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For the inaugural juried exhibition in SAM’s historic bank building, we feature contemporary works by Pennsylvania artists whose processes are as essential to the work of art as the final product. Process-focused art embraces fluid changes in the creative journey rather than following a predetermined plan.

This exhibition of contemporary and historic quilts honors the traditional roots of the quilt, shown side by side with the art quilts by today’s cutting edge fiber artists. The design of the quilt, whether made in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first century, holds dynamic strength in color, form and line.

“Constant bearing, decreasing range” is the phrase used by sailors to warn of an imminent collision, much like the inevitable intersection of colors, patterns, and themes found in this combined body of work.

Through the irony of Sun Young Kang' working process, which is visualizing non-visuals, she tries to question this non-describable concept—the continual parallels of presence and absence, their inseparability.

In partnership with The Entertainment Software Association and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, SAM is exhibiting selections from the official 2014 Into the Pixel collection. Created in 2004, and now in its 11th year, the annual ITP art exhibit honors video game artists who continue to push the interactive entertainment art form forward.

Towards A New / Old Architecture is an exhibition exploring the concept of using modern architecture as the language for additions to and renovations of the rich building stock in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Les Diners de Gala (Gala’s Dinners) was published in 1973 and instantly became a Salvador Dalí collectible. This unique cookbook was published as a collaboration between Dalí, his wife Gala, and a secret chef.

Each of these artists painted the landscape en plein air. Their direct observations of the effects of daylight are reminiscent of the European Impressionists who were popular at the time.

The pieces in this show encompass my major subject areas:  the figure, the studio-interior, chairs, and the still-life. My sensibility is autobiographical, so these pieces reflect my surroundings and experiences.

Artist Maya Schock, born in 1928, studied both dance and acting in her native Japan. After marrying American Floyd Schock and moving to Central Pennsylvania, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Maya converted the building at Second and Reily Streets in Harrisburg into the DŌSHI Gallery for Contemporary Art and Japanese tea shop in 1972. There, Maya exhibited and advocated for the work of contemporary Pennsylvania artists until her death in 1975.

May 13 – August 11, 2016 the Susquehanna Art Museum will present The City, a juried exhibition that challenges artists to capture the relationship between urban space and its influence on art.

Beth Galston is a Boston-based sculptor who builds architectural-scale environments based on an interest in light and the quality of space. Using delicate materials – scrim, metal mesh, resin, shadows, plants – Galston creates multilayered spaces through which viewers move and interact.