With over 2,000 square feet, The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery is located on the first floor of the Art and Journalism Building, adjacent to the Ball State Bookstore (owned by Barnes and Noble) and near the building's main elevator and staircase.
The mission of The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery is the promotion and appreciation of the visual arts for studio artists, educators, and designers. The gallery serves as an important educational tool as it provides opportunities for students, faculty, and the broader arts community to showcase works and view the artwork of others.
The gallery is the primary location for receptions for School of Art students’
thesis exhibitions. It is also a venue for exceptional juried and visiting exhibitions in various media with regional, national and international participation.
For more information about exhibitions and reception dates, see the Ball State University calendar or listen to Indiana Public Radio.
The School of Art invites proposals for its 2026-27 exhibition season. Artists, designers, and curators are encouraged to review the call for proposals here and submit by March 10, 2026. Questions may be directed to Professor Jessica Calderwood, jcalderwood@bsu.edu.
Normal Hours
Tuesdays – Fridays: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.
Open select Saturdays for special events as the exhibition schedule allows, including:
- Homecoming (October 24) (Noon to 4pm)
- BSU Preview Days (October 3, March 20, April 17) (Noon to 4pm)
- Commencement (May 1) (Noon to 4pm)
Griner ART Gallery Floor Plan (PDF)
2026-2027 Griner Gallery Schedule
Event details and dates are subject to change.
Beginnings 2026: The First-Year Foundations Student Show
September 4 – October 9, 2026 | Reception and awards ceremony: September 11, 4-6 p.m.
The Beginnings 2026 exhibition showcases student artwork completed in the past academic year in School of Art First-Year Foundations courses. We are pleased to offer awards in four categories (2D, 3D, 4D, and Drawing) and a Best in Show Award that is generously sponsored by Art Mart in the Village. Join us for the reception and awards ceremony during BSU Family Weekend, Friday, September 11 from 4 to 6pm.
Foundations provides all first-year students in the studio art, animation, graphic design, and art education programs with the fundamental concepts of art and design through an intensive year-long studio-based experience in AFA 101 Drawing Studio, ADS 101 2D Foundations, ADS 102 3D Foundations, ADS 103 4D Foundations. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes critical thinking and making skills, conceptual development, process, collaboration, and experimentation. Students are introduced to the School of Art’s learning approaches and gain a deeper understanding of historical and contemporary practices in art and design.
Posters for Peace: Voices from the Indian Context
October 20 – November 12, 2026 | Panel discussion: November 5, 3-4 p.m.
Reception: November 5, 4-6 p.m.
Posters for Peace: Voices from the Indian Context is an international design collaboration initiated by the South Asian Design Educators Alliance (SADEA). The initiative brings together twenty graphic designers and design educators from India and the United States (of Indian origin) to explore and interpret the idea of peace within the Indian socio-cultural context.
Each designer was invited to define, visualize, and communicate their understanding of peace through the medium of the poster. The result is a curated collection of twenty works that present diverse interpretations including spirituality, harmony, cultural heritage, social justice, equity, and collective responsibility.
Posters have long been a powerful medium in the public sphere. They communicate urgency, provoke thought, and give visual form to social issues. Historically used for political movements, cultural messaging, and public awareness campaigns, posters function as direct visual statements that connect designers with broad audiences.
In this exhibition, each poster acts as a personal reflection from the designer to the viewer. Some works are direct and activist in tone, while others approach the idea of peace through symbolism, cultural narratives, or philosophical reflection.
Amid global uncertainty and conflict, Posters for Peace creates a space for reflection, dialogue, and cross-cultural understanding. The exhibition highlights the role of designers as cultural communicators and reminds audiences that peace is not passive. It is an active, collective process shaped through empathy, cooperation, and mutual respect.
Cassidy Frye: Breathing out Sighs
November 18 – December 10, 2026 | Reception and artist’s talk: November 18, 4-6 p.m.
Breathing Out Sighs turns the viewers’ attention to the quiet vessels and memory of home. Including the moments, we spend inside houses where we embrace comfort, calm, warmth or the mundane. Just like abandoned homes we may release a sigh, one of longing, notice or while standing with clam. Much like a house we are constantly in a state of construction. A home isn’t finished when building is completed it continues to change and settle with time. It is altered by its occupants and surroundings. At a moment’s notice this house can be gone but the memories remain. The way a house is built can be compared to the way we build relationships, piece by piece, and those relationships are just as fragile. What is important are the moments between and how that time is spent.
This Exhibition utilizes sculptural and craft techniques including fibers, stained glass, ceramics, and printmaking to refabricate abandoned homes and objects found in spaces we occupy such as windows, keys, appliances, and rugs to support the notions of home and comfort. The interdisciplinary work is great in a learning institution for showing students how the materials and techniques can be elevated and utilized as tools in a finished project to support a concept. Everyone has a connection to home. My connection is one of constant relocation and searching for what home is while convincing myself it’s the communities we surround ourselves with. Craft elements came into play with the communal aspect reflecting on the impact of community in craft and how many of those activities historically place in groups. The structures in the work hold a visual importance and we created from based on actual abandoned homes. Buildings that contain history and someone’s memories. A place that was once comforting now sits empty and calm letting out those sighs for attention. I contemplate what happened to these structures that left them empty but some still full of possessions. This exhibition is am homage to all the places we have all called home, the moments we stand in front of the fridge grabbing nothing, time spent at the stove cooking for our community, or how difficult it can be to obtain a tiny piece of metal that unlocks it all.
2.0 Kinds of Funny
January 15 – February 11, 2027 | Reception and artists' talk, January 15, 4 to 6 p.m.
2.0 Kinds of Funny is an exhibition of humorous art with works contained one cubic foot boxes. This exhibition presents the possibilities when we stop being polite and start getting real; what happens when we engage with the calculus of tragedy + time = comedy. We offer the product of what happens when artists oil up our overly developed critical thinking muscles for the posedown of human experience in its full splendor. Humor can be a bridge, equalizer, magnifying glass, scalpel, weapon, truth serum, and a map of our values, fears, and desires. What is it for you? Come, tell us something funny. We can all use the laugh.
This exhibition was organized at the University of Cincinnati by Creative Directors Holli Friley, Matt Lynch, and Jenny Ustick, and features multiple Ball State Alumni. Artists include: Leticia Bajuyo, Natalie Baxter, Keith Benjamin, Zack Bent, Dustin Boise, Clay Brown, Greg Clem, Ben Entner, Tracy Featherstone, Matthew Flores, Holli Friley, Karen Gergely, Joe Girandola, Curtis Goldstein, Rae Goodwin, Buster Graybill, Tyler Hamilton, Jo Hormuth, Andre Hyland, Margaret Kammerer, John Kilduff, Ryan Kmieske, Jed Knight, Danielle Krysa, Steve Lacy, Rachel Linnemann, Matt Lynch, Jack Massing, Baggs McKelvey, Sara Mulhauser, Neil Daigle Orians, PlantBot Genetics, Bret Price, Josh Reiman, Lydia Ricci, Herb Rieth, Andy Sahlstrom, Rajiv Satyal, Slapface, Jenny Ustick, Brett Volpp, Chris Vorhees, and Aaron Walker.
92nd Annual Juried Student Art Show
February 20 – March 20, 2027 | Juror’s Talk, Exhibition Reception, and Awards: February 20, 5-8 p.m.
The Annual Juried Student Art Show represents the breadth of creativity in the School of Art. This year’s juror is Mike Barclay, head of 60 on Center and independent curator and collections manager based in Indianapolis. All students currently enrolled in classes in the School of Art are eligible to enter artwork for the juror’s consideration. Work from all areas of study in the School of Art are eligible for entry, including animation, ceramics, drawing, game art/design, glass, graphic design, illustration, metals + jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video and new media. More than $5000 in scholarships and awards are given each year.
BFA Studio Art Senior Capstone Exhibitions I, II, and III
April 13 – 17, 2027 | Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk: April 14, 4 to 6 p.m.
April 20 – 24, 2027 | Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk: April 21, 4 to 6 p.m.
April 27 – May 1, 2027 | Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk: April 28, 4 to 6 p.m.
Graduating seniors earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art will showcase their work in a range of media, including ceramics, drawing, glass, metals + jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video and new media.