Improvised: The Art of Practiced Freedom

November 2, 2022 to March 31, 2023

The Cooley Gallery’s latest exhibition, Improvised: The Art of Practiced Freedom, is a shared adventure between arts faculty from Hagerstown Community College and Wilson College.

Capstone Exhibition: Women Creating Change

Wilson hosted an exhibition of works by Adrianna Broome honoring women who are creating change in the world today. The women celebrated include environmental activist Greta Thunberg and indigenous people’s rights and climate justice advocate Nina Gualinga. 

From Huntingdon, Pa., Broome is majoring in graphic design, with a secondary area of emphasis in photography and a double minor in art history and ancient world studies. For her senior capstone project, Broome said that she created a body of work “that celebrates and promotes women around the world from a variety of fields and disciplines, honoring their goals, movements, and accomplishments. My artistic research addresses Women Creating Change and the impact these powerful women have on our society and culture.”​

December 8 - December 27, 2021

11th Annual Juried High School Student Art Exhibition

October 27 – December 1, 2021

The Foundry Artists at Wilson 2021

9/8/21 – 10/6/21

2021 Wilson College Senior Capstone Exhibition

4/28/21 – 5/17/21

Hagerstown Community College Student Invitational Exhibit

02/12/21 – 03/10/21

10th Annual Juried High School Student Art Exhibition

February 24  - March 3, 2021

2019 Juried Student Art Exhibition

9th Annual Juried High School Student Art Exhibition

Oct. 30 to Dec. 6, 2019

8th Annual Juried High School Student Art Exhibition

Nov. 1 to Dec. 7, 2018

2018 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

3/28/2018 - 4/27/2018

Rock. Water. Air. | R.K. Dickson

1/31/2018 – 6/4/2018

7th Annual Juried High School Student Art Exhibition

11/1/2017 - 12/8/2017

Kate Miller, Chronicles

9/13/2017 – 12/8/2017

The Foundry Artists Exhibition

9/13/2017- 10/13/2017

2017 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

3/22/2017-4/21/2017

Staff and Faculty Exhibition

2/15/2017 - 5/14/2017

The work of Wilson Faculty and Staff will be on exhibition in the Cooley Gallery.

Peter Mazzone

10/7/16 - 1/27/2017

Mazzone’s Progressions is a collection of new paintings inspired by the artist’s desire to “remedy the world around them by and through art.” He says he is interested in the “purity of intuition” and “the consciousness of seeing.”

Daniel Burns

9/7/16 - 10/14/2016

The Burns exhibition, Recent Work, is a collection of paintings from 2014-15 created in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. “Each [painting] is an invention representing a moment in time, a fleeting time spent in a studio, a new beginning,” said Burns, who describes painting for him as a “desire” “calling,” and a “privilege.” He works to document experiences, relying on instinct and atmosphere. For him, these works reflect a sense of place, which is deeply rooted in American painting

2016 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

3/22/16 – 4/20/16
Juror: Alex Miller, B.A. Art Education, Shippensburg University; M.F.A candidate Hood College; High School Art Teacher, Greencastle-Antrim Area School District
 
Anita Williams, Orange Marigold, 2016, oil on canvas, First Prize
Allison Engle, Home, 2016, photogram, Second Prize
Kari Lehman, The Holocaust, 2015, digital print
Emma Lloyd, XO, 2015, mixed media
Hong Nguyen, Crayons, 2016, gelatin silver print
Benjamin Luzier, Lazy Sunday, 2016, acrylic on canvas

Alejandro Durán

Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape
March 22 – May 27, 2016 (show extended to June 12, 2016)

Artist and educator Alejandro Durán brings his stunning photography and installation project – Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape – to the John Stewart Memorial Library’s new Sue Davison Cooley Art Gallery at Wilson College in March. Washed Up eloquently depicts the worldwide impact of plastic pollution through Durán’s photographs of Sian Ka’an, a tropical nature reserve in Mexico, where the natural world intersects with trash carried there from around the globe by ocean currents. Read more.