Prof. Callas’ Art Featured in Two Exhibitions This Fall

Kimberly Callas, MFA, associate professor in the Department of Art and Design, will be featured in two exhibitions this fall.

"Sidereal: Again, to Navigate by Stars" will be on view at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center from Sept. 21 to Oct. 19, with an artist reception on Oct. 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. "Sidereal" evokes the ancient practice of navigating by stars. In this exhibition, Callas presents sculptures, drawings, and 3D-printed reliefs that trace the body's entanglement with ocean and cosmos. Nets rendered in painted filament, whales woven into labyrinths of ink and muslin, tidal moons sculpted in Winterstone, and swimmers collaged from constellations appear as archetypal figures of passage and transformation. Works such as "Night Swimmer" and "In the Beginning There Were Tears" speak to grief and surrender, while "Red Sky Fish" and "The Waves" reflect the rhythm of tides and warning skies. Together, these pieces map a journey through night and water, where human and oceanic bodies converge, and where to "again navigate by stars" is both poetic return and ecological necessity.

Callas' work will also be included in "Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent," presented by Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in partnership with The 109 Gallery. This exhibition, running Oct. 1, 2025, to Jan. 31, 2026, brings together artists whose work addresses the ethics of bodily autonomy, the permeability of borders, and the interconnectedness of human, animal, and ecological bodies. A preview will be held Oct. 3, 3-6 p.m., followed by an opening reception on Oct. 4, 6-9 p.m. at The 109 Gallery.