Samek Voices

This year’s third annual Teen Summer Workshop will take place July 20-22 from 10am-5pm, at the Downtown Gallery (416 Market Street, Lewisburg PA) and at our Samek Gallery (3rd Floor, Elaine Langone Center, Bucknell University). The theme of the workshop is “Tell Your Story” and we’ll be looking at how artists incorporate words and narrative…

We are pleased to announce a new community and student curatorial project at the Samek Art Museum over the next two years. This project is supported by a generous grant from the Maurer Family Foundation. The Samek Museum Student Curatorial Education Project will foster community interaction with Bucknell University students and will more strongly connect the…

April 12 – May 1 Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Presented in partnership with the Art and Art History Department, this exhibition showcases culminating work by graduating senior Art majors and Art Assistants. — Related Events: Opening Snap Talks and Reception Friday, April 15, 5:30pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center In…

Simryn Gill is a multimedia artist working in sculpture, drawing, photography, and writing. In Somewhere Between, Gill combines the latter two art forms by creating a set of instructions, leaving it up to you to complete the work with your camera. Prior to, and during Bucknell’s First Annual Diversity Summit on March 29-30, we encourage…

Mar 22 – Jun 5 Downtown Gallery, 416 Market St., Lewisburg The first in a new series of projects that invite artists to engage the Samek Art Museum’s collection, Collect Call features new work by Marisa Olson in conversation with works from the collection about what we cherish and what we forget. Artist’s Statement I’ve…

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. Hello again, fellow art enthusiasts! After a brief hiatus fueled by Christmas cookies, and subsequently fueled by…

When: January 23 – February 28, 2016 Where: Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University The task of defining oneself is… complicated, to say the least. It’s an arduous undertaking, and something that we continually revisit and refine throughout our lifetimes. The intimate relationship we build with ourselves also informs our relationship to others; our family,…

The Crown(s): A Demonstration Through May 1, 2016 Academic West Bucknell’s Art and Art History Department is hosting its first Nesbitt Artist in Residence, and the Samek is collaborating with the department to host an exhibition of artist’s work on campus. The Nesbitt Artist Residency Program in partnership with Bucknell University Department of Art and…

I recently had a great conversation with a Bucknell student blogger, Carly Robb, about Salthouse, our latest exhibition at the Samek. What follows are the results of our conversation. This article is a reposting of her original essay. You can read more from Carly on the many opportunities to be more mindful at Bucknell and…