Enjoy the latest deep dives on art, stories, and more from the Samek Art Museum community.
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Installing Modern Art 1915 – now
The Study Gallery is currently exhibiting a selection of work for Bucknell Professor, Roger Rothman’s Art 208 / Modern Art 1915 – now course. The Samek Art Museum collection includes pieces from the most prominent artists of the 20th century including Andy Warhol, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dali, Jean Dubuffet and many more all of who are…
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Lynn Estomin: Fashion to Die For
If you’ve walked past the entrances to the Samek or the Downtown Gallery during the evening recently, you may have noticed a new video playing. It is artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker Lynn Estomin’s 2014 video work, Fashion to Die For. You can watch the trailer here. Estomin’s video begins with hypnotic footage of industrial…
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Artist Talk: Rachel Sussman (1/21)
January 21, 6pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Sussman discusses her current solo exhibition at the Samek, The Oldest Living Things in the World. Bucknell Professor Duane Griffin will serve as discussant on how her work merges art, science, and philosophy. A reception and book signing follows the talk in the Samek Gallery.…
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Country Living Film Screenings (11/20)
November 20, 7:30pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center As part of Country Living, we will be screening the films Summer Solstice (1974) by Hollis Frampton and a selection of diary films by Robert Huot. These films were curated by Ken Eisenstein of Bucknell’s Film/Media Studies Program, who will introduce them. This is a…
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Mel Ziegler: Life on the Farm (11/14)
November 14 Participatory Art Project – 12:00pm, Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Artist Talk – 6:00pm, Samek Gallery Mel Ziegler – PA native and featured artist in the exhibition Country Living – invites students to play a board game called “Life on the Farm” with local farmers, including farmers from Happy Cow Creamery,…
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If I Could Paint
The following poem is a response to Country Living by Junior Creative Writing student, Meghan Carroll. She wrote it as part of an assignment for Prof. Shara McCallum’s English 204 Creative Writing: Poetry class. Back If I Could Paint -By Meghan Carroll If I could paint I would do white and blue, like the sky,…
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Conversations: Richard Rinehart with Dr. Alison Goodrum (10/23)
October 23, 6pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Samek Art Museum Director Richard Rinehart will be in conversation with Dr. Alison Goodrum, Professor of Apparel at Manchester Metropolitan University on the occasion of the Samek’s Country Living exhibition. Richard Rinehart will discuss his curatorial approach to the exhibition in connection with Dr. Goodrum’s…
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Conversations: Tulu Bayar with Neil Anderson and Bucknell Student Artists
October 9, 6pm 3rd Floor Conference Room, DeWitt Building, 416 Market St., Lewisburg As part of her Samek Art Museum’s 20’s Something exhibition, Bucknell Art Professor Tulu Bayar will be talking to Bucknell Art Professor Emeritus, Neil Anderson along with student artist, Ashley Freeby about how generational differences inform their art practice. A reception at…
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Culture and Technology Intersections Lecture Series
This new campus lecture series brings internationally renowned speakers to campus to present their creative work at the intersection of art, engineering, music, and design. Unless indicated (*), all lectures will be held in the Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor, Elaine Langone Center. For the full schedule of lectures past and present, please go here. Upcoming…
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Field Trip–Kara Walker: A Subtlety
Over the past weekend, I made a pilgrimage to see Kara Walker’s A Subtlety before it closed on Sunday at a derelict Domino sugar factory in Brooklyn, New York. The line to get in was eight blocks long, and I had to sign a waiver saying that I would not sue the sponsoring organization, Creative…