Historic Memory
Lobby GalleryHistoric Memory features the work of painters Joerg Dressler and Shawn Huckins. Dressler and Huckins address the collective, or historic, memory of Western culture and its influences on our contemporary consciousness.
Historic Memory features the work of painters Joerg Dressler and Shawn Huckins. Dressler and Huckins address the collective, or historic, memory of Western culture and its influences on our contemporary consciousness.
The Modernists: Witnesses to the 20th Century, curated by the Susquehanna Art Museum, features works by a variety of Modern artists from around the world, drawn from museum and private collections across the United States.
In Once a Future Kingdom, Anthony Cervino presents a series of recent works, created with both found and sculpted materials, that are displayed as imagined relics.
Country Charm examines artist Sanh Brian Tran’s experience as a queer Asian man living in rural America.
Sun + Light is a collection of works from the series Everyone Loves the Sunshine by contemporary visual artist Charles Edward Williams. The artworks featured in Sun + Light juxtapose Williams’ own personal encounters, past and present, with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Here, Williams attempts to strike a balance between both the peaceful and violent protests of the movement and of varied expressions of power. He recounts stories told to him by his grandmother about this specific period in U.S. history and about the belief she passed down to him and that would guide his work: “stay in the light, stay positive.”
With this installation, visitors are challenged to locate “hidden” works of art the Susquehanna Art Museum. You may not realize something is a work of art until you read the label. Even then, is it?
Each semester, Bloomsburg University Professor Chad Andrews challenges his printmaking students to create large-format woodcut self-portraits that explore the clichés of selfies on social media. What began as an assignment […]
Persephone / Persephone features the multi-panel collaborative painting by Elody Gyekis and Joanne Landis. This large installation is inspired by the narrative arc of the Greek goddess Persephone’s story.
The Wind Dies The Sun Sets is a contemplative consideration of energy extraction and use in Pennsylvania.
Circle of Truth: 49 Paintings Ending with Ed Ruscha is the visual equivalent of the childhood game in which a message is whispered in the ear of a first person, then relayed to a second person, a third, and so on.
Meanderings features a collection of collagraphic prints by artist Valerie Dillon. With these pieces, the artist illustrates her journey of shifting between known and unknown spaces.
Each year, the museum and Midtown Harrisburg become the campus where Artistic Expressions students work with guest artists, explore multiple media, and interpret artwork on view in the museum.
If life as we know it were to come to a sudden stop, what would archeologists find decades from now? "Future Fossils" presents a possible view into that frozen moment in time and culture.
Ai-Wen Wu Kratz creates vibrant, calculated paintings that are influenced by theatre, classical music and dance. Kratz is interested in the spirituality and emotion that all art forms can convey.
Lou Schellenberg invites viewers to respond to patterns of habitat and change in small towns, suburbs, and rural communities and the human story behind every dwelling and built boundary.
These narrative quilted swing coats by artist Patricia A. Montgomery celebrate under-recognized women who made major contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
If life as we know it were to come to a sudden stop, what would archeologists find decades from now? "Future Fossils" presents a possible view into that frozen moment in time and culture.
Ai-Wen Wu Kratz creates vibrant, calculated paintings that are influenced by theatre, classical music and dance. Kratz is interested in the spirituality and emotion that all art forms can convey.
Lou Schellenberg invites viewers to respond to patterns of habitat and change in small towns, suburbs, and rural communities and the human story behind every dwelling and built boundary.
These narrative quilted swing coats by artist Patricia A. Montgomery celebrate under-recognized women who made major contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
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