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Cheryl Kelley: Detailed
Cheryl Kelley: Detailed July 10 – Sept 29 The Downtown Art Gallery, 416 Market Street, Lewisburg A new series of high revved, high shine photorealist oil paintings of all-American muscle cars in which Cheryl Kelley brings a uniquely female perspective to these objects that are almost synonymous with youthful bad-boy hyper-masculinity. “The compositions flow from recognizable bumpers and hood [...]
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Summer Salon I: 160 Years of Collecting Art
Summer Salon I: 160 Years of Collecting Art May 18 – Sep 1, 2013 Samek Art Gallery, 3rd Fl, Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University In 1725, the Paris Salon debuted at the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Works hung floor to ceiling (“salon-style”) in order to showcase recent graduates from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1853, [...]
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Makeover
Makeover April 10- June 30, 2013 Makeover presents the work of two California-based artists – Elliot Anderson and Bill Domonkos. Anderson’s light-boxes layer images from tourist snapshots of famous American sites into an “averaged” landscape and Domonkos weaves archival film footage into dream-like film shorts. Both artists remix, mash-up, and Makeover still and moving found [...]
Blues, Brews, and BBQs
Pop-up Car Show In conjunction with the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership event: “Blues, Brew, and BBQs” Saturday, July 27 The Downtown Art Gallery 416 Market Street, Lewisburg 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The Downtown Art Gallery, located at 416 Market Street invites you to join us during “Blues, Brew, and BBQs”. in downtown Lewisburg with [...]
Cheryl Kelley: Detailed
Cheryl Kelley: Detailed July 10 – Sept 29 The Downtown Art Gallery, 416 Market Street, Lewisburg A new series of high revved, high shine photorealist oil paintings of all-American muscle cars in which Cheryl Kelley brings a uniquely female perspective to these objects that are almost synonymous with youthful bad-boy hyper-masculinity. “The compositions flow from recognizable bumpers and hood [...]
AAM Conference Recap
Attending your first museum conference as a young professional is an exciting thing. If I had to describe the 2013 American Alliance of Museums Annual Conference I’d describe it as the perfect blend of first date jitters/a huge bite of my favorite dessert/running your fastest marathon time kind of wonderful! My recent trip to Baltimore [...]
Third Thursday Happy Hour in the gallery
Third Thursday Happy Hour Thursday, June 20 4:00 pm – 5 :00 pm The Samek Art Gallery, 3rd Fl. ELC at Bucknell University Kicking off the our Third Thursday Happy Hour series, the Samek Art Gallery will host a reception of drinks and snacks on Thursday, June 20. In celebration of the gallery opening [...]
Downtown Art Gallery offers extended hours for July 4th Parade
Patriot Day Celebration June 29 10 am 416 Market Street, Downtown Lewisburg Who is looking for a front row seat during this year’s July Fourth Parade on Saturday, June 29th? The view from inside the Downtown Art Gallery can’t be beat- and we welcome you to enjoy the view from inside our “cool” [...]
Jobs and Fellowship Opportunities at the Gallery
Current Opportunities at the Samek Art Gallery Registrar | Preparator & Operations Coordinator | Gallery Fellow Department Overview The Samek Art Gallery is a program of Bucknell University that creates meaningful encounters between artists, students, scholars, the public and works of art. The Galleries present original, travelling, and collection exhibitions and public programs that cover [...]
The Samek Art Gallery and The Leonardo Electronic Almanac
In 2012, the Samek Art Gallery presented an unusual new art form – augmented reality – in the exhibition Manifest.AR@ZERO1 2012. This art form and this exhibition also caught the attention of Lanfranco Aceti, director of the Kasa Gallery in Istanbul and editor of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, an online sister publication to the MIT [...]
Seeking Gallery Fellow for 2013-14 Academic Year
Gallery Fellowship Overview The Gallery Fellowship is offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The fellowship offers professional training in arts administration and is designed to help fellows support their academic and career goals through supervised work experiences. Under the supervision of the Samek Art Gallery director and chief curator, the [...]
