Samek Voices

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

  • Let’s Have THAT Talk

    Here is a poem that Bucknell student Ariel E. Ulrich’ 25 wrote in response to her visit to the Samek Art Museum with Roger Rothman’s Art of Protest Class. Thank you for sharing your beautiful words, Ariel.   Let’s have a talk About opioids About oppression   Let’s have a talk About lives lost About…

  • What takes so long?

    If you are like many visitors to a museum, you might take for granted that after one exhibition comes down, another goes up in its place. You might notice that the gallery is closed for a week or two – and might wonder what takes so long. After all, someone just needs to take down…

  • Ekphrasis Highlight | Annunciation: Inside a Temporary Passage Structure

    From the Greek ek (out) and phrazein (to speak), ekphrasis is a written description of or response to a work of visual art. Samek Museum Guide Joshua Garcia, an incoming Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, shares an ekphrastic poem responding to the Samek’s permanent collection. This week, Garcia’s…

  • Ekphrasis Highlight: Time Pieces

    From the Greek ek (out) and phrazein (to speak), ekphrasis is a written description of or response to a work of visual art. Samek Museum Guide Joshua Garcia, an incoming Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, shares an ekphrastic poem responding to an artwork in the Samek’s permanent collection.…

  • Ekphrasis Highlight: Jerry

      Jerry after Scott Lifschutz The same internet that teaches me about body neutrality and shows me young boys unabashedly loving each other on TikTok is the same internet where I read about queer futurity and promises deferred. The same place where @jeffreyjamesfoxx cries when he says: Society stole that from so many of us.…

  • Ekphrasis Highlight: Paranirvana Study (Blue)

    From the Greek ek (out) and phrazein (to speak), ekphrasis is a written description of or response to a work of visual art. Samek Museum Guide Joshua Garcia, an incoming Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, shares an ekphrastic poem responding to an artwork in the Samek’s permanent collection.…

  • The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

    The Samek Art Museum sent our Cupid and Apollo, 1512 -1514 by Pontormo, to the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University last semester to be cleaned. NYU’s Conservation Center has done a detailed analysis of paintings in the Kress Collection and has provided crucial information for conservation and long-term preservation…

  • do it (home), 
    Interdisciplinary Connections

    August 19 – November 21Campus Gallery In connection with the exhibition do it (home), the museum has invited campus creators from beyond the visual arts (poetry, dance, music) to create short video recordings that document how the idea of instructions, scripts, and scores inform their respective art practices. The resulting video wall adds an interdisciplinary…

  • do it (home)- Surrealism to the Present ARTH 208

    About: Professor Roger Rothman’s ARTH 208 Surrealism to the Present class created their version of the exhibition do it (home). do it is the longest-running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever happen, giving new meaning to the concept of the “Exhibition in Progress.” do it takes written instructions by international artists as a point of departure, which are…

  • do it (home)- Philosophy of Art ARTH 265

    About: Professor Sheila Lintott’s ARTH 265 Philosophy of Art class created their version of the exhibition do it (home). do it is the longest-running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever happen, giving new meaning to the concept of the “Exhibition in Progress.” do it takes written instructions by international artists as a point of departure, which are then…