Spring 2026
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. All events are subject to change.
January
Continuing Through Feb. 27
Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True
![Image: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow]), The Last Thanks, 2006, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Wendy Red Star.](/images/WendyRedStarExh.jpg)
Image: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow]), The Last Thanks, 2006, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Wendy Red Star.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow], b. 1981) is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award, and her artwork is featured in the exhibition Her Dreams Are True on view at The Trout Gallery.
Red Star provides a new perspective on the role of archives, museum collections and personal memory in her prints and photographs. Throughout her career, Red Star has reconsidered and liberated archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. This exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to see the artist’s recent works, which recontextualize hand-painted illustrations of Indigenous artifacts. Red Star juxtaposes these cultural belongings with her own photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star’s archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation.
Jan. 16-April 4
Opening Reception: Feb. 20, 5–7 p.m.
A Measure of Value
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 considers how art and artifacts intersect with economic principles of markets, both as physical embodiments of currency and as commentary on monetary systems. Many works of art function as media of exchange, units of credit, stores of wealth and measures of value.
The exhibition features work by artists Faith Ringgold, Sue Coe, Andy Warhol, and the Guerilla Girls among others, as well as a selection of ancient Roman coin and Tuareg, Jonga and Akan currency objects. From ancient coins to contemporary prints, the diverse selection of objects on display offers visitors an opportunity to consider the dynamic relationship between artistic and economic notions of value.
Image credit: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87), $1, 1982. Screenprint on Lenox museum board, 19.75 x 15.625 in. (50.165 x 39.688 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation, 2014.1.4.
Jan. 28–Feb. 18
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Jan. 28, 5:30–7 p.m.; Curators’ Talk: 6 p.m.
Underbelly
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.
Underbelly is a curated exhibition featuring six women artists exploring the edges of softness. Wrestling with identity, navigating loss and exploring tensions in relationships, they reveal a willingness to embrace vulnerability—the side of themselves not often seen.
Carolina Alamilla holds a MFA in ceramics & transmedia from Texas Tech University and a BFA from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She was a Curatorial Fellow with Stay Home Gallery and a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She is an assistant professor of studio art at Washington & Jefferson College.
Britny Wainwright received an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BFA from Alfred University. Originally from upstate New York, she now maintains a studio practice in Columbus, Oh. She is a cofounder of Dream Clinic Project Space in Columbus, an artist-run gallery and studio. She currently serves as visiting faculty and director of foundations studies in the Department of Art at Ohio State University.
Image credit: Katie Coughlin, Tender Days, video, porcelain, eyelashes, mixed fiber, dimensions variable, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
February
Continuing Through Feb. 18
Underbelly
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 Feb. 27
Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
Continuing Through April 4
Opening Reception: Feb. 20, 5– 7 p.m.
A Measure of Value
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.
Feb. 20 to April 4
Opening Reception: Feb. 20, 5– 7 p.m.
Dissecting Locomotion
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 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.
Image credit: Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904), Plate 627 from "Animal Locomotion," 1887, Black and white photograph, dry plate process on paper, 13.75 x 19.375 in. (34.925 x 49.213 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of Samuel Moyerman, 1987.4.76.
Feb. 26, Noon– 1:15 p.m.
Lunch and Learn: Dissecting Locomotion
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
Thursday, February 12, 5:30 p.m.
The Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Arts: Timothy McCall
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Timothy McCall, Professor of Art History, Bernard Lucci Endowed Chair in Italian Studies, Villanova University. Author and editor of four books and many articles, Professor McCall’s research focuses on Italian Early Modern constructions of gender and sexuality, Medieval and Early Modern Italian courts, histories of fashion, material culture, and constructions of aristocratic male beauty. His talk is titled “Thinking Through Fashion in Italian Renaissance Art.”
Image credit: “Portrait of a Young Man,” Cosmè Tura, Tempera on Wood, c.1470s. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Doman OA, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913.
March
Continuing Through April 4
A Measure of Value
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.
Continuing Through April 4
Dissecting Locomotion
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.
April
Continuing Through April 4
A Measure of Value
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.
Continuing Through April 4
Dissecting Locomotion
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.
April 17-May 17
Opening Reception: Apr 17, 5–7 p.m.
Senior Studio Art Exhibition
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
Throughout a yearlong seminar, senior studio art majors engage in sustained and critical studio inquiry that results in the creation of ambitious and cohesive bodies of artwork, a selection of which are included in an end-of-year thesis exhibition. Under the collective direction of Dickinson's studio art faculty, the students develop individual projects made in a variety of media and share a commitment to the investigation of conceptual, material, formal, historical, political, and aesthetic concepts in their scholarship.
2026 Senior Studio Art Majors: Sarah R. Coates, Izzy Enrique, Johnny Nguyen, Miranda Sipe, Larry Vandyke, Christine Vill, and Inés Zamora.
April 23, Noon–1:56 p.m.
Lunch and Learn: Senior Studio Art Majors
Studio-art majors in Dickinson's class of 2026. Photo by Dan Loh.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Mon.–Sat. 10–4; closed on major holidays and Dec. 19–Jan. 4.
Events are subject to change.
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