Schmucker Art Gallery Exhibitions

“A Great and Truthful Medium”: Photography at Gettysburg and Beyond, Selections from the Ron Perisho Collection at Gettysburg College

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This exhibition celebrates Gettysburg College’s recent acquisition of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographs of the battlefield and town of Gettysburg.

September 2 - December 5, 2026

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Included in this collection are the iconic images of the battle’s aftermath by Alexander Gardner, Timothy O’Sullivan, and James Gibson. Also included are less well-known images by photographers such as William H. Tipton, Charles and Isaac Tyson, Samuel Corlies, and Peter S. Weaver. The collection ranges in medium, encompassing albumen silver prints, tintypes, stereographs, and lantern slides. Accompanied by research from Gettysburg College students, this show explores the role of photography in documenting and circulating imagery of the battlefield both during and after the Civil War, and of how technology aids and shapes memory and memorialization.

"Uncle Abe": The Common Image of the Uncommon Man Curated by Devon Szczepkowicz ‘26

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The exhibit “Uncle Abe”: The Common Image of the Uncommon Man explores the popular visual culture associated with Lincoln throughout, and beyond, his life.

September 2 - November 22, 2026

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The image of Abraham Lincoln evolved to be an iconic emblem of the nation’s commitment to the ideals of equality, progress, and liberty. The exhibit “Uncle Abe”: The Common Image of the Uncommon Man explores the popular visual culture associated with Lincoln throughout, and beyond, his life. This show considers how these representations have helped to shape the memory and mythology of Lincoln in the American consciousness. Lincoln forms a key component of the nation’s collective memory, and a close examination of his enduring image offers a reflection on how we think of our own identities as Americans.

Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony (Main Gallery)

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Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony Curated by Independent Scholar Bruce Weber Student researchers Adrianna Ashcraft ’26 and Audrey Blaszak ‘27

January 28 - April 11, 2026

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This exhibition celebrates the work of 50 women artists who were active in the historic Woodstock art colony. The paintings, drawings and prints are drawn from the permanent collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock, curated by independent scholar Bruce Weber. The display ranges from women who arrived during the first decades of the 20^th century as students at the Art Student League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting to those who came in the wake of the end of the second World War through the 1970s, with subjects ranging from portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes to abstraction. The exhibition explores the American art colony movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an alternative space for women who desired a life outside of the mainstream.

Images of Women in Art: Identity, Female Gaze, and Power (Project Space)

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Under the direction of Professor Yan Sun, student curators examine works by women artists in the East and West. The exhibition features prints, paintings, carvings, and photography.

The World Turned Upside Down: Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Project Space) Curated by Ava Prickman ‘28

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Curated by Ava Prickman ‘28, the Spring 2025 Susan ’77 and Joseph Biernat ‘75 Intern, this exhibition features Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda posters from Gettysburg College Special Collections.

September 3 - November 15, 2025

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Footprints Across the Ocean: The Art of Gan Yu Student researchers Westley Rathbun ’27 and Md Nafisul Hasan Sami ‘27

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This exhibition spans 45 years of the work of Chinese-American artist Gan Yu. In the artist’s words, the works reflect not only a distinctive artistic style and personal response to social changes, but also offer visual impressions of the world economy across its various cycles. Since 2007, Yu has devoted 18 years to exploring the stock market as a subject through 10 different series, exhibiting them across the globe. He sees the stock market as a visual distillation of contemporary politics, economics, technology, and culture. The U.S. stock market, in particular, serves as a barometer for the world economy. Yu believes global financial markets represent the largest piece of collective action art in human history. From New York to London, and from Hong Kong to Shanghai, markets operate in a continuous relay—day and night—never ceasing. This persistent activity electronically generates ever-evolving patterns on stock charts, creating a living visual record of the uneven trajectory of modern economic and social developments.

September 3 – December 6, 2025

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Visualizing the Civil War

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Drawn primarily from Gettysburg College Special Collections and College Archives, this show features Civil War related visual culture from the 1860s through the 1938 75th reunion at Gettysburg. Curated by Students Danielle Russell ’25 and Jake Neff ’27.

May 30 – July 19, 2025 
NOTE SUMMER HOURS: Thursday through Saturday, 10am-4pm
Closed Friday, July 4

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Source and Resource: Contemporary Artists Engage with History

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In this exhibition, works by contemporary artists will be paired with historical images that inspired their production. Pulled primarily from the Gettysburg College Art Collection with the addition of some significant loans, these pairings question how artists working in the 20^th and 21^st centuries interpret and reconfigure historical imagery to raise meaningful questions around shifting perceptions of race, gender and identity. Artists in the exhibition include Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Carl Beam, Carrie Mae Weems, and Michael Scoggins, among others.

January 29 – April 12 2025

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CAPSTONE 2025

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The Art of Travel

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This exhibition, directed by Professor Yan Sun, explores the theme of travel through Eastern and Western art, featuring prints, paintings, carvings, and photography.

December 4, 2024 – April 12, 2025

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A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825: Prints from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

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This exhibition was curated by Cyndy Basil, ’25, under the direction of Gallery Director Sarah Kate Gillespie, and Kolbe Summer Scholar Isobel Debenham, ’25, under the direction of Professor Felicia Else, Art History.
The show received support from the Provost’s Office, the Department of English, the Department of French, and the Program in Public History, Gettysburg College.

Click to Explore Prints from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

September 4 - December 14, 2024

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Consisting of fifty-one prints on loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this exhibition examines how artists depicted themselves and their profession from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The show includes artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Salvator Rosa, William Hogarth, Claude Lorrian, and Francisco Goya, among others. Created during a period when the social status of artists was in flux, the prints represent both artists’ lives and work, and the roles that both artists and the arts held in society. Full of allegory and rich in satire, the works include self-portraits, representations of artists at work, and exhibition and academy spaces.

Violet Oakley: A Message to the World from Pennsylvania

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This exhibition features Violet Oakley's 1922 silkscreens depicting Pennsylvania's history and American unity.

September 4 – November 9, 2024

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Curated by Sarah Louise Huebschen ’26, the spring 2024 Susan ’77 and Joseph Biernat ‘75 Intern, this exhibition features twelve prints by Pennsylvania artist Violet Oakley (1874-1961). Created in 1922, the silkscreens represent two cycles of her earlier murals located at the Pennsylvania State Capitol. The series for the Governor’s reception room depicts the history of the state, celebrating the principles of nonviolence, equality, and liberty of conscience Oakley admired. The second series is after Oakley’s murals in the Senate Chamber, titled “The Creation and Preservation of the Union.” These prints show scenes from American history, including President Lincoln at Gettysburg, as well as allegorical depictions of unity.

SENIOR CAPSTONE 2024

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

Ansel Adams: Manzanar

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This exhibition features 50 prints from Ansel Adams’s 1943 Manzanar portfolio, documenting Japanese-Americans interned during WWII with portraits, daily life scenes, and the camp’s surroundings.

January 31 – April 13 2024

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In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), one of America's most well-known photographers, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. The exhibition features 50 prints from Adams's Manzanar portfolio, which includes portraits, scenes of families working, sports and leisure activities, and details of the architecture and everyday life of the internees. The Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in Inyo County, California, at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains approximately 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Although Adams included images of the rugged scenery surrounding the camp in the portfolio, this series was a departure, both politically and aesthetically, from Adams’s better-known landscape photography.

When Adams offered his original prints and photographic negatives from this series to the Library of Congress, he explained, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment .... All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use."

From Mountains to City: East Asian Landscapes

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Under the direction of Prof. Yan Sun, student curators examine diverse depictions of landscapes from China and Japan. The selected works, including paintings on silk, ornate carvings in lapis lazuli, and prints, among others, offer meditations on nature and industrialization. Students consider the historical, material, aesthetic, and environmental significance of the works on display.

Reading Mary Margaret Stewart

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This exhibition, curated by Miriam Glatfelter ’24, explores literary themes in Mary Margaret Stewart’s art collection, featuring prints of authors and story-inspired works.

September 6 - November 11, 2023

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Curated by Miriam Glatfelter ’24, the inaugural Susan ’77 and Joseph Biernat ‘75 Intern, this exhibition examines the literary themes in works of art from the collection of Mary Margaret Stewart (1931-2021), a beloved Professor Emerita of English at Gettysburg College (1959-1996). Reading Mary Margaret Stewart features prints of notable authors, including Virginia Woolf and Edgar Alan Poe, as well as works that allude to stories, such as Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Glatfelter not only considers these various references to fiction and poetry, but she also invites the viewer to read the works in the context of Stewart’s own scholarly pursuits and love of art.

Drawing on the Susquehanna

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Curated by Rob Evans, the exhibition Drawing on the Susquehanna features eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prints, paintings, books, and objects that examine the history and significance of the Susquehanna River on art and culture. While artists were interested in presenting the economic opportunities of the river and the surrounding environment for settlement and expansion, they also were drawn to the picturesque beauty of the landscape, with rolling hills and majestic trees cradling the bends and curves of the water.

September 6 – December 8, 2023

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Several works on display provide evidence of the larger commercial market for these images, as the landscapes appeared in maps, books, portfolios, journals, magazines, newspapers, and decorated china. The artists and publishers helped to “sell” the Susquehanna, making it one of the most well-known rivers worldwide along with its sister east coast river, the Hudson. While some of the images focus on seemingly “wild,” pristine landscapes, many of the depictions celebrate new infrastructure in the environment, such as bridges, ferries, and railroad tracks. Ultimately, the river inspired artists, writers, and poets, but the place also reflects a complicated history and more nuanced sense of place.

Additional interpretation of these works of art, particularly the history and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, is provided by Hannah Vaccaro ’24, Kolbe Summer Scholar, Gettysburg College, under the direction of Prof. Stephanie Sellers, English, Native American Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

CAPSTONE 2023 Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition

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Exhibition runs through May 13, 2023

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LEAH ALEXANDRE

LAUREN CHU

HAGEN KREBS

LILIAN MORRELL

CHRISTOPHER PAREJA

MARY PETER RIGG

Under the direction of Prof. TINA GEBHART

Adams County Arts Council 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

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The exhibition is a partnership between Adams County Arts Council and Schmucker Art Gallery. Juried by Lauren Nye, Associate Curator of the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee

June 1 - 23, 2023
 

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Main Gallery and Project Space 

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June 10, 5-7pm
Awards announced at 6pm 

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Featuring work by artists: Kelly Alsedek, Pamela Black, Stefanie Boss, Emily Clarke, Pamela Crockett, Sandra Desrosiers, Sherree Devor, Skyler D'Vincent, Olga Evanusa, Andrea Finch, Anne Finucane, Carol Foerster, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Linda Gottfried, Abigail Henthorne, Shawn Heiges, Michael Hower, Ron Jesiolowski, Sharon Pierce McCullough, Scott Meier, Christine Mercer-Vernon, Michelle Moats, Vidal Mouet, Margot Peer, George Radeschi, Joh Ricci, Jaclyn Rice, Cassi Rodriguez, Simonne Roy, Brit Schmid, Rod Stabler, Amy Swartele, Geoffrey Thulin, John Tronsor, Allyson Valentine, Keith Vogrin, Michele Evola Wagner, Brian Walker, Katie Jett Walls, Anita Williams, Will Wolf, Autumn C. Wright, Jenny Wu, Jennifer Yablonsky, Terri Yacovelli, Harold Zabady

Sponsors include Scott & Co. Fine Jewelers, which underwrites the $1,000 Best of Show award, OPEN MINDS, Lark, Harvest Investment Services/ Kristine Witherow, Land Conservancy of Adams County, Gallery 30, Bert Danielson/ Gunnar Galleries, Blick Art Materials, and Schmucker Art Gallery. Exhibition chair is Debbie Westmoreland. For more information, contact the Arts Council at aa@adamsarts.org, (717) 334-5006, or visit adamsarts.org.

Frederick Wright Jones: Pantheon

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Exhibition runs through May 13, 2023

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Project Space
 

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Artist Frederick Wright Jones is inspired by utilitarian and folk objects and ideas: religious reliquaries, merchandise, illustration, and propaganda. Though tactile, his multimedia objects and installations materialize things we cannot see and forces we cannot measure, visualizing his deepest fears, darkest thoughts, and biggest uncertainties. His work is a method of researching the contradictions of the human condition and his life narrative. On his way to teaching, alongside raising a family and continuing his artistic research, Frederick Wright Jones has 13 years of experience working as a rope-supported arborist. The inherent risks, team oriented dynamic, exposure to the elements, and intensity with material connected to urban forestry, all feed into his sculptural practice. An Associate Professor of sculpture at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, Frederick is currently working with the mapping of history and memory. He is currently collaborating with a Providence, RI-based group, mapping histories of Black and Indigenous inhabitants.

Let’s Play! Sports and Games in Art and Culture

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Curated by Gettysburg College art history students Macey Cohen ’23, Hagen Krebs ’23, Paul Pelham ’23, Kate Sallee ’25, and Devyn Wesolowski ’25 under the direction of Professor Yan Sun

On display through March 3, 2023
 

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Gallery tours with student curators, February 10, 17, and 24, 2023, noon-1pm 
 

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With this exhibition, it’s not a matter of winning or losing, but how student curators interpret, and perhaps also play, the games on display. Under the direction of Prof. Yan Sun, Gettysburg College students examine diverse depictions of sports and games across cultures and historical periods. Included in this exhibition are prints and photographs of sporting games and major athletes, such as Michael Jordan and Muhammed Ali, illustrated playing cards of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets from the Meiji Period in Japan, among other historical objects. The student curators make cross-cultural connections to consider the political, social, and aesthetic significance, as well as the virtues and vices, of these contests and competitions. From representations of drinking games and gambling to celebrations of athletic abilities, the exhibition offers a new way of considering the intersections of art, physicality, and leisure.

LANDMARK: Landscape Photography in the Arab World MANAL ABU-SHAHEEN and AISHA MERSHANI

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This exhibition features the work of contemporary photographers Manal Abu-Shaheen and Aisha Mershani who examine how specific locations in the Arab World are marked by social, political, and environmental changes. Taken together, their photographs of architectural ruins, commercial billboards, border walls, and empty streets – all broadly understood as landscapes without human subjects – attest to a shared impulse to document the consequences of violence and occupation in the region.

January 24 - March 3, 2023
 

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Main Gallery
 

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February 3, 2023, 5:30 - 7:00 pm 

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February 3, 2023: 4-5:30 pm Panel discussion with the artists, moderated by Professor Stephen Sheehi in Bowen Auditorium, McCreary Hall 

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Manal Abu-Shaheen powerfully pictures the impact of capitalism and the global economy in Lebanon through photographs of billboards, interior spaces, and the cityscape of Beirut. Her photographs are sometimes disorienting between the “real” and what is imagined – as advertisement, architectural rendering, or neoliberal fantasy of economic prosperity. Aisha Mershani’s photographs convey profound insights into historical and present trauma in the region. In two different photographic series focused on Palestine – one of the Apartheid Wall and the other of the destroyed village of Lifta – the architecture stands, literally and metaphorically, for oppression, expulsion, and resistance. Ultimately, all the photographs in the exhibition reveal various perspectives about the Arab world through seemingly deserted landscapes and interconnected histories.

Stephen Sheehi, a renowned scholar who specializes in photography, psychoanalysis, minorities in the Middle East, Islamophobia in the United States and contemporary issues of the Middle East and North America, contributed an incisive essay to the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Sheehi’s text offers a profound grasp of the larger political and social issues in the region and a careful reading of Mershani’s and Abu-Shaheen’s works. In conjunction with the exhibition, Sheehi is moderating a panel discussion with the artists on February 3, 2023 at 4:00 pm in Bowen Auditorium, McCreary Hall, Gettysburg College.

This exhibition is co-sponsored by the following departments and programs: International and Global Studies, Public Policy, Cinema and Media Studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and EPACC, Gettysburg College.

Frederick Wright Jones: Pantheon

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March 24 - April 15, 2023
 

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Project Space
 

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March 24, 2023, 4:30 – 6:00 pm 

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Artist’s Talk: March 24, 2023, 4:00 pm 

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Growing up a light-skinned African-American and then living as a foreigner in Germany, the home of his life companion, motivates the work of Frederick Wright Jones. The uniqueness of each place, the parallels and slight cultural shift between New and Old Worlds—Europe, with its varied levels of reconciliation with past atrocities, and America with its history split along color lines—leaves Frederick floating in the Atlantic. He is inspired by the utilitarian and the folk: religious reliquaries, merchandise, illustration, and propaganda. He takes the canons of the institutions, the dream state of the West, weaving these with folklore, politics, and pop culture to dissect political and cultural placement. Though tactile, his multimedia objects and installations materialize things we cannot see and forces we cannot measure, visualizing his deepest fears, darkest thoughts, and biggest uncertainties. His work is a method of researching the contradictions of the human condition and his life narrative. On his way to teaching, alongside raising a family and continuing his artistic research, Frederick Wright Jones has 13 years of experience working as a rope-supported arborist. The inherent risks, team oriented dynamic, exposure to the elements, and intensity with material connected to urban forestry, all feed into his sculptural practice. An associate professor of sculpture at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, Frederick is currently working with the mapping of history and memory. He is currently collaborating with a Providence, RI-based group, mapping histories of Black and Indigenous inhabitants.

Juried Student Exhibition

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March 24 - April 15, 2023

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Main Gallery

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March 24, 2023, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

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Juror’s Talk and Awards: March 24, 2023, 4:00 pm 

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Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2022-2023 academic year is selected by artist Frederick Wright Jones, Asst. Prof. of Art, Muhlenberg College.

Decameron Row, In Memoriam

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Decameron Row, In Memoriam is a retrospective of Decameron Row, a collective art project for which a group of friends invited 100 artists from around the world to contribute one-minute videos documenting their time in isolation during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. The result is an eclectic and diverse virtual community of neighbors, housed together on an online city street. Together, their stories form a moving and unique record of 2020.

October 12 - November 12, 2022

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Project Space
 

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October 12, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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October 12, 5:00 pm: In-Person Gallery Talk with two of the co-creators from Imaginary Places, Itamar Kubovy and Stefanie Sobelle (Assoc. Professor of English, Gettysburg College), with reception to follow until 7pm. 

Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity

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Featuring works by artists Elizabeth Catlett, Deborah Dancy, Nekisha Durrett, the Guerrilla Girls, Glenn Ligon, Carl Pope, Jr., Faith Ringgold, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems

August 31 - December 10, 2022

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Main Gallery

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August 31, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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In-Person Gallery Talk with Nekisha Durrett: October 28, 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow until 7:00 p.m.

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Virtual Gallery Talk with Deborah Dancy: October 19, 5:00 p.m.: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/9991200186 
 

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Confuse the Issues: Art, Text, and Identity features text-based works by prominent contemporary artists of color who demonstrate the power of language. Words not only are central to the compositions of each photograph, sculpture, and print, but the text also provides an expression of identity, a marginalized narrative, a reflection on history, or a call to action.

Featuring works by artists: Elizabeth Catlett, Deborah Dancy, Nekisha Durrett, the Guerrilla Girls, Glenn Ligon, Carl Pope, Jr., Faith Ringgold, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems

This exhibition is supported in part by Art Bridges and co-sponsored by the following departments and programs at Gettysburg College: Africana Studies, English, Public Policy, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Imprints of Life: Rubbings from Carved Stones of the Han Dynasty

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Curated by Elinor Gass ’24 under the Direction of Prof. Yan Sun

August 31 - October 1, 2022

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Project Space

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August 31, 5:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

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Gallery Talk with student curator Elinor Gass ’24: August 31, 5 p.m. 

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The tomb rubbings on display in this exhibition convey Confucian and Daoist values and include scenes of dancing, feasting, mythology and Confucian legends. These prints demonstrate the significance of tomb carvings in support of passage to the afterlife in Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) funerary shrines in China. 

Adams County Arts Council Juried Art Exhibition

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This competitive exhibition 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.

June 2 - June 24, 2022

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Main Gallery and Project Space 

Reception 

June 3, 5-7 pm

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This competitive exhibition 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.

CAPSTONE 2022: Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition

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Graduating Studio Art Majors Ziriu Feng ‘22 and Nicole Mangaroo ’22 will display their capstone work in Schmucker Art Gallery’s Project Space.

April 27 - May 15, 2022

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Project Space

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April 27, 5-7 pm
 

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Gallery Talks: April 27, 5-7 pm 

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Graduating Studio Art Majors Ziriu Feng ‘22 and Nicole Mangaroo ’22 will display their capstone work in Schmucker Art Gallery’s Project Space.

James Williams II: Will You Remember Me

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James Williams II is a curator and interdisciplinary artist who works across painting, sculpture, and photography. He has exhibited widely in Baltimore, Chicago, and NYC. Williams is the recipient of the MFA Joan Mitchell Foundation award and is a semifinalist for the 2022 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize. Originally from Upstate New York, Williams now lives in Baltimore. He received his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College Art (MICA) and currently teaches at MICA.

March 25 - April 16, 2022

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Project Space
 

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April 1, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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Artist’s Talk: April 1, 5 p.m. 

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James Williams II is a curator and interdisciplinary artist who works across painting, sculpture, and photography. He has exhibited widely in Baltimore, Chicago, and NYC. Williams is the recipient of the MFA Joan Mitchell Foundation award and is a semifinalist for the 2022 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize. Originally from Upstate New York, Williams now lives in Baltimore. He received his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College Art (MICA) and currently teaches at MICA.

Williams’s work uses satire and visual riposte to challenge the ambiguity of the Black construct as both an object and abject. What started as an inquiry about the discursive formation of the Black race by his then five-year-old daughter followed his investigation into the subject within American society both past and present. The Black construct is complicated, fluid, and unreliable with anthropomorphic qualities. The “truth” of race and its complexities are intrinsic to our lives, yet as his daughter reminds him daily, it's not as complex as we make it. The use of various photographic, technology, and fiber materials blended within the painting is an attempt to find a childlike understanding of the inaccuracies and indecisiveness of racial classifications of Black Americans and the achromatic color they both share.
 

Juried Student Exhibition

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Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2021-2022 academic year is selected by Baltimore-based artist James Williams II.

March 25 - April 30, 2022

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Main Gallery
 

Reception

April 1, 5:30-7pm
 

Lecture

Juror's Talk: April 1, 5pm 
 

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Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2021-2022 academic year is selected by Baltimore-based artist James Williams II.

Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

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A selection of recent works by Gettysburg College’s studio art faculty: Mark Warwick, Tina Gebhart, Austin Stiegemeier, John Kovaleski, Henry Gepfer, and Amanda Berg.

January 28 - March 4, 2022

Location

Main Gallery
 

Reception

Reception: March 1, 4-6pm
 

Lecture

Virtual Gallery Talk: January 28, Noon - 1 pm. View on YouTube 

Works on display

A selection of recent works by Gettysburg College’s studio art faculty: Mark Warwick, Tina Gebhart, Austin Stiegemeier, John Kovaleski, Henry Gepfer, and Amanda Berg.

ART/WORK: Labor, Identity, and Society

Across The West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography

Martin Puryear: 40 Years since Sentinel

The 17th Annual Adams County Arts Council Juried Art Exhibition

CAPSTONE 2021: Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition

The 2021 Juried Student Exhibition

Julie Wills: Split Void

From the Yellow Springs to the Land of Immortality: Chinese Art and Artifacts

I Beseech You: Women, Art, Politics, and Power

Mexico and The People: Revolutionary Printmaking and the Taller de Gráfica Popular

Sandy Winters: Creation and Destruction

Luxurious Surfaces: Chinese Decorative Arts from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

CAPSTONE 2020: Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition

Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson: Getting there

Artful Nature and the Legacy of Maria Sibylla Merian

ACAC 16th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2019

Rachel Eng: Re-Orienting

Juried Student Exhibition 2019

Zoë Charlton: The Domestic

The City: Art and the Urban Environment

Face to Face: Carl Beam and Andy Warhol

The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825

15th Annual Adams County Arts Council Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2018

Enjambre: Nestor Armando Gil

Juried Student Exhibition 2018

Flora and Fauna in East Asian Art

Coronal Plane: Cristin Millett

Recent Acquisitions, 2007-2017: Selections from the Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection

Wonders of Nature and Artifice

Leonard Baskin: Imaginary Artists

Adams County Arts Council 14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2017

POSADA: Jose Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Penny Press

Juror’s Exhibition: Laura Amussen: Nourish

Juried Student Exhibition 2017

Conversations: Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

Methods of Nature: Landscapes from the Gettysburg College Collection

William Clutz: Crossings

Bodies in Conflict: From Gettysburg to Iraq

Adams County Arts Council 13th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2016

Juried Student Exhibition 2016

Cory Oberndorfer POP: ARTISTS

Paul Strand and Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photography in Mexico

The Figure in Art: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection

(Un) Governed Spaces: A Panorama of Afghanistan by Gregory Thielker and Noah Coburn

“Pray for the People Who Feed You”: Voices of Pauper Children in the Early Industrial Age

Adams County Arts Council Twelfth Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2015

Juried Student Exhibition 2015

Cara Ober: You might have been a headache, but you never were a bore.

Identities: African-American Art from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection

Art, Artifact, Archive: African-American Experiences in the 19th Century

Method and Meaning: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection

Els Geelen: Roots

Michael Scoggins: When Johnny Comes Marching Home

John James Anderson: Recent Work

Juried Student Exhibition 2014

Glenn Ligon: Narratives (Disembark) Suite

OUT OF RUBBLE

Field and Factory: Chinese Revolutionary Posters

The Michael J. Birkner '72 and Robin Wagner Art and Photography Acquisition Fund

Manazher: Views from the Middle East

Melissa Ichiuji: In the Flesh

Andy Warhol: Polaroids and Portraits

Adams County Arts Council Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2013: Senior Art Majors Exhibition

Juror’s Exhibition: Steve Pearson

Juried Student Exhibition 2013

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Judy Chicago: The Birth Project

The Gettysburg Cabinet

Faculty Exhibition 2012

Retratos/Portraits

Visualizing War

A Tale of Two Cities: Eugene Atget’s Paris and Berenice Abbott’s New York

Adams County Arts Council Ninth Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Capstone 2012

Juried Student Exhibition 2012 and Exhibition by Kate Stewart, Juror

Jim Agard: A Retrospective

Art and Politics

Art From Abroad 2011

New Edens - Sam Van Aken

Amer Kobaslija: One Hundred Views of Kessenuma

Lisa Blas: Meet Me at the Mason Dixon

Adams County Arts Council Juried Exhibition

Capstone 2011

Juried Student Exhibition 2011

Ronald Gonzales

The Sol LeWitt Project

Noelle Tan: Photographs

Art From Abroad

Senior Exhibition

Juried Student Exhibition 2010 and Ron Longsdorf: New Work

Maren Hassinger: Lives

Ancient Ritual Objects of China

Scenic Designs by Jerry Hanson, 1984-2009: A Celebration of Theater at Gettysburg College

Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian

Adams County Arts Council Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition

Senior Exhibition 2009

Juried Student Exhibition 2009

Faculty Exhibition

Susan Harbage Page: Lingering Portraits

Adams County Arts Council Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition

ID: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Sculpture

The Chittlin Circuit Review: The History of the Blues by Rik Freeman

Capstone 2008

Juried Student Exhibition 2008

Selected Works by Art Professors

A Sculpture, Some Drawings, and My Relationship with Jane Eyre: New Works by Mark Warwick

Art of the Gettysburg Review: Representation in Contemporary American Painting

Opiniones/Percepciones

Student Exhibition 2007

Art Lessons III: An Exhibition of Local Children's Art

Capstone 2007

Negotiating Identities in Africa and the African Diaspora

Circular Notions: New Works by Alan Paulson

Inaugural Alumni Exhibition

Christy George: Instruments of Calibration and Ascertainment

Form and Spirit: The Origami Art of Peter Engel

Earth, Sky and Fire: Contemporary Hispanic Art

Student Exhibition

Unveiling the Past: Hidden Treasures of the Gettysburg College Asian Art Collection

Art Lessons II: An Exhibition of Local Children's Art

Capstone 2006

Faculty Exhibitio

Black Ships and Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan

Seeing Is Believing? Nate Larson and Will Shank: Miracle Photographs

Jim Agard: Alchemized Structures

Student Exhibition

Machine Aesthetic: The Art of the Harley

Art Lessons: An Exhibition of Local Children's Art

Capstone 2005

Catherine Widgery: Bit Memories

Bag It: Works by Lori Crawford

Faculty Exhibition

Reinventing Tradition in a New World: The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu

Recoloration Proclamation: The Gettysburg Redress: A John Sims Project

Capstone 2004

Faculty Exhibition

Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization

Art from the War Zone of Sri Lanka

Colin Stinson and Karen Kersten

Paintings and Drawings by Jim Dales

Student Exhibition