Seton Gallery
The Seton Gallery presents the work of students, faculty, and visiting artists. Through its exhibitions, the gallery celebrates diverse perspectives and encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and practice.
The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. During the academic year, student gallery assistants are available to provide tours of current exhibitions. Weekend and after-hours visits may be scheduled by contacting: SetonGallery@newhaven.edu
If an attendant is not present please visit:
Department of Art & Design
Dodds Hall, Room 208
Current Exhibition
There are no exhibitions on display at this time.
Most Recent Exhibition
HARD LEISURE | Katharen Wiese
March 16 – April 10, 2026
Hard Leisure presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Katharen Wiese, whose practice spans painting, printmaking, and handmade paper. The exhibition explores the tension between labor and leisure, engaging themes of identity, material culture, and environmental awareness. Drawing from personal and collective histories, Wiese’s work reflects on systems of production, movement, and the ways individuals are situated within broader social and ecological conditions. Through the use of layered materials and recurring visual motifs, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the relationships between consumption, landscape, and lived experience.
Past Exhibitions
E M B R A C E | Elizabeth Gourlay
February 9 – March 10, 2026
Embrace honors the life and work of Elizabeth Gourlay (1961–2024), bringing together a selection of her richly layered abstract paintings. Gourlay’s practice was marked by a deep sensitivity to color, atmosphere, and the passage of time. Through intuitive gestures and nuanced compositions, her work invites sustained looking and quiet reflection. The exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with the depth, materiality, and perceptual complexity that defined her artistic voice.
VANISHING POINT | Joseph Smolinski
October 24 – November 6, 2026
Vanishing Point is an exhibition presenting works created by Joseph Smolinski over the past decade. Smolinski is Professor of Practice and Coordinator of the Art and Creative Technology program at the University of New Haven. Many of the pieces were fabricated at the Schaub Makerspace, where Smolinski often teaches Sculpture and Digital Fabrication.
The exhibition explores the fragile balance between human industry and the natural world. In his Open Water series, Smolinski meticulously layers graphite renderings with floods of water and pigment, evoking the ocean’s vast energy potential and its critical role in sustaining life on Earth. His Sea Coal Mosaics, including Mourning Sun, transform carbon-rich fragments gathered from the Long Island Sound into images of the setting sun—linking deep geological time to the fleeting combustion of fossil fuels and the accelerating climate crisis they fuel.
Something So Little Can Be So Big For Us
Curated by Alex Puz, Grant Czuj
March 7 – April 9, 2023
Designing Cafés for Community
Interior Design Studio in Italy
February 17 – March 6, 2023
sTo Len: To Dissolve into the Hydrocommons, One Drop at a Time
October 17 – December 9, 2022
To Dissolve into the Hydrocommons, One Drop at a Time is a solo exhibition by the artist sTo Len. The show examines the themes of environmental decay and the interconnectedness of global ecosystems by siting the waterways around the New Haven area as places of artistic exploration. Len’s interdisciplinary practice engages viewers to investigate their impact on the environment.
In conjunction with the Citizen Opportunities for Accessing Science Training on the Sound (COASTS), Len’s exhibition included a public talk and a community clean-up event at Long Wharf on Saturday, October 1.
Len's exhibition was funded by grants from the International Association of New Haven and the Connecticut Sea Grant Arts Award Support Program.
About the Artist
sTo Len is a printmaker, installation, sound, and performance artist interested in improvisation and experimentation within various media. His printmaking work updates traditional techniques such as Suminagashi (floating ink) and Gyotaku (fish impression) into an experimental collaboration with nature and a site of discourse on environmentalism and art activism.
The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s work includes transforming public spaces such as a river into an art studio, recycling waste into art materials, creating a community pirate radio station, and hosting water ritual performances at Superfund sites.
sTo Len is currently based in Queens, NY. Len has familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions, and politics.
View more examples of his work at www.stoishere.com.
Cheryl Gross: Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction
August 30 - October 5, 2022
Cheryl Gross’s solo exhibition Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction is a multi-platform, social commentary that addresses the shifting and eventual disappearance of our culture using animals as metaphors. Gross selects animals from the endangered species list to create a multi-media, graphic audiovisual representation of a society teetering on the verge of collapse. Artistic depictions of animal species as victims illustrate the decline of the American democratic system. Gross uses the word "extinction" throughout the narrative as the blueprint of this project.
About the Artist
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Cheryl Gross is an illustrator, painter, writer, and motion graphic artist living and working in the New York/New Jersey area. She is a professor at Pratt Institute.
Cheryl received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, publications, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections including Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, New York Times, 100 New York Painters, Schiffler Publishing, Riverside Museum, Riverside, Ca., USA, The Museum of The City of New York, Mississippi Museum of Art, The New York Times, Comedynet.com, Associatedcontent.com, Current TV, Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany. Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation, 2014, Artist-In-Residency Program, Dilsberg, Germany, 2015, 4- time recipient Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Artist Residency (ESKFF), Jersey City, 2018-2020, JCMAP Artist-in Residency Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 2022, Art Fair 14c, 2021-2022, Individual Artists Fellowship, Jersey City, NJ, 2022.
Open Late
April 25 - May 11, 2022
Open Late is the Senior Exhibition for students in the Department of Art and Design. Click the links below to view the portfolios and professional social media handles of our graduating class.
Artist Info
Art
Natalia Herrans
@natalias_arttt
Graphic Design
Christopher Colquhoun
@mistercolquhoun
Bayley Fair
@bfdesigns.co
Kevin Greco
kevingrecodesigns.myportfolio.com
Jamal Lum You
jlydesign.com
Lizzy Bonica
lizzyb.design
@lizzyb.design
Illustration
Jaylynn Claudio
@panda_bunni_revival
Jesse Golding
@artofgolding
Samantha Hart
samanthahart1.artstation.com
@samhartfantasyart
Seth Hennin
artstation.com/sahartzero
David A. Rodriguez
@rodriguezwrites
Interior Design
Sandy Borja
sandyborjaportfolio.com
Miranda Calhoun
mirandamae0505.wixsite.com/intdportfolio
Gabriella Fonseca
gabriellajfonseca.com
Gina Giannotta
ginagiannotta.com
Tessa Nestasia
tessanestasiaportfolio.com
Michael Patchen
@patchen_design
Olivia Powers
oliviapowersportfolio.com
Hannah Richardson
hannahjanerichardson.com
Jessica Selvaggi-Landry
jessicaannsl.wixsite.com/my-site-3
Jessie Shuby
jessieshubyportfolio.com
@jessieroses.artanddesign
Katelyn Witt
katelynwittportfolio.com
Mikayla Yatsko
myatsko-22.squarespace.com
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300 Boston Post Road
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