2012 - 2013 Exhibition Schedule
Political Lines
Commentary and the Art of Editorial Cartooning
August 29 – October 20, 2012
Curated by Michael Kabbash and timed to coincide with the 2012 Presidential Election, this exhibit features seven current artists, including four Pulitzer Prize winners, working in traditional pen and ink, digital software or a combination thereof. The exhibit features selected images published during the 2012 Election cycle designed to entertain, inform and needle the subjects of our polarized American public discourse.
Slide lecture and discussion with Signe Wilkinson:
Wednesday, September 19, 3 – 4:30 p.m., Rollins Center, Gallagher Room
Reception: Wednesday, September 19, 5 – 7 p.m.
Curator’s gallery talk at 6 p.m.
Bucks County Artists: A Cross Section
November 1 - December 15, 2012 
This biennial exhibition highlights the work of contemporary artists in Bucks County. Curated by Lisa Naples, it features four artists working in different media – book-artist Barbara Moon Boertzel, photographer Paula Chamlee, painter Alex Cohen and printmaker Deborah Bruns-Thomas who are each connected to the others by virtue of their need to manifest that which is personal to their internal life, externally. In so doing, they provide pieces of a map to the life of Bucks County today.
Conversation with Paula Chamlee:
Monday, November 26, 6 - 7:30 p.m. Free, but pre-registration required.
Panel discussion with the artists:
Wednesday, November 28, 2:30 – 4 p.m., Rollins Center, Gallagher Room
Reception: Wednesday, November 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
Curator’s gallery talk at 6 p.m.
Philadelphia Seen
January 23 – March 13, 2013
Philadelphia Seen presents four artists—Justin Audet, Gina Giles, Karen Kirchhoff and Jeffrey Stockbridge — whose photographic work together form four varied portraits of the city. The exhibition aims to give a sense of the diversity and scope of emerging contemporary photographic work being made in Philadelphia. The exhibition is curated by John Caperton, The Jensen Bryan Curator of The Print Center, Philadelphia.
Panel discussion with artists:
Wednesday, February 6, 2 – 3:30 p.m., Rollins Center, Gallagher Room
Reception: Wednesday, February 6, 5 – 7 p.m.
Curator’s gallery talk at 6 p.m.
18th Annual Bucks County High School Art Exhibition
April 1 – 9, 2013
High school art teachers throughout the county select their students’ best work for display and for submission to the Congressional Art Competition. Competitions such as this are held in each congressional district nationwide each spring. The first place winner’s piece of art from this exhibition will be sent to Washington, D.C., where it will represent Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District and be displayed in the corridors of the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for a year.
Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2 - 4 p.m.
Congressional Art Competition Award Ceremony at 2:30 p.m.
48th Annual Student Exhibition
May 2 – 14, 2013
A showcase of the best work made by students in the Department of the Arts including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital media, two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design, sculpture, fine woodworking, ceramics, jewelry, glass, web design, graphic design and music. Presented in conjunction with Arts at Bucks.
Reception: Sunday, May 5, 1 - 4 p.m. Award ceremony at 2 p.m.
