MAATC Exhibition
January 23–30, 2026
SAIC GALLERIES, 33 E. WASHINGTON ST.
RECEPTION: January 24, 12:00–5:00PM
January 23–30, 2026
SAIC GALLERIES, 33 E. WASHINGTON ST.
RECEPTION: January 24, 12:00–5:00PM
The Master of Art Therapy and Counseling and Master of Visual and Critical Studies Exhibition (MAATC/MAVCS) brings together work of graduate artists whose practices move across artmaking, critical inquiry, and praxis. Rooted in distinct pedagogical lineages, the MAATC and MAVCS programs intersect in generative ways—inviting viewers to engage with emerging, multi-hyphenated forms of creative labor within the broader contemporary arts paradigm.
Across the development of this exhibition, points of confluence surfaced as sites of tending—work responsive to what has been carried, inherited, and interrupted. These practices move with memory, history, and relation, tending not only to what persists, but also to what asks to be reimagined, reconstituted, and reconstructed.
Rather than offering resolution, the works insist on presence, asking how creative practice might hold complexity while remaining accountable to the worlds we move within. Care and critique coalesce, situating creative practice as both a site of embodied contact and a method for staying present to complexity while also staying open to what has yet to take shape.
What emerges is not a fixed position, but movement: artists in formation, practicing ways of making and felt inquiry that remain alive to change. This exhibition holds space for the creative as they move through process and position—sitting with layered realities, pressing against limits, and allowing practice itself to become a fertile site of learning and unlearning, resistance and repair, and possibility.
Special thanks to all the faculty across the MAATC/MAVCS programs for their support and commitment to this exhibition.
The MAATC/MAVCS Exhibition 2026 was organized by Alumni Producer Corbly Brockman (MAATC, 2024) and Graduate Curatorial Assistant Callie Elms (DUAL: MAArtsAdmin & MAAH, 2027).
SAIC Galleries welcomes the SAIC community and members of the public to visit the galleries in person. Admission is free.
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SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.