Category: Exhibitions

Bloodline-Holly Wilson

MADE in PA at the Palmer Museum of Art

MADE in PA
Palmer Museum of Art

The Pennsylvania State University
650 Bigler Road
University Park, PA 16802

MADE IN PA


June 1 – December 1, 2024

Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Galleries, Level 1, and Jason D. Kogan Gallery, Level 2

In celebration of the opening of the new Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, the museum is organizing a major inaugural special exhibition, MADE IN PAThis ambitious show signals the museum’s revisioning of its mission, vision, and values grounded in Penn State’s land-grant mission of educating students from around the world and supporting individuals and communities across the Commonwealth and beyond.  

MADE IN PA highlights post-1945 paintings, sculpture, mixed-media assemblages, and installations by artists who hail from Pennsylvania or who have made their homes and sustained their careers in the Keystone State. The three generations of artists included in the exhibition speak to the Commonwealth’s long history of academic training and innovative artistic practice, the complicated legacies of its varied geographies and socio-political realities, and the hybrid identities and potent cultural exchanges through time and space that characterize the work of Pennsylvania artists today. 

MADE IN PA features works of art drawn from the Palmer’s permanent collection along with selected loans from private collections, galleries, and museums across the Commonwealth. The approximately thirty-two works in the exhibition are organized into five thematic sections: Rooted in Realism, Pennsylvania Modern, The Land and its Legacies, Pop and Politics, and PA NOW.  

MADE IN PA opens in the spring of 2024 in the Museum’s new state-of-the-art facility at the Arboretum at Penn State and is curated by Erin Coe, director, and Joyce Robinson, assistant director of the Palmer Museum of Art.

MADE IN PA is supported by, Kish Bank, Exhibition Lead Sponsor

 

The Land and its Legacies

The Land and its Legacies serves as the central core of the exhibition and appropriately anchors MADE IN PA. The very name of the Commonwealth suggests the importance of natural resources and the ongoing relevance of the state’s sylvan forests, rural landscapes, and mountainous terrain for artists who call—or once called—Pennsylvania home. Two imposing works—Creek by Scranton studio glass artist Karen Reid and Forest by the late ceramic artist Barbara Diduk—demonstrate the power of waterways and woodlands in Pennsylvania’s history and sprawling geography. Equally powerful and compelling is Delaware Nation Holly Wilson’s Bloodline, a monumental homage to the original, ultimately displaced, inhabitants of the lands that became the Commonwealth. Warren Rohrer’s abstract ode to his Mennonite origins and the farmlands of southeastern Pennsylvania provide a bucolic counterpoint to Philadelphia painter and activist Diane Burko’s Unprecedented, a recent foray into the cultural landscape of climate change and the global pandemic. Pittsburgh-born Cy Gavin’s bold, vibrant canvases invite us to reconsider the territory of race and racism in the familiar panoramas of the Hudson River Valley.

Link To Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State

Holly Wilson SWAIA 2024

102nd ANNUAL SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET, SWAIA

August 17 – 18, 2024

102nd ANNUAL SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET ON THE PLAZA

I am so thrilled to announce that I will be at this year’s SWAIA Market!
I hope you will stop by my new booth and see what I have been working on for the last year. I will have new Jewelry, Drawings, Bronze, Paintings and Glass works. It is a joy for me to see all the smiling faces and hear how you have been, so please stop by and say hello.

Booth #LIN W 719
Saturday Aug 17, 8 am-5 pm
Sunday Aug 18, 8 am-5 pm

There will be performances, music, food, and artists through out the Santa Fe plaza and surrounding area. This is a community event that has always been filled with amazing art, artists, camaraderie, performances, a place to meet new and old friends, and a celebration of diverse Indigenous cultures and creativity.

Here is a link to the full schedule

Bloodline Keeper of the Seeds-Holly Wilson

Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in American Indian Art

March 2 – July 28, 2024

Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in American Indian Art
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

Organized by guest curator Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee), director/curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the upcoming exhibition To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art features works by 75 Indigenous artists from over 50 tribes throughout the United States and Canada, including eight from North Carolina.

To Take Shape and Meaning brings together a wide range of Indigenous world views, ideas, experiences, traditions, cultures, and media and emphasizes the continuity and evolution of Native arts, both collective and individual expressions of Native America. The exhibition, composed exclusively of 3-D artworks, includes baskets made of blown glass, cars transformed into works of art, and cutting-edge fashion ensembles embellished with elaborate beadwork and feathers. This project supports the NCMA’s ongoing goal of presenting expansive and inclusive art historical narratives in all aspects of the Museum and of bringing in contemporary artists whose works focus on themes that are particularly relevant to the concerns of the current moment.

 

Native Futures

NATIVE FUTURES

September 16, 2023 – May 17, 2024

The inaugural “Native Futures” exhibition features more than a dozen established and
emerging Native artists in the Great Lakes region, including works by CfNF co-founders,
Noelle Garcia, Kelly Church, Jason Wesaw, Tom Jones, Holly Wilson, John Hitchcock, Camille
Billie, June Carpenter, Codak Smith, Le’Ana Asher, Dakota Mace, Ji Hae Yepa-Pappan,
Chelsea Big Horn, Lydia Cheshewalla, Hattie Lee, X and TIES poets
. Featured at the opening reception was a perfomance by Chicago-based Frank Waln, and catering by Chef Jessica Walks First and Ketapanen Kitchen.

https://www.centerfornativefutures.org/

Native Futures
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson
Spectrum Within Under Our Skin-Holly Wilson