Gallery Facts

Admission:
Exhibitions and programming are free

Exhibitions and Programming Emphasis:
The art of our time, globally: from artists emerging nationally or internationally to influential internationally recognized artists

Group exhibitions:
Investigate art, culture, and issues and themes across disciplines, solo exhibitions depth, and special projects

Historic exhibitions:
Focusing on modern and contemporary art, and also art from other centuries

Programming:
Artists, critics, curators and scholars, in conjunction with exhibitions, and others that enhance the education mission of the Samek and university

Collections:
Over 5,000 objects from many cultures and from all over the globe

Strengths:
Modern and contemporary works on paper, Samuel H. Kress Collection of Baroque and Renaissance art, twentieth century photographs, Japanese decorative art, historic prints

Audience:
Bucknell: students, faculty and staff across disciplines, alumni

Region: adults and students from the Central Susquehanna Valley, the cultural community from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh

Beyond: exhibitions organized by the Samek have traveled to dozens of universities and museums throughout the U.S. including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and to Canada and China

Facilities:
Located in the Langone Center

Facilities include 4,060 square feet Galleries, and Permanent Collection Study space: Main Gallery, Project Room, Kress Gallery, Samek Study Gallery, Permanent Collection Study Room

Additional space includes Permanent Collection storage, staff administrative offices, and work space and storage areas

Governance:
The director reports to Bucknell University’s provost/vice president of academic affairs