49 Oak
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About
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Be Our Valentine
Pop-up by the Illustration Department, 2023
Photography by Annabelle Collette
As a flexible, experimental space, 49 Oak presents student work and hosts activities tied to classroom projects, from popup shops to exhibitions. Administered by Artists at Work with faculty support, students learn how to curate, install, promote, document, sell, and staff exhibitions. During summer months, programming focuses on work created by the College’s alumni network.
Current & Upcoming
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Familiar Faces
Jo Ophardt '25 & Wills Phillips '25
September 6–28, 2024
Opening reception: September 6, 5–8pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays 5-8pm & Saturdays 11am–2pm
Wills Phillips '25 and Jo Ophardt '25 are early career artists that have spent the past three years learning and developing work alongside one another. By living, eating, working, dancing, laughing and griping together, ideas have naturally grown between the two artists. Often drawing from similar sources of music, experience, hopes, and embodiment, their work expresses the complexities of life in modern America through distinct expressions in paint and mixed media. The execution of their works does not land in the same aesthetic grouping or tradition. Jo Ophardt paints from pop culture to reflect the dissonance between everyday life and transcendent experiences while Wills Phillips uses a broad array of natural and artificial materials, often scavenged, to create awkward and precarious objects and bodies that invite the viewer in. Familiar Faces looks at what holds these two artists together. Each sets out on their own path, but maybe they are singing the same song, or laughing at the same joke.
Projects at 49 Oak
Opening Reception: Familiar Faces at 49 Oak
September 6, 2024
"Familiar Faces" at 49 Oak
September 6, 2024 – September 28, 2024
R&R Super Shopping Center
June 14, 2024 – August 25, 2024
Merch Table
April 5, 2024 – May 10, 2024
House of Pansies
February 23, 2024 – March 15, 2024
Mini Market: A Student Holiday Pop Up
December 1, 2023 – December 23, 2023
Harlan Crichton: That Was Fun
June 2, 2023 – July 15, 2023
Refraction
May 5, 2023 – May 19, 2023
Resilience Week Exhibition
April 7, 2023 – April 15, 2023
Gallery
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