Spring 2023
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. All events are subject to change.
January
Bronze: Highlights From the Permanent Collection
St. John the Baptist Preaching (detail) by Auguste Rodin.
Continuing Through Feb. 25
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Metalworkers have used bronze to create functional and decorative objects since the second millennium B.C.E. This exhibition highlights examples of figural bronze sculpture from The Trout Gallery permanent collection, including objects that span four continents and 11 centuries.
Noise: Ward Davenny
Ward Davenny, 2020 (detail).
Continuing Through April 15
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Noise brings recent drawings, paintings, prints and photographs by Dickinson Professor Emeritus of Art Ward Davenny into dialogue with original music composed to accompany his work. Davenny received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1977 and his MFA from Yale in 1982. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grants, in 1985 and 1993, and two Mid-Atlantic/Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grants, in 1996 and 2006. Davenny is represented in numerous collections, including the British Museum in London; the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Honolulu Academy of Arts, among many others.
February
Continuing Through Feb. 25: Bronze: Highlights From the Permanent Collection
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Continuing Through April 15: Noise, Ward Davenny
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Not in Love With the Modern World
David Ubias, A Dirty Dozen, 2021.
Exhibition: Feb. 2-25
Opening Reception: Feb. 2, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Artist Talk at 6 p.m.
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.
This group exhibition showcases pieces by nine contemporary artists whose work channels the absurdities of the world around them, providing a visual synthesis that explores a range of materials and themes found in our current culture. Exhibition includes work by Lolo Gem, Faith Icecold, Wayson Jones, Grace Lee Lawrence, Giulia Livi, Jenny Reed, Kate Sable, David Ubias and You Wu.
March
Continuing Through April 15: Noise: Ward Davenny
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Art History Senior Methods Seminar:
Memory and Modernity: Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Natural World
Exhibition: March 3--April 15
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Opening Reception: March 3, 5-7 p.m.
Weiss Lobby, Weiss Center for the Arts
In East Asia, artists have long dedicated themselves to capturing the fleeting moments of nature through the lively renderings of birds, insects, flowers, and animals. Collectively known as "bird-and-flower" images, the genre's rich symbolisms make them an ideal vehicle to mark and celebrate auspicious events. In the early 20th century, high demand of bird-and-flower images from the Western market prompted the production of modern prints of flora and fauna, especially in Japan. This exhibition features prints of the natural world created primarily for the Western market. Balancing naturalism with artifice in the vivid depictions of birds, insects, flowers and other auspicious animals, artists honored the prestigious tradition while also innovating the genre with modern techniques and methods.
This exhibition is curated by senior art-history majors Ellie Mariani, Sydney Nguyen and Ava Zadrima, under the direction of Ren Wei.
Post-Bac-in-Residence: Rebecca Fox '22
Rebecca Fox, Fragmenting, 2022.
Opening Reception: March 9, 5:30-7 p.m.; Artist Talk at 6 p.m.
Exhibition: March 9 through April 1
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.
An exhibition of recent work by Rebecca Fox '22, the 2022-23 studio art post-bac-in-residence in the Department of Art & Art History.
April
Continuing Through April 15: Noise: Ward Davenny
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Continuing Through April 15: Art History Senior Methods Seminar
Memory and Modernity: Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Natural World
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
ARRIVALS: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead
Zeze Rwasama, director of the office, Refugee Center at the College of Southern Idaho. Image by Jon Cox.
Opening Reception: April 6, 5:30–7 p.m.; Artist Talk at 6 p.m.
Exhibition: April 6–May 5
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.
Arrivals: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead is a multidisciplinary project that documents the journeys of refugees, immigrants and Native Americans living in Idaho. Exhibition attendees will gain firsthand knowledge of their journeys, struggles and ultimate successes through video, audio and large-format black-and-white photographs. This is a collaborative project involving faculty members from Dickinson, the University of Delaware and Boise State University.
Weiss Prize Project Talk and Reception: FaSade Fagoroye '23
Artist's Talk: April 11, 5:30 p.m., Weiss 235.
A reception in the second-floor Weiss Gallery will immediately follow the presentation.
FaSade Fagoroye '23 will present her Weiss Prize project, followed by a reception on April 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Weiss 235. The reception will follow immediately after the talk in the second-floor Weiss Gallery.
Senior Studio Majors' Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 28, 5:30 –7 p.m.
Exhibition: April 28–May 21
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
This exhibition features projects by senior studio art majors Kate Altman, Nate Chaves, Josephine Cook, FaSade Fagoroye, Stephanie Henderson, Caitlyn Longest, Anika Naimpally, Belle O’Shaughnessy, Matthew Presite, Olivia Schapiro, Iris Shaker-Check and Han Trinh, under the guidance of Eleanor Conover and with the assistance of Todd Arsenault, Andy Bale, Rachel Eng and Amy Boone-McCreesh.
May
Continuing Through May 5: ARRIVALS: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead
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.
Continuing Through May 21: Senior Studio Art Majors' Exhibition
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Events are subject to change.
