Samek Voices

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Pardon our dust! We’re having some work done on a few of our gallery walls in the Samek Gallery. Here’s the inside scoop on why we’re doing this now. The inner walls of our gallery were never intended to hang art. They originally contained windows (I’m told) that looked out on the Gallery from our…

The Samek Art Museum is currently hiring docents to begin working this summer or fall semester. See below for more information. Student Museum Docent The Samek Art Museum is a program of Bucknell University that creates meaningful encounters between artists, students, scholars, the public and works of art. The Museum presents original, travelling, and collection…

UPDATE: Downtown Gallery hours: Tuesday 12 – 5pm Wednesday 12 – 7pm Thursday through Sunday 12 – 5pm Samek Gallery hours: Wednesday 12 – 5pm    

I recently returned from New York City where I had visited the Scope Art Fair, Whitney Biennial, Saks, MoMA, and a few other urban sites and I’ve been struggling with what to say about these various cultural operations on our museum blog. Let’s face it, blogs favor pithy writing so, at the great risk of…