Columbia DEPS

09/18/2026

Opening Reception Next Thursday, in Hokin Gallery:

Colors of Home
4-6pm

623 S. Wabash Ave, first floor

Home is often a place: a house, a town, or a neighborhood. It can also be a person, an object, a memory, or even a feeling. Within the transitory environment of college life, home is a word that often evokes comfort, belonging, and familiarity. As students grow, form new identities, and interact with new communities, definitions of belonging begin to shift.

Colors of Home aims to explore how the meaning of home varies from person to person and what comforts students as they navigate new beginnings. From family to culture to hometowns, the exhibition invites viewers to experience and question what home means from many perspectives across artistic practices.

Organized by Zayden German and Ana Lara

Participating artists:
Carley Brown
Esmeralda Garcia
Karoline Garcia
Rosalie Gengras
Zayden German
Brianna Ho
Michael Kowalkowski
Ana Lara
Samaya Norman
June Ritzman
Lilly Sundsbak
Sasha Willingham
Danaysha Woodard

09/16/2026

Hokin Gallery is currently installing our next exhibition Colors of Home. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, September 24, 4-6pm
Colors of Home
September 23-November 13, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, September 24, 4-6pm
Home is often a place: a house, a town, or a neighborhood. It can also be a person, an object, a memory, or even a feeling. Within the transitory environment of college life, home is a word that often evokes comfort, belonging, and familiarity. As students grow, form new identities, and interact with new communities, definitions of belonging begin to shift.

Colors of Home aims to explore how the meaning of home varies from person to person and what comforts students as they navigate new beginnings. From family to culture to hometowns, the exhibition invites viewers to experience and question what home means from many perspectives across artistic practices.

Organized by Zayden German and Ana Lara

Participating artists:
Carley Brown
Esmeralda Garcia
Karoline Garcia
Rosalie Gengras
Zayden German
Brianna Ho
Michael Kowalkowski
Ana Lara
Samaya Norman
June Ritzman
Lilly Sundsbak
Sasha Willingham
Danaysha Woodard

09/15/2026

Thank you for all of the participants and visitors who attended our event last week! The Made it Here! exhibit closing reception and Made it There! meet and greet event were a blast!

Thank you to the The Columbia Chronicle for covering Made it Here and Made it There!

https://columbiachronicle.com/campus/made-it-here-exhibition-showcases-student-projects-created-with-columbia-art-facilities/

On a black-clothed table, pages of brightly colored inspired illustrations fill up the space, with a bright blue cat that has an orange fish in its jaw.   This was the work of first-year illustration major Jari Rodriguez, one of the students in the “Made It There!” gallery, a mini-exhibit desig...

09/11/2026

Two exhibit opportunites for Columbia College Chicago students:

Deadline: September 13, 2026

Student Spaces for Art and Collaboration is partnering with the Center for Student Success to bring art to the newly renovated space at 33 E Ida B. Wells.



Opportunity #1:
https://ssac.submittable.com/submit/362924/2026-student-success-center-call-for-art



Opportunity #2:
https://ssac.submittable.com/submit/363400/2026-student-success-center-window-installation

09/10/2026

The Closing Reception for Made it Here! is tonight! 4-6pm Hokin Gallery.

The Columbia Chronicle published a review including interviews by some of the artists:

https://columbiachronicle.com/campus/made-it-here-exhibition-showcases-student-projects-created-with-columbia-art-facilities/

Please join us tonight in Hokin Gallery!

    An old denim jacket, decorated with trinkets and his former insulin pump, became a new outfit for Michael Kowalkowski’s drag persona, Magic Michael.   Kowalkowski, a senior fine arts major, had planned to make the outfit before he saw the call for submissions for “Made It Here!” But the...

09/08/2026

Two exhibit opportunites for Columbia College Chicago students:

Deadline: September 13, 2026

Student Spaces for Art and Collaboration is partnering with the Center for Student Success to bring art to the newly renovated space at 33 E Ida B. Wells.



Opportunity #1:
https://ssac.submittable.com/submit/362924/2026-student-success-center-call-for-art



Opportunity #2:
https://ssac.submittable.com/submit/363400/2026-student-success-center-window-installation

Student Spaces for Art and Collaboration is partnering with the Center for Student Success to bring art into the newly renovated space at 33 E Ida B. Wells.  A prominent architectural feature inside the Center for Student Success, is a glass-enclosed conference room that viewed when entering the sp...

09/08/2026

Two events this Thursday!

Made it Here! exhibit Closing Reception, Hokin Gallery

Made it There!, Meet and Greet informal art fair, Haus

4-6pm, Thursday, September 10.

Sign up to participate in Made it There!

09/01/2026