2026 Juried STUDENT Exhibition

Awards Reception

Monday, March 23 ⎹ 5 – 7 PM

The School of Art and Design’s annual Juried Student Exhibition celebrates the distinguished work of Texas State University students. The 2026 Juror is Andrea Alvarez, PhD, Associate Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York.

Andrea Alvarez, PhD has been on the curatorial team at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum since she joined as a Curatorial Fellow in 2017. Her curatorial focus is on contemporary art, with a particular interest in the work of Latinx, Latin American, and other global diasporic artists.

In her time at the museum, her curatorial projects have included organizing One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama (2025), From These Hands/De Estas Manos: Narsiso Martinez (2023), Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration (2021) and the AKG’s presentation of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965–85 (2018). She was the coordinating curator for the permanent installation of Firelei Baéz’s mosaic commission Chorus of the Deep (something ephemeral and beautifully whole when seen from the edge of one’s vision, too full when taken head on) (2023). Alvarez’s major exhibition Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, a group show featuring work by 58 Latinx artists will open at the Buffalo AKG in March 2026 and will be followed by a national tour through 2028. The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue.

From 2014 to 2017, Alvarez was Director of Exhibitions at VCU School of the Arts, and she has previously held positions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and Fundación Guayasamín, in Quito, Ecuador. Alvarez earned her PhD and Master’s degrees at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and her Bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary.