Denison University’s senior visual arts majors proudly present “YOU MADE THAT UP TO SCARE ME,” an exhibition born from an era of heightened uncertainty, sensationalized headlines, and collective unease. Yet, this exhibition is not about those fears themselves but about what we choose to create in spite of them.

A wide variety of work will be exhibited, including paintings, prints, illustrations, sculpture, and digital media. The topics address diverse themes, such as personal experience, home, the environment, fictional universes, and more. The work in this exhibition also pauses to notice, taking seemingly small moments, overlooked ideas, or fleeting anxieties and making them large — demanding attention, exaggerating, and transforming. In doing so, these works respond to one another with a sense of urgency and play, as if conversing, you made that up to scare me.

The “YOU MADE THAT UP TO SCARE ME” webpage is located HERE.

Please check out all of the participating artists’ websites and bios in the catalogue below!