Exhibitions

Juror: Cristin Cash, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History
Director, Boyden Gallery
St. Mary's College of Maryland

This exhibition is offered in partnership with the Adams County Arts Council. Prizes totaling $2,750 will be handed out at the Opening Reception on First Friday, June 5, 5 pm to 7, with awards at 6 p.m.

2015 juried artists are: Kelly Alsedek, John Armstrong, Barbara Jean Clements, Joan Concilio, Kimberly Connelly, Tom Conway, Pamela Cooper-White, Sue Fehringer, Anne H. Finucane, Jack Handshaw, Nanette Hatzes, Stephanie Hicks, Michael Hower, Sarah Jacobs, Teresa Jarzynski, Sean P. Kennedy, James Krabiel, Chris Lauer, Casey Martin, Alan McBeth, Kerry Mott, j. Labosky Myers, Alison O’Brien, Michael Parameros, Alan Paulson, Arlyn Pettingell, Janet M. Powers, Joh Ricci, Jaclyn Rice, Julie Yontz Rupp, Ann Ruppert, Ted Scarpino, Andrew T. Smith, Lori Snyder, Patrick Spatz, Geoffrey Thulin, Dora Townsend, Christy Vannoy, and David Weaver.

Exhibition coordinating committee members are Louise Garverick, Judie Butterfield, and Sally Becker. For more information about Arts Council programs, classes, and membership, contact (717) 334-5006, aa@adamsarts.org or visit www.adamsarts.org.

Senior studio art majors present their capstone projects in sculpture, painting, drawing, ceramics, photography and installation.

Outstanding work completed by Gettysburg College students in 2014-15, juried by artist Cara Ober.

A painter, teacher, and writer, Cara Ober layers drawing, painting, and printmaking into mixed media works that examine and reinterpret sentimental imagery. Ober’s narrative works utilize specific phrases and fonts to suggest multiple voices, perspectives, and time periods. Rather than illustrating the text, the images create discord and contrast, layering metaphorical and nonsensical outcomes over personal notation.

Ober is commercially represented by Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC, with solo exhibits in 2012 and 2009. She has participated in numerous international art fairs, including Art Miami, Aqua Wynwood Miami, and Bridge Fair in London. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Washingtonian Magazine, Hamptons Magazine, and US News and World Report. Recent group exhibitions include Old Friends: New Works at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ in March, 2013 and at the Nepalese Academy of Fine Arts in Kathmandu, Nepal in April, 2013.

Cara Ober earned an MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005 and a BA in fine arts in 1996 from the American University. From 2010-2012, Cara was the online arts and culture editor at The Urbanite Magazine and wrote the popular "Eye to Eye" arts column on the back page of each monthly print publication. She also writes art reviews for Art Papers ArtNews Magazine, and publishes daily art content at Bmoreart.

At the Symposium, lectures by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dr. Nashid Madyun, Director, Hampton University Museum will take place. Moderated by Berrisford Booth, Associate Professor of Art, Lehigh University.

The selected works of art from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection examine African and African-American cultures and identities through varied representations of the human figure. The exhibition consists of prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture from prominent contemporary artists including Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, Jacob Lawrence and Alison Saar as well as significant artists from the 1930s, 1940s and through the Civil Rights Era, such as Hughie Lee-Smith, John Biggers and Hale Woodruff. While many of the works are extraordinarily personal, expressive portraits, other subjects address issues of labor and leisure, religion and spirituality, the civil rights struggle and the African Diaspora. The artists in this exhibition reflect diverse stylistic influences and re-appropriate visual motifs not only to denounce centuries of oppression and confront the legacy of slavery, but also to celebrate multifaceted cultures and their own diverse identities. Additionally, they use the figure and unique faces to explore beauty, humanity, compassion and strength within a fraught, but resonant past. An accompanying exhibition catalogue and didactic wall labels written by students in Professor Shannon Egan’s “Art and Public Policy” course will provide insight into the artistic, social, and contextual factors that shaped each work of art.

This exhibition is supported in part by the Petrucci Family Foundation, the Africana Studies Program and EPACC, Gettysburg College.

Students in the course “Art and Public Policy” curate an exhibition of art and artifacts related to African-American experiences and representations in the nineteenth-century selected from the private collection of Angelo Scarlato.

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