YOUNGSTOWN — An opening reception is scheduled Friday for three new exhibitions at the McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University.

“Flash of Light Illumines a Dark Landscape” features drawings by Shona Macdonald. Known both nationally and internationally, Macdonald’s work has appeared in solo shows from New York to New Zealand and in numerous group shows across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

She is professor of studio art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

According to the artist, “The works I am exhibiting at the McDonough were developed over the past five years. It’s based on many sources, including tents, gardening tarps, shrouds, as well as robes and drapes from art history; these drawings portray the intimacy of protection through covering,”

The #notwhite collective is a group of 13 women artists whose mission is to use nonindividualistic, multidisciplinary art to make their stories visible as they relate, connect and belong to the Global Majority.

According to its website, “We are bi / multiracial / cultural, immigrant or descendants of immigrants investigating the many ways we are seen or not seen, how we self-identify and how we seek liberation through sharing space and stories; research and art-making; discussing the history of imperialism and its effect on us, on the whole not-white world. We actively reject colonialism through our nonhierarchical process.”

Members of the #notwhite collective will give a walking tour of their exhibition from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 20.

Betsy Stirratt’s “Embedded Histories” focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment.

“I explore natural and social histories through photographs, books, paintings, objects and video to create multiple-layered narratives about the interactions of humans and nature,” Stirratt said.

Stirratt is the founding director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington, where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. She has had her work exhibited since 1983, including solo exhibitions that have been displayed in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York.

She will give a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4.

Stirratt’s work will be on display through Oct. 20, and the other two shows will be on display through Nov. 4 at the McDonough, 525 Wick Ave., Youngstown. An opening reception runs from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Admission is free. For more information, go to ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum or call 330-941-1371.