Samek Voices

Enjoy the latest deep dives on art, stories, and more from the Samek Art Museum community.

  • Country Living Photo Essay Part 3

    Country Living Photo Essay Part 3 by Sean Gilchrist ’17, joint Samek Art Museum/Place Studies Fellow Part art project, part photo ethnography, Sean will be responding to themes present in Country Living by documenting images of rural life in Lewisburg and the surrounding region. See how this project grows during the course of the exhibition.…

  • Country Living Photo Essay Part 2

    Country Living Photo Essay Part 2 by Sean Gilchrist ’17, joint Samek/Place Studies Fellow Part art project, part photo ethnography, Sean will be responding to themes present in Country Living by documenting images of rural life in Lewisburg and the surrounding region. See how this project grows during the course of the exhibition. Back “This…

  • Will a seminal generation of artworks be lost forever?

    I was quoted in the October 2013 cover story for ArtNews about the challenges of preserving new media art – and the danger to art history if we don’t. Artists began working with new media in large numbers about when the Web hit the mainstream, in the mid 1990’s, but as museums grapple with how…

  • Want to be part of an artwork? Send us your doodle for “do it!”

    Our “doodle party” for this most recent “do it! Friday” was such a success, we want to keep the party going! In 2012, artist Uri Aran created a work that would be completed with a simple instruction for his audience: “doodle.”  We want you to help us embellish this work, and have added a few…

  • do it! Friday: The ABC’s of Jérôme Bel’s “Shirtology”

    Jérôme Bel’s “Shirtology”differs somewhat from many of the works in “do it!” in that rather than receiving a set of written instructions from the artist, we only had the above image to work with. Our Preparator and Operations Coordinator, Rachel, staged this work, and decided that some additional research was necessary. Fortunately, there are several…

  • Ai Weiwei’s civil disobedience writ large for “do it! Friday”

    Last week, our Gallery Fellow, Frank Fina performed Ai Weiwei’s CCTV Spray  as part of our do it! Fridays event.  Ai is a contemporary artist, designer, architect, and activist known for his outspoken views against the Chinese government, which has labeled him a political dissident. In fact,  on April 3, 2011, Ai was arrested at the…

  • Greetings from the new Public Programs and Outreach Manager

    Hello central Pennsylvania! It’s been quite a journey moving from Portland, Oregon to the opposite coast, and I still don’t have my furniture yet. However, it’s about time I introduced myself as the new Public Programs and Outreach Manager for the Samek Art Gallery. My job at the Samek essentially consists of all aspects of…

  • Por Mis Viajes, Among My Travels – Recent Work

    Sept 23 – Oct 31 Samek Art Gallery This exhibition is presented in partnership with Multicultural Student Services and International Student Services as part of the Connections Gallery: Experiments in Community Curating. Artist Statement My photography feels organic to me, arising from my very blood. From the moment I bought my first pawn-store camera as…

  • Current Hours

    Samek Gallery Top Floor, Elaine Langone Center; Bucknell University Tues-Fri 12pm-5pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm Downtown Gallery 416 Market Street; Lewisburg, PA 17837 Tues-Fri 12pm-5pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm Downtown Gallery CLOSED: Saturday, August 19, 11am-2pm Sunday, August 20, 11am-5pm

  • Introducing Rachel Linnemann: Preparator and Operations Coordinator

    Having recently graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a BA in Studio Arts and a minor in psychology, I knew that my life was about to change. The obvious change being from student to young professional. However, upon graduation I did not necessarily see myself moving over 8 hours from home, which is exactly what…