Samek Voices

Downtown Gallery March 7 – June 4, 2017 Engineers borrow designs from nature in a process called biomimicry. The Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative by artist Jonathon Keats is an attempt to return the favor, providing nature with the benefits of human technology and humorously addressing our relationship with the natural world. Related Event: Conversation with Jonathon…

The Samek is now accepting applications for its Museum Fellow position. Fellowship Overview: The Samek Art Museum Fellowship is offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The fellowship focuses on curatorial work but also offers professional training in collection management, exhibition design and installation, education and public programs, and arts administration.…

January 17 – March 19 2017 Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor, Elaine Langone Center This exhibition features artistic and social happenings that explore how diversity, inclusion, and unity function at this moment in American history. These performances, student actions, and audience participation in creative expressions embody Social Practice Art, an experimental genre in which artworks take…

Grayson Kennedy ’19 is the Chair of Marketing for the Gallery Engagement Team, an independent student organization responsible for promoting the Museum to Bucknell students on campus. This is her advance review of the film, Tropical Malady, which we will be screening in partnership with the Bucknell Film/Media Studies Program on November 29. The Samek…

As the Museum Fellow at the Samek, I am given the opportunity to curate two exhibitions in the downtown gallery space, one per year of my tenure. Each exhibition carries its own constraints. For example my first exhibition, Pause + Effect, required that I pull only from the Samek permanent collection. It encouraged me to engage…

Our Tuesday’s Objet series (pronounced “OB-JAY” from the French word for “object”) intends to highlight pieces on display outside the physical confines of our gallery spaces, to draw attention to the art that surrounds us on a daily basis. Huzzah, it’s Tuesday! Time to introduce you to another gem from our collection. Over the summer the…

Field Trip: Hermitage and Mahantongo Heritage Center Saturday, October 1, 10am-3:30pm Departs from and returns to Elaine Langone Center In connection to Tomorrow Never Happens and its focus on the concept of a queer utopia, we will be visiting this one-of-a-kind queer utopian experiment right here in Central PA, which was recently featured in the…

Weis Center lobby, Bucknell University Through March 12, 2017 The Color of Sound is the first exhibition for the Samek Art Museum’s new campus art program, Art at the Weis Center. In partnership with the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, the Samek will feature exhibitions of works from its permanent collection and from other…

Oct. 25, 2016-Feb. 12, 2017 Downtown Gallery, 416 Market St., Lewisburg This exhibition of works by Stephanie Rothenberg is a series of interactive gardens and schematic/network drawings that examine the intersection of social media, finance and philanthropy. Artist’s Statement Reversal of Fortune is a series of robotic gardens and related network maps that visualize the…

Aug. 30 – Dec. 4, 2016 Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center, Bucknell University This exhibition explores queer futurity and the aesthetics of utopia. From marriage equality, to “bathroom bills,” to the massacre in Orlando, queerness is central to current social and political life. Current events can mire us in an unrelenting present that…