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During her lifetime, Patricia L. Murray served as one of the founders of the Susquehanna Art Museum (SAM), a donor to the institution, an educator, and a private art collector. Just recently, in 2023, parts of her collection were donated to SAM posthumously, highlighting her dedication to the museum before, during, and after its creation. From Mantel to Museum: The Eclectic Legacy of Patricia L. Murray showcases an eclectic mix of artistic styles, form and thematic content by local and regional artists.

Cocoon is an illuminated sculpture surrounded by portraits from Steelton, PA. Viewers are invited to walk through the sculpture and hear the stories of the Steelton community. The stories come from Kate Browne’s interviews that focus on the reality of living in a small town with a single-industry economy where jobs have shrunk considerably since the 1950s.

I’m fine., a phrase we often say when we are not fine, is a statewide Pennsylvania community project dedicated to sculpting mental health awareness and conversations through art. This meaningful exhibit features ceramic masks, stories, and photographs from I’m fine. workshop and residency participants.

Through material transformation and positioning of objects that wield the body, Kiani Kodama explores silent exchanges between that which is human, animal, and ancestral. Guided by non-Western medicine, massage tools, Buddhist dance rituals, and organic materials, she finds correspondence in anomalous places.