Visual Art Exhibitions and Galleries
explore our galleries, experience contemporary art
Our galleries showcase contemporary artists and provide dedicated spaces for our UWG student artists to exhibit their work. Galleries are open to throughout the fall and spring semesters with an active exhibition schedule. We also invite talented artists and art historians to give talks throughout the academic year, creating opportunities for further demonstrations and discourse.
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Exhibitions and Events
Admission is free to campus and community.
Studio Practice: Art Faculty Showcase
July 30–September 3, 2026
Carrollton Center for the Arts
Hours: Monday–Friday / 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday / 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- Closing Reception: Thursday, September 3 / 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Studio Practice presents diverse works celebrating the creative research of UWG Art faculty, whose scholarship and teaching are founded in their studio-art-making practice.
Caroline Hatfield: A Story of Water and Dust
August 10–September 18, 2026
SVPA Gallery, Humanities Building
Hours: Monday–Friday / 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Reception: Wednesday, September 2 / 5:00–7:00 p.m.
- Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 1 / 5:00 p.m.
Referring back to the arrival of water to ancient earth via asteroids, considering the contradiction of the human-made Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, and looking towards a speculative future of geo-engineering, Caroline Hatfield's installation work suggests a narrative of environmental history that spirals, like a shell.
They Went West: UWG Selected Student Exhibition
August 10–September 17, 2026
Carrollton Center for the Arts
Hours: Monday–Friday / 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday / 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- Closing Reception: Thursday, September 3 / 5:00–7:00 p.m.
This exhibition features artwork by UWG students who won awards at the 2026 Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
Student Capstone Preview Art Exhibition
August 17–September 2, 2026
Visual Arts Building Gallery
Hours: Monday–Friday / 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Closing Reception: Wednesday, September 2 / 2:00–4:00 p.m.
This exhibition previews artwork by UWG students who will present their senior capstone shows during the academic year.
Wild Alterations
September 1–30, 2026
The Vault Gallery, Wadsworth Auditorium, Newnan
Hours: Tuesday-Friday / 2:00–6:00 p.m.
- Reception: Friday, September 18 / 6:00–8:00 p.m.
- Gallery Talk by Amie Esslinger at 7:00 p.m.
Wild Alterations: Views of the Natural World brings together a dynamic group of artists exploring unexpected, imaginative, and at times unsettling interpretations of flora and fauna. This exhibition embraces the natural world as both subject and catalyst—a site in which animals, plant life, and landscape are transformed through artistic vision into works that surprise, delight, and provoke. Details
Amie Esslinger: In Situ
September 1–30, 2026
The Vault Gallery, Wadsworth Auditorium, Newnan
Hours: Tuesday-Friday / 2:00–6:00 p.m.
- Reception: Friday, September 18 / 6:00–8:00 p.m.
- Gallery Talk: 700 p.m.
Georgia-based artist Amie Esslinger's installation for The Vault's Escape Device Project Space draws from microbiological forms while using repetition, scale, and material experimentation to create abstract biomorphic structures. The exhibition, reception, gallery talk are held concurrently with Wild Alterations.
Peter Van Dyck: Paintings
October 13–30, 2026
The Vault Gallery, Wadsworth Auditorium, Newnan
Hours: Tuesday-Friday / 2:00–6:00 p.m.
- Artist Talk: Tuesday, October 20, UWG Newnan: Register
- Reception: Thursday, October 22 / 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Winner of the 2026 Blackwell Prize in Painting, Peter Van Dyck is a celebrated contemporary realist painter and educator based in Philadelphia and Elba, AL. He is known for his intimately observed interior scenes and still lifes.
art incend: Iron pour and anagama kiln firing
Iron Pour: Friday, October 23, 2026
Beginning at 12:00 p.m., weather dependent
Kiln Firing: October 26–28, 2026
Join UWG Art behind the Visual Arts Building for these annual traditions! Campus and community are welcome.
Gallery Spaces
Visual Arts Building Gallery
The Visual Arts Building showcases a range of exhibitions in its gallery and provides a space for students to learn by experience, curating their own shows to prepare for professional careers.
The Vault Gallery
The Vault Gallery is a state-of-the-art designed space inside Newnan's Wadsworth Auditorium that holds diverse exhibitions of community interest in partnership with the City of Newnan.
Emergency Art Gallery
A boutique micro-gallery for installations, the Emergency Art Gallery is located in the exit for classroom 1301 in the Dr. James 'Earl' Perry Building.
The closest parking lot is beside the Townsend Center.
Gallery Spaces
facilities
Humanities Building: Studios for painting, drawing, and animation; labs for photography and graphic design; and classrooms for art education and history are located in the newly renovated Humanities Building, a 30+ million dollar state-of-the-art project, redesigned specifically for the arts.
Visual Arts Building: Visual Arts Building is also a new space created to house a printmaking studio, sculpture studio and foundry, and ceramics studio.
Campus Map
Locate buildings and parking for our UWG Carrollton venues and facilities on the campus map or consult the above directions for each venue via Google Maps.