Kohl Gallery Past Exhibits
2026 蜜桃传媒 All Student Exhibition
March 20 - April 4, 2026
Artworks by: Ella Baldwin, Sophia Cost, Jeremy Cress, Faye Dorman, Victoria Griffith, Erin Helgerman, Ella Humphreys, Ella Jendrek, Ella Lenert, Rebekah McCreary, Sage McKim, Calynn Nelson, Ethan Ransom, Heidi Tine, Nilofar Turabi, Max Van Doren, Isabella Yim
Exhibition juried by: Lou Joseph
蜜桃传媒’s Kohl Gallery presented this annual all student exhibition. This year’s exhibition is juried by the Baltimore-based artist and arts administrator Lou Joseph. In speaking about the exhibition Joseph shared, “Thank you to Kohl Gallery and the art faculty of 蜜桃传媒 for inviting me to jury this exhibition, but I’d especially like to thank the students for submitting their work. It was a true honor to see the wide variety of styles, media and ideas in the work, and the clear commitment of the students to advancing their practice. I am excited to see where their work goes from here, and I hope being a part of this exhibition will play a small part in building momentum towards a lifelong dedication to making art.”
Lou Joseph is an artist and arts administrator based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently the Manager of Grants, Competitions and Exhibitions at Create Baltimore, the arts council for Baltimore. Born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1975, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BFA in painting in 1998 and received an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University in 2004. He continues an active studio practice, primarily working on painting and long-term collaborative projects, and has exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Venice, Berlin among others. From 2012 to 2022 he directed the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, an artist-run nomadic art space, staging 36 large scale solo artists exhibitions, along with professional practice programming. He lives with his family in the city of Baltimore.
Earlier Exhibits:
蜜桃传媒 Collects
February 12 - March 6, 2026
蜜桃传媒 Collects offered a peek into the vast archive of one of our country’s oldest liberal arts colleges. Nearly 250 years in the making, this exhibition dusted off highlights from an unprecedented collection of historic manuscripts, artifacts, and artworks. From the unique medical instruments used by George Washington’s personal physician to renowned author Sophie Kerr’s cat blanket, 蜜桃传媒 Collects drew from a range of the college’s extensive holdings including Maryland politician Louis Goldstein’s personal snap shots, Constance Larrabee photographs, and 19th century children’s clothing.
蜜桃传媒 Collects reflected on the vibrant history of our institution as
we near our 250th anniversary, but more importantly this exhibition pointed to the
shared value of our future together. For generations, 蜜桃传媒’s archive
has been a trusted keeper of beloved personal collections largely drawn from the Eastern
Shore.
蜜桃传媒 Collects was curated by Kohl Gallery Director Rob Blackson with
curatorial assistance from students Katie Hoffmaster and Morgan Link.
The Rose Garden Green Room
by John Jarboe
?October 23 - December 4, 2025
The Rose Garden Green Room, made in collaboration with performance and visual artist John Jarboe and 蜜桃传媒 students, is all at once an art piece, an illuminating immersion into Jarboe’s gender journey, and a gathering space for all. Visitors are invited to take and exchange from the exhibit’s closet full of clothes, to sit down and write a letter to their gender, to read and enjoy a book exploring queer identity and expression from the room’s library nook, and to delight in the space’s sculpture and audiovisual elements. Additionally, a table full of rose-inspired treats will be provided by the Kohl Gallery.
Maintaining an aura of familiarity, evoking hints of nostalgia and warmth, this accessible and warm space both nourishes those in it and challenges them to deepen their understanding of gender. Pamphlets for educational purposes and resources will be accessible. A series of free public programs has also been organized to complement The Rose Garden Green Room.
John Jarboe (she/her) is a director, producer, writer, performer, visual artist, and the founding artistic director of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. After receiving a BA and a BFA in English and Theater from the University of Michigan, Jarboe moved to Philadelphia, where in the past 15 years she has created and performed work for organizations including The Wilma Theater, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Horticultural Society, FringeArts, and Opera Philadelphia. She and her company The Bearded Ladies gained notoriety for their annual Bastille Day show at Eastern State Penitentiary, which grew under her writing and directing from a street festival to an hour-long performance attended by over 10,000 people by 2018. Jarboe has received a 2013 Independence Fellowship, was named best drag performer in Philadelphia (2018) by Philadelphia Magazine and is a 2022 Transformation Grant awardee (The Leeway Foundation ). Outside of Philadelphia she has toured original work to Miami, Seattle (Seattle Symphony) France, Poland, New Zealand (Performance Arcade), and Australia (Malthouse Theater). She has also written, performed, and directed original work for La Mama ETC, Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series, and The Guggenheim's Works & Process series. She has written for and directed original cabarets for famed opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo and is the drag doula of Stephanie Blythe. Jarboe's original performance piece Rose: You Are Who You Eat, commissioned by Works and Process, had a rolling world premiere at FringeArts in fall 2023, La MaMa January 2024, and Woolly Mammoth in June 2024. She was also a resident artist at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and debuted her first installation of films and objects called The Rose Garden in May of 2024. See her upcoming work at and .
This unique exhibition, accompanying theater performance, and public programming was created through collaboration among the Kohl Gallery, The Rose O’Neill Literary House, The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, and the 蜜桃传媒 Department of Theater and Dance. The Rose Garden Green Room exhibition and public program has been made possible by The Maryland State Arts Council, The Hedgelawn Foundation, The Kent Cultural Alliance, and The William James Fund.
The Rose Garden Green Room was originally conceived and created by John Jarboe in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and then exhibited in Washington, D.C. by Cultural D.C.
Bodily
Squiggles
Play! & Bodily
Two Senior Studio Art Capstone Exhibitions ?By Katelyn Reggie and Ziggy Love Angelos
About the Artists:
Ziggy Love Angelos is a visual artist from Monkton Maryland and Chicago Illinois. Their works focus
on explorations of the figure which reflect their deeply sensitive and spiritual nature.
They are a Studio Art major and Psychology minor at 蜜桃传媒 (WAC), graduating
in Fall 2025. During their time at WAC, their work has been exhibited at Kohl Gallery
and River Arts Gallery in Chestertown. They have also served on campus as co-president
of the art club, art director for the Collegian Magazine, and as a peer mentor. After
college, Angelos has interest in exploring artist residencies and attending graduate
school with a focus in Art Therapy to eventually support marginalized groups. Ziggy
is a singer-songwriter both solo and as a member of the band DressCode where they
play guitar, bass, and lead vocals.
"My work portrays strength in our most gentle truths.?As a deeply sensitive person,
art has provided me a safe space to process and become as self alongside my artistic
creations. I have fallen in love with the process of creation which has been a dear
friend to me ever since I was young when I began questioning how I take shape on this
earth. I began making from a place of curiosity with the figure as I approached my
understandings of gender, size, presentation, trauma, and societal roles and pressures.
This practice has offered me the gift of exploration and understanding of relationship
with self both internally and externally. Therefore, guiding me to a place of expressive
empowerment. As I've aged, my works have acted as time stamps in the development of
my identity."
Katelyn Reggie is a process-based artist currently completing her last semester at 蜜桃传媒.
She is a psychology and studio art double major and exploring the interplay between
her majors through her emotions and experiences. When she was younger she loved drawing
and doodling, but stopped in high school because she chose music. In 2022 she began
working in visual art again, with a focus on exploring installation and sculpture
based work and has since expanded her work to include painting and collage techniques.
"I enjoy playing with different materials and focusing on the process behind getting
to my final works. My artistic process unfolds intuitively, letting the materials
guide me through the work. For the past few years I've worked with paints, paper,
and rhinestones, as well as window screens, ceramic plates, and bright aluminum cans.
Cutting up or breaking apart older works is something I often do to create new artworks.
Lately, I've been playing with line and repetition to create works with bright colors
(especially pink) adding a sense of playfulness and whimsy."
100 Proof
The Annual Student Exhibition
March 21-29, 2025
The exhibition was juried by naturalist, writer, and artist Austen Camille, who wrote, “...What I was drawn to in these works was a real sense of an attempt to make sense of something, a working through, a feeling of problem solving, [and] trying to understand. The original meaning of 'understand' has nothing to do with 'under' - instead, it's everything to do with being 'in the midst of / between / among', and I think that's what I was coming across here.”
100 Proof featured work by: Ziggy Angelos, Brooke Bailey, Ella Baldwin, Erin Cooper, Jeremy Cress, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Erin Helgerman, Ella Humphreys, Elle Kavina, Morgan Link, Stevie Lyles, Madison Maguire, Rebekah McCreary, Sage McKim, Kaitlin Osucha, Liam Peregoy, Emily Polio, Ethan Ransom, Xavier M. Smalls, Eleanor Thibault, Heidi Tine Anna Treadway, Justus Williams, and Kit Yim
Drafting Dissent: The Use of Drawings in Cuba's Recent Activist Scene
Artworks by Camila R. Lobón, Raychel Carrion, and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
Curated by María de Lourdes Mari?o Fernandez
February 6- March 8
Drafting Dissent illuminates the cultural and political discourse of a new generation of Cuban artists. Over the last six years, a wave of artists/activists residing in Cuba and abroad, have used a range of artistic techniques to raise attention to the political struggle of the Cuban people. Drawings have been essential throughout the development of this alternative cultural scene. The three artists introduced in this exhibition, Camila R. Lobo?n, Raychel Carrio?n, and Luis Manuel Otero Alca?ntara, are at the center of this movement.
Camila R. Lobo?n was a founder of INSTAR (Institute of Artivism Hanna Arendt), and is a central member of 27N, the activist group that staged the first public manifestation against political persecution led by artists and intellectuals since 1959.
Raychel Carrio?n, also a member of 27N and who resides in Spain, became an important voice in support of this movement through social media by sharing drawings where he narrates the current conflicts.
Luis Manuel Otero Alca?ntara, currently serving a five-year prison sentence in Cuba for his performative activism and participation in mass demonstrations, is a central figure of the cultural shift that characterizes contemporary Cuban art. Even from prison, Alca?ntara continues to be a fundamental force of the political and cultural struggle in the country.
Through these artists' exhibited drawings, Drafting Dissent represents the practice of conceptual meditation on the reality of political persecution, isolation, and overwhelming despair on the island.
above image: Raychel Carrión, Incendio/ Fire, from the series Sharing. Graphite on paper, 2020
Contextualizing the Exhibit:
The Cuba Experience
Professor Elena Deanda-Camacho
Curator María de Lourdes Mari?o Fernandez
Sobia Ahmad: Devotions
Devotions is centered within Sobia Ahmad's ongoing connection to the Pando Forest in Utah. This ancient grove of 47,000 aspen trees is considered Earth's oldest living organism. Pando stretches over 100 acres and is unified by a single immense root system, making it ‘a forest of one'. In response to this unique and living site, Ahmad created One Big Eye. This hand-processed 16mm film transferred to HD was made in collaboration with Benny Shaffer and weaves scientific, folkloric, and mystical ways of relating to Pando. Writing about this forest and its broader influence on her artistic practice Ahmad shares: “I see Pando's root system as a guiding metaphor for interconnectedness. I am interested in the theme of entanglement through the lens of Oneness in Sufi mysticism, the power of film as a medium to remind us of our shared reality, and the political implications of relating to each other and a more-than-human world as an interconnectedness whole.”
Brandon Donahue-Shipp and Katie Pumphrey: Freestyle
Freestyle is an exhibition of recent works by Brandon Donahue-Shipp and Katie Pumphrey. Artistry and athletics are inextricably connected. Donahue-Shipp and Pumphrey extend this creative connection through their individual artistic practices.
Sizhu Li: MOONMENT
Moonment is a kinetic installation project inspired by a Chinese ancient poem “海上生明月，天涯共此时” by Tang poet Zhang Jiu Lin. This work describes a surreal and poetic night sea view that resonates with people of different locations. Aluminum sheets, programmed fans, and a heart-shaped, beating moon create a live, moving, percussive environment. People see the moon and hear the sound, thereby connecting to loved ones beyond time and distance. For more information visit the Moonment website.