Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press
September 13 to December 20, 2025
Organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA., Jundt Galleries
Featuring about forty prints and other assorted works by contemporary African American creators, this traveling exhibition focuses on the visualization of personal narrative and political issues by these artists. The prints in this exhibition were produced at Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, California, an artistic hub in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. The exhibition includes 21st Century art by Radcliffe Bailey, Lonnie Holley, David Huffman, Kerry James Marshall, and Martin Puryear, among others. Meanwhile, the abstract patterning of Alabama’s Gee’s Bend quilters has likewise been transformed into colorful prints. The exhibition includes Huffman’s pyramidal sculpture composed of 650 rubber basketballs.
David Huffman (American, b. 1963)
Basketball Pyramid, 2007
Color aquatint, spit bite, sugar lift, soft ground and hard ground etching, edition 12/35
Courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA.
Through Kiln & Press: Works by Freuen & Farrell
Arcade Gallery, September 13 to December 20, 2025
This special exhibition combines the ceramic work of Gina Freuen and the printed work of Mary Farrell centered on their shared interest in organic forms and in the process of creating. Both artists remain important creators in the Spokane community, with Freuen working as an artist and educator in the region for over 50 years and Farrell directing the printmaking program in Gonzaga’s art department for more than two decades before her retirement in 2020.
Mary Farrell (American, b. 1950)
Arabesque, 2018
Monotype on paper
On loan from the artist
Gina Freuen (American, b. 1951)
Fenced Landscaped Water Vessel on Landscape Trivet, 2023
Soda-fired porcelain
On loan from the artist
All exhibitions at the Jundt Art Museum, in its 30th anniversary year, are supported by the museum’s Endowed Gallery Exhibit Fund and by the generous donors to the museum’s 2024–25 Annual Campaign.