Calendar

Looking in

Looking In: Portraits and Their Stories features a curated selection of significant 20th and 21st Century works from regional museums and private collections. The selected portraits express stories of both the artists and their subjects, reflecting movements in modern and contemporary art history.

Embraced by Honey Bees

From Friday February 16 – April 29, 2018 the Susquehanna Art Museum presents Embraced by Honey Bees, a solo exhibition in the Lobby Gallery featuring the work of Ladislav Hanka.

Home Sick

Home Sick by Nicole Dube features a selection of found photographs taken between 1920 – 1970. They range from formal portraits to casual snapshots.

Ideation, Sketchbooks at SAM

Every individual has a unique process of ideation. This collection of sketchbooks represent a wide range of personal and professional processes for forming ideas.

Identity Spectrum

From Friday May 4 through Sunday August 5, 2018 the Susquehanna Art Museum presents Identity Spectrum, a juried exhibition in the Lobby Gallery and Vault. As one of the fundamental aspects of personal identity, gender has been examined by artists throughout history. Society is experiencing the increased politicization of identity expression while contemporary boundaries and norms are constantly shifting.

Perceptions

The Susquehanna Art Museum welcomes Emalee Douglass as the second student curator for the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Foundation Education Center Gallery.

Vision & Activism

The exhibition Romare Bearden: Vision & Activism, will be on view in the Main Gallery of the Susquehanna Art Museum at The Marty and Tom Philips Family Art Center from June 9 to September 23, 2018. Museum members are invited to a special opening preview on Friday, June 8 from 5:00 – 7:00pm.

Explore: Conceptual Art

Susquehanna Art Museum presents an investigation of contemporary conceptual art in the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center Gallery August 10 – November 4, 2018. Through the work of eight regional artists, we will explore the processes that artists use to illustrate the unique concepts on display.

Color Improvisations 2

Color Improvisations 2 is a special invitational exhibition of contemporary quilts curated by Nancy Crow, one of the most celebrated and influential quiltmakers of the past forty years.

Pattern & Place

Pattern & Place combines the work of artists Danielle Klebes and Maija Miettinen. Both Klebes and Miettinen create luminous large-scale paintings that incorporate patterned brushstrokes as a response to the world around them and the spaces they inhabit.

Celebrating Sprocket!

Sprocket Mural Works, a citywide mural project, engages with neighborhoods, artists and organizations to create vibrant community murals across Harrisburg. Sprocket’s mission is to increase community pride and civic engagement in Harrisburg through creative action.

Visions of Place

Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art offers a unique lens through which to view and better understand the myriad complexities of Israel. Geography, in all its manifestations—physical, personal, religious, political, historical, economic, and more—remains an inescapable part of Israeli life, psyche, and art.

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