The Foster Art Gallery of Westminster College welcomes artist Morgan Bukovec and her exhibit, “are you on the menu,” now through Friday, Dec. 5, in the Foster Art Gallery in Patterson Hall. A gallery reception will be held at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6. 

A result of Bukovec’s decade-long work in the service industry, Bukovec’s exhibit is series of embroidered guest checks with various negative phrases, questions and comments taken from her own experiences with male customers.   

Bukovec is a mixed media artist, community organizer and collector of things from Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and arts education from the University of Dayton. Bukovec works with objects found across mediums including collage, textiles, installation and ceramics. She focuses on the themes of identity, storytelling and fleeting moments and objects across time. 

Bukovec’s “are you on the menu” series has been awarded multiple exhibition opportunities, speaking engagements, a gift grant by the Kanyer Art Collection and has been featured in national publications.  

“Each remark, command and question are quotes taken from my experiences as a server with male customers. This series is a personal release and a way to gain ownership over the words said to me by men,” said Bukovec.“This series breathes with intention. The guest checkbooks have made their way into my life as I unconsciously bring them home, accumulating them over the years of serving and bartending. The sharp point of the sewing needle is a metaphor for the pain of microaggressions that slowly and unconsciously reveal themselves and worsen through repeated infliction.” 

Guests of the exhibit are asked to contribute to the piece through "share your story,” where blank guest checks are available for personal participation and reflections. For more information about the exhibition, please contact Summer Zickefoose, gallery director and associate professor of art at Westminster, at zickefse@westminster.edu 724-946-7267. 

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