholarship, the Wet Paint Scholarship, the Brown-Mackenzie Arts Scholarship, and the Zelda and Max Berman Scholarship Fund.

Friday, December 5, 2025
Reception, 6:30-8:00 pm, Regis West Gallery, 1st Floor

Join us in celebrating our undergraduate scholarship recipients with light refreshments in our Regis West Gallery, just across the street from the Quarter Gallery. That same evening visit Seeing Beyond: Found in Translation, the Fall 2025 Bachelor of Arts Capstone exhibition, in the Regis West Gallery.

About the Exhibition
"The ten artists in this exhibition have been brought together before. You will see them in classes, clubs, and throughout the local community. Here, their work is united anew, as each is the recipient of a 2025-26 Department of Art Undergraduate Scholarship. This exhibition peers into various artistic practices found at the University of Minnesota and asks: what are these students inspired by, how do these artists visually and thematically influence each other, and what does the future of art-making look like in their lifetime? YEARNING CHARGE unfolds into four connected sub-categories. Encapsulated Weight considers the value given to objects through the physical act of creation and human touch. Digital Identity involves the fusion of technology, the self, and the painted image. Sanctuary and Memory question longing for comfort, home, and nostalgia. Power and Animalistic Desire spring from works that deconstruct animal forms and power dynamics, offering an interpersonal look at interspecies relationships. The exhibition’s title references the powerful longing, desire, and hope evoked by these four connected groupings of work. Artists in this exhibition are part of the last generation to experience both an analog life and the emergence of our ever-present digital age. We see these works influenced by the modern technological landscape and a yearning for simpler analog memories." - Bryn Cashen-Smart and Taylor Wald