Fall 2026
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. All events are subject to change.
September
Continuing through Sept. 26
Opening Reception: Sept. 4, 5–7 p.m.
Recent Acquisitions: American Stories
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (detail), 2000/2025, C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Digital Paper Type DPII, 16 x 9.4 in. (40.64 × 23.81cm). Purchase of the Friends of The Trout Gallery
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
This exhibition celebrates recent acquisitions to The Trout Gallery’s permanent collection. The selected works on display are by American artists and focus on the diversity of American stories. Select artists include Alfred Jensen, Guerrilla Girls, Roberto Lugo, Maria Martinez, Audrey Flack, Mel Edwards, and Cindy Sherman, among others.
Continuing through Jan. 23
Opening Reception: Sept. 4, 5–7 p.m.
BRANCH: Trees in American Art
Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), Spirit Center II (detail), 1992, oil stick on paper mounted on canvas, 30 x 60 in. Art Bridges
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
This exhibition tells stories of America through a variety of artworks representing trees. From 19th-century paintings that reveal how timber played a central role in the colonization and exploitation of the land to works by Indigenous artists that emphasize reciprocal relationships with the natural world, the exhibition highlights how artists use trees to express national, cultural, spiritual and personal identities in the United States.
BRANCH coincides with nationwide commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and invites viewers to consider how trees can be seen as arboreal sentinels to American interests in expansion, occupation, conservation and culture. Although unified by a single motif, the diversity of locations, species and perspectives represented in the artworks mirrors a varied ecosystem and contributes to a more inclusive national narrative.
BRANCHING OUT invites you to explore the remarkable trees of Dickinson College's campus. This self-guided walking tour is created by The Trout Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition.
All events and programs related to Branch can be found here.
For additional information about America250PA events and other historical locations and activities happening in Cumberland County throughout 2026, see https://www.visitcumberlandvalley.com/explore/america-250/.
Continuing through Oct. 12
Opening Reception: Sept. 15, 6:30–7 p.m.
RE-MINING & RE-MELTING: Place-based Sustainable Ceramics
Image credit: Rachel Eng
Gallery 204, Weiss Center for the Arts, 240 West High Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
RE-MINING & RE-MELTING is a place-based, sustainable-ceramics student-faculty research project supported by the Center for Sustainability Education and the Research & Development Committee at Dickinson College. During summer 2026, student researchers Kyrie Sanchez and Lauren Schill worked with Associate Professor of Art Rachel Eng to repurpose waste-mineral materials in Cumberland County, Pa., into glazes that are used on locally sourced and processed clay.
Sept. 9–Oct. 3
Opening Reception: Sept. 9, 5:30–7 p.m.
Mouth to Hand
Image credit: Joseph Bolstad & Mayuko Kono
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
Kono’s sculptures utilize found and thrifted metal racks as armatures to be cut apart, combined and eventually skinned with colorful paper pulp. Hovering somewhere between architecture and biology, they suggest an imagined world made physical through careful and accretive actions, similar to nests built by swallows or insects. Kono’s still-life drawings, executed on handmade paper, depict stacks of common food items which, upon close inspection, reveal themselves to be plastic toys.
Bolstad’s relief sculptures are constructed of carton-pierre, a form of papier-mâché whose name translates to “stone cardboard.” Made by molding the material into disposable remnants of the artist’s own consumer existence, such as plastic bottles and other packaging, these colorfully airbrushed works explore ideas of excess, metamorphosis and the boundaries between the natural and the human-made.
To live “hand to mouth” is to survive with very little, and in a sense, these works do just that, making the most out of humble, scrappy, found materials. But what happens when the expression is reversed? For the artists, to live “mouth to hand” means to turn the fraught remnants of consumerism into meaningful expression, transforming the discarded to construct rich, resilient inner worlds.
The artists will conduct a demonstration and workshop on their building processes with two fall classes at Dickinson: the First-Year Seminar Trash Talk: Worlds of Waste and ARTH130 Art & Sustainability. This exhibition and demonstration are supported by the Department of Art & Art History, The Center for Sustainability Education and The Griffith Fund for Humanistic Teaching & Inquiry.
Joseph Bolstad is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in sculpture. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as Secret Location in North Hollywood, Calif., Here Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa., MINT Gallery in Atlanta, Ga., Dean Jensen Gallery in Milwaukee, Wis., and Zuisho-ji Art Projects in Tokyo. He received an MFA in sculpture from Pennsylvania State University in 2011 and a BFA in sculpture from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2005. His recent work uses historically rooted paper-based processes to explore ideas of containment, mutability and hybridity.
Mayuko Kono, originally from Japan, lives and works in Los Angeles, Calif. Working primarily in sculpture, she explores patterns and systems found in domestic and social landscapes, often through manipulating discarded or outdated commodities. Her work has been shown in various venues in the U.S. and Japan, including the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, Calif., Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, Calif., and Kippomaru in Hiroshima, Japan. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University.
October
Oct. 6, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence Artist Lecture: Layla Marcelle
Image credit: Layla Marcelle
Weiss 235, Weiss Center for the Arts, 240 West High Street
Layla Marcelle (b. 1986) is an American artist engaged with ceramics, choreography, writing, image-making, object-making, materialism, contradiction, homonyms and other doubles, pedagogy, sci-fi and aesthetics of pleasure. She’s done innovative work with the burgeoning love-intergalac-tech industry and performs irregularly as a hologram of Linda Fox. In 2016 she started an anti-entropy design company with Jacob Raeder called Better Lovers, where they apply contemporary dance training with Modus Operandi, a BA (philosophy) + BFA from Alfred University, and MFA from Simon Fraser University, and training at the SNDO, P.A.R.T.S., and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In 2020, she received a master’s in ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Marcelle visits Dickinson through the Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program. The Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 2009 to complement the mission of the Department of Art & Art History. To date, the program has brought 16 national and international artists to campus to make artwork, engage with students and contribute to the creative culture at Dickinson during six-to eight-week residencies. The program is made possible through the gracious support of Sylvia J. Smith, a Dickinson trustee and member of the class of 1973.
See associated exhibition below.
Oct. 14–Nov. 11
Opening Reception: Oct. 14, 5–6:30 p.m.
Noah Shem Kline Figure/Ground: An Ongoing Dynamic Between What is Held and What Is Holding
Image credit: Noah Shem Kline
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
California-based artist Noah Shem Kline will exhibit recent works that incorporate elements of drawing, painting and collage. Kline is a native of Carlisle and received his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Oct. 9–Apr. 3
Opening Reception: Oct. 23, 5–7 p.m.
Artifice: Aura and Authenticity from Ancient Molds to Machine Learning
Image: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Ladies and Gentlemen, 1975, Screenprint on Arches paper, 43.75 x 29 in. (111.125 x 73.66 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation, 2014.1.2
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
This exhibition, co-curated by senior art history students Abigail Allport, Anna Radigan and Lena Rimmer under the direction of Professor of Art History Elizabeth Lee, examines Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking scientific and photographic project Animal Locomotion. Completed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1887, Animal Locomotion recorded the movements of athletes, artist models and medical patients as well as both wild and domesticated animals, addressing fundamental questions about bodies in motion and depicting movement in a manner that influenced early cinema.
Continuing through Oct. 3
Mouth to Hand
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
See description above.
Continuing through Oct. 12
RE-MINING & RE-MELTING: Place-based Sustainable Ceramics
Gallery 204, Weiss Center for the Arts, 240 West High Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
See description above.
Continuing through Jan. 23
BRANCH: Trees in American Art
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
See description above.
November
Nov. 18–Dec. 12
Opening Reception: Nov. 18, 5–6:30 p.m.
Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition: creative meeting on the tennis court
Image credit: Layla Marcelle
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
Layla Marcelle (b. 1986) is an American artist engaged with ceramics, choreography, writing, image-making, object-making, materialism, contradiction, homonyms and other doubles, pedagogy, sci-fi and aesthetics of pleasure. She’s done innovative work with the burgeoning love-intergalac-tech industry and performs irregularly as a hologram of Linda Fox. In 2016 she started an anti-entropy design company with Jacob Raeder called Better Lovers, where they apply contemporary dance methodologies to object-making. Her education includes professional contemporary dance training with Modus Operandi, a BA (philosophy) + BFA from Alfred University, and MFA from Simon Fraser University, and training at the SNDO, P.A.R.T.S., and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In 2020, she received a Master’s in ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Marcelle visits Dickinson through the Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program. The Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 2009 to complement the mission of the Department of Art & Art History. To date, the program has brought 16 national and international artists to campus to make artwork, engage with students and contribute to the creative culture at Dickinson during six-to eight-week residencies. The program is made possible through the gracious support of Sylvia J. Smith, a Dickinson trustee and member of the class of 1973.
Continuing through Nov. 11
Noah Shem Kline Figure/Ground: An Ongoing Dynamic Between What Is Held and What Is Holding
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
See description above.
Continuing through Jan. 23
BRANCH: Trees in American Art
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
See description above.
December
Continuing through Dec. 12
Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition: creative meeting on the tennis court
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street
Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
See description above.
Continuing through Jan. 23
BRANCH: Trees in American Art
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
See description above.
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