The newest exhibition of the CMA Gallery at Mount Saint Mary College, 8: A Visual Communication Graphic Design Show, will run through May 12.
The CMA Gallery is located on the first floor of Aquinas Hall on the Mount campus, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh. The gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday during normal business hours, or by appointment, through May 12. Email cma-gallery@msmc.edu for more information.
The exhibition features the unique works of eight regional commercial artists and examines a wide range of design work and visual styles. It showcases original art along with reproductions and one-off pieces in posters, music, typography, editorial, marketing, and more.
The featured artists are Jesse Ragan, a typeface designer and XYZ Type partner who helped create the famous Gotham font for clients like Rolling Stone, and Philippe Safire, the French-Armenian Art Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center whose award-winning film and digital work has been featured in VICE Magazine. They are joined by Josh Mckible, a motion designer whose “manual” aesthetic is influenced by the clean lines of inflight safety instructions, and the Newburgh-based duo Jason C. Otero and Emily Garcia-Otero, co-founders of Art and Anthropology Press, who specialize in crafting resonant visual narratives for cultural organizations.
The Hudson Valley’s vibrant creative scene is further represented by Angela Lian, a multidisciplinary artist at BAGGU whose work explores ecology and memory through analog techniques, and Brock Daves, a conceptual freelancer who refined his authentic design voice through studies at General Assembly and Shillington Education. Rounding out the group is Casey Morris, a director and designer at KDD Marketing who founded Callback Design to bridge the gap between theater and brand identity, recently appearing in the Winter 2026 Queens Short Play Festival.
The CMA gallery was created in 2019 as a professional artist space to exhibit media picked by Mount faculty from among the rising population of artists who live and work in Newburgh, Beacon, and throughout the Hudson Valley.
The Mount’s Communication, Media, and Art (CMA) programs encompass the study of digital media production and graphic design. CMA also offers minors in each of these disciplines, as well as in art, journalism, and film studies. CMA programs prepare students for both traditional and emerging professions.