Exhibitions

Xinfu Cheng and Jing Ming, Technological Innovation Makes Red Flowers Blossom, Shanghai, c. 1975, lithograph, 76.6 x 53 cm. Gettysburg College Art Collection.

Under the direction of Prof. Yan Sun, Gettysburg College students examine diverse depictions of workers and scenes of labor to consider issues of identity, equality, and injustice across cultures and historical periods. Works by artists Lewis Hine, James VanDerZee, and Pablo O’Higgins are included in this exhibition, alongside original posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution and photographs from the Meiji Period in Japan, among others.

  

Gallery Tour with Photo Collector Ron Perisho: October 22, 2021, 4 pm Reception to follow until 6pm

Co-curated by Schmucker Art Gallery Director Shannon Egan and Norwegian photo historian Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Across the West features stunning historical images of waterfalls, rocky mountains, glaciers, and geysers in Norway and the United States. This large traveling exhibition examines how major changes in infrastructure, tourism, mining, and expansion changed the landscapes and affected Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century in the two countries.

A complementary exhibition will be on display concurrently at Eckert Art Gallery, Millersville University, and the exhibition then will travel to museums in Utah, Seattle, and Norway.

   

In 1981, Gettysburg College commissioned African-American artist Martin Puryear to create a work of art to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the College’s founding, and in 1982, Puryear erected Sentinel. Since then, Puryear has come to be regarded as one of the most important contemporary American sculptors. Sentinel, one of Puryear’s first monumental outdoor sculptures, is an important part of Puryear’s legacy.

For the first time at Gettysburg College, a working mold Puryear constructed in preparation for Sentinel and photographs of the 1982 installation will be on display. The exhibition, curated by Kolbe Summer Research Fellow Merlyn Maldonado '22, will also include prints by Puryear that were recently acquired by the College and loaned from a private collection.

Turkish Treasure, 2020, by Sandra Desrosiers. (Medium: Oil).

This competitive exhibition, juried by Dr. William Crow, Director of Lehigh University Art Galleries, features paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, and textiles produced by artists in Adams County and the larger Mid-Atlantic region. Schmucker Art Gallery partners annually with the Adams County Arts Council to support its mission to cultivate an arts-rich community. View the exhibition online.

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Senior studio art majors present their independent capstone work in a variety of media under the direction of Professor Austin Stiegemeier.

 Mindheaven, 2021, by Julie Wills

"Split Void" is organized around a question: can longing be divided in half and shared between two entities, or is it merely doubled? Can half the weight of desire be borne by another, thus lightening its load, or by sharing do we only magnify its effects? The context of Gettysburg College, in a place so significant to the U.S. Civil War, shaped Wills' thinking for this exhibit.

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Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years is selected by Julie Wills, Asst. Prof. of Art, Washington College.

Image: "Scene of Celebration in a Pavilion", Eastern Han dynasty, ca. 147–151 CE. Ink rubbing of a stone relief. South wall of niche, Offering Hall no. 2 (Left Shrine), Wu Family Shrines, Jiaxiang county, Shandong province.

Curated by Gettysburg College Art History Students under the Direction of Prof. Yan Sun. Opening February 5, 2021. Virtual Gallery Talks: December 2 and December 3, 4pm: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/9991200186 Meeting ID: 999 120 0186. Join the student curators for discussion about immortality, ritual, and symbolism in Chinese art and artifacts. Get a sneak preview of the exhibition scheduled to open February 5, 2021.

Image: Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953), Tell me, I beseech you, when I casted my vote to you, did I cast it to the wind?, 1996, Chromogenic print (c-print), 18.88 x 23 in. (47.96 x 58.42 cm.), Signed; and numbered verso. Purchase made possible by the Michael Birkner ’72 and Robin Wagner Art and Photography Acquisition Fund with additional support from Dr. Deborah Smith P’11, P’13, Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection.

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a print by Carrie Mae Weems, Tell Me, I Beseech You, When I Casted My Vote to You, Did I Cast It to the Wind? (1996). This work and others featured in the exhibition, including those by Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, Donna Ferrato, Käthe Kollwitz, Ana Mendieta, Kay Walkingstick, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Jessica Houston, Zoë Charlton, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others prominent women artists, examine complicated issues related to identity, environmental activism, politics, and power in art. Gettysburg College students enrolled in the art history courses “Art and Public Policy” and “Art After 1945” introduce viewers to the political significance of the works and make new connections among the artists and their impulses for activism in the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Virtual Gallery Talk with Artist Jessica Houston September 16, 4 pm: Artist Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke entanglements of nature and culture. Her multimedia projects often include site-specific oral histories that amplify the memory of a place and evoke land as a living process. She has worked on projects involving communities and their relationship to their environments in the Canadian Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and Italy. Virtual Gallery Talk with Emily Francisco ’14, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art: “Reexamining Narratives: Women Artists and the National Gallery in 2020” October 21, 6:30 pm

    

Featuring original lithographs from the portfolio titled Mexican People, published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular in 1946, the exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to consider the social and political impact of revolutionary artists in Mexico in the first decades of the twentieth century. This portfolio, published in collaboration with the Associated American Artists, focused on Mexican-American trade, particularly the Mexican labor of exports to the United States. Also included will be a selection of prints by José Guadelupe Posada to demonstrate his influence on TGP artists. Virtual Gallery Talk with Student Curators Carolyn Hauk ‘21 and Joy Zanghi ’21 September 2, 4pm: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/9991200186 Image: Pablo O’Higgins (Mexican, born United States, 1904-1983), The Market, 1946, lithograph. Published in the portfolio: Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902-1969), Mexican People, American Associated Artists, New York in collaboration with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, 1946. Purchase made possible by the Michael Birkner ’72 and Robin Wagner Art and Photography Acquisition Fund. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City