This fall, Shipley’s Speer Gallery is alive with light, texture, and imagination as it hosts the work of two visiting artists—Mirjam Seeger and Kim Mullis—each exploring how color and form shape the way we experience the world.

Mirjam Seeger, a Swiss-born artist trained in both oil painting and stained glass, brings a unique blend of precision and luminosity to her work. After studying art in Basel, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, Seeger spent two decades as a glass painter at the historic Willet Stained Glass Studio before establishing her own studio. Her stained glass windows can be found in cathedrals, churches, and synagogues across the country, including St. Martin Episcopal Cathedral in Houston, Davidson United Methodist Church in North Carolina, and the Masonic Temple in Washington, D.C.

During her time on campus, Seeger worked with Upper School students to introduce the traditional techniques of painting on glass. Through hands-on workshops, students experimented with light, transparency, and layering, discovering how glass can become both a surface and a source of illumination. Seeger’s own artistic practice—rooted in both craft and landscape—reflects her lifelong fascination with how light interacts with material.

Sharing the gallery space is Brooklyn-based artist Kim Mullis, whose exhibition invites viewers into a world of theatricality, structure, and play. Mullis’s recent body of work reimagines factory-dyed canvas tarps through reverse-dyeing, stenciling, and collage. Their layered compositions transform fields, frames, and grids into dynamic surfaces where familiar patterns dissolve into dreamlike abstraction.

Mullis’s approach draws from a background in design and fabrication, as well as a deep interest in how materials carry meaning. Their work, rich in color and gesture, examines the boundary between the constructed and the organic—between what is made and what is felt.

Together, Seeger and Mullis represent two distinct yet complementary explorations of visual experience: one grounded in light and reflection, the other in form and illusion. Their work invites viewers—and Shipley students—to consider how art can transform not just what we see, but how we see it.

The exhibitions by Mirjam Seeger and Kim Mullis are on view now in Shipley’s Speer Gallery.