Lee E. Dulgar Gallery
“Congressional Art Competition”
Monday, March 31, 2025 – Friday, April 4, 2025
Reception: Friday, April 4, 2025 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. in the first floor Dulgar Gallery
The Congressional Art Competition, created in 1982, is an officially sanctioned bipartisan event designed to encourage the artistic talents of high school students from across the country as they compete for an opportunity to have their artwork displayed in the heart of the U.S. Capitol. The competition is sponsored annually by each Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Congressional Institute.
Each Congressional office hosts its own competition for high school students in their district using its own criteria. Once a winner is selected, their artwork is displayed for 11 months in the U.S. Capitol, thereby enjoyed by Members of Congress, staff, and visitors from around the world. With millions passing by the exhibit each year, it is one of the most-viewed art installations in the country.
GALLERY HOURS:
Visit this gallery by appointment only.
Closed on weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.
Dorothea Thiel Gallery
“forever indebted”
Art work created by Veronica Clements.
Monday, March 24, 2025 – Thursday, April 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the fourth floor Thiel Gallery
Veronica Clements is a Chicago-based artist and curator. Her work exists at the intersection of critique and celebration, where the vibrancy of girlhood collides with the fleeting nature of life. Through a visual language rooted in pop culture, nostalgia, and vanitas symbolism, she explores the delicate balance and tension between love and grief, particularly within the feminine experience. Just as an oyster encases an irritant to form a pearl, she considers how mothers, daughters, and women at large absorb pain, transforming it into something precious yet heavy. Clements’s paintings are curiosity cabinets—collections of objects, symbols, and memories that speak to the transitions of girlhood to womanhood to motherhood, and the inevitable complexities of those evolutions. The objects she paints–pearls, butterflies, rain droplets on a window–become artifacts of intimacy, relics of tenderness and loss.
GALLERY HOURS:
Monday — Thursday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.
Photo-Four Gallery
Tim Kowalczyk
Solo Exhibition of Ceramic Sculptures
Monday, March 24, 2025 – Thursday, April 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the fourth floor Photo-Four Gallery
Tim Kowalczyk was born and raised in Morris, IL. He was the first college student in his immediate family. He attended Joliet junior College and transferred to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to complete his BFA in Ceramics and Art Education with a minor in Art History. Tim obtained his MFA from Illinois State University in Normal, IL in Ceramics. Throughout his educational career he developed his trademark style of making trompe l’oeil ceramic “garbage”. This is where his work lives, in the small moments of beauty found and replicated in what others overlook and find useless, he calls garbage.
GALLERY HOURS:
Monday — Thursday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.