The Celebration of Women’s History Month will feature exhibitions, apanel discussion, and reception for Kathryn Cellerini Moore’s installation will on view in the Hartwig Gallery and Elizabeth Gartner Howe’s paintings will be on display in the Besse Gallery. An opening reception and panel discussion will be held on March 5, 2026, at 2pm in the Besse Theater.
Bay College announces the exhibitions, reception, and panel discussion for The Celebration of Women’s History Month by artists Kathryn Cellerini Moore and Elizabeth Gartner Howe.
Bay College is excited to announce the exhibitions, panel discussion, and reception for The Celebration of Women’s History Month. Kathryn Cellerini Moore’s installation will on view in the Hartwig Gallery and Elizabeth Gartner Howe’s paintings will be on display in the Besse Gallery. Please join us for the opening reception and panel discussion on March 5, 2026, at 2pm in the Besse Theater.
Kathryn Cellerini Moore
Bio
Kathryn Cellerini Moore is a curious human, mom, activist, and interdisciplinary artist who likes to ask questions. Their favorite questions in the studio and in life are "what if?" and "why not?" It’s often the subject of the question that drives the media Cellerini Moore works with.
Cellerini Moore is a self-proclaimed space maker who nerds out about the impact of color, texture, light and space in site-specific locations. Ideas are first explored with paper, materials experiments, and paint before being realized in the third or fourth dimensions. An ever-strengthening determination to use hyper-locally sourced materials and earth-friendly items to create their art, Cellerini Moore’s artistic research celebrates iteration and play, champions inquiry, and encourages wonder and awareness.
Because Cellerini Moore does not believe artists are immune from responsibly powering their multimedia installations, she endeavors to build and utilize green energy as often as possible. Cellerini Moore’s projects are often collaborative and created in partnership with students and peers, as well as scientists from institutions around the globe including the University of Washington, the University of Iceland, Oregon State University, Willamette University, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and BioPol Laboratories in Iceland.
Cellerini Moore's work is exhibited internationally. Their solo and collaborative projects have been awarded funding from Climate Action Now, The Ford Family Foundation, The Oregon Arts Commission, The Work Consortium Grant, and The Gretchen Schuette Endowment. In partnership with The Art Center, Glint, Glimmer, Glow received a grant from Pacific Power, which funded the collaboration with the Oregon State University College of Engineering capstone students to build a renewable energy system to power the exhibition.
Cellerini Moore received an MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, a BS in Psychology and a BFA in Applied Visual Arts from Oregon State University. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, USA.
Artist Statement
In the 1960s, Apollo 8 astronauts flew spacecraft around the moon and used a camera to take photographs of Earth from space for the first time. Those first human-captured photographs of spaceship Earth changed humanity’s collective perception about how small, fragile, and precious Earth is. For example, in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency was founded after those pictures were released to the public. “Earth Day” was created.
Environmental awareness and humanity’s impact on climate and finite resources became more broadly recognized. In recent years I have been wondering what the next mind-blowing discovery or image will be. When will we witness such a great impact on the human psyche that we decide to be as resourceful and kind to our planet and to each other as we have the potential to be? My artistic research asks these questions and reaches for possible aesthetic solutions that will inspire people to do well by themselves and the planet.
Kaleidoscopic Soup is where the galactic and microcosmic commingle and meld together. Videos of creatures under my own microscope and that of scientist James Weiss, undersea volcanic scenes from the Schmidt Ocean Institute, and scenes captured during my experience as a pregnant person, are warped by pirouetting petri dishes into speckled, nebular vistas. The emergent and waning nebular forms reference the beauty and power of full-fledged galactic nebulae, which are the aftermath of the universe’s most explosive, generative recycling agents. The soundtrack includes clips from NASA Chandra X-Ray Sonification Project files that assign soundwaves to nebula images, interspersed with music made by some of Earth’s very