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.
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.
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.
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.
Portraits of Identity: HAAPI Stories Through the Lens, uses storytelling and photography to explore the depth and breadth of AAPI stories and create an experience where they are seen, heard, and celebrated.
SAM is closed to the public on Sunday, March 31 for the Holiday.CalendarEvent DetailsDate: March 31, 2024
Questioning from the Inside: 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.
Explore: Printmaking Techniques presents a grouping of prints by four contemporary artists, each utilizing a different mode of printmaking. Featuring works by Cameron Bailey, Becky Blosser, Rachel Mentzer, and Junli Song.
Interrupting the After Image brings together three artists—Ayesha Kamal Khan, Boryana Rusenova-Ina, and Choey Eun Young Cho—who draw from materials embedded in their everyday lives. All three artists work from distinct entry points, unpacking what becomes apparen...