Exhibitions
The Hidden Museum, 2018
Lobby GalleryWith 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?
Alternative Means Necessary
S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center GalleryAlternative Means Necessary features alternative process work made by artists C. McCormick, Renee Romero, and Tamsen Wojtanowski. Alternative process photographs are created using non-commercial and unconventional printing methods.
Event Horizon
Project SpaceEvent Horizon features the work of artist and educator Leah Limpert Walt, in the SAM Project Space.
Souls Shot Portrait Project
Lobby GallerySouls Shot Portrait Project’s mission is to bring attention to and memorialize the lives lost and tragically altered due to gun violence. The Project began in Philadelphia and is grateful to be able to continue its mission in Harrisburg to represent those affected from other areas of the state.
Explore: Classroom Ephemera
DeSoto Family VaultThis collection of education ephemera by artist and educator Paul Nagle illustrates the variety of demonstrations art teachers utilize to help guide young artists.
Layered Artifacts
S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center GalleryLayered Artifacts features a range of abstract and non-representational works by Brian Truesdale. These pieces span five series and four years.
Intent/Content: Celebrating Women Artists
Beverlee and Bill Lehr GalleryEach woman artist in Intent/Content follows in the footsteps of pioneers, bringing previously unheard artistic voices into the mainstream.
Valery Sutherland: Paintings
Project SpaceThese pieces, completed between 2021 and 2023 illustrate the artist’s investigation into the passage of time and its reflection on nature.
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I’m Still Black: Osmyn Oree
I’m Still Black: Osmyn Oree
Frustrated by the limiting stereotypes imposed on Black individuals, artist Osmyn Josef Oree depicts the diversity and depth of Black expression via photography.
Lies & Redactions: A Survey
Lies & Redactions: A Survey
Doug Navarra’s extended investigation of mark-making has evolved to include historic found documents, bold minimalistic redactions, and layered geometric patterns. Lies and Redactions: A Survey features work from 2006 – 2021, spanning numerous distinct series in the...
Cojiform
Cojiform
Cojiform is a multidisciplinary interactive art project by Pittsburgh-based artist Isaac Bower. This unique installation, on view in the Susquehanna Art Museum DeSoto Family Vault, combines sculpture and creative problem-solving.
Deep Roots: Ornamentation and Identity
Deep Roots: Ornamentation and Identity
Deep Roots: Ornamentation and Identity features the work of artists Kuzana Ogg, Cecilia Paredes, Daisy Patton, Helice Wen, and Helen Zughaib.
Fleeting Pleasures
Fleeting Pleasures
Fleeting Pleasures features work by some of the best known and most important ukiyo-e artists exploring this “floating world” of sensuous Edo culture.
Four Pillars: Mount Gretna Artist Residency
Four Pillars: Mount Gretna Artist Residency
Four Pillars: Mount Gretna Residency features paintings made by former residents of the program.
Celebrate Bill Lehr
Celebrate Bill Lehr
Celebration of the life of Bill Lehr.
Future Places
Future Places
What does a better future look like to you as an artist? Susquehanna Art Museum is challenging artists to render their vision of a promising future for its exhibition Future Places.
Making Your Mark
Making Your Mark
Making Your Mark brings together a rich array of 52 works on paper, breaking down the various methods and materials used in modern artistic practice.
World Traveler / Shelter at Home
World Traveler / Shelter at Home
Artist Diana Jensen took inspiration from an anonymous assortment of vernacular photos for the paintings found in World Traveler / Shelter at Home.
Mythologies of Motherhood
Mythologies of Motherhood
Mythologies of Motherhood chronicles personal stories of artists currently raising children. The artwork included draws attention to the disparities between the "ideals" of motherhood and the realities of actual family dynamics.
Hedy O’Beil: The Late Work
Hedy O’Beil: The Late Work
The Late Work features a selection of work completed in O’Beil’s 70s to mid-80s. These pieces show a mature development of the gestural abstraction she embraced in the 1960s.
Approximate Release
Approximate Release
The DeSoto Family Vault Gallery provides context to the themes of containment and comfort found in Ron Lambert’s sculptural installation Approximate Release.
In Nature’s Studio
In Nature’s Studio
In Nature’s Studio showcases the bounty of American artists' depictions of the landscape from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century.
Project: Nature
Project: Nature
Project: Nature offers a sneak peek of the current VanGo! Museum on Wheels exhibition Nature in Art, which features the work of Victoria Fuller.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You features visual artist Irvin Rodriguez in an exhibition that brings together a variety of work from the last five years.
Four Seasons and Seven Vices: Old Master Prints in Series
Four Seasons and Seven Vices: Old Master Prints in Series
In printmaking series, artists in the Renaissance and Baroque era often depicted stories of the seasons, elements, planets, virtues, and vices. Four Seasons and Seven Vices introduces this approach to printmaking, highlighting why it found favor during this time.
Tradition Interrupted
Tradition Interrupted
Tradition Interrupted explores how artists weave contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft to create thought-provoking hybrid images and objects that have caught the world’s attention.
Unpredictable Nature
Unpredictable Nature
Artists Sandi Neiman Lovitz and Autumn C. Wright utilize gesture, shape, pattern, and spontaneity to create the abstract compositions featured in Unpredictable Nature.
Mobility to Movement
Mobility to Movement
Mobility and Movement traces Isabel Bishop’s career exclusively through her printmaking. It also illustrates the customs and terminology of print editions.
Half Truths, Artistic Expressions 2021
Half Truths, Artistic Expressions 2021
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.
Meanderings
Meanderings
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.
Circle of Truth
Circle of Truth
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.
The Wind Dies the Sun Sets
The Wind Dies the Sun Sets
The Wind Dies The Sun Sets is a contemplative consideration of energy extraction and use in Pennsylvania.
Persephone / Persephone
Persephone / Persephone
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.
From Selfie to Community
From Selfie to Community
Sun + Light
Sun + Light
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 o...
Country Charm
Country Charm
Country Charm examines artist Sanh Brian Tran’s experience as a queer Asian man living in rural America.
Once a Future Kingdom
Once a Future Kingdom
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.
The Modernists
The Modernists
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.
Picturing the Body
Picturing the Body
The photographs in this exhibition were created as part of a course at Millersville University titled Picturing the Body. Throughout the semester students were asked to explore topics relating to people, portraiture and the human form.
Historic Memory
Historic Memory
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.
Creating Joy
Creating Joy
Sonic experience has long been a powerful influence on artistic expression. Practicing the visualization of music helped Modernist artists break free of traditional subject matter and begin to think abstractly.
Separate and Unequaled
Separate and Unequaled
The 100th anniversary of the formation of the Negro National Baseball League is especially important to Harrisburg thanks to the proud history of the Harrisburg Giants.
Flashpoints
Flashpoints
Enticed by touch, four artists explore a wide range of materials and processes linked through craft and meaning. With a shared focus on encaustic (pigmented hot wax) FLASHPOINTS: Material / Intent / Fused beautifully underscores where material and intent converse and fu...
Many Visions, Many Versions
Many Visions, Many Versions
Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India highlights work by contemporary artists from four major indigenous artistic traditions in India.
Explore: Found Objects
Explore: Found Objects
Susquehanna Art Museum’s educational Explore series presents an investigation of how artists, both historic and contemporary, utilize found objects in their work.
Shift, Calvert + Kanevsky
Shift, Calvert + Kanevsky
SHIFT features the work of contemporary painters Tiffany Calvert and Alex Kanevsky. Both artists explore the possibilities of abstracting a narrative while referencing art historical traditions.
Dreams
Dreams
Dreams features a selection of works from Peter Ydeen’s Easton Nights series. Ydeen has been photographing the Easton, Pennsylvania area since 2015. He takes inspiration from the work of noted American photographer George Tice, who captured images of American life ...
Other Worlds
Other Worlds
Inka Essenhigh’s painted visions are richly colored distorted fables peopled with archetypes, sprites, and anthropomorphized nature. T
War is Only Half the Story
War is Only Half the Story
War is Only Half the Story tells the incredibly moving stories of the people left behind after the cameras have moved on from a war zone.
Hidden City
Hidden City
Hidden City features the plein-air landscape paintings of artist Valeri Larko. The overlooked sites that Larko selects for her landscapes are places that many people never see.
On Location
On Location
Harrisburg Sketchers is a group of local artists dedicated to drawing the city of Harrisburg- on location, in any medium, one sketch at a time. On Location features sketches from the past six years from a rotating cast of artists.
Picasso: A Life in Print
Picasso: A Life in Print
PICASSO: A Life in Print features work from the collection of the John Szoke Gallery, NYC. This survey of prints spans the artist’s prolific career, with work from 1904 – 1970.
Inspired
Inspired
June 28 – July 1, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall uprising. The uprising, a series of violent demonstrations, was a spontaneous moment of courageous activism by members of the LGBTQ+ community against a police raid that took place at the Ston...
Explore: Archives & Collections
Explore: Archives & Collections
Susquehanna Art Museum presents an investigation of archives and collections in the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center Gallery May 3 – August 11, 2019.
Studio Life
Studio Life
Named after the “Four Pillars” of the Chautauqua education movement, this month long artist residency provides opportunities for artists to advance their work and connect with new audiences.
Overlapping Tension
Overlapping Tension
Overlapping Tension features works by Los Angeles, CA-based Yasmine Diaz, Pittsburgh, PA-based Vanessa German, and Tucson, AZ-based Laura Tanner Graham.
Cinema Drive
Cinema Drive
This collection of photographs by artist and educator Michael Fickes explore the notion of permanence through the evolution of aesthetics and design.
Visions of Place
Visions of Place
Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art offers a unique lens through which to view and better understand the myriad complexities of Israel. Geography, in all its manifestations—physical, personal, religious, political, historical, economic, ...
Celebrating Sprocket!
Celebrating Sprocket!
Sprocket Mural Works, a citywide mural project, engages with neighborhoods, artists and organizations to create vibrant community murals across Harrisburg. Sprocket’s mission is to increase community pride and civic engagement in Harrisburg through creative action.
Pattern & Place
Pattern & Place
Pattern & Place combines the work of artists Danielle Klebes and Maija Miettinen. Both Klebes and Miettinen create luminous large-scale paintings that incorporate patterned brushstrokes as a response to the world around them and the spaces they inhabit.
Color Improvisations 2
Color Improvisations 2
Color Improvisations 2 is a special invitational exhibition of contemporary quilts curated by Nancy Crow, one of the most celebrated and influential quiltmakers of the past forty years.
Explore: Conceptual Art
Explore: Conceptual Art
Susquehanna Art Museum presents an investigation of contemporary conceptual art in the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Education Center Gallery August 10 – November 4, 2018. Through the work of eight regional artists, we will explore the processes that artists use to i...
Vision & Activism
Vision & Activism
The exhibition Romare Bearden: Vision & Activism, will be on view in the Main Gallery of the Susquehanna Art Museum at The Marty and Tom Philips Family Art Center from June 9 to September 23, 2018. Museum members are invited to a special opening preview on Friday, June...
Perceptions
Perceptions
The Susquehanna Art Museum welcomes Emalee Douglass as the second student curator for the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Foundation Education Center Gallery.
Identity Spectrum
Identity Spectrum
From Friday May 4 through Sunday August 5, 2018 the Susquehanna Art Museum presents Identity Spectrum, a juried exhibition in the Lobby Gallery and Vault. As one of the fundamental aspects of personal identity, gender has been examined by artists throughout history. S...
Ideation, Sketchbooks at SAM
Ideation, Sketchbooks at SAM
Every individual has a unique process of ideation. This collection of sketchbooks represent a wide range of personal and professional processes for forming ideas.
Our Art, Our Voice
Our Art, Our Voice
Our Art, Our Voice, the Arc of Dauphin County’s 44th Annual Art exhibition, features works of art in various media created by artists with special needs. The exhibition has been traveling throughout the Harrisburg region and will be on display in the Susquehanna Art...
Embraced by Honey Bees
Embraced by Honey Bees
From Friday February 16 – April 29, 2018 the Susquehanna Art Museum presents Embraced by Honey Bees, a solo exhibition in the Lobby Gallery featuring the work of Ladislav Hanka.
Looking in
Looking in
Looking In: Portraits and Their Stories features a curated selection of significant 20th and 21st Century works from regional museums and private collections. The selected portraits express stories of both the artists and their subjects, reflecting movements in moder...
Memory and Invention
Memory and Invention
Paintings by Robert Andriulli, whether created from direct observations or studio elaborations that evolve from many sources, are recognizable for their painterly realism that depicts both a fidelity to subject and an uncommon visual style.
Ansel Adams: Early Works
Ansel Adams: Early Works
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer, musician, naturalist, explorer, critic and teacher, was a giant in the field of landscape photography. His work can be viewed as the end of an arc of American art concerned with capturing the “sublime” in the unspoilt Western l...
Neil Anderson: Quartet for America
Neil Anderson: Quartet for America
Quartet for America features new works, which continue Anderson’s exploration of organic forms found in nature, but the paintings on view focus more narrowly on drawing inspiration from piled cut branches, resulting in an intricate interwoven pattern of the irregul...
In the Vault
In the Vault
Artists of all levels and abilities are invited to participate in a group exhibition of small works in the Susquehanna Art Museum’s historic bank vault! Because the original bank vault walls are lined with steel, submissions are created on magnetic templates.
New Geometry
New Geometry
New Geometry: Abstract Invitational features artists Matt Allyn Chapman (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Nick Hollibaugh (Sutton, Massachusetts), Brittany Nelson (Richmond, Virginia), and Rosalyn Richards (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania). This selection of works represents a range o...
Earth and Tide
Earth and Tide
Earth and Tide: Connected Through Place consists of a group of South Central Pennsylvania artists who gather to exchange ideas and expand art communities. With artists of multiple disciplines, including painting, printmaking and mixed media, our work runs the visual sp...
Art in Balance
Art in Balance
Art in Balance: Motorcycles and Fine Art juxtaposes modern and contemporary artworks with a special group of eight motorcycles. Visitors are invited to explore the connections that link two-dimensional works of art with three-dimensional machines.
Eccentricity
Eccentricity
The Susquehanna Art Museum welcomes Grace Gilbert as the first student curator for the Education Center Gallery. Grace Gilbert is a senior at Lower Dauphin High School, where she serves as President of the National Art Honors Society.
Vessels
Vessels
The Vessels call for entries challenged artists to consider the functions and possibilities of a vessel, both visually and conceptually. The submissions were not limited by medium, but open to a wide interpretation of what a vessel can be. A Hollow Container? A Shi...
Doshi Open Studio
Doshi Open Studio
The idea for the Doshi Open Studio began as the result of a meeting held at the Susquehanna Art Museum in the Doshi Gallery for Contemporary Art in September 2003, which asked the audience of about 75 people what activities they would like for the regional community of ...
Relics
Relics
Relics, a series of photographs by Pennsylvania native Stephen Althouse, portrays humanity through the tools and artifacts we leave behind. This collection of large scale black and white photographs transforms remnants from the past into powerful images captured in incr...
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein: Seventy-Five Years of Painting is a survey exhibition featuring paintings by master realist Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924, Pittsburgh, PA). This exhibition includes the artist’s earliest works c. 1940’s through the development of the modern figure...
Into the Pixel
Into the Pixel
In partnership with The Entertainment Software Association and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, SAM is exhibiting selections from the annual Into the Pixel collection. Created in 2004, the annual ITP art exhibit honors video game artists who continue to push...
Pictures
Pictures
PICTURES, a series of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Mackenzie Younger, is inspired by early American art and the prevalence of smartphone imagery in today’s culture. Younger’s work re-contextualizes historical paintings within the frames of the iPhone lock scre...
In the Vault
In the Vault
Artists of all levels and abilities were invited to participate in a group exhibition of small works in the Susquehanna Art Museum’s historic bank vault! Because the original bank vault walls are lined with steel, the 4” x 12” submissions were created on magneti...
African American Art Since 1950
African American Art Since 1950
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center includes works by renowned artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Sam Gilliam and couples them with exciting new visionaries, including Chakaia Booker, Lorna Simpson, and K...
Después de la Frontera/After the Border
Después de la Frontera/After the Border
Después de la Frontera / After the Border is a bilingual group exhibition that honors the stories of recent unaccompanied immigrant youth, families, and young adults who fled their homes in Central America.
The Luminous River
The Luminous River
The Susquehanna Art Museum presents Luminous River by John Pfahl, on view in the main gallery Friday June 10 – Sunday September 18, 2016. This collection of photographs documents the course of the 464 mile long Susquehanna River from its origins in Cooperstown, New...
Recasting Nature
Recasting Nature
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 viewe...
Maya Schock
Maya Schock
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...
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
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.
Salvador Dalí, les Diners de Gala
Salvador Dalí, les Diners de Gala
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.
Towards a New/Old Architecture
Towards a New/Old Architecture
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.
Into the Pixel
Into the Pixel
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 ...
The Edgeless Divide
The Edgeless Divide
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.
Constant Bearing
Constant Bearing
“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.
Quilts 20/20
Quilts 20/20
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, h...
Found in Transition
Found in Transition
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 rath...
Everyone Can Fly
Everyone Can Fly
Everyone Can Fly is an exhibition of original illustrations from a group of award-winning children’s books with a focus on literacy and its relevance for the youth of our region. The centerpiece of this collection will be all of the original artwork from Tar Beach ...
Pop Open: Icons of Pop Art
Pop Open: Icons of Pop Art
The vibrant colors and bold designs inherent in the work of the Pop artists of the 1960s and ‘70s are highly appropriate for the excitement generated by the opening of a new museum anywhere, but particularly attuned to Harrisburg’s Midtown, a section of the city u...
Four Decades of Drawings
Four Decades of Drawings
The inaugural exhibition for the new Susquehanna Art Museum’s lobby gallery is Harry Bertoia: Four Decades of Drawings on loan from Philadelphia’s Seraphin Gallery and The Estate of Harry Bertoia.
Susquehanna Art Museum Mural
Susquehanna Art Museum Mural
Daniel M. Finch was born in Orlando Florida in 1971. His work has been featured numerous times in the national publication New American Paintings, and he has exhibited extensively across the country, most recently in Alfred New York and in the Hong Kong publication,...
Art & Barriers
Art & Barriers
Art & Barriers is a juried group exhibition on view at the State Museum of Pennsylvania from July 20 – December 7 2014. During the Susquehanna Art Museum’s transitional period into our new location in Midtown, Harrisburg, we are continuing to collaborate with area ...
The Art & Science of Color
The Art & Science of Color
The Art & Science of Color is a juried DŌSHI Gallery exhibition on view at Whitaker Center from June 13 – August 22, 2014. During the Susquehanna Art Museum’s transitional period into our new location in Midtown, Harrisburg, we are continuing to collaborate with a...
Lost World/Found World
Lost World/Found World
Lost World / Found World is a group exhibition by regional artists that features mixed-media installations, paintings, photographs, and works on paper. Artists have long delighted in the “lost and found,” whether it is through a line, color, or a concept.
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