Facilities and Resources
Art & Art History
RESOURCES
The Samek Art Gallery, located in the Langone Center, organizes exhibitions as well as installation and video projects that put contemporary and historical art in dialogue with other disciplines. Its permanent collection, including the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and especially strong holdings in the graphic arts from the Renaissance to the present and in photography, is actively used in course work for study and research. Museum Studies classes have organized numerous exhibitions based on the Gallery's collections. The Department and the Art Gallery sponsor workshops, lectures and gallery tours by visiting artists, critics, and historians. Artists create installations on site in the Gallery in collaboration with students. Art work is displayed at the Gallery, the Art Barn and throughout the campus. The recently renovated Art Building offers a new dark room and digital imaging lab. Faculty and students take advantage of Bucknell's proximity to major museums and galleries through regularly scheduled trips and individual travel to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. A three-day department-funded student trip introduces students to art galleries and museums in Philadelphia each Spring. The Department's Art Film Series shows films selected to enhance courses being taught. Our majors are placed in museum and gallery internships, most often at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Majors benefit from an extraordinarily high degree of faculty attention that often continues well after graduation.
Links
SAMEK Art Gallery at Bucknell University
Visual Resource Center (Slide Library)
