SBM Gallery

February 6–March 20, 2026

Before | During | Now

This exhibition is an investigation of how a global pandemic changed (or didn't) our life, world, and art. Each invited artist will include, something they made before the COVID shut down, something they made during lockdown, and something they made after/now. The observation of changing style, theme, materials, and more in the artwork will shed light on what shifted for these artists individually and make comment on what has transformed - or not - in our larger world.

Featuring: Schroeder Cherry, Heather Douglas, Allison Duggan, Denise Gantt, Nora Howell, Tiffany Jones, Sara Kaltwasser, Paula Phillips, Christine Stiver, Adam Thorman

March 25–April 24, 2026

Paula Phillips: Power

A fine artist, educator and social justice advocate and activist, Paula specializes in mixed-media artworks that intertwine with and lift up the fundamentals of social justice while honoring and reflecting combinations of her European, Indigenous American and African roots. “Voice’, symbiotic and relational meaning hold integral values and are constant components found in Phillips’ work.  Her art manifests through personal experiences and cultural and professional relationships, producing metaphorical, narrative-based mixed-media paintings. 

March 25–April 24, 2026

Jo-El Lopez: Digital Divine

Jo-El Lopez explores the relationship between technology, spirituality, and human consciousness. Through his paintings, he imagines a world where artificial intelligence is not just a tool, but a presence that reflects the rituals, beliefs, and myths that shape human life. In the Digital Divine series, Lopez transforms familiar digital assistants—voices like Siri and Alexa—into characters within a spiritual story. In this multiverse he calls The Sacred Algorithm, artificial intelligences develop their own beliefs, symbols, and rituals. Digital Divine represents a sacred space where these entities gather to worship their deities, reflecting humanity’s ongoing search for meaning, connection, and understanding of the unknown.

April 29–May 22, 2026

Christine Stiver

Stiver’s human-sized sculptures are a peculiar combination of instantaneous gestures colliding with obsessive repetition. The resulting abstract forms are as much a consequence of happenstance as they are carefully conceived. Starting with green branches that are torqued into orbital shapes and then dried to their most fragile state, Stiver then employs meditative labors such as paper twisting, feathering and stringing tiny polymer fruits onto thread in order to accumulate material for their surfaces. The tension in material and process suggests an attitude of mutability–a cycle of solidifying and releasing control.

April 29–May 22, 2026

Dominic Terlizzi

Dominic Terlizzi's art is the synthetic colliding against history, domestication, refinement, and germination, nothingness, absence, place-holding, base, origins of recipe, repetition, and memory. The work is a hierarchy of beliefs in moments present, class schema and academic structure, authorship, authenticity, labor, origin, transforming minutia into grandeur, a found common object alphabet, obfuscating a precise ending, cosmic mosaic architecture, and retinal ground psychedelia. 

May 27–June 26, 2026

Sara Kaltwasser

Sara Kaltwasser is a multidisciplinary artist, and art educator. Sara uses painting, installation, research and collage to create works that explore the confluence of education, art, history, and activism. Using the images of educational tools, the landscape, and flags, Sara's works provoke the viewer to consider questions relating the the mythologized histories of whiteness they learn in school, and the ways in which national symbols of power may actually be warnings, printed in our textbooks.

July 1–July 26, 2026

What Carries Us Through

Artists often see growth in technique, ideas, and process, but at heart there is a unique voice in all they do. What Carries Us Through is an exhibition that asks artists to showcase parts of their journey where that voice is present, including work at least a decade between pieces. Co-curated by Tiffany Jones and Sarah McCann work on view will show the thread that remains in work created early in life and what is being made decade(s) later. The connective thread that carries through in juxtaposition with all learned and experienced on the journey.

Call for entry posted soon.

March 1–March 31, 2027

I Don't Just Do Clay Anymore

The curators of this exhibition, Ana Maria Economou and Sarah McCann were drawn to the idea that artistic practices often hold histories, expansive information about diverse cultures, and information about materials and techniques. Considering their own creative practices and that of artists they know, they questioned how many have worked in ceramics and then shifted to other processes, materials, new technologies, a focus on a different day job, etc. How does printing on clay, coiling other materials, becoming a nurse, 3D printing clay, making it as an artist when access to studios may come and go impact one’s creative output?

Call for entry coming soon.