At Hand, At Present: Collage and the Practice of Making Do
On view November 14, 2025–January 31, 2026
Studio Gallery
The Mid-American College Art Association (MACAA) presents a juried hybrid exhibition with an in-person exhibition in the Tarble’s Studio Gallery. At its core, collage is a way of pulling from what already exists to imagine something that doesn't. It's about making do with what's at hand and using those limited resources to explore fantasy, fiction, speculative pasts and futures, hybridity, the impossible, and the not-yet-to-be. This layering of material--which occurs across media, including but not limited to video, sculpture, textiles and quilting, painting, and photography--opens up new possibilities for the ideas, objects, and images around us. Collage is about context or, more specifically, re-context, as the meaning of that original content shifts through repurpose, recombination, and re-imagination.
About the Juror
Nick Larsen is an artist and book editor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Ohio State University, where he received his MFA in Sculpture. Larsen has had over a dozen solo and collaborative exhibitions, including, most recently, Old Haunts, Lower Reaches (Nevada Museum of Art, 2024) and been a part of a number of notable group exhibitions, including several editions of New American Paintings. Since 2022, he has been the managing editor at Radius Books, a non-profit art book publisher in Santa Fe, where he has overseen the publication of over forty-five photography, fine art, architecture, and poetry books.