Exhibitions Eight exhibitions are mounted annually in the museum’s Main and Upper Galleries and range in content from historical art, such as the etchings of Rembrandt, to contemporary themes. Recent installations have highlighted the sculpture of Auguste Rodin, a collaboration between Judy Chicago and a network of needle workers, and the Birds of American folios by John James Audubon. Installations are curated internally utilizing the permanent collection and the resources of a network of museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, by showcasing the current work of contemporary artists, or brought to the museum through traveling exhibition services or by engaging guest curators. Several Student-curated exhibitions ranging from Japanese Scrolls to prints by Pop Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, have been mounted utilizing the permanent collection as well. Partnerships with several regional organizations such as the Wood Turning Center of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Water Color Society, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity provide a venue for annual juried exhibitions with a particular focus on achievements by artists from the Mid-Atlantic corridor As an educational resource, the Museum supports the College’s expanding program in the arts and reaches out to students of all ages and to diverse communities through programs with contemporary artists in the galleries; exhibition tours; special performances; interdisciplinary artist residences; and other initiatives designed to bring the Museum’s collections and exhibitions to life.
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BURTYNKSY’S MIN(D)ING THE LANDSCAPE
January 22-April 11, 2010 Main gallery
Opening reception January 28 4:30 – 6:40pm
Award-winning Canadian environmental photographer Edward Burtynksy, who challenges us to reflect on the material manifestations of often devastating human interventions in the natural landscape, will exhibit his powerfully alluring images at The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.
Lecture: Tuesday March 30 4:30pm Main Gallery Petra Tschakert, assistant professor of geography, Pennsylvania State University Her research and practice focus broadly on human-environment interactions and more specifically on environmental change, development, sustainability, knowledge, inequality and marginalization.
Lecture: Thursday April 8 4:30pm Main Gallery…Christina Miller, assistant professor of art, Millersville University, and founding member of the non-profit artists collective Ethical Metalsmiths. She will discuss contemporary artistic interventions and the adaptive re-use of materials to create works of art. More>
Pictured: Edward Burtynksy, Nickel Tailings No. 34, Sudbury, Ontario 1996
 DRAWING THE CURTAIN
February 18 – April 18
Upper Gallery
The act of censorship is complex, its definition elusive. In "Drawing the Curtain," student and faculty co-curators will investigate case studies of censorship within a college museum exhibition that raises questions about the rights of viewers to make their own choices about the images and objects at which they look. Should others be permitted to make such choices for us? Should our individual aesthetics, religious beliefs, or cultural comfort levels define or limit those choices for others? more>
An opening reception is scheduled in the Upper Gallery Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m., and will conclude with a "talkback" with the show's curators. |
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