Current Exhibitions

How do artists and galleries prepare for new exhibitions? This spring, Gallery114@HC invites students and community members alike to learn more about what goes on behind closed doors with a series of professional workshops and collaborative learning experiences. Join us for topics such as preparing your artwork for an exhibition, building an artist portfolio, and professionally documenting your art (among other workshops), with guest appearances from local artists and arts professionals.

Photographing your work

Wednesday, March 11, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Led by: Omar Richardson, Art Instructor, Hillsborough College

Building a Portfolio

Thursday, March 12, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Led by: Samantha Modder, Professor of Art & Design, University of Tampa 

Professional Headshots – free signup

Tuesday, March 24, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Led by: Katelyn Rose, Photographer

Ready to Hang

Thursday, March 26, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m., 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. & by appointment artgalleries@hccfl.edu

Led by: Piper Harrow, Preparator, Hillsborough College
 

In Healing Properties, Kendra Frorup explores memory, healing and identity through prints and sculptures created around her 2024–2025 Fulbright Fellowship in the Bahamas. Inspired by her family’s bush farm—land first cultivated by her mother through a government lease-to-own program—Frorup documents the plants and traditions of bush medicine, a practice rooted in resilience and care. Bordering the Bonefish Pond National Park, the farm becomes a site of remembrance and renewal, reflecting her family’s history with cancer and her own journey of recovery. Transforming collected and natural materials, Frorup turns the act of making into an act of healing.

Kendra Frorup is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Tampa. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University in 1996 and has widely exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Flock presents a visual exploration of identity, resilience, transformation, and migration through the work of Bahamian-born artist Omar Richardson, Art Instructor at Hillsborough College. Rooted in the cultural symbols, oral traditions, and spiritual heritage of the Bahamas, Richardson’s practice blends traditional Caribbean visual language with contemporary mark-making. Now based in Tampa, he finds renewed inspiration in the historic and multicultural neighborhood of Ybor City, a setting that echoes themes of migration, resistance, and creative endurance. His woodcuts and prints embody emotional narratives that bridge past and present, homeland and adopted home.

This exhibition also features prints made by three current and former students—Daniel Del Valle, Sofia Braswell, and Eliza Rivera—whose contributions reflect mentorship, dialogue, and artistic growth. Together, the artists invite viewers to reflect on how place, memory, and community shape evolving identities and the collective journey of becoming.