Department of Art & Design hosts annual Art Auction

MURRAY, Ky. – The Murray State Department of Art & Design and University Galleries are pleased to host the 2023 annual Art Auction on Friday, Nov. 10 beginning at 6 p.m. in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery, located on the sixth floor of the Doyle Price Fine Arts building on Murray State’s campus. 

Original works of art in a wide variety of formats will be available for purchase through both silent and live auction during the evening. The works are donated by faculty, staff, students and alumni, as well as local and regional artists. Proceeds from the event go to support Murray State’s Department of Art & Design student scholarships. 

This year’s featured artist is John Utgaard, Professor of Ceramics at Murray State University. Utgaard grew up in Carbondale, Illinois and studied at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, the Kansas City Art Institute and at Alfred University where he received his Master of Fine Arts in 1999. In addition to having been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, the Northern Clay Center and the Red Lodge Clay Center, he has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Penn State University, and currently teaches in the ceramics area of Murray State’s department of Art and Design. His current body of work is a meditation on our relationship to land and landscapes. 

Registration and the silent auction begin at 6 p.m. and the live auction begins at 7 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

For more information about this or other upcoming events, please contact the Department of Art & Design at 270-809-3784 or msu.art@murraystate.edu. For more information about the Department of Art & Design, visit murraystate.edu/art.