The Edward J. and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery at the University of Minnesota Morris has announced its exhibition schedule for the 2025-26 academic year.
Photographs by Michelle Westmark Wingard and a multidisciplinary display by Heidi Jeub will open the fall semester and are scheduled to run from Aug. 15–Oct. 5.
Michelle Westmark Wingard is an installation-based photographer, curator, and arts educator. She is a professor of art and the gallery director of Bethel University’s two exhibition spaces. Her photographic and curatorial projects often seek to create experiential and participatory opportunities exploring themes of memory, grief, memorial, perception, and interconnection. Wingard thinks about all aspects of her work as gestures of care. Wingard holds an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She lives and works in Minneapolis.
Heidi Jeub is a teaching artist with over two decades of experience, specializing in bookbinding, visual journaling, and abstract painting. Since 2003, she has shared her passion for art with students of all ages, drawing on her own experience as an “alternative learner” to create engaging, interdisciplinary lessons that connect art to subjects like literature, science, math, and technology. She holds a BA in studio art and a MPS in arts and cultural leadership, both from the University of Minnesota. Jeub’s work has been featured on HGTV, and she currently runs the Tiny School of Art & Design, a traveling studio program that brings hands-on, interdisciplinary art workshops to communities across the country.
The second exhibit for the semester features “Waiting for Beds,” a multimedia display, which runs from Oct. 16–Nov. 25. Waiting For Beds is a multimedia community collaborative art project by artists Moira Villiard and Carla Hamilton, exploring the devastating cycles of mental health crises and the systemic failures that perpetuate them. The exhibit presents two perspectives: one of the individual in crisis, caught in an endless wait for treatment; and the other of the caretaker, navigating bureaucratic barriers in a system that prioritizes profit over healing. These views are supplemented by community input, submissions, and conversations.
Nancy Ariza will have a display on the mezzanine level. A printmaker, educator, and arts programmer based in Minneapolis, Ariza’s artwork explores multigenerational relationships, storytelling, and memory through prints and large-scale, interactive installation. She currently works as the learning and engagement coordinator at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and has taught at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Books Arts, Walker Art Center, East Side Arts Council, and more. She holds a BA in art history and a BFA in printmaking from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
The first exhibit of 2026, Six McKnight Artists, will provide the unique opportunity to view works by the 2024 recipients of the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists, Maggie Jaszczak (Shafer, MN) and Ani Kasten (Shafer, MN), as well as the 2023 recipients of the McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists: Larry Buller (Lincoln, NE), Karima Duchamp (Mulhouse, France), Joon Hee Kim (Oakville, ON), and Ellen Kleckner (Cedar Rapids, IA). This exhibition, which runs Jan. 6-Feb. 13, 2026, showcases the success of each artist’s McKnight fellowship or residency. The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.
Other exhibits scheduled for the spring semester include the annual juried Student Art Show, which runs Feb. 26–April 3, and the Senior Art Show, scheduled for April 9–May 9.
The Edward J. and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery is located in the Humanities Fine Arts Building on the University of Minnesota Morris campus. Hours are 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and noon–4 p.m. on Saturdays.