Thunderstorm

Join us in celebrating the work of the 2025 AUArts Summery Residency Artists!

The 2025 AUArts Summer Residency offers artists a unique chance to immerse themselves in their creative process using the university’s facilities. This year, twenty-nine artists participated over a ten-week period. Despite their varied backgrounds and the wide range of media they explore, they were united by the vibrant energy they poured into their work. Thunderstorm captures this surge of collective creativity—an electric charge that arises when so much artistic expression and momentum gather in one place.

The exhibition reflects the powerful transformation that such passion can ignite—not only in the materials the artists shape, whether canvas, clay, paper, fabric, or even living plants, but also in the environment their work inhabits. Thunderstorm invites viewers to feel the dynamic current of creative energy that has infused the residency, standing as a tribute to the power of artistic commitment and the enduring influence of creative intensity.