Archived - Shows And Events

October 18 - December 11, 2016 - This exhibition will feature recent work by junior faculty from Penn State’s School of Visual Arts. The work of this group of practitioners is well suited to explorations of how notions of “research and creative accomplishment” can be represented and teased out given the multiplicity of ways many of them work. Expanded Practice invites us to rethink what constitute...

August 30- December 18, 2016 - This exhibition centers on the apex of his expatriate years: a 1928 portfolio of ten lithographs that gently satirizes Parisian café society and nightlife. In addition to later American subjects by Dehn, the exhibition also features the work of his friends and mentors.

August 23 - December 18, 2016 -​ This exhibition, which features images of the fishing industry depicted by Beal during his summer visits in the 1920s and 1930s to the village of Rockport, Massachusetts. The prints and drawings are recent gifts from the estate of Gifford Beal made through the efforts of Kraushaar Gallery.

June 14 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibiton explores the breadth of McCurry’s career, including lesser-known and recent bodies of work, and looks closely at the visual strategies that make the photographs of this peripatetic wanderer so captivating and moving.

June 7- August 14, 2016 - This retrospective exhibition, organized to mark the Arts Festival’s fiftieth year, celebrates six decades of Dr. Heller’s printmaking efforts. Prior to coming to Penn State, Dr. Heller taught for fifteen years at the University of Southern California, where he developed an international reputation for printmaking. His text, Printmaking Today, issued in 1958, was the firs...

May 17 - August 7, 2016 - This exhibition examines a diverse group of eighteen photographs and works on paper against the backdrop of the war. American Art in the Shadow of World War I surveys the museum’s holdings from the years leading up to, during, and immediately following the so-called Great War. Whether part of the debate about U.S. intervention or as combatants themselves, for example, the...

February 2 - May 15, 2016 - The exhibition opens with a selection of later fifteenth-century woodcuts, by unknown artists, which were invariably employed to illustrate religious texts. These nascent examples provide important models against which one might measure Albrecht Dürer’s complex relief designs from just a generation later, represented by several sheets from his Apocalypse and Life of the...

January 12 - May 8, 2016 - The Dada movement arose in reaction to the senseless destruction of World War I. First practiced, and named, in 1916 by writers and artists working in Zürich—among them Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, and Tristan Tzara—the idea soon developed independently in Berlin, Paris, and New York. The groups were united not so much in style or technique as in their rejection of convention an...

January 12 - May 8, 2016 - The works on view in Consciously Surreal challenge this notion of photographic truth through the purposeful engagement of experimental techniques, fragmentation of the body, and chance encounters. Championed as a medium capable of yielding unmediated copies of nature, photography is often believed to operate in the realm of the factual. Closed Mondays and some holidays