everything but the kitchen sink was the final culmination of fourteen artist practices bound over a year of proximal study. The 2023 class of Rice University's Visual Arts Department presents works in paint, thread, paper, collage, resin, print, film and more. everything but the kitchen sink centered around themes of construction, consumption, and contemplation. We all gathered together for many hours every week to cook up our individual narratives and perspectives within our communal kitchen on Sewall's 4th floor. We explored different niches of the human experience - the transcendence of familiar places, the uncanniness of mass production, the ephemerality of treasured memories, to name a few - through dynamic discussion and self-reflection. Subsequently, through our distinct art-making processes, we learned to admire our concurrent growth and passion as a collective of young artists striving to understand our world.