Enjoy the latest deep dives on art, stories, and more from the Samek Art Museum community.
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Prison Art & Collage Galore!
This past week the Samek was humming with activity as we took down our previous exhibitions, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s “Blacklist” and Myra Greene’s “Self-Portraits”, and installed the two new shows, the International Collage Center‘s “Remix:Selections from the International Collage Center” and “Freehand: an exhibition of artwork created by Pennsylvania prisoners” and curated by Shawna Meiser. For…
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Art for the Masses: Scott Snibbe’s “Falling Girl”
Its been great this semester to see the responses of students, faculty, staff, and other passersby to our new Video Wall right outside the doors of the Samek. Our inaugural piece of video art was by West Coast media artist, filmmaker, and researcher in interactivity, Scott Snibbe. The work Falling Girl is a whimsical video…
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Not Your Ordinary Museum
I just stumbled across this pretty awesome photo on CollegeHumor and it really made me think about how people act and carry themselves in museums. You know we all have this preconceived idea about how you are supposed to act when in a museum, you know: arms folded, stroking your facial hair (if you have…