Campus Art Walk with Artists’ Talks: 3 – 4:30 p.m.
• Meet at the Visual Arts Gallery for Gwen Yen Chiu’s
exhibit “Northerly Winds”
• Proceed to the Big Walls Gallery (E/F Corridor) for
Vesna Jovanovic’s exhibit “Bawdy”
• Continue to the Skylight Gallery (GovState Library)
for Nikki Renee Anderson’s “Blossoms Becoming”
Reception: 5 – 7:30 p.m.
•Return to the Visual Arts Gallery for a reception,
conviviality, and refreshments.
Northerly Winds continues an ongoing dialogue with
artist Gwen Yen Chiu, expanding on her 2025
installation at theNate sculpture park, The Moon,
My Shadow, and I, on view through 2028. Drawing on
poetry and memory as generative forces, Yen Chiu’s
work transforms line into form, weaving together past
and present through layers of nostalgia, solitude, and
historical reflection.
Gwen Yen Chiu is a Chicago-based Taiwanese American
artist whose practice explores ideas of home, belonging,
and identity within the Asian diaspora. Influenced by
her early training in Chinese calligraphy and painting,
she channels gestural line, rhythm, and movement
into metal sculpture, bridging cultural tradition with
contemporary expression.