Art and Design

The College will host Improvised: The Art of Practiced Freedom, an art exhibition featuring works by Wilson and Hagerstown Community College (HCC) arts faculty. It opens on Wednesday, November 2, in the Cooley Gallery. It is free and open to the public.

The show is a shared project between the arts faculty of the two institutions. According to Joshua Legg, the gallery’s curator, “This is our second shared exhibition with our faculty colleagues from HCC, and we plan to make this a regular event every other year.”

The College will host an exhibition of artwork by area high school students from Wednesday, October 26, through December 2, in the Bogigian Gallery, Lortz Hall. The exhibition is free and open to the public, and the gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Wilson will host a reception for Madison Smarsh’s senior capstone exhibition at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 27, at Bogigian Gallery in Lortz Hall. The exhibition will continue through May 15, 2022.

From Waynesboro, Pa., Smarsh is majoring in graphic design with a minor in photography. She created a body of work exploring the intersection of type (words) and image for her capstone project. She investigated the range of possibility separating the two components. Smarshwants “to use design and photography to address simple as well as complex compositional designs and concepts.”

Wilson will hold a reception at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, to mark the opening of the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition, presented by the Department of Fine Arts and Dance, will continue through April 20 in the Bogigian Gallery on the second floor of Lortz Hall.

The show is an opportunity for students to share their work with the community. The exhibition will feature drawings, paintings, prints, graphic design, ceramics, photographs, and mixed-media artwork with a wide array of subject matter and content.

The Foundry, at 100 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg, will host an exhibition of artwork by Wilson studio art and graphic design students. The show will open on Feb. 25 and continue through March 20, 2022. The event is free and open to the public.

The Class of 1955 Spring Research Stipend has been awarded to Joshua Legg, MFA, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and MFA Program Director. The $2,000 stipend will help fund a catalog for two upcoming exhibitions curated by Legg at Wilson’s Cooley Gallery. The first will present the work of Adam DelMarcelle, a visiting assistant professor of graphic design at Wilson. The second will feature works by artists committed to bearing witness to the times they live in and their experiences and challenging the status quo.

Chambersburg, Pa. — A free exhibition of artwork will open Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, featuring the work of members of The Foundry. The gallery is in Lortz Hall.

A reception to mark the opening will be held at the gallery from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Chambersburg, Pa. — Wilson College will host an exhibition of artwork by students of Hagerstown Community College’s Department of Visual Arts, beginning Feb. 12. The exhibition, presented by Wilson’s Division of Art & Letters, will continue through March 10 in the Bogigian Gallery, located on the second floor of Lortz Hall.

Chambersburg, Pa. — The Foundry, at 100 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg, will host an exhibition of artwork by Wilson College studio art students. The exhibition will open on Feb. 19 and continue through March 14, 2021. The event is free and open to the public.

The exhibition will be the fifth exhibit in a partnership between The Foundry and Wilson College. Wilson’s history as a community partner dates to the founding of the institution. Wilson’s commitment to rich and meaningful partnerships continues as the community grows and evolves. 

Chambersburg, Pa. — Wilson College will host a virtual art exhibition for regional high school artists.

The exhibition, the tenth of its kind at Wilson, is an opportunity to be inspired by visions of creativity and celebrate regional excellence in the visual arts. Artists from Franklin, Adams, Cumberland, and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania, and Washington County, Maryland, were invited to submit work.