CWAC Exhibitions

Framed works of art, some hanging on a white wall, others resting on a maroon couch awaiting installation
Works by Betty Young Kim

CWAC Exhibitions (CWAC Exh) presents student- and course-curated exhibitions in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center. This opportunity provides a supported environment for emerging curators, artists, and museum workers to hone their skills while activating CWAC spaces with artwork and installations.

Call for Proposals

The call for proposals has closed, our exhibition schedule for academic year 2025-26 is full.

We plan to open the call for 2026-27 in Spring 2026. 

For more information about our installation spaces, the collaborative support we offer, and our evaluation criteria, please visit our guide to Preparing a Proposal for CWAC Exhibitions and review our Evaluation Criteria.

Support

CWAC Exhibitions is organized by the Department of Art History’s Visual Resources Center. We are grateful for many campus colleagues and collaborators, including the Center for the Art of East Asia, the Department of Visual Arts, and the Smart Museum of Art. CWAC Exhibitions’s inaugural year (2023–2024) was supported by a generous gift from Brenda Shapiro with additional support from the College Curricular Innovation Fund. 

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • January 23, 2026 - February 27, 2026

    Horizon Lines: Imagining Potentiality

    In Horizon Lines: Reimagining Potentiality, Anju Lukose-Scott explores the horizon line as a marker of potential, a boundary between what is and what could be. Work by Zarouhie Abdalian, Frederick Bailie, Hai-Wen Lin, Nazafarin Lotfi, magicfeifei, and Anika Steppe and from the Joel Snyder Materials Collection challenges us to rethink not only the horizon line but also boundaries and borders, time and space, the present and the future.

Past Exhibitions