Samek Voices

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

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Museums, Galleries, Curators

    The Samek Art Museum is fortunate to possess a large and varied collection of works of art on paper, comprising prints, drawings, and photographs. These works were mostly acquired by the museum in the 1960s and 1970s as donations from generous alumni or by purchase. The Samek’s collection is actively used in teaching and research…

  • Samek Highlight with Student Guide Nicole Chaiko

    Samek Student Guide Nicole Chaiko discusses one of the Samek’s favorite pieces, Untitled by Robert Rauschenberg.

  • Black Death and Fungibility: A Pandemic

    The Samek would like to support and share a recent statement by Nikki Young, our campus Associate Provost for Diversity Equity and Inclusion ********** I greet you this evening in the recognition that life is not a right afforded equally to all. For those of us who are black, with melanated skins and experiences, each…

  • Samek Highlight with Student Guide Tara Malloy

    Samek Student Guide Tara Malloy discusses St. Augustine, Jerome, and Albertus Magnus by Benvenuto di Giovanni a gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

  • Samek Highlight with Student Guide Leslie Markevitch

    Samek Student Guide Leslie Markevitch discusses one of the Samek’s treasured pieces, Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print), by Rembrandt van Rijn.