2006-07

STUDENT EXHIBITION
August 25 - September 15, 2006

Artist Reception: First Friday, Sept. 1, 6-8 pm

Student works from 05-06 studio art classes.

EARTH, SKY AND FIRE: Contemporary Hispanic Art
September 18-22, 2006

Opening Reception and Presentation: Mon., Sept. 18, 6-7:30 pm

Public Reception: Fri., Sept. 22, 6-8:30 pm

The Gallery will be open extended hours during this exhibition, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily.

Part of the campus celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Exhibition co-sponsored by the Departments of Spanish and Latin American Studies and Gettysburg College, EPACC. Developed and presented by Americas' Arts, L.L.C.

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Daniel Ricardo Pulido
Tres Encuentros
2002
mixed media on cardboard
55.7 cm X 34.3 cm

FORM AND SPIRIT: The Origami Art of Peter Engel
September 28 - October 22, 2006

Opening Reception: Thurs., Sept. 28, 5-7 pm

Artist Lecture: Wed., Sept. 27, 6 pm

Gallery Talk: Fri., Sept. 29, Noon

School Workshops: Sept 28, 29, times t.b.a.

Original creations designed and folded by one of the foremost American origami artists and theorists.

This exhibition is supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Council for the Arts in Chambersburg. 

This program is supported in part by the Adams County Arts Council's STAR Grant Program, which is funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, the Adams County Commissioners, and the Borough of Gettysburg.

Exhibition co-sponsored by Gettysburg College, EPACC.

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CHRISTY GEORG:
Instruments of Calibration and Ascertainment
November 3 - December 3, 2006

Opening Reception: First Friday, Nov. 3, 6-8 pm

Gallery Talk: Fri., Nov. 3, Noon

Georg crafts "functional" devices -simple tools and machines-that limn the boundary between art object and cultural artifact.

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INAUGURAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION
January 25 - February 18, 2007

Artist Reception, First Friday, Feb. 2, 6-8 pm

Artist Roundtable: Friday, Feb. 2, Noon

Part of the College's yearlong 175th anniversary celebration, this first ever alumni art exhibition will celebrate the wide variety of artistic accomplishments achieved by Gettysburg College alumni, including both studio art majors and majors in other disciplines.

Exhibition co-sponsored by Gettysburg College, 175th Anniversary Committee.

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^{Torrey Stifel '00
Mind Filter
2005
acrylic, graphite on paper
60" x 48"} 

^{Steve Shook '92
Storm at Case Ranch, MT
2004
black and white photograph
16" x 20"} 

CIRCULAR NOTIONS: New Works by Alan Paulson
March 2-25, 2007

Opening Reception: First Friday, March 2, 5-8 pm

Gallery Talk: Friday, March 2, Noon

Produced during his spring 2006 sabbatical leave, studio professor Alan Paulson's newest sculptures are explorations of the concept of the circle.

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NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
March 30 - April 22, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, March 30, 5-7 pm

Artist Roundtable: Saturday, March 31, 9-10:30 am 

This exhibition features the works of nine contemporary artists from across the country and abroad who are dealing with the problems involved in attempting to define the African/African American self. A broad range of artistic media are included (painting, photography, sculpture, installation), demonstrating both traditional and more conceptual approaches to representing visually the diversity of experience and history that today informs notions of individual identity within diasporic African communities.

Frank Hallam Day
Andries Fourie
Claudia C. Marchini
Christina M. Marsh
Issa Nyaphaga
Takara Portis
John E. Rozelle
Hank Willis Thomas
Lydia C. Thompson

Part of the 2007 CPC Africana Studies Conference, "Interrogating Issues of Citizenship, Identity, Ethnicity and Race in the African World, 150 Years After the Dred Scott Decision."

Call for Entries: Deadline October 31, 2006.

Conference Website

 
^{Claudia C. Marchini
Hero, 2003
oil on marble}

^{Issa Nyaphaga
Nippon Connection, 2004
hair, sand, mud, acrilyc on canvas}

SENIOR EXHIBITION
May 4-20, 2007

Opening Reception: First Friday, May 4, 5-8 pm

Capstone exhibition for graduating studio art majors.

Molly Jane Derby
Alex Emmer
Sarah Fagan
Henry Fulcher
Terry Ann Hayes
Kenneth Knickerbocker
Jennifer Kuzmik
Hope Luken
Jacob Stazewski