Penn State Berks will present “People, Place, and Things,” a campus-wide exhibition that showcases artists with ties to eastern Pennsylvania whose work engages ideas of place-making and regional identity. The exhibition will open Nov. 21 and run through Feb. 26. The opening reception will be held from 12:15-1:15 p.m. on Nov. 21 in the Perkins Student Center Lobby. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
Works in this exhibition will be installed around the campus in the Perkins Student Center, Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building, and Franco Building. Viewers can begin tours of the exhibition in the Perkins Student Center, where they will find the exhibition text and a map of the artwork locations. While viewing this exhibition, visitors can simultaneously enjoy the many other artworks installed around the college.
Artists in this exhibition use sculpture, photography, video and textiles to explore what it means to live and work in eastern Pennsylvania, and the title of thie exhibition comes from the diverse methodologies these artists use to explore locality.
Exhibiting artists include Fred Schmidt-Arenales and Maia Chao, Juliana Delgado, Delaney DeMott, Sophie Glenn, Emily Friesen and Isaac Scott. Attendees will enjoy many forms or artwork, including photographs by the artist Juliana Delgado that document the people and places of Reading, Pennsylvania; contemporary versions of historic shaker furniture in metal, welded by Sophie Glenn; and Emily Friesen’s textile-based works, which explore Mennonite histories and traditions in relationship to local geographies.
For more information, contact Abbey Muza, visiting artist, at AZM7325@psu.edu.