There is an encaustic revival as a contemporary art medium in the 21st century. This exhibition features a group of twelve women artists who use the medium in various ways, utilizing the encaustic tradition in conversation with contemporary sculpture, painting, photography and collage.
Margins and the Height of the Sun is comprised of a body of work Elaine Elledge created as she worked to find balance between her life as an artist and full-time parent, while also seeking a diagnosis for an unknown medical condition. Using everyday items such as cheesecloth, gauze, paper, and fabric, her work explores the depth and complexity of motherhood, the frailty of the human body, and what it means to cultivate through care and relinquish control.
Photographer Mark Perrott has spent the past several decades documenting the ever-expanding group of tattooed Americans. Perrott turns his camera to the diminishing population of highly decorated and graying Americans in his current series, ANCIENT INK.
Queremos Justicia uses art to tell the story of how the Shut Down Berks Coalition organized to close an immigrant prison. This multimedia exhibit explores the art made for the campaign and how it played an invaluable role in education, mobilization, and community building.
American Identity: Restoring the Susquehanna River’s Artistic Legacy, an exhibition drawn from the Friends of the Susquehanna River Art Collection and curated by Rob Evans, reconsiders the origins of American art.
Presence brings together two recent bodies of work by Pennsylvania artist Michael Allen. From vast valleys of farmland of the Pennsylvania Piedmont to the towering bridges spanning the Susquehanna River, Allen’s work celebrates the overlooked, in an attempt to reveal ...
Works by SoHyun Bae is a thematic retrospective celebrates Bae’s prolific career and explores themes of cultural memory, Korean history, Jewish mysticism, and the natural world.Â