Conrad Yutzy and Justin Roth, students in the Visual and Communication Arts (VaCA) students at ˛ÝÝ®ÉçÇř, will open the shows in the Margaret Martin Gehman Art Gallery in University Commons.

Yutzy combines interviews with digital media and stained glass sculpture to provide powerful insight into the nexus of spirituality and sexuality.

Roth’s digital photography and collage on matte paper explores how action impacts identity. “My work visually represents the idea of how our actions form who we are,” says Roth. “Our actions define us, our hands are the tools that create action.”

Admission to the gallery is free.

Full schedule of exhibits

March 17:

Conrad Yutzy,”The Other Side”: Mixed-media installations

Justin Roth, “Formed”: Digitally-collaged portraits

March 24:

Katie Weaver:  Photos under the macro lens

Laney Garcia:  Underwater photography

March 31:

Katie Landis, cinemagraphs

Kayci Detweiler, collaged illustrations

April 14:

Travis Duerksen: Digital media

Chris Stauffer: “Selah”: A digital animation

Corey Martin: Cinemagraphs

Chelsea Kight, Installation with paintings (in the Hartzler Library Gallery)

April 21:

Kelby Miller: The Consu(M3)d Project – photography and digital media

Erica Lehman: The Consu(M3)d Project – paintings

Susan Alexander: The Consu(M3)d Project – animation

In addition, there will be a group installation drawing.

“I lost most of my original work when my hard drive crashed,” said Alexander. “I had to work over the past four weeks to catch up, but I am excited about what I created. It’s a happy accident.”

Alexander’s show, “MacroCosmos,” takes images from different gardens and transposes them using gel onto windows. The process takes several hours, and there are 15 windows in the show, according to Alexander.

The exhibit opens Saturday, Oct. 8, with a reception and gallery talk from the artist at 4 p.m. in the art gallery located on the third floor of EMU’s Hartzler Library.

“Her senior show reinterprets the natural world through macro lenses and alternative development process that unveils a hidden world,” said Paulette Moore, associate professor of .

Select pieces of her work will be for purchase. A further look at Alexander’s work can be found at

The display is open daily for viewing during regular library hours. Admission to the gallery is free.

For more information contact Moore at 540-432-4163 or paulette.moore@emu.edu.